Build log of "Unobtainable" - X79 in a white Bitfenix Prodigy

Fruergaard · 26 Sep 2012 at 12:35

Hi all

When I first saw the Prodigy I was sold, and knew I had to have one and make a killer transportable rig in it.

Only down size was the only option of a ITX motherboard with only one PCI-e slot and socket 1155.
And I believe I am/was not alone in the boat

BUT to the rescue a custom motherboard came in sight, which would allow me to make a much more powerfull system in the prodigy case.

So this will be the build log of what to me in some time was "Unobtainable".
Hope you like it, any suggestions is welcome

Thanks to the sponsors who have help me make this rig possible

:

NZXT

I will update this worklog as much as possible.

This is what there so far will get into this build:
Hardware
- I7 3930K (got it)
- Shuttle X79 motherboard (got it)
- Corsair 4x4 gb Dominator (got it)
- Two Gigabyte HD 7950 Windforce X3 (got one, other was not in stock :mad:

)
- NZXT Hale90 1000W Gold PSU (got it)
- Two Samsung 830 128 gb SSD (got them)
- Two WD Green 2 TB (got them)

Watercooling and suchs
- EK Supremacy Nickel - Pexi (got it)
- Two EK-RAM Dominator X2 Nickel - Pexi (got them)
- Two EK FC7950 Nickel - Pexi (got them)
- EK back plates for HD 7950 (en route)
- Two Single Slot I/O bracket for HD 79X0 (en route)
- Koolance MVR-40 VRM waterblock and Koolance MVR Heat Transfer Plate 84mm (en route)
- Watercool HEATKILLER® NSB Rev3.0 nickel (en route)
- Phobya Extreme 200 mm radiator (got it)
- Alphacool NexXxos ST30 Full Copper 120 mm radiator (got it)
- Alphacool NexXxos XT45 Full Copper 240 mm radiator (got it)
- Two Phobya Balancer 150 mm reservoir Silver Nickel (got one of them)
- Swithech MCP35X with a EK CSQ top (got it)
- Alphacool Heatmaster and Digital Flow sensor and tempsensor. (got it)
- Aquatuning 16/13 mm fittings and some MasterKleer Clear tupe. (en route)
- Bitfenix Spectre Pro fans (one 200 mm, one 140 mm and two 120 mm) (got them)

And then a some light, sleeving and suchs small things (most I got or is en route).

So lets get some updates with this build.
In the Spoilers there is pictures

A lot of pictures of products and some of it installed (17-09-2012)
To day the first package from ***** arrived so let's have a look at it:

A lot of great stuff in there, I am really looking forward to see what Alphacool Heatmaster can do:

Also some temperture and flow sensor:

And it fits perfectly in the PSU cage:

Also got some stuff for PSU sleeving:

I have done some of what I think it should look like:

Like it?

And the three radiators

And some Masterkleer tupe:

And one (another will come as well) Reservoir:

Looks really nice:

Also got the two HD 7950 waterblocks:

And first the installation of the 120 mm radiator:

With a bitfenix Spetre Pro 140 mm on the outside:

And then the rest installed:

I might flip the 240 mm radiator so the fittings outlet is at the 140 mm end.
Will look at that tomorrow :thumb:

And as you might see the red coloar on the DIMM slots really stands out, so I will later try painting them along the Motherboard Power and the two Orange Sata ports

Pictures of installed HW (21-09-2012)]
So today I got some more things in the door that I have played with, so wanted to bring you some updates:

First I got some nice things from my good friend at Coolgamers.dk

:

The two EK RAM, Sumpremacy, Swiftech MCP35X and EK top some fittings, EK-TIM Indigo, Feser One light and a Bitfenix spectre Pro 200.

I bought the MCP35X to get the PWM control, but doesn't really like the swiftech top:

So to go in the same path, I got the CSQ Pexi top from EK:

I also got the 200 mm fan installed which just fitted in there

:

I also got a package from PCB.se which had the new Hale90 1000W powersupply from NXZT (Thanks again

)

A really nice powersupply in a perfekt white coloar which will go great with the white Prodigy case:

Though not fully modular, and there is fairly many connectors there:

But they will be sleeved and the not used cut of and the others shorted to make the fit just right in the case

The PSU is also 180 mm in lenght, so the PSU holder will be modded to fit it propperly.

