OcUK First Project build

[Omega89]

Hey all, I am part of the tech team here at OcUK, I have been working at OcUK since November last year and I'd challenge myself with a little water cooling project (well big project).

I have been doing my own water cooling builds for a while now but have never ventured into acrylic tubing or serious case modding.

I will update this thread as I get started but what I can tell you is that I am going to be doing this build in a black and red Parvum ATX case and mod the colours of it.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/parv...atercooling-case-black-and-red-cm-013-ps.html

watch this space for updates, colour schemes and the progress of this project.

 

[Omega89]

Don't worry I won't be taking up parvums time with case cutting as there's some in stock here!

 

[Omega89]

So I picked my colour scheme for this project! Kawasaki green with a hint of electro orange spray to make it stand out a bit more! Although it's not noticeable on the pictures it looks good when you see it.

I'll post up pictures when I've sorted out a paint issue as its scratched somehow -_-

TheFuzz is working his painting magic skills to sort it out

 

[Omega89]

Here is the colour scheme I'm going for......sorry for the delay had a few issues with images and a scratch on the backplate.

I think this is a good colour, what do you think?

 

[Omega89]

Yeah, I get what you mean, with the colours it's rather in your face but I have faith that it will all come together! The rads are going to be a similar colour.

But it's the sort of effect I want! You may have given me a idea adding aspects of orange it in! Hadn't thought of that

 

[Omega89]

So heres todays handy work, prepping and applying a base coat on one of my radiators (only two more to go) the colour is going to be the same colour as the backplates.

slowly getting there with everything. Hopefully i should have the case up and running by the end of the week so keep a eye out for that

 

[Omega89]

Okay guys, may be having a little bit of a issue with the colours here! I seem to find myself in a difficult situation with colour matching and finding what colours work with this in your face green!

So here it is! I gonna open up a colour scheme poll so to speak! I want to find out what colours you guys would like to see and what you think would work best! As I have no knowledge with colours.

 

[Omega89]

Hmmmmm this is interesting! But I'm concerned dark purple will look more like black.

 

[Omega89]

SO here it is the secondary colour I have chosen to go with my green, this is a front panel for the parvum ATX L1 case looks pretty good to be fair.

Tomorrow is the big day for the case, so can hopefully start assembling sometime soon.

 

[Omega89]

So then, the theme I'm going for is joker/Edward nigma (riddler) theme! So the idea is to have green and purple rads, and having green fluid going into the purple rads and purple fluids going into the green rads! Sounds a bit crazy but I've looked into it and it should work! Two seperate loops one dedicated for CPU to get maximum cooing and the other dedicated to the graphics cards!! So all in all I should have four rads which is crazy but I want this to be a beast.

 

[Omega89]

so as i have noiw got my parvum case and started to assemble it i discovered a few things.....
1, after purchasing the accent kit its only the front and back panals that are purple leaving the top and bottom red.

2, I am missing a cube the support the middle of the case.

Thin i may need to get in touch with parvum to get this issue sorted.........

 

[Omega89]

Yeah no spare cubes here, they dont sell that often and when one of my colleagues binned the spares when he took one apart...cheers for that.

And yes im replacing the red panels for puple ones once i can get hold of parvum and request new puple panel. I'm keeping the GPU plates green. i still have faith that its going to look good.

 

[Omega89]

So heres the two colours side by side, and I think it looks pretty joker!!! This is not the rad im using its just a quick spray job on a spare rad to test the colours.

 

[Omega89]

So yeah Jared Leto's Joker is going to be the main event with a slight hint of the riddler. going to attempt to get a vinyl like the picture below to put on the case or on the inside of the case.

So if anyone can give me any recommendations of good vinyl/decal producing companies that would be able to do this would be great.

Let me know what you think of the picture

 

[Omega89]

You are a hero.

 

[Omega89]

So spent a fair bit of money last night on components for my project! CPU i7 5930k costing £400 and a gigabyte soc champion motherboard costing £140 to be fair the board was at a discounted price from a friend at OcUK HQ

Next step get water cooling parts

Slowly coming together now

 

[Omega89]

Yeah they work better than what I expected, just thinking do I replace the red top panel that come with the case but then I will just have a red strip running across the top of the case!

 

[Omega89]

Today has been a eventful day. I've been very productive....as the images will show below

I think the purple works really well and compliments the green used. The purple matches the accent panels on the case.

I purchased some green fittings a while back which came in handy when finishing the radiator.

I chose Corsair SP 120mm fans to attach to the radiator this is because of the interchangeable rings. I had to spray the white ring green to get the affect i was after.

The finished product.....I think the colour contrast works really with the purple and the green and I beleive you can easily spot the theme. next step is to peal off the Corsair stickers and put Ha Ha ha on each of the fans to complete it.

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

 

[Omega89]

Joker themed, going about as mental as he is

 

[Omega89]

The only colours I'm having are the ones of the pictures I've put up, no more, no less