Onwards and upwards by Parvum Systems

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Onwards and upwards by Parvum Systems : 9th May Finished Video

Project:
Onwards and upwards
by: Parvum Systems






This will be written by Justin but will also feature Shaun. We are the two that make up Parvum Systems. We would love to expand the company but for now you are stuck with just the two of us!

This thread will be a close look at the Parvum Systems team building a fully W/C rig into one of our own S1.0 Cases. There will be some big changes and a lot of custom work done to the case. Hopefully enough to keep your attention. This is just one of the number of cases that we will be taking to the iSeries LAN even at the end of March in the UK. We plan to head out to other EU LANs later in the year. Including Dream Hack.

We would first like to briefly introduce ourselves. Say a little bit about us and how we started Parvum Systems. If you wish to skip this part and get to the photographs then do so by all means!

Parvum Systems was started approximately one year ago after a discussion about SFF cases. I myself have been working with SFF systems for my last 3 builds. One a full custom Acrylic build. The other two Lian Li cases. However I was always frustrated at how hard it was to put so much water cooling equipment into a case while showing it off at the same time. So with the power of Shaun's architecture degree & CAD knowledge and my case modding/water cooling skills we figured we would start something of our own.
We have come a long way in this year. I would approximate we have easily used thousands of Euros on Acrylic in the testing and building stages of the S1.0 . It has had its ups and downs and has been extremely frustrating at times but I would say we are finally happy with our first of many products.
We have every intention to start to involve far more people in expanding Parvum Systems and when we develop the S2.0. We would love nothing more than to involve more people. Get opinions and even meet up with other case modders and builders to help provide the market with exactly what they want.

This project log will feature an adapted version of the S1.0. It will be a reverse ATX version of the case. We will also be milling a custom reservoir for the roof of the case and a few other surprises along the way. The beauty of this project is anything that we create will defiantly be something we will look to sell as an extra or a future product on the Parvum Store.

Our S1.0 case can currently be purchased on the OCUK store here!

Here are a few photos of our warehouse space and what runs Parvum Systems:

In the next update (a few days time) we will show you the CAD designs & the initial CNC cutting of the panels.

Thanks for reading, see you on the next one!

 

[parvumsystems]

Very nice, you say you have been doing mainly SFF, is this your main focus and this is what you will always stick with, or are you considering maybe in the future to do larger cases?

Yeah we are mainly focusing on SFF. The plan is to put more W/C into the SFF cases than the competitors while displaying the internals as well as possible. We have some initial designs for an ITX case that is about half the size of most but will sport a minimum of 1 x 240mm & 1 x 120mm rads. We have also been milling some custom reservoirs and you'll see some of that here.

This being said we are getting an SR-2 rig back as I miss the thing at it would be very useful for the CAD & rendering. So I suppose a larger case will of course follow.

 

[parvumsystems]

I must admit when OcUK first introduced us to your product i may have been overly critical however I'm slowly coming round and i think this project will convince me youre onto a winner.
I look forward to seeing this project completed and wish you all the best in you endeavors.

Thanks mate, We really look forward to showing off what we can do outside of the standard S1.0 case. This should give a much clearer view of what can be achieved as far as water loops and part placement.

Thanks again for the kind words, we will do our best to perform (Y)!

 

[parvumsystems]

Huge thanks goes out to Lee, such kind words and we really appreciate it. We would love nothing more than to get some of the customization & color options eventually available. The custom reservoir that this build will show off will drop right into the top of the standard case. So we have lots of treats coming that could ultimately become available as an add-on to the case!

I like your thinking with small mighty water cooled cases.

Thank you! We can't wait to do something similar with ITX. The best place to show off a fully W/C rig is at LAN, so why not keep it small. The biggest thing here is the case is designed to compliment the internals more so than be an all singing fancy this that and the other case. We hope to bring much more to the market.

