Parvum: Frosted Designare - Hard fitting installed and tubing plan!

[orbitalwalsh]

Been a while but still waiting for new Panels which will include a floating front panel to stop toys going in!

Realised I had taken snaps of Alphacools new PCIe heatsink unit and not uploaded them yet so here it is! (not the best as was very late and on the reflective kitchen table )

yes.... i forgot to install the bloody bracket didnt it when taking the snaps!

How feel does it work? Well the 500GB 960 is in the unit- Taken just after Asus Real Bench was used which is installed on the drive

poor phone shots of it in think i'll install at stop 16x Lane and move the GPY down to show the mobo heatsink . Also have a mini asus m.2 card for bottom pcei slot- although now torn to reinstall back into m.2 slot and use the bottom for their new dual SSD PCIe heatsink card - Since may case doesn't have any mounts for drives...yet... will be handy haha

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Made a lot of progress Orbital - looking forward to your glass tubing. Have you figured out a consistent way of cutting it yet?

Some interesting design choices too - is that a crow's feather in the case?

by progress.... sat idling hehe honestly it gets turned on for updates and thats about it! although baby girl now starting to fall asleep by 7:30 and son is in bed by 8:30 so may get some time to game!!! and maybe next month the cut panels will be shipped ready for month after ..teehee
PC-o11 ROG edition is sitting in my basket!!!! will make the wife happy and angry at some time

which leads me to say, my method of glass cutting will be the wife

I'll do all the tubing in frosted and give her them as templates , have some TV to catch up on and will be a good way for her to chillax

 

[orbitalwalsh]

GOOD NEWS ... Parvum have shipped the panels and they actually land today!!!! BOOM

bad news.... I want this now!
I know its a hot link image but jesus !!!

noticed with high res picture, losses the full silver on the z270 PCB though, wonder how the back end looks.

can't remember if Parvum are shipping the addition to the back of the mobo panel that is in the shape of the Designare logo , that should diffuse the bare LEDs at the back

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Great, I will look out for 'hi-res' pics when they arrive

Copy the BBCode from my message - but here's your next must have:

Like the M.2 thermal guards - they actually have a practical use/need and compliment the look.

seems It'll have to wait a bit

need to get my friends rig sorted asap. More i look at it the more i like the white version but then my wife mentions the poorly tinted windows... needs to be black... or clear, not in between

seems Desk will be going on the floor ;(

 

[orbitalwalsh]

That's all relative and subjective - as long as your friend likes it, nothing else matters. You sound similar to myself, i put myself through hell getting the perfect build/and setup for my friends/family PCs and yet i'm far more relaxed with my own...


Odd name for cat!

Haha, sorry, my Parvum will go to the floor

 

[orbitalwalsh]

finally got a chance to install new panels although front panel was designed to be attached differently to how i wanted it :/

new inner front panel has moved the fans over to allow for thicker rads and pump/res units

installing the fans and have way through forgot that i spent a lot on stainless bolts..

much better, case now has full stainless bolts

just fits in

as we can see, tight- did ask for mounting holes to allow the res to be bolted to the front panel but none so having to be on the floor... luckily i had this covered

new panel

out comes the bottom

in goes the new

tight

but its getting there

now, to do the hard loop with frosted tubing from alphacool. i also have bent glass from Mayhems but will use the frosted as a template for a half & half design to match the case

also realised the silent wings allowed to have fan cables weaved through them.. bit neater

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Such a good build so far, I genuinely cannot wait to see the frosted tubing in there I think it will complement the rest well.

It's been a mission, replacing some of the default black screws to stainless was a mission as I refused to strip the parts and panels back to square one to fit them. Prob would have been quicker haha. Really wanting to see the crystal clear glass with the frosted but that might be a while. Will just get the foraging done first

 

[orbitalwalsh]

cant you just mark up the holes and drill yourself for the res, plus did you give Parvum the measurements to have it drilled.

Yeah, but sent them off so I wouldn't have to lol, and was looking after my eldest whist I my wife had our youngest down south . Won't have the case any were near him nor did I get the time .
One of the reasons I had bottom rad moved back to fit it in. And as luck has it... The bottom. Parvum cube can line up nicely with one of the mounting brackets holes !!!! Shim in and it's done. Plus that rad is going no were . Some how i gave measurements to Parvum mm perfect as there is no margin for error

So just have to work out mounting the front panel, I said for another cube to be used on the four corners to sandwich the inner panel and have the out panel lined up so it's floating with a gap and flush , but they recommended using spacers for smaller neater look and have 4 holes just under the cube holes. So will play with both
Let public vote on it

Just have to wait for final 8mm window panel, got damaged during milling which happens

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Started to map out the hard line...

Routing - idea is to frame around the board and card - would have been easier to just cut through them to be honest

Ball value at the end - have a pump that can force the liquid out for drain to not to fussed on it having to be at the lowest point. Missed a trick though, prob could have had it on the bottom far port of the bottom rad but i aint going to take it all apart again to do it - not for Frosted loop only- maybe when i had Mahems glass in

Most of the routing is based on lines running in parallel, with a glass/Frosted tubing combo to reflect the design off the parvum case

Bottom end... so tight! (oi oi)

Rad to res input - this will be glass in the end - already have pre-bent pieces which is a massive help!
The frosted tubing from the gpu to cpu will run parallel and offer the contrast

GPU

CPU- was torn on using either 90's or dual 45s. Using 90s would have meant using more extenders so went with the duals and adds from curved to a right angle build.
I wish alpha didnt engrave on the block otherwise would have rotated it 180 - still could do but having the text upside down would bug me to the core!

Staggered in height so output can frame the top edge of the board and into the far port on the front Rad. Input will cut over the top edge of the ram and down the edge of the mobo.

Pics with window panel on (still waiting on final 8mm thick one- using 3mm at the mo)

so this was all set in stone till i released I forgot to drop the the GPU to lower PCIe slot to show the Heatsink more...

So final Version - Green is the glass tubing , blue the frosted orange is flow wheel and red new fittings/change of location

But for the time being will stick with the first routing to give me a feel for hard tubing , which will all be in frosting. First time hard hard tubing to like to go in easy