Insomnia I55 Thermaltake project

Hukkel

Hukkel

Hukkel

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Herroooooo everyone. It is almost time for Insomnia I55 in august 2015 and before Computex 2015 I have been asked by Thermaltake Europe if I was interested in doing a project for them to put on display.
Of course my ego was all over the place and I was hovering 50cm above the ground as I love doing these projects and I love being asked by brands so I said **** YEAH! :D

The project was quite straight forward: we use the new Suppressor case, add all parts Thermaltake does like fans, PSU and all of their watercooling equipment and make something that is worth looking at.

Perfect assignment for men. Keep it simple. I can understand this.

I still had some hardware at home and for other stuff I contacted a few people I worked with before. And before I knew it this thing was on a roll.

I need to finish this project like 2 weeks from now. So I figured I should start a log about what I have been doing for the last couple of weeks since I have everything.

This will be a short log I think with rather large photo updates. I hope you will enjoy.



First of all I want to thank Thermaltake and Martin in particular for the opportunity.

I have a bunch of photos of the unboxing of the new case ending in a photo of the front panel being taken apart both with the screwdriver and a saw to create something I will show you later on :)

Don't worry there will be a LOT of modding involved in updates coming later on.





































OUT!!! All of you!!!



I have a rather cool (I hope) idea for the front end. I want to keep the lining and shape of the original case intact but still make its appearance different.

 
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I had been thinking about what to do as a mod with this case. It will be on display to promote the case so I don't like to cut it up or melt it and make it unrecognisable. So the inside of the case is imprtant to me. I somehow came up with the idea to use covers that work as cover-grill-windows :D

The grills will be over the fans for air, the grill will be transparent so you can also see through them like a window and the parts that don't need seeing I will paint black.

Here is my first one. The biggest of them all for over the PSU that runs from left to right in the case. I made a design with my good friend Django, had it lasercut and then bent it using hot air.







 
The first help I received was from Gigabyte BeNeLux. My awesome girlfriend B. helped me out a lot with this amazing motherboard. The Gigabyte Z97X-gaming 5. It has all the features and it has the looks to match.















Thank you very much Gigabyte BeNeLux! :rock: :thumb: :clap:
And of course thank you B.!

 
I need to mount the pump and its top and the reservoirs to the backpanel. But it is full of cable holes and such and I have almost no need for them. So I made a backpanel cover out of plexiglass. It will be painted black eventually.
I made it so that the panel is fitted to the backpanel, but for heavy things such as the pump and one side of the reservoirs the mounting screws for that will go through the plate and the backplate so it is the case itself that is holding them up. Sounded a bit more safe to me.



I bent the left side of the panel so it ends up under the motherboard.
There will be cuts in it to accomodate for cables and wiring (24 pin and sata cables).





Modding is magical :dremel:





 
Luggs said:
Are the fairy wings being modded into dust filters? Never seen that before...

Looking very good mate!
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hahaha it is just a "magic" project :P

Etheco said:
Looking nice, also look forward to seeing the fairy-dust-filters.
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Thanks!

Deathjester said:
Makita? you need to get Festool!
Literally the greatest tools I've ever used; Ever.

Great acrylic work, looks awesome!
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I have never seen that brand here in shops ever sorry :)

Brian18741 said:
great work mate. love it when power tools are involved!
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Thanks!
 
I was getting such a positive response on Facebook and I was liking the outcome of the PSU shroud so much I decided to take the theme further and also make a front and rear fan grill using the same grill design. Again drawn with Djangosoe and lasercut and then bent using hot air from a heatgun.











 
faheemrazzaq said:
its really impressive what you have done there with acrylic. inspiration for rest of the builders.
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Thank you very much Faheem. :)

Keechy said:
the acrylic work is very impressive
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Thanks Keechy!

Memphis Raines said:
Are the acrylic sheets there to direct airflow? if not they seem like they will cause quite a bit of restriction to me?

tho the workmanship is very good! is it being done on a machine?
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This is being done for a casemod for show, not to make every single bit of airflow count :) The CPU is being cooled by a 240 and a 420 radiator so even if I blocked half of the airflow it would still be as cool as needed :)
 


I made a bracket to fit the GPU vertically so it will be right in front of the window.

Here I have painted the font and rear grill. I cannot paint the PSU shroud yet because it still needs holes for cables and tubing. I couldn't wait to see how it would look with the fans turned on so I tried the rear fan. The biggest conclusion is that the photo does not show what the real deal looks like for sure.

















 
Brian18741 said:
Those acrylic panels look excellent! Are they just painted with a matte spray paint?
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Thank you very much :)

Yeah they first have a layer of Motip plastic primer and then finished with layers of Motip extra fine paint Traffic Black Matt RAL 9017.
It is the best looking matt black from a spray can I have found so far. But you have to look out only to use their own primers as I have put it on another layer of paint and another brand primer once and it started bubbling like a failed chemical project.
 
Since I was putting the GPU vertical anyway I had some spare room. And I needed some spare room as well as I had no place to fit the SSDs. And it is like SSDs were made to fit exactly there :D

I will be putting 2 SSDs here and a 3rd one elsewhere in the build.

Since it will be at a show there will be a plexiglass window in front of these to keep them from getting "unvoluntarily taken".





 
I want to show off this card now.
I have been lucky enough to be able to work with KFA2 during "Game hard, Fold Harder". They were kind enough to also support this project with the KFA2 GTX 980 SuperOverClock

Very nice backplate as well. And the colours on the cooler match perfectly with the theme of the project with dark red, black and grey.















Thank you very much KFA2 and especially my good friend G.B. :thumb: :rock: :clap:

 
faheemrazzaq said:
this card is a real deal Tim. give it some heat and lets see what it can deliver.

Are you making a custom water block for it and what about the cpu block? Or is it the same project you told me about in the email?
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Hey Faheem, yeah this is a pretty nice graphics card for sure. :)
Sadly there wasn't enough time to make a custom block for it.
We are already busy doing the 980ti ref right now and a cpu block.

This mod is for Thermaltake so it makes use of their watercooling gear which also means their fittings and their CPU block. The gfx card will be on air for this project. But its colour theme works amazingly well with the system.
 
Brian18741 said:
It's such a good looking cooler that that's not necessarily a bad thing!
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Indeed :)

I prefer to watercool an entire system, but this aircooler fits the theme so well and it looks the business tbh.

colinmcr said:
What an interesting ssd placement, you crazy dutch guy ! ;) The card looks the dogs, the red fans will go nicely.
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HA I might be just a tad odd ;)

Indeed I agree :)
 
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