Me too. I have a small case with watercooling inside, and I was limited to what I could buy. So a manufacturer that specialises in SFF cases which can hold vast amount of watercooling is great, cannot wait to see other range of designs from you guys.

Thanks 5UB, we will do our best!

Do all your cases have a portion that is made by hand?

I reckon if they were sub £100 or around that mark it would have many more potential buyers.

BUT of course i know quality speaks for itself and i can see the craftsmanship and worksmanship gone into these cases are top notch which reflects the price that they are set at. Just my hopeful thinking lol

The process for each case is almost what you will see in this project log.
First the panels are each cut by CNC. Which requires a fair amount of setting up and prep work.
We then bend the mid-wall panel by hand using a line bender, jigs and clamps. You will see this very soon.
Smaller parts such as a feet are CNC cut but require bonding and hand finishing.

Thanks for the kind words, we'd love nothing more than to bring the price to a better point. We are missing a huge chunk of the market due to this and it is down to man hours. We are looking to move towards flat pack as the standard case can be completely dissembled.

I like your thinking with small mighty water cooled cases.

Thank you! I can't think of anything I wanted more which is how this all begun!

 

[parvumsystems]

So here is a simple update for today with another to shortly follow!

We started by drawing a 4 panel selection for the case. Somewhat close to the S1.0 but with a couple of changes.

• All the panels have been flipped/mirrored in certain ways to accommodate for reverse ATX
• Additional holes have been cut to mount a bottom and top chamber
• One of the rear 80mm fans has been removed and replaced with the Parvum Logo

Tool paths exported to the CNC PC. She is a mighty fine build in one very old case...

Drawing ready we moved onto tool set up and to start cutting. For these two panels we will be using a 3mm and a 1.5mm single flute cutter:

Tool change to a lovely Belin series 1.5mm single flute to get into the tight edges of the Parvum logo:

A quick look at the four panels once the backing had been removed:

Finally for today we started to bend the mid wall. This mid wall is just for testing purposes at this stage. I want to mark up all the holes for pass through connectors/cables etc to make them exact rather than the pre-spaced ones we offer in the S1.0

Mid wall spacing measured and marked up:

Then continued to make the first bend using the line bender & bending jig:

Tester mid wall successfully bent and ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will be cutting the two frosted red panels to accompany the white & start the initial assembly.

Sorry for the poor lighting towards the end of the photos. The day light ran out fast here and we don't use a flash.

See you soon!

 

[parvumsystems]

I would like one of these , thanks!

You should defintly get one. On sale with OCUK themselves. Exclusive in the UK.

did you guys build your own CNC?

whats the origin of your company name?

We had an acquaintance who builds and sells CNC machines in the UK so we purchased it from him.

The name is the Latin for 'small/little'; we went with this as we wanted to use an unusual word and felt it represents the company well (not our manhood's). We are a very small operation and are primarily focusing on small form factor cases!

I like it a lot and im sold, juts need to figure out a few bits ie usb ports on front panel and what switches in going to use then i will purchase.

Thanks mate, if you plan on purchasing a case do so from OCUK. We could always cut an extra panel for you that would fit the I/O section under the power switch at an extra cost. Each panel can be removed separately so this won't be much work at your end.

Keep up the good work mate. You build me the cases I will put the best hardware in em!!!

We will mate! I'm sure you'll see some other ideas here that you like for are future plans.

Can you put an xspc rx 240 in the top with one set of fans and still be clear of the mobo?

Hello mate, I'm afraid you can only fir the thinner rads in the top. 30-35mm for example. You can however fir the rx 240 or any 60mm rads in the front of the case with a set of fans.

 

[parvumsystems]

Hello guys, back again. Sorry most updates will be short but posted more regularly. We try to get a little bit done each day outside of cutting customer items/cases.

iSeries event is coming in fast so expect to see lots of updates!

