Code Brown - Noctua Holyness

[Jay85]

It's been awhile as i've been busy with fatherhood... but we're back and i'm here to showcase a new build mod that i'm working on!

We are going brown town with the latest and greatest from Noctua!


As always, Big Thank You to our sponsors for this build.

• Noctua
• QuitePC Ltd
• G.Skill
• Asrock
• Thermal Grizzly
• Monster Studio
• Bitspower
• Biwin

Kicking things off with a few product showcases.


Base system we're looking at:

• Intel 265K
• Asrock Z890 Aqua / Taichi Creator (Pending)
• G.Skill Trident Z5 Royal Neo (Gold and Silver Combo) CL28 6000mhz 128gb
• Noctua x Seasonic TX1600 PSU
• Noctua x Asus RTX 5080
• Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 Fans
• Biwin NV7400 NVME 2TB Storage
• Bitspower Watercooling
• Monster Studio A45 PLUS ATX Frame

RTX 5080 by Noctua
























Seasonic TX1600 by Noctua
















Test Fit Frame - Monster Studio A45 PLUS










Updates will be a little slower than usual but this will be a start of a new series of Noctua themed builds, stay tuned.

 

[Jay85]

G2 Fans Showcase:

 

[Jay85]

I think your image host doesn't seem to work

Thanks!

Fixed some of them, i’ll fix the G2 fans link tomorrow.

 

[Jay85]

matching with the kiddo's poop then eh?

ngl haven’t seen this shade of poop yet but give it time haha!

 

[Jay85]

Meet the aircooled build! All Noctua brown and tan in a open frame for maximum FU! A watercooled system is coming next.

 

[Jay85]

@Jay85 - Was doomscrolling Facebook and thought "I'm sure I recognise that"... Congrats on the Seasonic feature! (but why did they know it was finished ~12h before us? )

I’ve been so busy with my new job and looking after my little one that the timing was way off haha. Needed to get the social posts out first as its part of an agreed schedule. I never forget about you lot though! Always on the back of my mind!

Thanks btw!

 

[Jay85]

Well, you've certainly gone all-in on the Noctua brown! I guess it goes with the general build ethos - either hide it or make a feature of it.
Weirdly I'm most interested in the Seasonic 90° ATX connector. Was looking very recently and you can only get poor quality plain and disturbingly uninsulated or rainbow unicorn vomit. I went with the former and 3D printed a cover but it's interesting to see there's a 3rd option!

I’ve done a few Noctua builds previously but they were Chromax so all black and looking generally like any other build. Going full brown really made a difference. It got people excited and angry at the same time .

The 90 degree connector is a fantastic bit of kit that also acts as a tester too. Well built and does the job and as far as im aware, it comes with all the high end Seasonic PSU’s. I haven’t checked the regular TX-1600 yet but i’m sure that comes with one too.

 

[Jay85]

Ah well if I'd known, I'd have looked into Seasonic more seriously. Went Silverstone mainly as I believe (we'll see if I'm right later in the project!) that the wiring should be simpler for custom cables. Although at least at a glance, the Seasonic doesn't look bad with maybe four sense wires - can't tell how many cross overs. This is definitely information they should make more easily available to us weirdies!

If you want a more detailed picture of the 24pin connector or any other connector i can get you that with my camera, would make life much easier for you in choosing.

 

[Jay85]

Thanks, appreciated. I already went with a Silverstone Hela 850R though. It looks like it shouldn't be too much of a problem to re-cable and I think it was on offer....which was the clincher! It's not seen the inside of a case yet though, just sitting next to a M/B box with a running system on top of it Currently I'm stuck waiting on a big lump of steel to arrive so I can make res ends...but Evri seem to have lost it.

That's a beautiful psu tbh, love the casing design on the fan grill. Can't really go wrong with Silverstone either, top tier brand imo!

Bet you're eager to get started with it haha! Has your big lump of steel arrived yet?

 

[Jay85]

Wow that is nuts! Amazing.

