Onwards and upwards by Parvum Systems

Small update for you all.

We would like to first introduce another friend on board. Mayhems. You all know plenty about Mayhems and the coolant will be perfect for the build:



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Started by drawing up the top chamber. There is reason to all this madness. We really wanted to gain the extra space in the top at the bottom to help route tubing. The build will be using acrylic straight tubes which as you can imagine will be somewhat difficult in such a small space. Because we want to use a window for both sides of the case this means a lot of straight tube stress. We will be using the top and bottom chambers to give access to more flexible tubing and help work the whole nightmare out.

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Moving onto some cutting, sorry its a bit boring to show CNC cutting so we will keep it breif:

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Next we test fit the Enermax fans. Both 120mm & 80mm. Love the cluster fans! Always been a favorite and love white LEDs:

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Here we have the item cut earlier; looks strange but you will understand the use more with photos:

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Installed in the case:

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That photo really shows that the alphacool rad cover really DOES need to be made full length. We will be heading in a few hours early for work to get this done in time.

With the GPU installed, will change the GPU block to clear due to it being a focal point of the case. Annoying that we already had the black one:

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Cables fitting real nice:

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Considering an underside backplate. Overall fit is pretty nice for first try:

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Installed the first of the acrylic tubes. Sourced this tubing from E22, of course 100's of places supply acrylic tube but our usual UK suppliers is awful for tube. The tolerances some people don't mention can be wild. Thanks nate:

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Final shot of the case in it's current state:

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As always, thanks for reading! See you on the next one.
 
such a dam fine build! out of curiosity would the public be able to purchase a replica of this case? even if it was a limited run?

Thats what im wondering as i would love one

This is defiantly something we could consider. I suppose the hard part being drawing the thing is now done. We would like and may well expect our future range; be it new colours and possibly special editions to be available with OCUK.

The thing with this is certain chambers are related to fit the GPU we used and the radiators so we'd have to consider other ideas here.

Thanks for liking the case so much so far :)
 
I've been admiring your handiwork from a distance since Peter (L3p) and Kenny (k.3nny) received their pilot cases, I really love the versatility afforded by the Parvum; dare I say it we've needed someone to take up the gauntlet cast to one side by the demise of DD.

I'm not normally one for white cases but the white and red so so works :cool:

The only thing I'd like to see is an alternate back panel which accomadates a 120 or 140mm fan as opposed to two 80/92mm's, will these be available?

Keep up that innovation guys :D

Hey zero, thanks for the nice comments. L3p has his feet coming any time soon so you should see more of his build real soon. Have you also seen Kiers? Looks like some impressive plans to come there. Would love to involve more of the community and further improve future products!

Yeah I've become a white case snob! Struggling to see how I could move to a black case again!

We would like to do this, if you imagine with our larger mid-wall to conceal the PSU it pushed the motherboard out much further than a normal case. If we then used 120mm fan the case would be almost too large to be SFF.

We have some plans/ideas to work something out. People have mentioned it before. I suppose for watercooled cases nobody is fussed. I've seen quite a lot of people using nothing at all back there.

Bought the white version of the case on Saturday.

What a brilliant piece of kit, so different but works so well. Case can be wiped clean, feels very sturdy, has loads of cooling potential and hiding the cable's is a breeze.

Work in progress at the moment as i'm using my mITX from another build and I need some right angle connectors for the tubing before I can plumb everything up. The only thing this case needs is some feet for the bottom, maybe just little squares of left over acrylic could be used? Worried about scratching the bottom of the case ha.

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Wonder if I can find a way to fit a fan controller in there too. So much easier to mod than a metal case!

Will defo be in touch soon about the etched window panel :)

Awesome to hear such good news. It's really nice to see more photos of our cases in real life set ups! It's looking super clean already. Can't wait to see more when you upgrade from ITX.