So first for the day we attached the 6 x nickle cubes to the base of the case with 6mm hex bolts. These are black but we will change them to white for this build at a later point:

Next we put down the frosted red sheet to cut the inside accent panels. For this we used our work horse tool the 3mm single flute. There is a little bit more to this panel so we thought we would show you the cutting process step by step.

First we did the inside profiling. Nothing too uncommon here:

We have a large amount of these shape off cuts. Defiantly use them in another project at some point:

Next we have to countersink a section. This allows a piece of 1.5mm aluminium to be sandwiched between two panels. We will come back to this later:

and finally the outside cut:

We then moved on to cut the front accent panel. We wont show you any more cutting because you get the idea now. Here are the two red panels:

We now start the assembly with more of the nickle corner blocks. We use 12mm hex screws to pass through both 5mm panels and safely into the block. Again we will change these to white bolts if possible:

A close up of the Parvum logo. We will be lighting this from behind the frosted red with a red LED pad:

To finish today's work we placed the middle wall in for a quick look. We used this old middle wall to mark up the exact point we want holes for cable management and watercooling pass-through connectors. We will then recut the panel with the perfect spacing:

Thanks for reading guys! In the next update you may expect to see fitting the mobo, cutting cable management holes and fitting the new bottom and top chambers.

See you then!

 

[parvumsystems]

lovely looking cases and its nice to see the build process

judging by the pictures you could easily fit 140mm fans to the front if you drilled the holes? or is it a bit tight?

Pretty sure you could fit the fans but the case front is designed around a 240mm rad, once you have the fittings end of the round to contend with you wouldn't be able to fit the 280mm rad.

Making the case a tiny bit bigger would combat this but we are fighting to keep it as small as we could with this amount of cooling power.

 

[parvumsystems]

Looks sweet, enjoyed 8 Packs build in one of these too.

Nice to see how much effort are put into these things and the level of customisation available.

Cheers mate, really keen on 8 packs build myself. Somewhat jealous that he has more rad power than mine and we will both be at the LAN event end of this month!

You guys should be the acrylic version of CASELABS lol.

haha thanks. we are trying to give w/c builders what they want. I hate to see small LAN boxes that can support good radiators but dont allow you to see any of the internals. I'm sorry but I'm building a fully w/c LAN rig to show it off. I don't want to spend ££££ on hardware and w/c gear and not be able to see any of it!

More like Mountain Mods but available in the UK easily and better looking

Thank you man, means a lot. I really like the way Mountain mods work with customization on the website. We would love to move to something like that eventually.

Looking good, just wondering if you could tell me the name of those little cube corner joints and where you aquire them from?

There have actually been super difficult to source. We found a company that makes them in Germany but we have to buy them in massive quantities. You can get smaller ones in the UK but they only have two faces tapped. Which is pretty much pointless as it wont do what you want. We can get some cubes to you if you send us a PM we can discuss this.

What do you have planned? Scratch build?

 

[parvumsystems]

hi their im liking the look of your cases,i know you specialise in smaller cases but i would love to see a bigger case,something like the corsair 900d in acrylic would look awesome and a lot neater.what future plans do you have for cases or is it top secret

We plan to focus on SFF cases first. The ITX next but to defiantly do a full size case or bigger when we can. We are limited by man power for now!

Yeah sort of a scratch build. Ive been messing around with my rasberry pi and recently bought a "slice of pi" and wanted to build an encosure for this and some motors, i will pm you early next week thamks mate

No problem mate, sounds good. I like the little pi builds! Talk then!

 

[parvumsystems]

11 March Update

Back again with a little more. On the check list for today:

• New middle wall
• Motherboard test fit
• SSD Bracket
• Corsair love
• Quick GPU test fit

So we decided to go with a frosted red middle wall. This was for a number of reasons but primarily as we wanted to use white braid on the PSU and didn't want it to get lost on the middle wall. Plus we are really in love with this color!

