So! Today was the day!
The In Win 909 was announced at computex and I was the first person to get to do a mod with it!
First off i would like to say a massive thank you to ASUS who were the ones to get me the case, and i would also like to appologise for the quality of the pictures. I pretty much did everything you see here the day that i was sending this build to Taiwan, i was awake for 30+ hours and as the case was still NDA pictures were not my main priority. It also isn't 100% finished, i have lots of little bits to do to it to make it perfect, but again, I just didn't have the time.
So, the In Win 909 is based on the 904/901, but has much better airflow and support for watercooling.
It has support for a 240mm rad at the bottom (although i found this to be rather tight, an EK rad wont fit properly)
a 240mm rad at the front
and a 360 rad at the back, there is also space for a 120mm rad as well, or a fan, but it just wasnt needed for this build.
iirc correctly, the case has support for 5 SSds around the back using nifty little bracets, i didnt need these though, so the first thing i did was cut a bit of the panel away to make this huge hole, this allowed me to curve my 24pin connector around better.
on this pic you can see that the bracket for the SSD would have been in the way of the curve. I didnt likke how many holes there were in the motherboard tray so that was the first thing i thought id sort out.
As I didnt want to use the bottom 240 mm fan space either, I thought id cover this as well as make a cover for the PSU space.
So, measuring and marking what i wanted to cut is first on the list
I always draw on top of the protective film so that you don't mark the actual acrylic.
I cut this using a jig saw to save time, not the prettiest of finishes, but not too bad.
The first sheet in place goes here...
This means I can now get the curve that i want (dont worry about the state of the holes, I will sort these out at a later time)
The next one was the cover for the 240mm fan slots:
The white bit of plastic underneath is actually a light bar, so i didn't want to cover that completely.
once i had these 2 bits in place i needed to sort out the final bit that would have been left, just a little rectangle, when id made that it looked like this
Once i pull all the bits out, they look like this, obviously this was before i sanded them down.
The next job was the water cooling, this was quite a strange loop for me to do as I wasn't sent any RAM for the build. This needed to be added when it got to Taiwan, as such, I couldn't foul any of the RAM slots... and there are 8.
Due to this it meant getting a little creative with the loop
First to go were the hardrive bays at the top of the case, there are 4 of these so you have plenty of storage options, I drilled all the rivets out so that i could use the space for some tubing.
With the 240 radiator orientated in the way i chose, it meant i could only really go this way, the only problem was that is where the case is
So, time to drill a hole.
add a pass through fitting
and get the bit of tubing in place
I needed to do the same with the back radiator as again, i couldnt go past the ram slots!
EKWB sent me plenty of tubing, I thought with this case being rather big i would need it, but a lot of the bits of tubing i used were very very small
Once all the tubing was in place, it looked like this, E22.biz sorted me out a rather nice panel as this build is to show off the ASUS X99 DELUXe
I was going to use White pastel fluid, so the CPU block didnt really matter, but i do wish i had gone with nickel rather than copper now, at least i know for next time.
I extended the tubing out quite a lot so that hands could easily work with the ram slots.
I really like how it all turned out, i particularly like the placement of the rez.
The Intel SSD was another item that needed to be on show, I had a lot of ideas with this, but unfortunately i needed a longer cable that isn't currently available at any retailers so i had to just make do with it on the bottom.
Once i had added the fluid it looked like this? what do you think?
I used Mayhems fluid as per usual, this is Aurora, that i had watered down a little using some ultra pure and then added just a touch of Pastel white concentrate.
Im really happy with how this turned out. I cant wait to get it back to finish it to the standard it deserves, but with the time scale i had and everything else, I'm mega happy.
As soon as it gets back from Taiwan, I will be doing the finishing touches and getting some better pictures
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