Hmm thats really strange about no case feet. We actually include them with our cases from little off cuts of acrylic. If you would like to PM me your address we will send the feet to you! That or of course If you want to wait for us to do the etching we could send them together.

mm I'm considering using a fan controller in the Onwards build so watch that space for some ideas :)

Liking the vertical W/C tube, reminds me a bit of Attila's Cor Leonis build. Nice choice with the Enermax fans, they are looking perfect in there.

Thanks man. Should be a bunch more vertical tubes to come and because of the two fluid colours this will hopefully look awesome!

Pretty amazing work!


Thank you both very much!
 
Can't seem to PM you on here, shall I email you instead?

Yeah email is fine mate. It's [email protected]

That's some pretty good work you've done. I wish I had access to the tools / resources you do!

Thank you very much. Its been really nice to make a personal rig. Tried out a bunch of new things and have some awesome future plans for Parvum.

This is every man's dream!

Every real mans ;)

I believe this is the thoughts of most people here.

Loving the project.

:cool: Cheers!

Looks amazing. Very interested in the tubing and fittings

Thank you, more tubing to follow in this update!
 
21 March Update

Looking really good guys! :)

Thanks very much!

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Hey all! Back again!

Sorry for the delays; we focused more on the build but taking photos as we go of course. Log had to take the back foot for a little while.

So first up some more products from Alphacool. The massive 360mm is for another LAN rig don't worry haha. Not going to try get this to fit! I'm sure the d5's are MORE than overkill but I like to reuse and expect to use them in an SR-2 rig for summer:

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And some Phobya goodies:

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Next up today we start putting some more fittings into the top chamber to connect up the CPU. The loop here is very strange. The aim was to only use straight tubing in all visible spots:

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We then recut the Alphacool. It just had to be done to look good:

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Playing around with the top chamber connectors and the loop:

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More pass through connections. These actually send the loop to the back of the case by going under the front fans. They then connect up to the pump & res in the back:

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A few final shots for the update, sorry it was short:

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See you again tomorrow (and iSeries if you are there)!
 
BANG TIDY!!!

BANG BANG! :D

This is awesome, the quality and craftsmanship is second to none, seriously impressive stuff!

It's great to see all the photos :) I'm sure they'll inspire lots of us to get creative with our cases.

Thanks blunt, means a lot. We actually did a fast forward on the build to take it with us to the iSeries event. To follow a full break down to the stage you last saw here. Super happy with the results and noticed a bunch of things we can do to make it even better so watch this space!

Enjoying following a bunch of builds on here & hope this will inspire plenty!

Ok, ok, ok. This is absolutely outstanding 'art' on the highest level for all us computer lovers as we can all agree.

And what pretty much every single one of us is thinking is I want my next build to look like that, be it various colours. I know I certainly am, as when you see such quality as this from the ground up you know you would be in safe hands purchasing a product from them.

You should really think about putting these models into production or system builds. Hitachi Finance wouldn't hear the end of me if so!

Thanks for the kind words. We are trying to work things out with the guys at OCUK to expand Parvum. Including much more addons for cases. More color options and color kits & defiantly systems builds. We also think 8pack will be doing some prebuilt systems!

Thanks but I'm still unsure about it as nothing has been said about it. I would love to look into it and try it but one has said what it is etc.

Any questions and fire away. Its a somewhat flavour of the month/vogue thing is straight tubing but I am very keen. I wouldn't say it comes close to being as safe as other fittings and w/c solutions however.

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This is just awesome. i dont usually do jealousy lol but im full of it for this case :D

edit: Guys, seriously now, whats the chances of getting an all black case with no white accents with the 360 rad at the bottom (or 240 even) as well as front and top? Im ready to order. i would be grateful if you could get back to me on this.
Thanks

Sorry for the delay, iSeries got in the way ;)! If you want to shoot us over an email to - [email protected] we can see what we can do for you!
 
26th March Update Acrylic tubing

these looked amazing at i-series!! very nice build!