Tapped and inserted the motherboard standoffs:

A quick motherboard test fit:

Next on the list we started the SSD mount. The placement and idea actually came from k3nnys Parvum build. You can take a look at that here.

We first put down an old piece of white acrylic. We try not to waste any off cuts or discarded panels:

1.5mm cutter here. Extremely tight work on the Corsair logo:

Next some detailing to one of the sides. Tool of choice here is the V bit cutter. If ran at the correct speeds this will leave a really nice 45' cut:

And the cut process:

The finished piece needs some file attention. This is mainly excess swarf:

After hand finishing:

This is the area for placement. The problem we face is the small hex screw head that you can see. The black one. The reason we couldn't countersink this was because we did so on the other side of the motherboard wall.

To combat this we need to make a small hole on the backside of the SSD mount. We found this little trick works kinda nice. I'm sure there is a better way to do this but that's what first came to mind:

Applied some thermal paste to the screw head:

This then leaves a mark on the SSD mount:

Which we cut with the Dremal & press:

Perfect fit after a couple of goes back and forth:

We now got to test fit two of the SSD's. Subject to change the SSDs later as we expect to feature a raid card in the build:

Really happy with the look. Like we said at the start of the log; cable access holes will be cut at a later point so there will be one hole per sata cable. More on this later though.

To end this update a quick GPU test fit. Would like to change the GPU but we will see how the budget is before iSeries. Just had to see it with the reverse ATX:

See you tomorrow (hopefully)!

 

[parvumsystems]

Also, how much off cuttings have been produced off of the current design? I know it can be difficult to minimise waste material, especially if it's a CAD drawing that requires certain parameters to be met.

I will post of a photo in one of the updates of the waste when we do larger runs of the cases. We did this differently as it was a totally new drawing.

Man that's awesome!

says the guy building a desk fit for a king lol but youre right it is awesome

Cheers to you both!

Wow, that looks incredible, I always fancied designing/building and acrylic case but don't have the right equipment for the fabrication. Looking forward to more pics!

Thank you very much. It has been crazy to get to use our CNC for a personal build. More photos are coming to fullfil your request.

Looking good! Cannot wait to see the finished product.

We think the same! We have until 21st of this month to finish the build as it will be going to the iSeries event the following day. Look forward to having a crack with yours!

Seriously looking to buy one of these now, but, the standard case as it is, doesnt do it for me. would want some customization (colour & layout), for a reasonable price of course

I couldn't agree more. I suppose we get to see all the custom cases go out so its nice to have a go at our own. We are talking with OCUK about making some more color/customisation options available from themselves soon!

 

[parvumsystems]

12 March Update

Just a small one tonight everyone.

We start the day by installing the extra blocks for our new chamber. We added these to support the extent of the water cooling and to cover up the black radiator. We want to keep the white as the focal color rather than showing to much black:

Next we took some measurements and spent some time in Auto Cad to draw the bottom chamber. If I am being honest this did take two attempts. I messed up on a few measurements for the 1/4' radiator threads. Shaun took charge and redid them, perfect of course. I suppose he does do it better than me after all.

The finished product with some nice chamfer detailing to hug the front 240mm radiator and the back 80mm fan:

Here you can see the thing installed. Really happy with how this works. The fans do still fit with the extra 5mm thickness on top of the bottom radiator.

Also I took the plunge and got myself a Rampage IV Gene. Board is lovely. Also installed the Ek CPU block from my old build.

To see if the hard work was all worth it; radiator test fit:

We wont be using these exact ones but gives you a nice idea:

Next up we have to cut the only part of the case that isn't acrylic. This is 1.5mm aluminium.
Similar tooling here but with the addition of coolant. We removed the misting system for photos.

Here is the finished article with a little basic sanding:

Now we have to make the 90° bend. To do this we move to something somewhat older than a CNC
Lovely machine for the job.

Finished with the bend:

We next install it into the rear of the case. This is sandwiched between the two 5mm sheets that you saw in one of the first updates:

Thats us for today. :rock:!

