Parvum Systems Project Magnus

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Parvum Systems Project Magnus - 20th Sep - Case assembled

Project:
Magnus
by: Parvum Systems





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Hello ladies and gentleman. It's that time!

We are back! A very exciting time indeed! We have been working hard in the warehouse trying to get on top of stock and orders for Parvum cases! However in our evenings and our own spare time we have done our very best to work on a new project.

A quick word about the sponsors. As with all of these builds they are not the most traditional where you simply do a build and get sponsor stuff in exchange for finishing the build. All parts that we have been lucky to get for this build are 90% trade items. So to say... you scratch my back I'll scratch yours. We have done custom case work for pretty much all of the companies who have supported this project and intend to do much more.

This project will be the first ever full size Parvum Systems case. It will feature a full size ATX board and multiple GPUs. Please understand the purpose of this is to also act as a working prototype.
This won't be the end user 'retail' tower but a lot of the techniques we use and features seen here will be in the final product. Also understand any feedback, criticism & ideas received here will be taken on board. The whole point is to make our cases as perfect as we can!

A little break down of what we already know for the build; Understand it is overkill. This is the one time we are going to go crazy... all the hardware, all the watercooling.. a really powerful build:

• 5 X 240mm Radiators
• 1 x 360mm Radiators
• 18 x 120mm Fans
• 1 x Haswell CPU
• 1 X 4 Way SLI Motherboard
• 4 X GPUs
• 3 X D5 Pumps
• 8 X SSD
• 3 X 3TB Storage drives
• 1 X SATA 3 Raid card

Our personal building style doesn't really favor much from rendering, if we do use them its more to ensure we've not screwed up with a length of a panel or a screw hole here or there. So I do have a render but this is a lose idea of the build. Something for you to see to give you an idea.
We never sketchup the hardware or the loop. These things come to us when the builds actually in front of us.

The one thing that is a certainty is the almost 500mm of clear acrylic tubing that will be mounted into the front panel system of the case. Should be a nice little feature!

Here are a couple of quick renders to give you an idea of the over all look/feel:

To give you an idea of our previous work. See two photos; Project ITX & Onwards and upwards. mATX for the bigger case, ITX for the smaller. This should give you a good idea of our overall build style and give you an idea of what to expect but on a much larger scale:

Over the last couple of months we have been tweaking the design. Finally we are happy to a stage where some can be cut:

So before I show you the initial panels... we have been very lucky here at Parvum Systems. I suppose a combination of dedication & support from all you guys has led to this! On the 17th of this month we had an extremely awesome CNC system installed. We had a couple of days training as standard with the machine and got on really well with the technician. Was a great couple of days and we pretty much got straight to optimizing Parvum case cutting. Even made a new friend !

Here are a couple of shots of the installation and cutting of the first panels for this case:

So to show you a little bit of the cutting for today. The first BIG mid wall! Was fun to bend it, had to make a slightly bigger jig. Pretty standard here just more standoffs and more size!

We changed the 24pin & 8pin EPS to small drilled holes for neater cable management. We also changed the hole placement for things like Sata cables to be 50% under the motherboard. Again to keep it all nice and tidy. We actually used a photo template of the board to ensure everything is in the exact place before the we physically had the motherboard:

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Basically just wanted to just get this project log up and online. We have actually cut 75% of the panels so we will assemble after work tonight or tomorrow and get the initial assembly photos online in the next update! We will start to filter in some of the parts & hardware provided by our sponsors and show you some more of the plans ASAP.

Thanks again everyone. Hope this one will be a great project for us to enjoy together! As always if you have any questions... want to know a little more about something or what something is just ask.

Justin, Shaun..

Parvum Systems!

 

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Wow.

I was going to mail you chaps about an atx case the other night but thought better of it.

Build sounds extra epic.

Any idea when the atx cases will be put on sale? Very much peaked my interest, especially if I can have a custom one to hold a couple of 480's

Well we may be one step ahead in that case! It's hard to say, we aim to fore fill our purchase orders for the S1.0 initially. We then plan to get the ITX on sale next month. With the new machine however everything should start to move along much faster! A case to fit a couple of 480's could be lovely

That case design looks incredible, looking forward to watching this build develop

New Parvum build - Subbed guys

new machine looks epic. cant wait to buy more cases off you guys

the design for the ATX case is brilliant. really looking forward to seeing this come together.