Ah glad you liked it! Suppose you got to see very far ahead, we are rebuilding the thing now!

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Hello again, back for a short update. We actually put the full rig together in a very slap dash format just so we could take the rig to LAN. It was actually great practice as we could see any flaws and find any issues that would need to be addressed. The rig is now drained and stripped back for rebuild so the project log will continue. Thanks for the support and everyone we met at i48.

Sorry very short and sweet this time. More tubing and rebuilding!

First we added the EK RAM blocks. Loving the 2 X RAM blocks! More eye candy!!

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Then comes some more straight line tubing:

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Ending the day (we did say it would be a tiny update) we have correctly installed the 80mm fans and wanted to show you the start of cable routing/management.

Next update will provide you with much more to look at :D
 
Thank you everyone! Straight tubing in such a small build was insane to deal with!

Acme15: We didn't manage to get the rig running. We had it with us but one of the acrylic tubes got damaged in the drive. I suppose rushed time and all the snow really didn't help us. OCUK had to lend me a gaming rig in fact! I can however offer another update:

UPDATE TIME!

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So to continue with the rebuild to get all the cable management in place. We did it almost in a backwards fashion. No cable holes initially then after a full rig build mark up the exact measurements and cut again. Long winded indeed but gets the finish we wanted.

60mm Alphacool back in place:

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Gentle fans installed via the second layer/accent panel:

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Would like to welcome Pexon on board. We met James from Pexon at iSeries and got to spend a good bit of time together. We have actually traded work for work here and this is a shot of the PSU as you may have seen already if you follow his work:

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Next some floppy tubing that needs to be used in places that wont be seen in the final. It was impossible to not use any in a build so small but it wont be seen. Also the 8pin EPS for the motherboard:

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With the Enermax fans installed:

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And as promised the EK block changed to clear/frosted:

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We had been lucky enough to part exchange an old card for a second GPU and got the matching block for it. SLI connector goodness here from EK:

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A little idea of what is going on up there to make this thing all happen. Lots of holes, lots of mad connectors. Excuse the mixture of fittings. These won't be visible so it didn't have to all be bitspower ;)

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So now because of the second GPU that we didn't take into account efficiently we had to change the tube routing. It doesn't look as amazing as the all in line tubing but after seeing it filled with tester fluid it still looks amazing and we are really happy.
Here are some photos of the fittings and changes:

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A few random shots of the PSU cables and the top chamber, starting to take shape:

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To end the update a few shots of the routing system. Though not all direct to the top they work really nice and straight tubing is killer:

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Again thank you SO much for reading. It means everything to us. Please throw questions, advice and/or ideas at us!

See you on the next one!! :rock:
 
Forgive me if this has already been answered but what connectors are you using for the hardline tubing?

I really want to try something similar but am a bit worried about using standard compression fittings in case they dont grip well enough on the rigid tubes.

Astoundingly good work in such a small space I am in awe :eek:

/Salsa

Hey there. The fittings pictured are c47/48 crystal link connectors. They had been designed to be used with small pre-sized acrylic tubes for SLI/Crossfire W/C set ups. To be honest they are awesome with the right type of tubing but work literally with a tight fit and 2 x O rigs. So user beware. Its also extremely difficult to not damage the O ring with the tubing being as tight as it it. Some people sand the tube ever so slightly but then you can easily get leaks if over sanded in the wrong area. I'm pretty sure standard compression fittings would not work. You could also look into pneumatic fittings but these are not designed specifically for watercooling and you can run into problems with thread angles and lengths.

This thing just gets better and better.

Going to make some of your own backplates for the GPU's??

I expect do yeah, I may have a slightly larger back plate that overlaps the bottom chamber to hide the small gap. We will see though!

is the finish of the plastic cases bought in like that, or is it something that you add after?

i was feeling 8packs rig that you guys did (i know, that sounds weird) and it felt like it had a soft rubbery coating over it?

i was going to come ask you guys, but when i got there you were in a game of league, didnt want to interrupt :P

Ah you should have interrupted us! haha. Next time you should say hello!

