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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)
 
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5UB said:
Very nice and unique. Work of art. :)
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Thanks 5UB, look forward to doing your build!

P3N9U1N said:
Wow, just wow, that is mighty, mighty impressive.

Very nicely done indeed, I take my hat off to you sir.
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Thank you! You have a very nice hat.

Somthing Else said:
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?
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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.

Pelinox said:
Once again, looks fab.

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

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

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

JamesM said:
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?
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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.

JoeF1 said:
Incredable.

Loving the OCool rad cover.
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Thanks man!

Jay85 said:
So just out of curiousity, how much would all this cost if you was doing it for a customer?
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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!

shadowscotland said:
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)
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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!
 
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
 
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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?
 
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shadowscotland said:
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
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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!

JamesM said:
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?
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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!

adi518 said:
Top notch !
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Thanks man.

originalwood said:
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.
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More photos to come tomorrow Wood and everybody els watching.

Thanks for the kind words.
 
parvumsystems said:
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!
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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?
 
JamesM said:
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?
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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.
 
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.
 
Somthing Else said:
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?
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Diagro said:
Thats what im wondering as i would love one
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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
 
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 :)
 
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