Project : Big-Chief

Mlingard · 18 Jul 2008 at 15:33

Hi all i have a new project going on so i thought i would let you fellow ocuk members know

, i was using a watercooled lian-li a05b but wanted to use a much bigger case so it was all internal watercooled so i bought a chieftec mesh full tower .

This is the list of components being used
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 Intel P35 - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB - Maxtor Diamondmax 21 320GB - Pioneer DVR-212BK
Zalman ZM-MFC1 Plus Black Multi Fan Controller - Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
i will be looking to add more ram soon and also get a new gfx card probably a ATI 4870

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Now to the watercooling parts being used

Mlingard · 18 Jul 2008 at 15:35

I have some more pics of the case

Big bloody box it is . :eek:

The case with my handy work i did yesterday the cutout for top mounted thermochill 120.3 rad .

And it ready for the inside to be painted and if you saw my coolermaster cavalier you will have a idea of what colour it will be

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gary996 · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:02

Lets see what you can do

Bipolar Kittens · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:02

Nice slippers :-)

ThundyCat · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:15

ibolden said:
Nice slippers

pingwing · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:25

Please make that black and orange! (i may have jsut looked at the previous build and thought it looked crazy in the orangey pics!)

Mlingard · 19 Jul 2008 at 16:45

ibolden said:
Nice slippers

I should have known better than to have them in the picture

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pingwing said:
Please make that black and orange! (i may have jsut looked at the previous build and thought it looked crazy in the orangey pics!)

I know the one you are on about and it is very good but not mine

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Mlingard · 19 Jul 2008 at 16:46

Just a update i have now got the case painted and tomorrow i can start to put it all together but i will still need so paxmate for the side panels and also some acrylpanel for the window but i have some meshxpanel which i could use instead , not sure what to do there :confused:

opinions would be nice on that .

Case upside down but you get the idea .

Mesh off the front panel and the rad grill painted .

Mlingard · 20 Jul 2008 at 12:14

I have got some more done this morning , the side panel has 2 cutouts for the mesh to go and i cut and painted the mesh but i need to get some edge trim before i can fit them .

Mlingard · 20 Jul 2008 at 12:18

I put the top and front of the case back on and installed the psu and had a look what the res looks like mounted in the case , so here is a few pics for your viewing

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naudiz · 20 Jul 2008 at 18:35

Looking pretty sick, wasn't too sure on the yellow at first but it grows on you, good job

pingwing · 20 Jul 2008 at 18:40

Curses! you didnt go for orange!

Then again yellow is pretty crazy! Looking forward to seeing it finished

Mlingard · 20 Jul 2008 at 19:02

naudiz said:
Looking pretty sick, wasn't too sure on the yellow at first but it grows on you, good job

Each to there own i say

pingwing said:
Curses! you didnt go for orange!

Then again yellow is pretty crazy! Looking forward to seeing it finished

I did think about orange but i did my coolermaster in yellow so i thought i would give it a go again and i should have the 3/8" barbs - black tubing

- spiral wrap and edge trim on tuesday so it should be running wednesday at the latest

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int · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:25

Looks top stuff so far!

netby · 20 Jul 2008 at 21:52

congrats mate

Chieftech,now that is a man´s case

lots of room to work( with both hands if you want)and 1 mm cold roled steel ,with no vibrations eheheh

I have the little brother , the Mesh mid-tower

Mlingard · 21 Jul 2008 at 07:36

With all the bits and pieces i needed to buy and the chieftec being a very reasonable price that was the deciding factor in me buying it also i like the layout inside and like you said netby there sure is plenty of room

, i like the look of the bravo full tower that chieftec do aswell .

misterPK · 21 Jul 2008 at 09:23

That case is huge!

I too was a bit worried when I first saw the colour scheme, but I think it contrasts with the grey really nicely. I'm still not too sure about the insides, but I'll wait and see how your window goes before I go looking for my sunglasses.

Oh, and its nice to see its going to match with the colour of your workbench!

PK!

Mlingard · 21 Jul 2008 at 09:48

misterPK said:
That case is huge!

I too was a bit worried when I first saw the colour scheme, but I think it contrasts with the grey really nicely. I'm still not too sure about the insides, but I'll wait and see how your window goes before I go looking for my sunglasses.

Oh, and its nice to see its going to match with the colour of your workbench!

PK!

Should have some more black inside to go with the yellow - yellow and yellow

and that workbench is a knackered old one so i wasnt bothered about it getting painted also

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Mlingard · 22 Jul 2008 at 20:57

I got my black feser tubing - edge trim - spiral wrap and most of the barbs i wanted apart from 2 that was the wrong ones

so i wasnt able to get the loop running but i did finish the side panel and tidy some case fans and also start the loop so here are a few pics for you .

Top view of the case with soon to be thermochill under the grill .

The start of the loop and as much as i could do .

The side panel with the mesh fitted and i will have some pics when it is finished with a couple of cathode tubes inside .

Just hope i get the 2 barbs sent out tomorrow so i can get it running

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Benihana · 23 Jul 2008 at 13:39

Seems a shame to hide the internals away behind mesh, would have thought two windows were the mesh is would show it all off nicely? That is if you intend to show it off

Great work so far though