It is a special type of Acrylic that we import. It has a double matte finish with improved qualities for dust/finger prints! It makes cutting it even harder but with a real nice end result.
 
30th March cable management

can a compact watercooled case get any better :D

Maybe one day... but hopefully our S2.0? ;)

!!UPDATE!!

Time to manage some cables.

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So first we work on the top chamber. A portion of this will be kept visible from above so these will be managed with some degree of care. The back of the case will be contained so we don't have to be as careful.

We begin by using MDPC clips and clamping each 6 cable bundle to the acrylic:

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To fit these cables we use brass inserts and M3 bolts:

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To insert the brass peices into the acrylic we used the good old solder iron trick that we first spotted on a project log some time back:

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Finishing the rest of the GPU power leads:

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Moving to the back of the case; more of the same but as I said not important here to keep it tidy, these wont be seen. The only reason we are doing it is to take any cable bulge or pressure off of the side panel:

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With the 24pin we just cable tie it to the other cables. Again we are not going to make this look perfect as it will be housed with acrylic:

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Sadly that is all for today folks. Just keeping you in the loop!
 
5th April Update - Rear chamber

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Back again. Sorry for the lack of eye-candy; got to get the boring bits done to make the eye-candy better later ;D!

We start with a little drawing:

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This is one of the two sections that will make up the back chamber. To hide some cables and enclose the fan controller. Remember there will be a side panel still so some of the boring white will be covered. Tools 45', 1.5mm & 3mm:

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Finished:

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With both pieces fixed together:

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The chamber installed into the back of the case, first use is to hide these molex and other junk in the top. We have actually had to ditch the custom res. We plan to make one in a different spot in the case. It was just to tight to run 4 tubes from the small reservoir AND 4 tubes to each pump. There is also talk of a GPU upgrade and perhaps introducing a rad box to compensate for the new gained power... but we will see!

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A helping hand to show you the fan controller in place:

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(The controller itself wont actually be seen, more fabrication to come)

Some more photos of the chamber installed:

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And a final shot; there is some crazy stuff hiding away in that top chamber!!!

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See you all soon!
 
10th April Update - Tubing finished

I cant wait for my case :D

We feel the same way :D!

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!!UPDATES!!

Hey guys, managed to make some real good progress on the build last week. Been staying at the warehouse after work till around 9PM often so going well!

Not to much in this update but expect a fair few updates real soon. Filling the loop in the next update! Exciting....!

We had pretty much the hardest of the tubes to do. Always leave the hard parts till last ;)! The problem you find here is that you cant really use acrylic tubes in such a small place with the connectors you are limited to (without bending the tubing).

We had been determined to ONLY use acrylic tubing even though using a little bit of traditional tubing would have saved us so much stress.

Tricky connection no.1
Resolved with 3 different angle connections to make it work! ALMOST horizontal connection:

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Tricky connection no.2
We got around this by using a double angle connection on the RAM block & the top chamber:

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And a final shot to show you the complete connections to the hardware:

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A more exciting update next friends. Finally fill the dual loop!!

Goodnight, sleep tight!!
 
11th April, Mayhems in the loop!

Absolutely love this build.

So clean and tidy!

Always enjoy popping in here to marvel at what Parvum have been upto

Looks good;)

Such an awesome build. I follow most of the project logs on here, and this is by far the best looking one. Excellent stuff and brilliant craft work.

Thank you all! Had some amazing response and interaction on the OCUK forum. Been talking lots with OCUK so you have a bunch of things to look forward to!

I want a CNC machine now... Seen some Kits on ebay to build your own, they any good for creating things like this?

To be honest even the SUPER cheap CNC machines on eBay could create a nice scratch build. You are just going to be limited by the size of things you can cut. I can't say it will be the best CNC in the world but I've seen beautiful things cut from extremly cheap home built routers.

