[Project Black hole] - CaseLabs TH10A
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Quick picture of it under my desk with the Aquaero displaying the name and case side on 
And I attached carpet sliders to the case feet so there is a good gap for the lower fans and also so I can slide it out easily to open the sides.
And I attached carpet sliders to the case feet so there is a good gap for the lower fans and also so I can slide it out easily to open the sides.
It only has three exhaust fans including the PSU which only comes on under load.
All sixteen radiator fans are filtered intake, then motherboard tray and hdd cage fans exhaust.
I don't mind the look of it and Noctua airflow fans are very good.
We will see how well it works in ~6 months time when it will either be full of dust or just need the filters cleaned.
All sixteen radiator fans are filtered intake, then motherboard tray and hdd cage fans exhaust.
I don't mind the look of it and Noctua airflow fans are very good.
We will see how well it works in ~6 months time when it will either be full of dust or just need the filters cleaned.
Can't believe this has been running for a year now 
Fluid colours all look great, still matching the braiding so my OCD rad cleaning must have worked!
Topped up both reservoirs once after everything settled and all the air purged, other than that I haven't touched anything!
Dust filters have been cleaned once, did a pretty good job of keeping the inside of the case clean, very fine dust got through but it blew out easily, still a small amount on the nickel plated bits but no thick carpets of muck anywhere except on the outside of the filters.
Never saw any real change in temperature but with such a large amount of radiators I wasn't really expecting to even with very low fan speeds it only really changes with ambient.
Caselabs is still my favourite, so easy to work with!
Just need to try and last another year now without being tempted to change the graphics cards! Hopefully the full fat pascals won't be out for a good long while
Fluid colours all look great, still matching the braiding so my OCD rad cleaning must have worked!
Topped up both reservoirs once after everything settled and all the air purged, other than that I haven't touched anything!
Dust filters have been cleaned once, did a pretty good job of keeping the inside of the case clean, very fine dust got through but it blew out easily, still a small amount on the nickel plated bits but no thick carpets of muck anywhere except on the outside of the filters.
Never saw any real change in temperature but with such a large amount of radiators I wasn't really expecting to even with very low fan speeds it only really changes with ambient.
Caselabs is still my favourite, so easy to work with!
Just need to try and last another year now without being tempted to change the graphics cards! Hopefully the full fat pascals won't be out for a good long while
7 Years or so later and I'm actually going to upgrade, been putting it off due to all sorts of things, wasn't impressed with the RTX 2000 series, couldn't get an RTX 3080 on launch so gave up but finally got an RTX 4090 FE on launch day which has now inspired me to upgrade and rebuild the Project Nebula.
Going to keep posting here as it's been really useful for me to look back through the thread and see exactly what I did.
It will now become Project Black hole as I am changing to ZMT and black PSU cables, some might say boring, but I have had enough of the bright circus colours.
Talking of colours the Mayhems Pastel is still working fine without any maintenance which is probably a testament to my OCD initial flushing with the Blitz kits and the quality of the Mayhems fluid.
You can see some UV discoloration on the tube but the fluid colours are still great.
Had to plug the 4090 into try it out while waiting for parts to arrive
When I strip everything down I imagine there will be some build up and gunk in places but as far as temps and flow rates go there has been no noticeable changes.
Going forward the system spec will be:
Hardware
AMD Ryzen 7700X
Asus X670E Extreme
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5 6000mhz CL30 EXPO (F5-6000J3038F16GX2-TZ5N)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Corsair AX1500i
Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
Samsung 850 PRO SSD 1TB
Cooling
Single loop for CPU and GPU
Aqua Computer Aquaero 6 XT
16x Noiseblocker eLoop B12-3 fans
2x Noiseblocker eLoop B12-PS Black fans
2x Aqua Computer D5 Aquabus Pumps with Aqualis pump top Adapters
2x Aqua Computer Aqualis 450ml Reservoirs - Glass with Nano coating
1x Aqua Computer Flow Meter
4x XSPC RX480 V3 Radiators
CPU Block EK-Quantum Velocity² - AM5 Nickel + Acetal
GPU Block EK-Quantum Vector² FE RTX 4090 - Nickel + Plexi
Bitspower Matte Black 7/16 Fittings
EK-Tube ZMT Matte Black 7/16 Tube
Mayhem XT-1 Nuke V2 Clear w/ Distilled Water
Going to keep posting here as it's been really useful for me to look back through the thread and see exactly what I did.
It will now become Project Black hole as I am changing to ZMT and black PSU cables, some might say boring, but I have had enough of the bright circus colours.
Talking of colours the Mayhems Pastel is still working fine without any maintenance which is probably a testament to my OCD initial flushing with the Blitz kits and the quality of the Mayhems fluid.
You can see some UV discoloration on the tube but the fluid colours are still great.
Had to plug the 4090 into try it out while waiting for parts to arrive
When I strip everything down I imagine there will be some build up and gunk in places but as far as temps and flow rates go there has been no noticeable changes.