Thank you all! Will have some photos of the builds initial assembly today

After seeing your tweets of that CNC installed I couldn't wait to see what you guys had planned. Glad to see I'm not going to be disappointed.

Cannot wait to see the finished case/project! Good luck with this one.

Thanks for following mate. Yeah the CNC is a dream. Such a crazy piece of kit.

 

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Case assembly

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Assembling the first of the panels:

Back once again (for the renegade master)... for another update. Not sure why I posted these lyrics, but it is the weekend now! Almost...

Apologize here for my writing style and for how many exclamation marks I use. I suppose I get a bit carried away some times.

First then we assemble the front part of the case. This is made up of 3 x 5mm thick layers. White first, then frosted followed by black. Really wanted to use the frosted on top of white after our ROG ITX build. Also the primary reason for this was to give us enough thickness to inlay the 12mm acrylic tubing:

Really happy with the new 'squarer' detailing used for the USB 3 header. Also hard to see in the photo but a very slight chamfer to slit for the slot loading drive:

Frosted on white with some of the cubes installed:

Note here the removed section to allow the 90° bent tubing to pass through into top and bottom chambers:

Some more photos of the front assembly, the USB and drive detailing. Then the third front layer:

Installed the case bottom and the internal bottom chamber:

Top chamber & middle wall in place. Lots of white space inside this case:

I will shut up talking and continue assembly now:

Last little update for tonight; wanted to check the USB header fit with no issue. We decided to inlay the full plastic unit into the back of the white. To then be screwed into the clear in the front as usual:

That's your lot then guys and girls!

Hope your enjoying this so far... it's hard to see the case as we see it. This case will very much change when we start to get some hardware and cooling inside. But so far couldn't be happier.

Have a great weekend and please, hit us with some comments and ideas as and when you get them! We like ideas

Justin, Shaun,

 

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Looks superb I think I like it more than the mATX one

Thank you! We are going to bring the same in built feet style to the mATX case. We did it in a render of the S1.0 and it looks great. Also means if we do a reverse options the 240mm rad in the bottom already has the necessary height for in take.

Beautiful.

Thank you. With the case put together let the ideas come! If you have any, hit us ;D

Wow... Get some kit in there. MOAR!!!!

Kit from XSPC, Phobya, Alphacool and Kingston is with us so moving forward with this next update!

wow! that is looking sweet!

Thanks Blame!

Is that a slot for dual power supply I'm seeing there?

Close but we have something else planned. Nothing too skilful as far as modding goes but a great feature. All will be revealed next update.

Hmmmmmm ive seen this somewhere lol haha!

are you a spy flame??

Defo subbed

Lovely art and design. This system is going to look fantastic no doubt.

Thank you both! It should be a fun project. Was nice to plan 90% of the build within CAD, lets just hope everything fits

Looks really really good

Gutted now though as I was so thinking of an S1 but ended up with a 350D

That case makes me want an atx board again

It does look smart guys, keep up the good work

That's ok tho! The 350D is a great little case. There will be many a Parvum case coming and with our new CNC we can actually get the stock numbers up thus in time bringing the price down as competitively as possible.

looks awesome, make me an E ATX one, and we will talk white and orange, you boys know the drill lol

Don't worry we will talk

Loving the look of it. Will this and the ITX enclosure eventually be going on general sale?

Thanks Fulax. It sure will yeah, we aim to have it up for sale at OCUK by the end of next month. Should be really eye catching little systems!

Yey another parvum case that looks ****ing sexy

Subbed.

Very nice design I look forward to seeing it completed

Looks awesome so far, cant wait for the next update!

Very impressive and desirable.

Thank you all very much ^^, everyone here! This thread has to be one of the most interactive of all the projects. It's great to hear from you all.

Please hit us with your ideas along the way, a lot of the case will be recut at a certain stage due to my build style so ideas along the way are very welcomed!

 

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Looks awesome, enjoy these threads.

Very tempting cases.

Looking awesome guys do love your cases and with an ATX now could be tempted to part with my cash

Thank you both! We will do our best to make you part !

Awesome. I know this is a weird-ish question, but how sturdy is it with those materials?

Lets say you plant in a few kg's of parts and a few liters of coolants, is it "wobbly" at all with all those thin walls, or does it feel just like aluminium?

You'll be very surprised. It's solid as hell! I'd happily sit on the case with no problems. I mean I'm not the heaviest guy in the world but they are very strong. It's a combination of the curves in the mid wall and the double layer back with triple layer front. This with the addition of the bottom and top chambers make for a very strong case.