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So now for the fun part! In the loops we have mayhems red & white. The best fluids we've used. In honesty we don't do any fancy temperature or flow tests... as long as our hardware is at a suitable temp and it looks good that's all that matters here. All about aesthetics!
As for Mayhems if you haven't had a look at the fluids you really should!!

One colour for each mini res:

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We fill both loops at once here. All mobo power intact and no paper towl or anything to protect us from possible leaks.. we have far to much faith in what can be very tempermental fittings & acrylic tubing ;). Here are some photos I managed to get as we booted the system a few times:

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So we did go ahead and finish filling the loop but you can see a few other little bits before I show you thats.
We made a start on the top layer. This is made up for a 5mm red then a 5mm white. Here is the red:

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We then cut the top from the white. The rog logo requires some very tight cuts. The Hole at the rear has a nice 120° edge cut and the entire panel had been cut out with a 45° cutter:

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A cheeky shot of the back with the red rear chamber installed. Remember there will be a second white layer to cover the majority of this:

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We then finished the side panel. Very similar to the standard S1.0. but just revaling more of the internals. The 'republic of gamers' text was inlayed with forsted red. Very fiddly to get the tolerance to actually work and get these letters installed without any cracking! Here are a few shots of the loop filled with side panel in place:

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With the white roof layer installed. We may actually inlay the ROG logo here with grey and red but its extremly tricky and we wanted to see how the cut through would look first:

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We will leave you with some nice shots of the case now both loops have been filled. This is really what the case was about. Redicleous amount of hardware and cooling:

  • Socket 2011 i7
  • 16GB RAM
  • 2 x 7870
  • 2 x 240mm rads (60mm & 35mm)
  • 2 x DCC pumps
  • 2 x SSD's
  • 5 Waterblocks
  • Over 40 fittings!!

This all in a somewhat 'neat' mATX LAN rig. It really wasn't until this point we really got to see our our hardwork shine on this one. Will we ever straight tube cool a rig this small again? hmmm unsure..... ;)

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Once again thank you all for reading. We hope these photos made reading and following so far worth while. We would say the build is about 90% complete now to be honest. We have since added a second layer just to strenghten the entire thing. Its MAD heavy and have a bunch of final touches. To have a few bits to finish. The PSU side cover which will inclose the fan controller etc. The top ROG inlay and case feet.

Please understand these are not the final photos so if you do wish to share them wait for the best! We are heading to the studio Tuesday to get some super nice final shots together for you with a great friend of ours Tom Barnes. If you are into photography you should check out his work here. He couldn't shoot things any further away from computers but he can sure as hell make a fine job of them as well.

Untill then! Have a good one!
 
HOLY BATCRAP!

stunning, simply stunning! you should put this up for auction or as a competition prize. or just keep it tbh as its just fantastic

Definitely something we will consider doing. Will be holding onto it for the summer as it will be on display at a number of LANs/events. Until we do another project this one will be our little baby!

Beautiful and inspiring, I can find no other words to describe it.

Well done everyone @ Parvum, such a build should be placed behind glass on display somewhere.

Oh while I remember I have a little acrylic related question for you, what speed should I be drilling 3mm thick sheets at and are regular hole saws ok to use? I'm guessing around 4-500 rpm should be fine I just don't want to crack it. Given my job, its quite ironic I haven't got a clue what speed to use, I could tell you how to cut most commercial metals under the sun but plastics I'm lost.

Also is it easy enough to shorten down a sheet by running a blade down the desired cut line then just bending it to snap off?

Thanks for the kind words.

As for the drilling. What kind of hole size are you trying to cut? Obviously as we have access to CNC we would CNC all holes using our standard single flute cutters. If we where to do it by hand I would advice trying a couple of options. Spade bits are much better than hole saws from what we've found. It's important where possible to clamp the material really well & if you can have something underneath at the cut through point to avoid chipping towards the end of the cut. 500 RPM is a pretty good place to be with acrylic.
It's more about the plunge than the RPM. You just have to go incredibly slow and let the drill do the work.

