PARVUM APIS by JR23

[JR23]

Hey guys, today I received all of the remaining sleeving supplies from E22, but before we get into that I had to find room for another drive in the back of APIS! I had a vague idea of where I wanted it to go, as the drive is sleek and black I wanted to set it somewhere against the gloss yellow.

With that marked out it was straight off to the pillar drill.

3.5mm followed with a little chamfer for the countersunk screw heads to sit neatly unseen underneath the outer panel of the case.

Excellent!

Here is the final position, mirroring a 2.5" WD set behind the motherboard tray.

So now it's time for some sleeving! Black, Dark Grey and Yellow Tellios.

Many wires cut, for this i'm using tri-rated 16AWG PVC insulated 3.1mm OD wire. Very overkill and huge to try and get in standard ATX crimps however it's all worth it for the way it interacts with the sleeving. All of the yellow sleeve will have yellow cable so it remains vibrant and pronounced.

Ends trimmed ready for crimps!

Yeah forget breaking off 40+ crimps with my fingers .

...much much time later.

Well all I got done today was the 4 8-pin PCI cables but i'm very happy with them. Hopefully tomorrow I can get the EPS and peripheral cables taken care of leaving the 24-pin for another day when the PSU arrives!

JR

 

[JR23]

Just a small update, all I managed was the 24-pin today. In an attempt to keep it somewhat square, difficult when its so short, every cable was a different length. Together with the 3 double wires it made it very time consuming.

With a little training I think they will all sit really nicely in the build. For me the feel and the flow is way more important than having each wire exactly parallel, each holds the right natural curvature for where it has to fit. Only a couple more cables to do now, i'm very glad all the big ones are finished!

JR

 

[colinmcr]

Nice job on the cabling, is there anything you can't do lol?

 

[Luggs]

 

[JR23]

Nice job on the cabling, is there anything you can't do lol?

I'm really not that good at painting, nor do I have any interest in learning to be as good as my own expectations but most things i'm happy to practice and get good at. This will be the first complete set of cables i've made and I can see improvement in my work, particularly in the consistency of what can't be seen.

IKR, glad to see you have figured out how to put your words across so eloquently.

JR

 

[1nfamous]

Oh man. That grey just sits in there so beautifully. Brilliant choice dude

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Lovely job. These Parvum cases are nice blank slate for those with the talent to put something nice together, if I tried something like this it would probably end up an unholy mess.

 

[JR23]

I'm sure you can see where this is going

Hopefully the build will very shortly have just a little more EVGA kit in it and so we thought it was only appropriate to add a little branding to the exterior, after all the components are so understated and discrete it seemed appropriate and TJ liked the idea too.

We didn't stop at just the custom front panel and went on to inlay each tiny piece of the letters in frosted clear, the same acrylic as used for the midplate.

I'll bring you some more on that when parts arrive!

The rig is currently up and running with stock cables, everything is working correctly however the fan splitter PCB did not function as anticipated so we will be adding an Aquaero 5 LT. Most of the cables are complete so just a little more fabrication and final assembly to go!

JR

 

[SamyBoy13]

Incredibile build.

 

[Parkinson1NX]

That is one amazing build, attention to detail is insane! Love the color scheme.

Absolute cracker mate!

 

[Luggs]

Not too sure where to go from here lol

Lovely work mate!

 

[darwin1859]

Cabling looks very smart. The asymmetric look is tricky to get right, but you've done it well here.

 

[JR23]

Hello everyone! It's been a while, over a year, infact...... I can explain. We finished the system, insanely late one night took it back to TJ's and it has stayed there ever since being used every day, beside the occasional time i've stolen it for insomnia. At which point i've been too preoccupied with another system to yeah, take any photographs at all.

BUT, yesterday it came back for it's first annual service and a cheeky upgrade, luckily it was so easy to work on it left me with a few hours for photographs. Not the ideal scenario, lying on the floor with an old table top, one soft box and some fabric but good enough for some shots to do it justice.

So just before we gander at those, the updated spec list for your delectation.

Parvum Systems R1.0
Intel Haswell-E i7-5930K
EVGA X99 Micro2
EVGA GTX 980 Classified x2
Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 4x4GB
Samsung 512GB PM961 M.2
Samsung 500GB 850 EVO
Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3 x2
Western Digital Blue 1TB
EVGA Supernova 1200W P2

Aquacomputer Aquaero 5 LT
Aquacomputer Aquaero 5 Passive Heatsink
EK FC980 Classy Nickel/Acetal x2
EK Supremacy EVO Nickel/Acetal
EK D5 REVO Pump Top Acetal
EK RES X3 250 Black Acetal
EK CoolStream PE 360 (Triple)
EK HD Adapter 10/12mm Black Nickel x28
Corsair SP120 Performance Edition PWM x8

I hope this surprised a few of you with old subs and brought a few new readers to this older project, thanks for stopping by. TJ is now enjoying 3500mb/s reads and the added dankness of the Micro2. On a small and belated sidenote, i've never seen such a magnificent revision to any product, every tiny tiny niggle that it was possible to pick with the original Micro has been carefully and logically addressed, right down to including the debug LED in dark mode and a quiet mode that's enabled by default.

JR

 

[Dempsey22]

This is my favourite build ever on these forums. Can I throw a ball of cash at you to do one for me ? Lol

 

[Legend]

Not enough superlatives in the dictionary to describe this, but it's simply stunning! Curious what your camera settings were for the photos, they look great.

How hard are the replacement cables for the PSU? I've done quite a lot of extensions, but never braved a full PSU like that.

 

[LewisRaz]

Amazing.

 

[JR23]

Not enough superlatives in the dictionary to describe this, but it's simply stunning! Curious what your camera settings were for the photos, they look great.

How hard are the replacement cables for the PSU? I've done quite a lot of extensions, but never braved a full PSU like that.

ISO400, F8.0, ~1/60, AF with manual point selection, white balance forced to 4500K as AWB has literally no clue what to do with unnaturally vibrant yellow.

All the 6 and 8-pins on EVGA/Superflower are easy, easier than extensions even, but the 24-pin is just stupid, i've sleeved two PSU's that aren't Silverstone now and I hate doing them and the results are disappointing for all the extra effort.

JR

 

[D1craig]

Please.... will you just **** off. I hate your builds. They make me so envious lol.

Apart from that this is great EDIT - posted before finishing the thread read.

 

[HoneyBadger]

Fact: You got skillz.

 

[subbytna]

Cracking thread revival.....The 980's need to go though and a couple of 1080s to be their upgrade