Black 'n' Blue MK2 - Watercooled Bitfenix Prodigy

reiyushin · 12 Jan 2013 at 19:28

Some pictures of the second window

Masking it out

Cutting and mess

Nice acrylic and sticky tape

Done

reiyushin · 13 Jan 2013 at 13:32

Doing some cable sleeving this morning and looking at LED strips

reiyushin · 18 Jan 2013 at 22:18

acme15 said:
You might be able to get the cuts in the windows straighter if you sand/wear them down, maybe with a straight-edge fastened there as a guide to ensure you dont go too far.

Looks amazing as is though

Interested to see it finished

Yea I might give that a go at some stage

thanks

ChrisLandin said:
Those fans look epic, again! Wish I still had them now for my Lian li v351 modded build I'm doing.

Your case looks excellent by the way. Well done.

Is it quite easy using a dremmel? I'm still on my jigsaw lol

Cheers

Yea a dremel is easy enough, just take your time with it.

Tokin said:
Cant wait to see this one finished!

Thanks

I hope I'll get the watercooling in on Sunday!

reiyushin · 23 Jan 2013 at 20:10

A lot more work has been done

First up the GFX

ooo00ooo0o0oooo shiiinneeeeeeyyyy D

Stripped, cleaned, MX-2 Applied amd thermal pads on

Voila

reiyushin · 23 Jan 2013 at 20:29

Mounting the pump, who can see the mistake? XD

reiyushin · 9 Apr 2013 at 17:09

I've just been told to update this

I'm 95% done on this just a few wires and little things to do, I'll get some pics up

reiyushin · 9 Apr 2013 at 17:38

The mistake in that pic was that the pump was the wrong way round

I had both inlets in use but no the outlet...derp.

reiyushin · 9 Apr 2013 at 17:59

Getting it all tubed up!

This one didn't resize so it's in spoilers ^^

I massaged out this kink and used a cable tie to keep it nice and round

Ready to go......

but nothing happened

Stuck with this... >.<

More later

reiyushin · 11 Apr 2013 at 21:47

I bled it upright

So the pump didn't start.....I checked it again and again and couldn't figure out what was wrong

Though I was going to have to RMA it until I checked the wires and it was on 5v which isn't enough to start it....So a quick wire switch and it was ALIVE

....but it leaked....

reiyushin · 11 Apr 2013 at 21:50

As for the side panel nope it wouldn't go on with the rad so I ordered a replacement from OcUK and cut a bigger window into it.

I got a USB 3 front header and modded a nice switch for the power and once for the cathodes but we'll get to that

reiyushin · 11 Apr 2013 at 21:55

Leaky computers go to the shower...

reiyushin · 11 Apr 2013 at 21:58

A bad rotary fitting caused the leak, it was pretty bad, I dried up what I could and left the rest in the hot press overnight to dry it out

It dried out nicely and I changed the tubing a little to remove the bad rotary and voila!!

reiyushin · 11 Apr 2013 at 21:59

Need to take more pics now

so much more has been done since this one

reiyushin · 13 Apr 2013 at 12:34

It was a nightmare to get the power button connected XD this is a bitfenix panel, I used the original side panel for the other side so it wouldn't have holes where the power buttons and usb ports used to be.

reiyushin · 13 Apr 2013 at 15:08

Ok so the power buttons and the USB 3.0 side panel doesn't fit with the rad where it is. Not a problem

a couple of holes drilled out of a bitfenix usb front panel and voila; a switch for the cathodes and the power

To seal the top with the fans etc I used a koolance fan shroud

I love the result

reiyushin · 13 Apr 2013 at 15:08

Camera battery is dead, more pics soon