Along the PSU I also got the first GPU (other one not in stock :mad:

) which is the Gigabyte HD 7950:

Normally not liking the blue PCB, but it will fit in this build

So here is the first RAM block and CPU block installed:

Here with the other RAM block as well and the Pump and flow meter. The pump will get installed on som anti vibration foam:

And here the GPU with the block installed (remember that one more will get in there

)

So hope you liked it and in beginning of next week I will get fittings, and then a pain in the ass begins; connecting it all in a loop

Many great pictures of this build can be seen here:
http://www.cooledpc.com/build/224

Hope you like it and will share and vote

If you got any ideas for some changes please comment.

rhysduck · 26 Sep 2012 at 13:18

This motherboard;

I don't get it... Is it a custom made board? Or is it the Shuttle X79 board?
I don't see how you're going to get 2x 7950's to fit on the Shuttle board.. there's just no room from them!

Shall be following this

supergluechris · 26 Sep 2012 at 13:19

This looks like it could be an epic build. Please give more info

Biffa · 26 Sep 2012 at 13:30

OP: Looks good so far.

Just a warning though:

I'd remove the links to the other suppliers **** are just a shop like Overclockers who even have a UK arm, and posting links to competitors in the Overclockers forum will get you banned.

rhysduck said:
This motherboard;

I don't get it... Is it a custom made board? Or is it the Shuttle X79 board?
I don't see how you're going to get 2x 7950's to fit on the Shuttle board.. there's just no room from them!

Shall be following this

Judging by the pictures its a Shuttle board. Not sure about the room issue, I've got two watercooled cards in adjacent slots before but using Aquacomputer blocks, I couldn't get EK block to physically fit let alone link them up, but the AC blocks were fine with their Twinconnect connectors. This was with the old EK block design, could be the new one works better and is slimmer so he might be ok.

Fruergaard · 26 Sep 2012 at 17:38

The motherboard comes from Shuttle's SX79R5 and here it is:

Biffa said:
OP: Looks good so far.
This was with the old EK block design, could be the new one works better and is slimmer so he might be ok.

Thanks

From what I can see then there should be room.
But not with a backplate in between.

But the cards will be single slot with these block so it should fit.
Just waiting for the other card to arrive to test

Fruergaard · 28 Sep 2012 at 21:46

So lets get going with some updates

First I got an other package which mostly contains fittings:

But also got the Chipset and Mosfet block:

The Koolance Heat Transfer block to the Mosfet should hopefully arrive tomorrow or monday

In that package there also was the Back plate for the GPU and single slot I/O plate:

I believe the two GPU can fit in there:

If Im lucky the other HD 7950 could arrive next friday (cross fingers :thumb

There was also some smaller things like some UV light, dust filter, Anit kink (not sure if I will use it) and som anti vibration for the two HDD.

HW installation and mods
First, last night I cut the hole to make the PSU and cables to fit better:

I like the result. Most of the non modular cables will get removed so except the CPU and 20 pin motherboard.
And then I will use the modular cables and shorten them to make it fit better and then of course sleeving them :thumb:

And then to the installation of the fittings and tupes.
BUT I realised that placing the two 120 mm fans on the out side will make the tuping and inside look a lot better, and it doesn't look that bad to have them out side:

Also installed the Heatmaster beside the PSU. Looking forward to test it :roll:

And here is some pictures of the installed fittings :

And then with tupes, which did take some time becaurse of the small space:

Lets see if there is one who can, out from the above pictures, tell how the loop is. Let's all start with the pump

Sleeving will propperly be done tomorrow

Hopefully the other HD 7950 is comming next friday and in the weekend I will make the two windows.
AND then this build should be done

Divx · 29 Sep 2012 at 13:13

wow, that is mind boggling. looking forward to seeing it filled.

from what i can see i would guess its like this:

pump > ram 1 > front 200 rad > ram 2 > Koolance Heat Transfer block > cpu > Mosfet > top 240 rad > gpu's > rear 120 rad > res

btw, what point are you going to use to drain this (the res?)