I suppose in effect the mid walls almost act like folding aluminium. We've been trying to think of a good way to show this in a video or whatever as people on other forums have been having the same concerns.

I think that the below image suitably conveys my feelings towards this project log so far:

Big time want although im not alone but the looks of things, can I put an order in for a black and orange one?

In due course no problem. Take the time in us doing this project log to let us know what you'd add or change if you had the chance. As that's exactly the purpose. A working prototype. All feedback heavily accepted!

 

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Icybox & Asus Detailing

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Hi all, quick little mini update for you all. Had to cut some frosted at work so did the bits for the detailing and shot a quick little video at the same time.

But first we have a speedy unboxing of the FlexCage MB973SP-B. I wanted to have a nice quickly removable solution for large mechanical drives. This was the answer. It also gave us a couple of extra USB3.0 ports at the back if needed. Simply useful to chop and change drives in the work place.

Love the item. Few subtle plans. The base colour of the unit is fine no problems there. Will change the sticker to a piece of vinyl, change the fan and braid the cables at the back there. Test fit however went great. Nice as we only pulled the measurements from the technical data found on the website:

Next onto a little treat in the post from Asus: The MAXIMUS VI EXTREME!
Took a couple of nice photos of the board pre waterblocks and a what to find in the box!
Considering doing something with the OC Panel in this build:

Next we fit the male parts to the already cut female. Perfect fit fortunately

To finish for the day we rendered a quick little video. Sorry it was slapdash just to show you the tool changer and a little bit of the inlay so enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU3-stVRQ4A

See you all soon! Have a great week!

 

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Its so pretty!

So I'm looking through thinking: "hmm yeah always liked the cases and really like this build" and then
BOOM.....I see that pic dropping in the custom inlay and I just melt....
Now I have to go and re-evaluate my life.....or at least my build plans

Ah thanks Pencils , really happy with the inlay. Did Asus proud I think on this one. We have become pretty good with our inlaying now. Hope this gave you some ideas maybe.

 

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That inlay is superb.

Love it, that pic has just sold this to me a thousand times over, will be firing over an email to you guys over the next few days, no more enthoo for me.

May well have had your email by now! Sorry been a mad few days. We will of course get back to you ASAP! Thanks for the interest

Hell I wish I could build something with such precision. Awesome work.. *drool*

I suppose here our CNC helps us very much

The styling is amazing I won't be surprised if you start poping up in all the spec me threads with this case I know I really want one.

P.s. Great work.

Ah well I hope so! Thank you very much. We plan to sell a full range of towers so this is good practice as far as designing goes

Amazing build, can't wait to see more

That case is looking absolutely superb and that ASUS inlay . . . That's incredible. I can't wait to see photo's of this coming together. Excellent work

Thanks guys! More updates very very soon ! Took the rig home so I can do more work on it haha.

+1

E-ATX for my future Asus Rampage IV Extreme Black Edition

Forget EATX, make a SWTX one with room for two or three 120.4 Rads and I'm in!

Nothing is impossible! Once we have more staff and such we will have more time to work on other projects! We are only beginning here after all

 

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Quick question, what are the limits of working with plastic? I mean its not a material thats often used to build whole cases, i like it, i was a critic at first until i saw your first project thread, but now im sold on the idea. I was just wondering about its strutual integrity if you was to go big with the cases. If this is a deft question please go easy on me lol.

Not a deft or daft question at all. Its understandable a case this side made from acrylic could be seen to be somewhat sketchy and flexible. The reason this is not is the way we combine multiple sheets of acrylic.

The strength it this comes from making sure the correct panels are holding other panels up. For example the top of the case is 2 x 5mm sheets sandwiched together. This is strong but on its own with radiators would start to bow. With the side panels full length underneath it becomes impossible.

The other biggest strength gain is from the mid wall. The Z shape bend bring a tremendous amount of strength to the whole structure. We tested the smaller cases by having somebody lay on two cases at a LAN event. It took the full weight with ease.

Saving for one of your systems although i might hold out now.

You guys are by far one on of the companies on top of their game.

Subbed.

Sometimes bigger is better. I still like our ITX best myself tho ;D

Thanks for the kind words. It's nice to share so much with the community on builds like this.

 

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Rads and fans

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This time will actually be a mini update haha. Mainly to show you a few bits from the sponsors/support and what not.

First up is the fans. Phobya have supplied the build with 17 of these little gems. Really liked them when I was first shown them and now the black version comes out.. it was meant to be!
Thanks Pascal.