Hope to see you all again tomorrow!

 

[parvumsystems]

Coming along oh so nicely.
As soon as you can do something custom, im in guys. I got my mind set on all black case with a 360 floor like you have done for 8pack. Id buy that yesterday.

Thank you very much. We are trying to get something sorted. 8pack should be selling some prebuilt units but we'd like to offer something a little more custom via OCUK if possible.

This thread really makes me appreciate the time and skill that goes into creating a case of this quality.
Keep the updates coming

Appreciate the comments and feedback. It should give people an idea on the price a little more. I know we are doing far more here than the standard case but just bending the acrylic & aluminium alone take a good amount of time. That on top of the cutting and assembly. We are looking to head towards flat back to make more options available for us AND the customer.

Wow, love the ssd plate!!

Start to finish, how long does a typical parvum case take to make?

Thanks! Hopefully get a few more SSDs on there before iSeries. I suppose from start to finish and boxing.. we've not timed to be exact. We can make a number of cases in a day but depends if they are standard or customized. The problem with custom work is it can be super time consuming.

When will this custom case be available to purchase? I hope you'll be making more than just one?

This case is actually for myself to use. It will be my daily driver at work and also to take to shows. This is just to showcase what we can do and give you an insight to how we make the S1.0. This is after all just a modified S1.0. We will be trying to offer some of the things you see here as add-ons to the case.

that's some really great craftsmanship, thanks for sharing the images, gives a real sense of the quality of finish

Thank you indeed. Means a lot!

 

[parvumsystems]

UPDATE 13th March:

Before our update I would like to introduce our sponsor Alphacool! We have a very good friend working with/for Alphacool & am super happy to have them onboard. As far as sponsorships go we are usually doing work in return for people where we can so it is more of a trade. But welcome to the watercooling power!




First thing from Alphacool was this 240mm radiator. Real nice quality and lots of options with fittings. Very useful when working in smaller spaces. This is the 60mm version:

The copper logo or the radiator colour don't suit the build so we decided to make a cover. We also wanted to make a nice feature with their logo.

Started with the drawing part:

And onto the cutting. Recycling old acrylic in this build as much as possible, especially for the smaller parts. Cutting the female part:

After we used the 45° cutter to detail 3 of the edges, looking nice so far:

Moving onto the frosted red for the male parts. Same cutter, more recycling of old panels:

Here are the two pieces finished. The cutter was running a little thin on the last pass and left a few little bits needed cleaning up.

Using some lubricant and some careful teasing the male pieces fit into the female *ok please go ahead and quote this, I really should have reworded this one*:

Just the inside of the O's to fit as a second inlay. Super happy with the results. Here are a few shots:

Moving back to the case we test if the new radiator:

Very tight fit here. Shaun likes to keep his tolerance very tight. If I say make it fit he will leave 0.2mm! Works really well here.

Next we decided to make a change to the front. We wanted to reuse the same technique that was used for the Parvum logo at the rear of the case and cut these new lines. We are both really happy with the results:

To finish today we today we test fit the radiator cover:

The bottom of this is actually a 45° cut going into the lower chamber 45°. This gives a really nice fit:

And a final shot of the case for tonight:

What do you all think about the new front? I'm sure a taste thing but we both really like it.

See you again tomorrow....!

 

[parvumsystems]

That is, well, wow. I know I likened you guys to Mountain Mods earlier, but you really do go above and beyond what they offer. Think I'll be in touch with you guys sooner rather then later!

We are trying our best to deliver. SFF & watercooling is where its at! I like Mountain Mods website where you can choose each panel option and the customization and hope to get to that. They are way ahead as far as man power and functionality go I'm sure but we are chasing!

I think im going to have to wait for one of these Badboys, Bitfenix can get stuffed now.

Well this is actually my personal LAN rig for the coming iSeries event. We would love to integrate some of the features & details seen here in retail rigs as purchasable add-ons either before or after case purchase. This is to showcase what can be done.