Going forward the system spec will be:
Hardware
AMD Ryzen 7700X
Asus X670E Extreme
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5 6000mhz CL30 EXPO (F5-6000J3038F16GX2-TZ5N)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Corsair AX1500i
Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
Samsung 850 PRO SSD 1TB
Cooling
Single loop for CPU and GPU
Aqua Computer Aquaero 6 XT
16x Noiseblocker eLoop B12-3 fans
2x Noiseblocker eLoop B12-PS Black fans
2x Aqua Computer D5 Aquabus Pumps with Aqualis pump top Adapters
2x Aqua Computer Aqualis 450ml Reservoirs - Glass with Nano coating
1x Aqua Computer Flow Meter
4x XSPC RX480 V3 Radiators
CPU Block EK-Quantum Velocity² - AM5 Nickel + Acetal
GPU Block EK-Quantum Vector² FE RTX 4090 - Nickel + Plexi
Bitspower Matte Black 7/16 Fittings
EK-Tube ZMT Matte Black 7/16 Tube
Mayhem XT-1 Nuke V2 Clear w/ Distilled Water
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Thank you, it's quite a beast of a case but I love it, good news is CaseLabs has been bought out by a Swedish guy so new cases and parts should be coming soon!
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Been wanting to get the USB-C front switch panel for ages now.
More parts have arrived!
Only waiting on an air cooler (none of mine are AM4/5 compatible!) to get things up and running on the test bench and confirm everything is working as it should.
Don't like going straight to water even with soft tube if there is an issue it's easier to sort beforehand.
When I have it up and running on air I will strip down the watercooling system and get everything clean and ready to rebuild.
Only waiting on an air cooler (none of mine are AM4/5 compatible!) to get things up and running on the test bench and confirm everything is working as it should.
Don't like going straight to water even with soft tube if there is an issue it's easier to sort beforehand.
When I have it up and running on air I will strip down the watercooling system and get everything clean and ready to rebuild.
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Spent a good few days cleaning out the rads, there was a considerable amount of coloured "gunk" sitting in the lower ones which took many many flushes with distilled vinegar, warm water, lots of shaking and reflushing until clean.
Replaced every o-ring on each fitting (except the internal rotary ones which are not serviceable) and each pump/res which has quite a few between the tops and needed custom sizes ordering.
Cleaned the blades on all the fans, pretty good really just a fine dust that got through the mesh filters, which I also gave a good wash.
Pressure tested each component individually and found that one 45deg double rotary wasn't holding pressure from one of the internal joints, even at 0.2 bar it would drop to nothing over a few minutes. It was probably fine until I removed it and twisted the rotary part, I guess the o-ring was stuck and has now torn. Really annoying as I can't seem to find a replacement anywhere, I have spare 90deg ones but really wanted an extra 45 for the inlet on the GPU block to get a nicer bend on the tube.
Here is how it sits at the moment, full loop pressure tested at 0.4 bar before filling with Mayhem XT-1 Nuke V2 Clear.
Don't plan on using any RGB but this is what it looks like turned on, plexi is a little marked up from years of cleaning, would be nice to have a tempered glass replacement one day.
And the reason I went for the acrylic gpu block is so I can inspect the fins without disassembling the block, and you don't really notice the acrylic with the lights off and normal viewing angle.
I may end up buying one of these https://www.overclockers.co.uk/bitspower-45-degree-rotary-extension-fitting-black-wc-218-bp.html and using it on the inlet of the gpu.
Replaced every o-ring on each fitting (except the internal rotary ones which are not serviceable) and each pump/res which has quite a few between the tops and needed custom sizes ordering.
Cleaned the blades on all the fans, pretty good really just a fine dust that got through the mesh filters, which I also gave a good wash.
Pressure tested each component individually and found that one 45deg double rotary wasn't holding pressure from one of the internal joints, even at 0.2 bar it would drop to nothing over a few minutes. It was probably fine until I removed it and twisted the rotary part, I guess the o-ring was stuck and has now torn. Really annoying as I can't seem to find a replacement anywhere, I have spare 90deg ones but really wanted an extra 45 for the inlet on the GPU block to get a nicer bend on the tube.
Here is how it sits at the moment, full loop pressure tested at 0.4 bar before filling with Mayhem XT-1 Nuke V2 Clear.
Don't plan on using any RGB but this is what it looks like turned on, plexi is a little marked up from years of cleaning, would be nice to have a tempered glass replacement one day.
And the reason I went for the acrylic gpu block is so I can inspect the fins without disassembling the block, and you don't really notice the acrylic with the lights off and normal viewing angle.
I may end up buying one of these https://www.overclockers.co.uk/bitspower-45-degree-rotary-extension-fitting-black-wc-218-bp.html and using it on the inlet of the gpu.
Temperature wise on the 4090 FE cooler running FurMark at stock settings fans auto would look like this.
I messed up clicking min not max on memory but I assume it was similar clocks.
And on the EK block at stock settings is this, drawing a little more power and another 15mhz core without any additional voltage or +TDP settings.
Water temp in the mid 20s, 10c delta to room temp with a setpoint controller in aquacomputer.
While gaming it's normally in the high 30s core.
CPU wise I haven't really monitored it much yet, I set PBO Enhanced 1 90C and tweaked the memory a little but that's it. Gaming is in the 50s but if I run Cinebench it jumps to 90c. Working as intended I suppose!
I messed up clicking min not max on memory but I assume it was similar clocks.
And on the EK block at stock settings is this, drawing a little more power and another 15mhz core without any additional voltage or +TDP settings.
Water temp in the mid 20s, 10c delta to room temp with a setpoint controller in aquacomputer.
While gaming it's normally in the high 30s core.
CPU wise I haven't really monitored it much yet, I set PBO Enhanced 1 90C and tweaked the memory a little but that's it. Gaming is in the 50s but if I run Cinebench it jumps to 90c. Working as intended I suppose!