Acrylic ITX by Parvum Systems

parvumsystems · 30 May 2013 at 21:48

parvumsystems said:
Tomorrow evening my friend. Have to fit it in after work !

OK this is a lie... the update is ready but I wont have time to transfer, edit & upload until tomorrow. So then we shall post!

Bluntwrapped said:
You've got a habit of nailing it when it comes to designing/building cases man

Seriously nice stuff!

Thanks! I'm glad we are pretty good at it! The big plus side of doing this project logs is each time we can see and notice till improvements for future cases. Everything is being taken into account

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Thanks again!

nick.lidgett said:
waiting for updates on this is killing me.
now I know what prince Charles must feel like, waiting for his mum to die so he can get a promotion at work!!!!

What a way with words. Sadly the update will be tomorrow now. But it went great

JoeF1 said:
ohh just about to buy the MTX case.

Subbed.

Ah thanks sir! Hope to see some photos of the finished rig!

rjkoneill said:
nice to hear your parcel has arrived

Fancy seeing you here. The new stuff has fast forwarded this build loads

JoeF1 · 31 May 2013 at 11:10

parvumsystems said:
Tomorrow evening my friend. Have to fit it in after work !

Your late

Kaktus69 · 31 May 2013 at 15:33

Looking forwards to the updates!

parvumsystems · 31 May 2013 at 18:41

31 May Hardware & Cooling installed

Project:
Acrylic ITX
by: Parvum Systems

Sponsors:

Back again!

First up then we want to introduce OCUK as a hardware sponsor on this build. OCUK have been on board with Parvum from a very early stage. We must say they are a great bunch of people there and we are very happy to be teamed up. Thanks again to Rich for setting this up.

They have dropped us a lovely Asrock board and a Haswell chip, first things first... kit it out with the waterblocks:

Next a few changes to the mid wall for cable management & standoffs installed:

Made a little base for the pump as we needed it to be 5mm higher:

Installed in the case with some test fittings:

160mm rad and 80mm fans installed. A grill and some kind of shroud be added later:

Test fit of the side/PSU panel with the 120mm rad and scythe fan. Very tight... LOL airflow much??

Now we install the XSPC reservoir. Suits our vision well, I mean after all... why not show off all the brilliant W/C gear to its fullest potential! Biggest pet peeve is ITX cases that just hide.. everything!

So with the reservoir:

Thats it for now. We had to change the bottom chamber as you may well have seen, the rad has moved from bottom to front and the chamber will be completely different. More on this next time.

Thanks for reading. Peace out.

Something Else · 31 May 2013 at 18:49

Lucky people!! haswell chip!!

Sin_Chase · 31 May 2013 at 19:39

Yummy

Makes me want to build such a tiny system with watercooling

How many disk drives will it accommodate?

deFiniLoGy · 31 May 2013 at 19:42

Somthing Else said:
Lucky people!! haswell chip!!

I'm more waiting for them to offically release the CASE!!

Man I love this build

Nice and cleannnn, I need to see how it goes after you stuff in a PSU though :eek:

JDubz · 1 Jun 2013 at 00:25

I have a huge boner!

Akagi · 1 Jun 2013 at 03:06

Somthing Else said:
Lucky people!! haswell chip!!

They probably won't get to use it before the official release anyway

rjk · 3 Jun 2013 at 12:00

looking good

nick.lidgett · 3 Jun 2013 at 12:18

JDubz said:
I have a huge boner!

6 posts in and already he brags pmsl

NoustieChris · 3 Jun 2013 at 12:53

That dual fan rad, that's not a 240 is it???

Also, the Haswell chip, does that take the same 2011 socket for waterblocks?

rjk · 3 Jun 2013 at 16:21

haswell is 1150. same socket size as 1155/1156 but not the same LGA orientation [chips are not intercompatible but coolers are]

NoustieChris · 4 Jun 2013 at 08:09

rjkoneill said:
haswell is 1150. same socket size as 1155/1156 but not the same LGA orientation [chips are not intercompatible but coolers are]

Thanks Rjkoneill

parvumsystems · 5 Jun 2013 at 20:45

Sin_Chase said:
Yummy

Makes me want to build such a tiny system with watercooling

How many disk drives will it accommodate?

You should indeed! Big fan of squeezing such powerful hardware in a very tiny case.

For this just a single or two SSDs. But that is literally only because its all we need. We've figured out space for a mechanical drive but are opting away to use the space for other things.

JDubz said:
I have a huge boner!

Almost took my eye out :mad:

acme15 said:
They probably won't get to use it before the official release anyway

rjkoneill said:
looking good

Thank you!

nick.lidgett said:
6 posts in and already he brags pmsl

Going strong

parvumsystems · 7 Jun 2013 at 17:43

07 June Cable Braid

Sponsors:

Just a quick one this time...

Thought I'd show any of you that hadn't seen this. The scratch built ITX that we did for Asus. They showcased this case at the Computex event. Sadly we didn't get to put a rig in it but damn... it looks great! It was what pushed us to get rolling with this build:

So in go the cables. We've opted for small 20cm extensions this time. The rear will be completely enclosed so this was to save time and money. We don't have as much time as we'd like to mod so it was the perfect option. These are custom extensions that Shaun sourced from Shakmods. Check him out here.

These fit extremely tight but everything going to the drawing plans:

Super happy with these, quality was great colours are perfect. Awesome service.

That is all for now. More soon!

Blame · 7 Jun 2013 at 20:25

Amazing how much gear you can fit in one of these! great work guys!

parvumsystems · 9 Jun 2013 at 11:56

Blame said:
Amazing how much gear you can fit in one of these! great work guys!

Thanks Blame! We are a little bit concerned with the perhaps less than 10mm breathing space behind the 120mm radiator fan but we will see.
Frustrated at the moment as EK are not planning a block for the GPU we are getting

Something Else · 9 Jun 2013 at 12:56

Looking good so far. Be interesting to see how you route the sata cables as they look like they will be a pain to be neat because of the way the sata ports are

Roalith · 9 Jun 2013 at 16:27

Looks like an awesome build

Probably a daft question, but: Where can I get the metal cubes and fitments necessary to screw acrylic together like this?

I'm starting to ponder my own custom case build... with very little mechanical knowledge but access to an acrylic laser cutter, and a plan involving silver mirror wrap and lots of LEDs. Machine is turned off, it looks like a plain metallic/reflective box, machine goes on... LEDs come on and light up the interior, killing the mirror effect because the light inside the case is at a similar strength to the ambient light outside.