Report back with your results!

I can't help but feel it would be better without the text on the side. But that's just me...

Otherwise it's a testament to what Parvum can do - looking forwards to getting my own S1.0 to play with.
And may be in touch about some extra metal cubes to mod the case with (if that's possible)

Been a pleasure watching this take shape - some truly inspiring details and workmanship

Yeah it's always the thing with branding. We knew to a lot of peoples tastes simple clean acrylic can look nicer and give a more elegant feel but we wanted this one branded up for ROG. We've used ROG equipment from the start so this was a props to there amazing hardware.

We can sort some extra cubes out for you yeah. Email us your address to - [email protected]

Wow real nice build. That watercooling is just excellent and the colour scheme is great.
However, imho the fans are a bit flashy and over the top, I would prefer if they were less glossy and understated. But hey, thats just me.

Thanks for the kind words. Understandable on the fans. The clusters can be like Marmite we've noticed on the internet. We've used them in most of my builds and still love them. Other than the water block LEDs these are the only light source in the build and the subtlety of that kinda makes up for it. We almost went with some matte white fans but didn't find 80mm versions.
We grew to love the gloss of the Enermax in this build as the paired nicely with the gloss in the acrylic tubing.

Wow cant belive im only just coming in to look at this, its beyond awsome! Nice one :D

looks awesome

Wow, just wow!!

Wow man...
That is some fine work!
REALLY well done.

one word AMAZING!

I WANT IT!

I keep popping back in here to check for updates thinking nothing can make it any better. How wrong I am every time. Keeps on improving, great job sticking to clean design and aesthetics that are stunning to look at.

Think there needs to be a new word invented to describe this build because all the other typical ones wont do it justice.
Its just........ :eek:

uhhmazingggg

I have rated this thread 5 stars.

I think others should do the same too. :)

Just wow.. :)

Thank you all so much. We are super happy to be a part of the forums here and hope this will help everyone understand more about us. We are as you may now know just two young modders/enthusiasts trying to compete in such a massive industry already full of quality and amazing products. Its extremely difficult for us to compete but with the help of everyone in the modding scene hopefully we can continue to push our products.
We just want everyone to know that there input and ideas are always SUPER welcome. We urge you to drop us a line at [email protected] if you have any ideas and input. On top of that if you are ever slightly unhappy with a Parvum product we want you to contact us straight away and we will put it right. The beauty of our cases is that they are fully modular. If you feel a certain panel or part has a finish or an edge you are not quite happy with; please let us know!
Again massive thanks for the support along the way. Expect a new ITX project log to be up soon!

Superb build guys, I really hope I win your giveaway!! Hopefully my CAD skills will be up to doing something similar one day.

We will be announcing the winner very soon! With an overwhelming amount of entries and response we will be running a second comp very soon!
 
Having just built my first watercooling loop and experienced first hand what it takes.....

That is beyond stunning. If i was to allow you to abuse me in some devlish act of perversion would you let me have that? Or maybe my first born would be prefered?

Haha well now since you mention it I'm sure we could come to some kind of agreement ;).... ahah and thanks for the kind words, to figure this loop out really had us stressing at times!

I can't believe how good that looks. I'm lost for words just looking at it, smiling and thinking "I want one".

Ah this is just great! We didn't expect to bring smiles from a build. Couldn't be happier hearing that.

nice work this :D

you should submit it to million dollar pc :)

If we had the time to give cable management 120% and a done a little more work in a few areas I would feel comfortable submitting it to million dollar. But for this one not quite ;)! It's very special but not worthy in our opinion. Maybe the next build...

It's this type of case company that makes me smile when I see them communicating with people well, taking all comments and questions in their stride.

