9ine04
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Same here - bought an extra 6 90° fittings for them purely for aesthetics lol. I haven't got any screws the right length to set up the rads yet, but they're in the post.
And the case modding begins!
Case, meet Dremel. Dremel, meet case.
Due to the simplicity of the case, removing the HHD bays required drilling out these 2 rivets,
and cutting 2 little bends.
Also had to cut this bit out to get the rads to fit.
I had to keep this little bit to hold the door on, but the top of the HHD cadge was too low for the rads to fit.
So much room for activities!
I had to cut some more off the top though, I was hoping to use the HHD cage mount to secure the rads in place, but the stack is too tall.
Speaking of my rad stack..
And from the back:
Thinking of mounting my SSDs at the front here.. Not sure about cable management though.
And this is just about as cramped as it gets:
Only one card blocked up right now.
And, yep, it's tight.
Gonna move the fans/rads up slightly to prevent the cards sagging.
Oh, and I'm not looking forward to cable management in this case..
Case, meet Dremel. Dremel, meet case.
Due to the simplicity of the case, removing the HHD bays required drilling out these 2 rivets,
and cutting 2 little bends.
Also had to cut this bit out to get the rads to fit.
I had to keep this little bit to hold the door on, but the top of the HHD cadge was too low for the rads to fit.
So much room for activities!
I had to cut some more off the top though, I was hoping to use the HHD cage mount to secure the rads in place, but the stack is too tall.
Speaking of my rad stack..
And from the back:
Thinking of mounting my SSDs at the front here.. Not sure about cable management though.
And this is just about as cramped as it gets:
Only one card blocked up right now.
And, yep, it's tight.
Gonna move the fans/rads up slightly to prevent the cards sagging.
Oh, and I'm not looking forward to cable management in this case..
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Will there not be diminishing returns as you go through that many rads?
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Shawy is clearly a crazy man with this build!
It's all coming together nicely, your right cable management will be an interesting challenge.
Can't see the exact distance but by the looks of it I would plug in your Sata cables before mounting all those rads. It looks to me as if a right angle plug (when plugged in) will work fine however when you've got the excess that plugs into the port I'm not sure if your be able to plug it in.
Could be wrong, hard to see how much space is to the right of the motherboard.
Can't see the exact distance but by the looks of it I would plug in your Sata cables before mounting all those rads. It looks to me as if a right angle plug (when plugged in) will work fine however when you've got the excess that plugs into the port I'm not sure if your be able to plug it in.
Could be wrong, hard to see how much space is to the right of the motherboard.
Yeah, probably. I'm gonna give it a try though and hope for the best.
Coming from a CrazyArsedMonky, I must be bat**** crazy lol.
Yeah I'll be making all of my own custom cables. I kind of shot myself in the foot buying 2 SSDs for RAID 0 - I didn't really think about needing the 2 power and 2 data cables for it..
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id stick an extra fan on top so it would be push,push,push,push,pull
Probably not that great, but I'm giving it a go anyway.
There's only about 45mm of clearance as it is - adding another fan would make that 20mm. Plus I have a nice little molex to 4x fan PCB I'll be using.
It's been a while since my last update, and I'd love to say I've been really busy, but the truth is I've just been a bit lazy. I'm still waiting on the last of my fittings though, so I'm gonna use that excuse for the lack of progress.
Anyway, I've done some work on the fan stack - I don't have any progress shots unfortunately, but what I did was de-solder the original fan cables, cut some new ones to the right lengths and then re-soldered them on and sleeved them. I'm also using a molex to 4 3pin fan splitter PCB that I acquired from an old case - it's the perfect size for what I need.
So without further ado: the rad stack:
You can see the fan cables are all cut to length, the slack should be taken out once the PCB is in place.
Another angle showing how the cables will sit inside the case:
And the rads back inside the case:
(bonus points for guessing what books are propping it up
)
From the back you wont be able to see much of the cables
And the PCB will sit behind the tab with the side panel screw. Lower down than in the picture, but it's such a tight fit, I wont be mounting it until the final assembly.
That's it for now. I'm hoping to get more of the cabling done later on next week, though if today's anything to go by; it's gonna take me quite a while..
Anyway, I've done some work on the fan stack - I don't have any progress shots unfortunately, but what I did was de-solder the original fan cables, cut some new ones to the right lengths and then re-soldered them on and sleeved them. I'm also using a molex to 4 3pin fan splitter PCB that I acquired from an old case - it's the perfect size for what I need.
So without further ado: the rad stack:
You can see the fan cables are all cut to length, the slack should be taken out once the PCB is in place.
Another angle showing how the cables will sit inside the case:
And the rads back inside the case:
(bonus points for guessing what books are propping it up
)From the back you wont be able to see much of the cables
And the PCB will sit behind the tab with the side panel screw. Lower down than in the picture, but it's such a tight fit, I wont be mounting it until the final assembly.
That's it for now. I'm hoping to get more of the cabling done later on next week, though if today's anything to go by; it's gonna take me quite a while..
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Fantastic build, can't wait for the outcome! I'll be interested to see how the 'rad stack' performs too. Are they Harry Potter books propping the case up?
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looks more like two of the harry potter books to me - phoenix & deathly hallows 
looks more like two of the harry potter books to me - phoenix & deathly hallows
10 points to Slytherin!
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This looks amazing because that case is just beautiful looks to be a tight squeeze, might have to get this case too if you can convince me looks amazing so far though! Goodluck subbed to thread!
If you want a case for aesthetics then there is no match for the 904. If you want something practical, then you'll have to settle for something else.