Mayhems Project Silver Bullet

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 :)
 
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.
 
Mayhems said:
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.
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Damn, still though it looks as if it's worth it for you as it looks stunning and you can't see any marks in the photo :)
 
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.
 
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...
 
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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Thanks for the information, really appreciate your time in replying.

I'd never considered reversing the airflow, so doubly interested to see how this works out now. Based purely on how good this build is looking, i'm pretty sure i'm going to pull the trigger on one of these cases in the new year.
 
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.
 
That looks stunning, I can't wait to see some close up photos of the glass tubing fitted in the system when it's all done as I bet up close you can see the difference between glass and acrylic. :)

Looking forward to more updates :D
 
That looks such a class build, the shine on the glass tubing makes it stand out before you have even put the fluids in. Think you will get finished up before the Xmas break?
 
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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The system looks truly stunning, I think it has to be one of the best looking systems I've ever seen (And with the silver, the most expensive :D) I love the look of the tubing as it does the fluid justice as it's so clear and precission bent. In fact I think I may have to invest in some of the tubing myself when I do another build as it looks fantastic. :)

Sublime work :D
 
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