Time to start making custom length cables. The current plan is for most of the rear and cable management to be visible so it was a must. Plus due to size alone most of the cables wouldn't have even been long enough:

And the part I hate the most. Solder time....

With his new length cable and some Shade 19 MDPC braid:

Next up some of the goodies from XSPC; super stoked on these fittings. We used them first in the ITX build. Love the shape and overall size. Feel nice and chunky and very suitable for this build. Black chrome finish on these:

We move onto the radiators of choice. Decided to use the white rads as the fans are black and will break up the colour enough between the fans and the inside of the case.
These are currently my favorite radiator and aesthetically nothing touches them for me. Really want to use the smaller 120mm versions in an ITX project!

A big thanks goes out to Paul for helping set this up. Really enjoying the current XSPC range. They seem to be really on point with their latest and coming range of products.

To finish for the day.. as I said it is a short update we simply had a little test look at two of the rads inside Magnus:

Until next time

 

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Im glad to see you have your new CNC.

No more of the slight mismatching of parts due to poor tolerance of old cnc

We will do great things with this machine. When you upgrade to something 10 times the cost you really see the change. Especially the kind of money CNCs are anyway.

This case gets better and better I keep wonerding what are you going to put in there next its epic

Well my biggest peeve is unused space inside rigs... on that note I have my work cut out here. It's all already planned. Between the two of us we will figure this out.

You guys are doing a beast of a job on that case

Thanks a ton scotsdragon; any ideas for us on this one?

 

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Either give give 8 pack one of these to make a mosnster of a machine or build a mitx that can fit a 3x3 mo rah rad on it.

The last one being my goal.

However much I love 8pack and his 8pack Parvum build (it was amazing).. our build styles and very VERY different (maybe we just don't want him to show us up)... haha. I hope with this build I can show you something as special as the 8 pack builds.

Ugh it's so beautiful

Looks amazing

Thank you both

remind me, what PSU you using?

No idea mate, any ideas who does good ones? Ain't them Corsair PSU's pretty good these days?

Those Phobya eLoops look great!
Always excited to see a new Parvum build.

Yeah I'm super stoked on them. When they where that tone of red I wasn't convinced but these are lovely. Very monochrome.

them rads are beautiful , very good choice

Yeah the white rads do look good.

So happy with them! XSPC LOVEEE!!!

Its heartening to hear how you like the itx case yourself. I can imagine the pressure to expand your range must be incredible. Just reading the posts here makes that obvious. I guess the importance for you is to maintain your design signature and of course a quality product that meets the needs of the consumer and your reputation as a company.
I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing you well in that respect and I hope you get plenty orders as you go from strength to strength.
The build is looking great, just admire your design so much.

What a lovely comment. Thank you very much for the best of wishes and luck, things like this help so much to push us. We are only hear because people love to build systems just like us. There is massive pressure to just get stock together in the first place but with our new CNC we can easily fulfill this and start to expand the range.

Was sent around 10 days ago but no rush or worries what so ever

Those NB E-Loop fans look sooo much better in all black, I found the black/red ones looked quite cheap.

Looking forward to the next update

Hope I've replied now! If not please nudge me again haha.

As for the fans.. here here!

MORRRRRE

ETA Monday-Tuesday night

you parvum guys are doing great work.

had planned on one of your cases but due to budget restrictions im keeping my current case for the time being.

always good to see what you're working on though, you do some awesome builds.

Thanks for the kind words my friend. As we start to get faster and production and quanities become higher we can start to bring the price down and down. So hopefully you'll be able to get a Parvum eventually

Awesome kit, awesome case designs and the inlaying is just amazing, fits like a glove

Thanks Coola ;D

 

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Thanks guys.

Out of curiosity with this being a prototype etc, i was going to buy a case in a few weeks (after emailing you some questions) but depending on this time scale how long would it be until public release?

Taa

That's the hard part we've already adopted some things we learnt here into the current smaller cases. More on that soon... as for this one it won't be before Christmas. We hope to release it in the following months. It has a long way to go. However the ITX will be coming towards the end of November.

I was looking at the Corsair 540 but this thread changes everything!

Any rough idea on when an ATX release might be?

Thanks for your kind words and interest. I'd hate to point you in the Corsair direction but it may be a good option for now ! See above.. it won't be this year sadly.

