The 'STY' 4 4

[piggin23]

I thought I would treat myself to some new drives.



Two Samsung F3's to be run in raid 0 and a F2 for a little extra storage.

As previously stated this case is very big but does not have any place to put the drives.
With a little help from Tom @ ChilledPc, I had this



As you can see, this has also been powder coated in black texture.



With drives fitted.

More to come later!!!!

[piggin23]

After mounting the drives I connected the power supply and decided I did not like the look of the cables.
I then had a look around the bay and found a very helpful trader called 'cheesefeat' or Richard as I know him.
After a few e-mails I purchased a sata power extension cable.


I then set about doing a little braiding



After an hour, I had this.



I then manufactured a case to mount the hard drives in.



When I purchased the sata power cable, I also purchased some round sata cables.


I then connected the cables and had this



Very neat I think??

[Pob255]

Very nice
I've seen that done before and it does look good.

[piggin23]

Thanks Pob
Pity it will never be seen when it goes into the case.

[clone]

Its all in the detail mate very nice

[piggin23]

Thanks Clone
When does detail become anally retentive?? lol

[piggin23]

More work completed


Fitted the hard drives into the case.


A DDC ultra fitted with a XSPC top.
This is mounted on top of the anti vibration kit


System piped up for the Sli graphics cards

Comments welcome, more to come

[piggin23]

Second pump



This for the CPU loop



Loop completed and power supply fitted.

Leak testing

[circuitmonkey]

This is looking awesome!

[piggin23]

Thanks circuitmonkey
Almost finished, will post the final pictures soon

[piggin23]

Last few pictures


Rear of the motherboard



Finished front of the case





Rear side panel fitted

[piggin23]

Now with other side panel fitted



and lights out!!!

[Million]

Man, those watercooling components are seriously snazzy looking - you've done a very neat job. Got some temps yet?

[piggin23]

Thanks very much Million.
With my cpu overclocked to 4.1Ghz and running prime95 for hours. Its only up to 40C on all four cores.
When I run furmark on my cards , I get 40 -50 degC on them both.
So I am very happy.
Now looking at my next build which I think will be a completely custom setup.

[GheeTsar]

VERY impressive temps and rig indeed - nice one. I won't ask how much it cost

[piggin23]

I cant put down exact figures just in case Mrs Piggin gets to see this.
This build has not been that expensive as most of the hardware was from my previous build.
This time I have purchased :-
new case + mods + powder coating
new rads
new fans
new pumps
new pump tops
new fan controller
new hard drives
all new pipework + £120 on fittings

So in all