+1

Thank you sir.

very nice! (borat)

It's been a good while since we've seen that movie haha!

That red inlayer.. Do want.

Its tricky sometimes but so worth it. May inlay one other section on the case we will see!

 

[parvumsystems]

Here we are again, stayed after work for a few hours to get this update together.

The main focus for this update was to make a custom reservoir. We decided to do this for a number of reasons. Mainly because they look amazing but also because we are going to be pretty tight for space once we do a double loop.

So we started by cutting a test piece of 5mm acrylic. The same size as the full reservoir to ensure a good fit:

A little later and the tool paths are set:

Onto the milling. Tools for the job, 2mm & 6mm:

Lots of mess when milling thick acrylic:

A little more cutting:

After a little cleaning down here is the finished item. We are really happy with results. After the o ring is installed and a little tapping we are in business:

Next the Gentle Typhoon fans are installed in the front:

Fitting really nice:

Then we cut the test top panel for the case. The top section for the case will be two layers. The first is this 5mm frosted clear. This also doubles as the lid to the reservoir. We went with this to match the frosted EK blocks and add a somewhat gray tone to the build:

Thanks again for reading. Can't wait to see fluid in this thing.
Next you can expect the second layer to the top & the top chamber.

Thanks for reading :rock:

 

[parvumsystems]

Very nice and unique. Work of art.

Thanks 5UB, look forward to doing your build!

Wow, just wow, that is mighty, mighty impressive.

Very nicely done indeed, I take my hat off to you sir.

Thank you! You have a very nice hat.

this just gets better and better! would love one of these cases but the bank does not agree atm haha.

its listed as having 152mm height clearance for cpu coolers, i realise this is meant for water cooling but is the 152mm the absolute limit? would a 158.7mm cooler just about squeeze in?

At the moment that is literally the MAX, we had to toy between making the case bigger for said air coolers or keeping it small as possible. Making it that extra bit wider really started to move away from SFF. Doing something slightly larger as a custom case could be possible.

Once again, looks fab.

Can I ask how much a CNC that precise costed, or is that a company secret

Thank you! Well ours cost a bunch of stress and a huge spend. However you can get similar precision from the cheaper CNC machines. I have seen some stunning work from Chinese import CNCs and home built ones. They are usually only limited by bed size, spindle speed & gantry clearance.

Truly beautiful. I love my Corsair C70, but then you went and released the original Parvum case and you have made me regret my decision ever since.

As soon as I build a new rig (come on Haswell / Steamroller) I know what case I'll be using!

Ah man, I wish we could do a part exchange for you ! Haha
I'm glad you like our cases!

That res. is awesome! If I had one of those CNC machines I'd be making stuff all the time ;-D It's so cool seeing the designs being brought to life in physical form like that.

Thanks for the kind words. It's a really awesome feeling to draw something and have it cutting moments later.

That is incredible.

Out of interest if for the time being we were to purchase a case from OcUK, would we be able to ship the side panel to yourselves in order to get the window etched? Or do we have to purchase the case directly from you and choose the option then instead?

We can defiantly sort this. The window clear part could actually be removed, it is held in place with 3M tape. To save on postage we can simply etch you a new window glass and post it with fresh tape. It is far better to order a case direct from OCUK as there service is much faster than ours as they already have the stock. We can also offer add-on accent color panels if you decide you want to have a change or spice things up a bit.

Incredable.

Loving the OCool rad cover.

Thanks man!

So just out of curiousity, how much would all this cost if you was doing it for a customer?

I really don't know. We have been staying on late every night to push to get this case complete. The hard part is the drawing for it and now they are in place it is defiantly something we could talk about. An exact figure I don't know. This one is more my child for now and its hard to put a price on your kids!