Fantastic build. Subscribed.
I have to admit that your s1.0 inspired me to experiment with making my very own custom case.
It is starting to gain some shape now, but I am so far from your level of expertise
I like the choice of colors and hardware used. And that you decided to go for a bigger case this time.
Looking forward to see more updates from you.

Cheers
BH

That's awesome. Glad we have pushed you to do your own builds! I'd like to check your work out. Is there a project log? I should look myself but busy as ever!

Lies.. its tuesday night and there is no update .

you ow us 2 updates now

OKOK I thought you wouldn't notice if it was one day late... haha, next post in about 5mins will be an update!

 

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Waterblocks & Hardware

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Sorry for the delay y'all!

To update you on some things at the warehouse first. We have been busy.. more busy then ever. We have still been trying when possible to custom mod some Parvum cases, these have been ticking over nicely. In between that we have been working on a bunch of stuff for Nvidia. We did a series of cases for an American prebuild company that will be being used at LAN and show events by Nvidia themselves. We have also done a few custom battlebox cases.

Next in line will be a massive restock of the mATX case. We then plan to get the ITX case out to retailers. We are looking at the end of November for these.
Finally we have a new guy at Parvum, Stephen is his name! Please flame away if you are an EVEN rather than a PHEN ;D! You may well see his hands in this project... maybe.

SO TO THE UPDATE!!
Sorry this really is a filler update. Show you all some hardware going in so we can then at least get down to the more fun stuff... custom res', straight tubing.. the usual!

Thought I'd start things off by showing you an ITX rig we did for a close friend. Managed to cut build and fill in one day. *There goes our only day off*...
Really stoked on it. Custom modded the case to fit an extra 120mm rad PSU side so this little guy has 2 x 120mm rads cooling the CPU:

So to MAGNUS! We start with a cheeky 4770k! Thank you Jim and thank you Intel for the support, without it... well, we would be CPUless... haha:

Next what will cool the chip... this build we have gone fully XSPC. This is due to wanting to go down a slightly new route on our builds and having a close friend at XSPC. It's nice to support them, one small company to another:

Next a little teaser of whats to come... HUGE block to mill something nice and custom:

Some of you may have noticed this feature from the render, but almost 500mm of hard line tubing will be inlaid into each side at the front of the case. Will be a great feature with the fluid:

So more hardware show-off... thanks again to Jim over at Kingston. He's gone all out on this build as you will see a little bit later. But first.. some RAM, 32GB in fact!

More XSPC as we block up:

Up next is another lovely item from Asus.. Sorry I did say this was a hardware update.
Thanks Gareth, I know GPU situation was a headache for this build!

Really nice packaging and the stock cooler!! :O, it's a shame we have to remove the thing. Asus have done a really great job with this cooler:

It would be rude not to show you the board with blocks and a cheeky GPU test fit:

That's all for today. Sorry it took a while to get it to you and then it was ultimately just some hardware.. but like I said.. now the hardware is in place we can figure out the fun stuff!

Thanks for reading! Show some love!

 

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Hi

My log link is in my signature.
Not much to show of yet.
My acrylic supplier messed up and I am behind schedule, but you will see some nice stuff happening there, probably next week

Your build looks great. I wanted to do RAM cooling, but never really oc'ed any so there was no need. Oh, and you have my GPU !

Keep up with the updates

Ah I had a little look, ill check back as not much to see yet as you said !

RAM cooling for our builds is purely for looks; I mean we will put a little clock on it for sure but more about the extra tubing and such.
Nice cards for sure! I believe I have two more on route!

Oh you didn't......

Haha! I'll make up for it

Stop it, stop it! My eyes can't handle this much awesomeness

The next update will be far more fun!

 

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Fashionably late Halloween ;D

 

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Acrylic tubing time

So I just want to say sorry for any neglect at the thread here. I think the last batch of comments before the pumpkin I didn't actually reply to. I really like to keep up with everyone on a quote reply basis where possible and I love this forum so sorry for that. The lack of activeness will be explained in the update I'm about to post. Mainly NO DAMN POWER!!!

Thats awesome Justin, should make me one for my "flame orange" build. But not saying Parvum of course....

Haha you can carve your own pumpkin! I was expecting to see some more company kins! Build is looking great by the way. Just a shame it's not in a Parvum haha

Sounds like that's all the lighting you've had for the last few days with the problem dude?!

Great pumpkin carving skills,

I'm disappointed the pumpkin isn't made out of acrylic though if I'm honest

Haha literally! Worst thing is we did have single phase, so we could use computers just no machinery. Very annoying when your already behind a schedule! Maybe next year we make an acrylic one then!

