Chocolate Box

parvumsystems said:
much excite :D
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Uhoh got to impress the boss man now :rolleyes: Thanks everyone.



AFAIK this is the smallest Parvum logo inlay there has been so far, each piece of the letters are stunningly delicate and it nicely reflects the colour scheme going on inside with a nice bright highlight.



Straight in there with a test fit this afternoon, everything seems to fit, just!



Much like MOD04 by HackJoe Parvum have used their cunning tool-less PCI mount, it's actually easier to assemble than a normal Parvum and it holds the 290X beautifully true in the case. Whoever did this, give that man a rise or a cookie.











Things are if anything even tighter in the back, and I need to get an SSD in there too. It's definitely gonna be fun, Pexon is going to hate me worse than that time I made him sleeve 13 fans :D





Yep yep yep...



JR
 
shanestatham said:
Its a very impressive build...I actually do like the colour....but....why not watercool all of the build? Why have a fan cooling solution for the CPU?
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I went that route for both aesthetic and performance reasons, given the space constraints watercooling both components wasn't a serious option without making massive internal and external changes to the case to accommodate more radiators. Graphics cards respond far better to watercooling, the heatsink is more than sufficient for an i5 even with a modest overclock. As it's a gaming orientated build in it's 'load' scenario the GPU would generally be the hottest and loudest component, especially given it's a 290X. Brown/Black/Nickel graphics cards don't come up that often so I felt this was the strongest way to convey the theme.

Perhaps trying to cram in 80mm rads and using a lower TDP GPU I could have included the CPU in the loop but it would have added greatly to the complexity and offered no accoustic benefit. Plus that's really not my style. The big clean CPU cooler dominating the motherboard really works for me and i'm sure it will be capable of cooling a modest CPU at a fan speed lower than the GPU rad. I won't deny it's a bit different, that's what I set out to do and i'm sure I will learn a lot from doing it that way. Moreover it was quite important to me to do something unique with it, I liked the stacked rad in the green and white MSI themed X1.0 but it had been done. Similarly Parvums early ITX used a small form factor graphics card so I wanted to squeeze in a full length and blocked graphics card.

JR
 
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Thanks for your support and for following the log guys.

I've now mocked up all of the tubing using acrylic and obtained all of the critical dimensions so I can cut the nickel plated brass Alphacool tubing which is way too expensive to make mistakes with! So far everything is lining up nicely and the thought I put into the motherboard tray is paying off. If Bitspower come through with the mini snake I think this might just fit together :eek:

















JR
 
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Thanks everyone, i'll keep the updates rolling in.

cwgk91 said:
Looks great. What colour coolant are you using in the final build?
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I will be using clear coolant as it's only visible in the res which is pretty well tucked away in the back.

parvumsystems said:
The runs to the GPU look mighty fine. I like!
Hopefully these other bits will arrive very soon.
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Woo bits! Very soon :D even better


Over the weekend I cut and turned all of the Alphacool chrome pipe to length and just this afternoon I have reassembled the loop. It was easy to put together with the roof and a sides removed. Also as well as cutting the pipe I also shortened the Alphacool bulkhead pass through's so there are no exposed threads on either side. I've still got everything crossed for when the radiator and mini snake turn up.























JR
 
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