Mayhems Project Silver Bullet

We tested the GPU in the board and in the case and decided that we needed to brake up the colours a little as it was overly too silver. Since the main board has a Red Led stripe showing the separate sound amplifier on board we've decided to change the MSI Dragon to a red dragon as in MSI very own logo. This will give it a little more bite.

We have all so gone for a aluminium plated reflective Main backing plate and insted of have black backing were swapping over to Black lettering. this will give the illusion of more depth and also reflect the main board better.

It taken longer than expected due to other commitments how ever its better to take you time and get it right then waste a fortune of doing it wrong.

We will also publish the files needed to do one your self as this doesn't happen often.
 
This is Aluminum layered on black plastic on Aluminum mirror with accents. There is a clear Perspex for the top to protect the plate. For got to add about the back plate -Thank you to Nate George and Toby Kirkby for your advice with out you guys id still be working on this.

The cutting procedure was done on a CNC and Laser cutter, The aluminium plates were done on CNC and the Decorative work and clear perspex were done on laser.

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The base plate is lifted from the PCB to aid in creating air flow so we have no warping issues.

The cost to make the plate was approx £20 for materials. How ever if you doing more the cost could literally be halved due materials left over.
 
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Me and Matty have been playing and learning how to bend plastic, not as easy as people think when you don't have the right tools.

How ever we managed to get a good result for the PSU cover in the end after wasting a few sheets of Acrylic.

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here is the coral draw file we made and you can use as needed. Its made spacial for the In-Win 805 case with a 60mm thick Mayhems Havoc rad with the sun flower logo but you can adjust as needed.

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As it is, it would be fine how ever its a massive dust trap, where removing the front glass and extending it a little so there is more flow and replacing it with a mirror front (we may use a coach type bolts for fixing it in place). There is loads of pic's to be taken how ever i forgot to do them lol and will get around to doing soon.
 
Weve stripped down the case again due to some mistakes and replaced the front glass panel with a aluminium glass like fascia, we've also lifted it more forwards to give better air flow.

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Here you can see matt getting ready to fit the mayhems Havoc 360 into place that he has spray painted silver. We've also mounted the EK Res and pump combo to the rad.

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We then fitted back in the main board and placed all the wires behind the main board so it neatens every thing up. We've allso put back in the PSU shroud. We caught some of the paint work on the rad so that will need touching back up.

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Ive made some of my own rulers to measure up the Glass tubing on the laser cutter (cost was about £2.00)

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And Matt and my self cut some peace's to size and matt sanded the edges down

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Dont ask me what hes doing here but it does look painful ...

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Preparing for the first peace to go in.

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TechMinerUK said:
Those bends are so precise and the radiator looks excellent fitted in the case. I must admit I never thought of a silver radiator until seeing this build log as It looks brilliant. I can't wait to see the finished system filled up :)
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Got to be honest wouldn't go silver if i was you its a total pain in the butt and marks way to easy. We had to handle it with gloves so as not to mark it while fitting and even then we messed up.
 
There are two marks near the base when we fitted the psu shroud, it caught the rad and ripped off 2 small marks of paint, we need to try and figure out a way to fix it.
 
Luggs said:
Love the front cover, looks really sweet. Could you use the standard glass front and spacers to increase airflow or did you have to mod the fitting of the new front panel?

It looks awesome, but sounds a pita with the silver paint chipping so easy. The glass tubing is the mutts nuts though, so clean and precise...
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Thank you.

The cover is a 3 layer peace with aluminium, plastic then highly polished aluminium. I laser cut 5mm stand offs and we removed the old bolts and used a cnc to cut the new front. The Top plate cover (switches) is sanded down and polished with metal polish to give it a different tone.

The system is backwards in air flow were the air is drawn out of the case from the back and base and pushed out though the front (reverse air flow method). Lifting the plate forwards give's us much more capacity for air flow and should in theory create a better way of getting rid of the heat.

The glass tubing is so easy to work with, we can easily score and snap 16mm section and using a pad sander clean it up with in minuets (don't forget to mask up). No messing with bending and perfect bends every time. So far we've only used 1 peace of glass and we should get away with only using two peace's in total for the whole build. In comparison you'll go though more than 2x to 3x times that amount in plastic rigid tubing not including all the bending tools needed and it also looks lot better, wont stain and can be left in place for the life of the pc also the fact it will not leach plastic into the system and is not porous unlike plastic tubing. Its a win all round.

I don't want to copy other users and we don't what the system to be the same.
 
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The case is good to work with but the cable handling is a pita, having glass on both sides has its befits but also has many draw backs.

Also as standard they should be able to fit a 360 in but they cannot with out modding, you have to cut the plates as it only takes a 240 other wise.
 
If we stop getting hit with humongous orders yes. We just got the new plastic today for the new front cover after the front panel got bent lol. id day were about 90% complete.

The glass block top ive had made doesn't work which is a shame. Will have to re invent the wheel on that one or re invent a new block base.
 
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Nearly done just a few more tweaks need doing. Had to remove one of the glass bends as we found out that the CPU / GPU ports are 2mm out from each other so we had to use straight runs instead. Over all though we only used 2 peace of glass tubing. The real Silver metal Fluid look more silver in life but will have to do some better shots later on.

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tbh the build doesn't need them it just need tidying up. Unless ofc there were some nice silver complementing cables.

A quick bad pic of the progress so far ->

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Were not happy with the long peace of glass fitted and will be changing it over to straight peaces with a bits power bend. Allso the cable management need sorting in the back as its a mess.

Weve allso found out Its a complete nightmare to photo ...
 
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