Loving the look of the tubing on the front. I would have never of thought of this.

Really excited to see the coolant flow when we fill this. I'll be sure to make a video don't worry! Thanks for the kind words.

Carving in the pumpkin obviously had some cheating involved, he used the epic machinery he has got to do it.

Haha if we could have ran the CNC I think we actually would have tried it!

Wow! That is all.

Thanks <3

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More delays.. nothing unusual here. This time we lost three-phase power for 6 days. Really messing up work and any chance of project updates.

But that said... now we have something to show you. Exciting tubing at that!

First we want to quickly show you something we are pretty happy with. It was done for a friend (TTL Himself) so won't be used in this build but a nice little piece. Spec was from a pencil drawing. Single piece construction using heat to bend and designed to hold 4 SSDs:

mmmmmm SSD p0rn....!

Onto MAGNUS!

First up we remove the mosfet block from the board:

Replacing with an awesome little XSPC block:

One thing that did lose out on was due to the reverse(upsidedown) layout.. the little badge cannot be used. Not really a big deal as the build is very monotone but still wanted to do a little something....

Removed the orginal red detailing from the Asus heatsinc:

ANd in place on the XSPC waterblock:

Next up we made a small jig from a bunch of acrylic layers. It's purpose was to add the extra 30mm of space that will be taken up in the bottom of the case so I could start to plan the loop. As with all of our builds we are forever stuck in a 'catch-22'; one thing is always stopping us do the next so this was the only way to move forward:

Putting the jig to use:

Then use the jig to mark the bottom panel. Again all will because much clearer in future updates:

And more:

Next up... well... THANK YOU ASUS! We have more GPUs!
Sitting pretty with stock coolers for now:

Unfortunatly for now we are having problems sorting suitable waterblocks. However knowing they will be XSPC in style the way to move forward was to grab one of Shaun's 780's already with XSPC block:

So for anyone who hasn't worked with acrylic.. we cut ours just using a basic coping saw in a vice. Simply paired with any fittings suitable for this tubing. Bitspower and EK do these. Also spotted some other fitting systems being used but don't like the looks of these. We also hate any bending of hard line tubing. After all.. floppy tubing does the bends. If you are trying to make a super tight bend without kinking it... that's great... BUT we think there is always a better option. Thats our advise anyway. Acrylic U bends are something that make the eyes bleed.

MOAR TUBES:

That is it for today friends and fans

With this progress it really means we can get going on the build so expect more frequent updates ASAP! NOOB stop moaning now! ;D

 

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Art. Who knew it was possible to fall in love with a 2.5" drive bay?

Pretty awesome isn't it. Would love to perhaps sell them as an extra for future Parvum cases. SSDs are only pushing mechanical drives out more and more so its a great little item.

stunning guys really great work

Well fancy seeing you here Your name is very fitting to your next build eh..

I hope you guys do a video of filling the loop. Always enjoy those kinds of videos.

100%! We have a very awesome photographer of a friend who will be assisting!

Wow - intrigued to see how all that tubing is going to connect up.

You and me both haha.

you clever sods.

awesome work as ever.

looking forward to seeing this at LAN

This.

Pressure is on or what!!!

That tube work is awesome, this is already shaping up to be a great build!

Thanks mate. Really exciting once some of the loop goes in.

 

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Wow thats impressive stuff right there - cant wait for more updates

Thanks mate. May even be able to get a little one up tomorrow all being well!

 

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This thread delivers
May I ask what fittings do you use for hard tubing?
I sort of like the idea of using hard tubing, it looks so neat.
Problem are the fittings, all I can find is in 10/13 size and most tubes are in 10/12 size.
Drop me a hint?

Cheers

Ah thanks mate. Glad you approve. More updates very soon also!
So as for the tubing we do indeed use 10mm ID - 12mm OD, you can buy this from a bunch of places. I'd reccomend doing some research and buying from someone who's selling it for watercoolers. You can buy it from anyone... after all it is just acrylic tube but you will find people have very differnt tolerances and most companies aren't as fussy on this. That would cause you problems in this application.

As for the fittings. EK HD Adapters or Bitspower C47s. Both are spec'd for 10-12 tubes and are for sale at OCUK (also in a range of finishes):

Bitspower Multi-Link Adapter 1/4 inches - Shiny Silver

EK Water Blocks HD Adapter 10/12mm - Nickel

Any further questions holla.