You guys do an excellent job! Keep it bloomin well up!

Thanks so much! We have a lot planned with OCUK now and hope our presence and builds on the forums can let us slowly push Parvum. Its great to get a comment like this as its exactly what we had hoped we could achieve on the forum.
 
18th April Final Photos. Something a little fun!

Hey guys, firstly a big thanks! It's been an amazing little trip on this build. We have had some great input and amazing ideas. What has been done to the S1.0 here has filled us with ideas and possibilities for future projects & products. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have!

After work Tuesday evening we drove to our friend Tom's studio. We were very fortunate to have him shooting the case as he does not typically do this kind of work. Tom is a professional international music & portrait photographer and you can see this come through in our final photos. Please have a look at his portfolio here.
We wanted to do something a little more fun so he was ideal for the job. We take our own photos with a Mark II & have a good studio background so high quality finished photos have already been shown.

We decided... or at least Tom decided to shoot each photo with long exposure so we could play around with are own light. Helpful to boost light in focal areas and just to look great! The idea was perfect for us as we wanted something really exciting, busy and different. The entire case was meant to have a bright and fun vibe hence so much white and the bold inlay work. We wanted to pull it away from the very dark rigs often seen. This represents us as a company and lets our personalities come through. If you get to meet us you will see we are far from businessmen and hope this portrays that. Power to the modders!

We understand these photos won't be to everyone's taste but after all, it is our project and we are having some fun here so enjoy!

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Again just want to thank everyone. Hopefully if we keep staying late after work we can get the ITX project log up!
 
Congrats on completing this beautifully sculptured piece of computer-goodness.

The is a very sharp and striking design, which has been finished to the highest standard. You should be proud of your achievement.

Thanks Tatty! We are super happy with the final result.

Looks fantastic. Want to put a build into a nice stealthy black version!

Awesome work.

Thank you reap! You should defiantly do a sleek black version, perhaps with a reaper theme... ;)
 
epic build. was great to see this at lan but the finished item is really something special

Thanks mate means a lot. Looking forward to showing it off in its full glory at the summer LAN!

Looks stunning! Sleeving alone looks amazing!

Thanks man.

i just love how exact the tubings are, so clean and straight :D

Really was the worlds worst headache but I'd struggle to go back to standard tubing now.

Stunning!

Thank you!!

For the love of god. Give me an account number and a price.

Black and white or even orange and black and you can just empty my bank account.

Damn full case in frosted orange with white accents perhaps. The true glory of our material is there as so many colour combos. Mmmmm dual loop with white and orange pastel fluids. Yes please!!? I'll send over the sort code and acc number... haha
 
I like that idea.. I like it a lot! :D

So a close friend of mine actually draws and tattoos some of the best reapers ever. Que an awesome etching into the case window...

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i think im slightly in love with these cases.

Same here though I'd never be able to build something as neat looking as this.

Thank you both. Kaktus I think you would be surprised when you use one of our cases. With simple cable extension kits the layout screams to be ultra clean :D


I got to say that case is just something else. i would buy something like that in a heartbeat. Soo clean and tidy

very good job

Great bit of engineering there.

Thank you all. We would love to be able to reproduce something like this but it was defiantly a personal project with a lot of stress. Unsure if we could do it again haha. 8 Pack however has some awesome stuff up his sleeve coming soon :D

Your case just look brilliant...

Please make some Midi Tower case and I will be the first who buy from you!!

We are bringing out the ITX case next. True ITX however, I really small SMALL LAN box but with some good W/C potential. ATX case will defiantly be closely following!

Looks amazing :)

Thanks!

Great build but I think the braided cables could be tided up in that there is no cores visible crossings..I'll get me coat

No without a doubt, it was one of them things that you only see in the photos when it's too late. If we get a good day I'll straighten everything out before the show event. Also GPU backplates would have gone from being an epic build to a perfect build.... :D
 
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