Thanks dude! Working on the watercooling side of it now, so should hopefully have that up within the next few weeks!

Thermal Grizzly have kindly sent over a big bunch of fittings for me to play with so will showcase those in this build

 

[Jay85]

Eager to get on with this part but procrastinating like hell on designing the acrylic distroplate come reservoir mount come whatever else I try to bake into it! Once designed, I need to work out how to run a 12 foot CNC router that I can use if I drive to it and it isn't already being used. Think it's currently doing things like MDF so it might be 'fun'!
100mm steel round bar still AWOL. Just chased it up again but wondering whether it's something that I'll have to refund and find elsewhere for higher cost.

How's it going?! Did everything turn up in the end?

 

[Jay85]

I love this! Noctua make amazing products and there is something special about the brown theme.

I'm also very excited to receive the new G2 Chromax stuff! The brown is great but i do like to mix and match sometimes too!

 

[Jay85]

It's the 70's !
Just need a floral shag rug throw and the theme is complete

Noctua Deskmat would do the trick haha!

 

[Jay85]

So i've been busy raising my baby but somehow managing to find time to build this still!

I've gone through a few variations and iterations but ended up sticking with this default mount to fit the largest radiator i could get my hands on. A huge 420mm 50mm thick radiator with 3 x Noctua NF-A14x25mm Fans attached for some pretty impressive CPU only cooling. It's probably overkill but heyho!

Also found some time to do abit more 3D designing so i created a custom mounting bracket to attached Thermalright's Trofeo LCD screen to the side.

Custom cables next to finish the project off!

 

[Jay85]

Watercooled!

First of 2026!

 

[Jay85]

Nice. So it's half distro and half structural support for things like the rad, then?
I managed to thread mill a G1/4 thread over the holiday so they'll be coolant in acrylic sometime soon...at least for a while; I have a history of coolant not staying entirely where it's intended to be!

The rad and distro are on separate mounts but i've adapted the distro one to mount a LCD screen as well. The whole thing is held up by a thick aluminium stand that also acts as the support for the motherboard tray. It's sturdy and doesn't bend surprisingly.

Did you model it before milling or just managed to figure it out on the mill? Seen a few videos of people milling threads manually and it's very ASMR! Fantastic if you get it working, it's literally the hardest part of making a distro.

Have you seen people 3D printing distro now too using clear filament?

 

[Jay85]

The problem with pretty much any filament is that you'll end up with something that either leaks or slowly seeps - especially at any sort of pressure. You can maybe coat the inside with a waterproof epoxy to get it hopefully water-tight. I did see an interesting concept of using a laser cutter to cut acrylic and then a 3D printer to print moulds for 2-part silicone that both waterproofs it and acts as the gasket. It looks a lot of faff but it's an interesting idea:

For the thread milling, I modelled it in Fusion and then got it to generate the G-code. Picture and details rant on my Overkill thread if you're interested. Import carbide thread mill suitable for G1/4 and G3/8 threads for £14 (the d8 variety) and pray! Best guide to the weirdness'es (and why!) of Fusion when it comes to CAM for thread milling is NYCNC's....'cos it's anything but intuitive. It makes sense once you understand the logic but considering you can drop a modelled thread in with Fusion supplying all the dimensions and then hit 3D print, I'm not sure why it isn't as easy for CAM to be honest. Still, it works once you know the ritual.

Love the idea in that video, never though of it like that to create a silicone gasket within the acrylic for the coolant to run through. I do wonder though with that method, what kind of silicone based product you would need to stop mould and other things building up... Though technically if you use the right mixture it should never happen.

Fusion is the way to go, it's pretty much what i use for everything if im modding or creating a custom part for a build. In Fusion you can create holes with the appropriate threading already so you don't have to model it which is fantastic and a nice time saver lol.

Interestingly on the topic of CAM, what file format do you normally use? I've asked a few older milling places around my local area and they seem to want PDF and have no idea what i mean when i show them a STEP file.