Can I surget a red 'L' shaped cover for the GT's as well. (side and over top)
I fully understand why you wanted to mask the rad logo and show off your inset work.
And it worked well with the rad agained the front case wall.
But with the fans agained the case it now look out of place.

You already have the 45 chamfer on the midplate, so a neat joint is easy.
Remaking the rad plate wider is one option
or a separate red panel (behind the white or inline with it)
You could even take the pile of L shaped off cuts and make a 'ply' panel of layered red/white pieces - loads of work but perfect for a 'this is what we can do' show case.

Just a thought, as I've been enjoying reading this thread and an currently building a watercooled SFF atm (PC Design Labs QMicra V2)

shadowscotland do you have a hidden microphone in our warehouse? You've touched on almost everything we had been discussing. As soon as I put the fans in place I new the error. Initially the fans were going to go on the rear of the radiator so this is perhaps something I can do. If not we do plan to cut a different strip in red to cover the fan part and perhaps add 'cooling by' text to this.

As for the SSD cover this is a possibility and a nice idea. We are pressed for time for now as the event is next Friday. I would however like to continue with work on the case after the LAN so we may do that then. I do like the idea of adding a second bend to the build.

Thanks for the kind words. I love SFF!

 

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No mic's - just 20+ years of detailing buildings and a pc case mod addiction.

I do think the fans are in the right place now, aka hidden.
And the three cut sides of the rad cover are a givaway on it's orginal planned location.
IMHO anything more that a single word always looks tacky in small builds.
But echoing the tram line on the front may work if it looks to plain
Personally I'd just keep it frosted red - showing a hint of the fans behind.

Edit: I forgot to add it's really good of you to take the time to reply to us all - Very much appreciated

Hello again mate! Ah I really need to get more time outside of work to look at more work. I follow quite a lot of builders via Facebook as its a convient new feed as such to quickly see just photos. Do you perhaps post some of your work there? Of course if not I'll be sure to check out your projects here.

It's really helpful to get the feedback. As soon as we had realised our mistake we had been brain storming ways to make a better situation out of our error. Recutting it completely is an option but with the iSeries event coming in just under a week it would be more realistic to add red as you said.

As for not going with the text I think thats defiantly for the best. Sometimes its hard to draw the line between stylish and just OTT when you have access to such equipment. I think the red will work nice, just concerned that the fans our a tiny bit shallower so I don't know how this will work. Anyway I'm sure we will work it out and post our progress!

Thanks for the kind words about replying. Its nice to receive thanks, its hard to keep up with quoting and on more than one forum so it's nice to hear comments like that. Cheers!

Brilliant that sounds perfect, looks like ocuk will be getting another order from me and I will be in touch about the custom window etching!

On the same sort of thing, if for example a few months after owning the case I decided I wanted to incorporate a 240mm radiator into the bottom is it possible to order replacement panels like that too?

I'm glad to hear that. Will work something nice out! Any ideas in the pipeline for your etching yet?

We can totally offer single panels with different adjustments etc. We have been asked for some in the past with extra holes for all kinds of things. We also would love to eventually add other parts to the OCUK store. Different color accent panels, rad grills, hardware covers and even reservoirs after the appropriate testing!

Top notch !

Thanks man.

i want more pictures!!!

this build is mind blowing, the details and effort you guys are putting in is a credit to you. that little PC is going to drop some jaws.

More photos to come tomorrow Wood and everybody els watching.

Thanks for the kind words.

 

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Probably something simple along the lines of my gaming name Jam0r but I'll have a look around for some ideas. I presume any font or styling can be used within reason?

Good news about the panels as I plan on running two 240 radiators for the time being but having the option for a third on the bottom would be brilliant.

Is there anyway even a slim optical drive could be fitted? Not a problem if not but I think having the option to have an optical drive fitting would benefit some people I would imagine?

We have done this for one customer. It's pretty straight forward if we know the exact slot loading drive. If you were to also purchase the drive from OCUK we could cut a panel to fit and send it over to you.