J-FRO · 29 Sep 2012 at 13:44

Looking epic. Will happily give it a good home if you ever decide you no longer want it

buzzlightweight · 29 Sep 2012 at 15:01

i bet he has a ban for the comp link

Fruergaard · 30 Sep 2012 at 10:09

Divx said:
wow, that is mind boggling. looking forward to seeing it filled.

from what i can see i would guess its like this:

pump > ram 1 > front 200 rad > ram 2 > Koolance Heat Transfer block > cpu > Mosfet > top 240 rad > gpu's > rear 120 rad > res

btw, what point are you going to use to drain this (the res?)

If you with "Koolance Heat Transfer block" mean the Waterkiller block for the chipset, then you are corret

And yes I will use the res to fill and drain. But hopefully wont do it that many times

J-FRO said:
Looking epic. Will happily give it a good home if you ever decide you no longer want it

Thanks, but this is going to be my new gaming rig for quite some time i think

buzzlightweight said:
i bet he has a ban for the comp link

Nope, still here

I did also remove the link to "you know what shop"

buzzlightweight · 30 Sep 2012 at 13:28

thats good to hear, hate those trigger happy mods! can you buy the mobo separate to the case?

Muel · 30 Sep 2012 at 16:51

This is easily the best prodigy build I've seen so far IMO. I've never been a fan of them because to me, ITX shouldn't be easy, but it does seem pretty easy to build a standard ITX system in one...

However, 6 cores, 4 DIMMS and 2 graphics cards in one is pretty inspiring. Do you reckon you could get 2 GTX690s in one?

Fruergaard · 30 Sep 2012 at 18:49

buzzlightweight said:
thats good to hear, hate those trigger happy mods! can you buy the mobo separate to the case?

I had to buy the hole bare bone to get it (though split it with a friend how took the case, PSU and cooler).

Muel said:
This is easily the best prodigy build I've seen so far IMO. I've never been a fan of them because to me, ITX shouldn't be easy, but it does seem pretty easy to build a standard ITX system in one...

However, 6 cores, 4 DIMMS and 2 graphics cards in one is pretty inspiring. Do you reckon you could get 2 GTX690s in one?

Thanks

But yes If you un solder/cut the top DVI port of the two GTX 690, then yes two of those could be put in there.

But I don't have the need to have that much GPU power

(and not really have that kind of money to spend on it)

Bones · 1 Oct 2012 at 14:43

could you get white cooling liquid? maybe try milk

Fruergaard · 2 Oct 2012 at 08:56

Bones said:
could you get white cooling liquid? maybe try milk

Milk? why not just some white dye..

But I already bought blue water and sleeving for the build theme, since the motherboard, RAM and PCB on the GPU's is blue

Also I really like the blue coloar in UV light :eek:

rjk · 2 Oct 2012 at 14:33

Bones said:
could you get white cooling liquid? maybe try milk

yo mean like mayhems pastel white?

Fruergaard

Please take some time to read through the forum rules and familiarise yourself with the rules regarding competitor talk.

also sponsorship from competitors as highlighted in the project log rules here

beejjacobs · 3 Oct 2012 at 11:22

You really are pushing the case to its limits, I like it!

Very impressive so far

gatecrasherlok · 3 Oct 2012 at 14:09

Wow that is awesome, keep the updates coming, I'll be keeping an eye on this thread for sure

Fruergaard · 4 Oct 2012 at 10:55

rjkoneill said:
yo mean like mayhems pastel white?

yea that, but I will go with som blue which is also UV reactive

beejjacobs said:
You really are pushing the case to its limits, I like it!

Very impressive so far

gatecrasherlok said:
Wow that is awesome, keep the updates coming, I'll be keeping an eye on this thread for sure

Both thanks. An smaller update on my work with the sleeving and HDD + SSD installed will come later tonight (8 hours)

Fruergaard · 5 Oct 2012 at 20:46

So a little update on the project.
I have installed the two SSD beside the PSU since they could not be placed in the left side.
But they fitted just fine beside the PSU:

Also installed the two HDD with some anti vibration rubber.

And as you can see I have also sleeved and shorten most of cables.

Just need to sleeve the fan, temperatur and pump and then that's done

And in this weekend the two windows will be made.
And hopefully the last GPU arrives monday and then I will fill it up and boot it up