Project Icarus

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Welcome to my build log, Massive apologies for lack of photos on some stages of building in advance i got way too carried away with it tbh.

Project Icarus

This rig is housed in a Parvum S2.0 Which i bought from Jay85 (Massive thankyou again buddy ;D)

Component time:
Intel i5 Devils canyon 4690k - Retail ( why did i do that? )
Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5 Intel Z97
Kingston HyperX 8GB 2400MHz
Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 WindForce 3X OC
Corsair H100 Liquid Cooler
Crucial M4 64GB
Coolermaster M600 Silent Pro
500GB Seagate Barracuda Drive
Bitfenix Recon Fan controller
Bitfenix Alchemy Braided cables
2x Black Bitfenix Spectre fans + 2x Noctua NF-R8 REDUX 1200RPM
The Parvum S2.0 as mentioned above ;)
Soundproofing in bottom

Onto day one.. Getting the case!

I don't actually have any photos of it without any hardware in.. damn me. But here is two of the case jay took.

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So my order to OCUK went in the moment i saw DC processors was in stock on the monday morning and arrives tuesday.

This left me with this

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Then added fans because i forgot :')
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I booted it all up and it worked fine so the graphics card got ordered on Thursday along with my two noctua fans so put them in Friday

Quick photo of that.. I had abit of a bad graphics card sag going on :')
I added an LED strip controlled by my bitfenix recon at this time and its worked very well :)

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Fast forward to today my build is finally finished i have my cable combs etc in place (although i may need more i aint sure)

Here are my final build photos below

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Thoughts on this case are OUTSTANDING Quality i loved building in it to be honest. Coming from a Bitfenix Ronin im no stranger to a big windowed case and i must admit i like this one 100x more. I had my issues with it mainly with the PCI Metal bracket which had to be cut twice for my card to fit correctly (not sure why)

Future plans on this build are sell the card, watercool it all with 2x 120mm rads in front and a top 240mm rad and hopefully a next gen card. Shall see once i next have funds though

I hope you enjoyed my build log, Any questions please fire away or any comments too :)

Edit for Mods: Hope my photos are alright i thought it seemed a reasonable size enough? :)
 
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Awesome :D I spoke to parvum today on facebook about a tinted window as all being well ill be attending i52 with this system and meet the parvum guys also as i have further interest in what they're rolling out after building this.

More led lighting (subtle) or some UV lighting is planned if i change cables to some reactant ones and speak to davido
 
Very nice indeed. Much love for parvum builds!

Make sure you day hi at i52! I arent sitting with parvum this time as I was a little late booking, but I'm only a row up or so. My computer will be on the end so il be noticeable lol
 
It has LED lighting at top but i do plan some changes for lighting. The whole system came apart last night in a fit of rage that my MB tray isn't bent right :/ But tbh i can't see any effect of this negatively so i put it back together and chilled out. I shall be sure to update any changes i make, looking at new fans shortly for the H100 and some Enermax front fans (white led ones) :) Fan filters this weekend also! Took some more photos putting it back together of my awesome cable management
 
Brilliant mate!! It's looking stunning already!


And no problem about the case, glad it got some good use out of it and gone to a good home :). I would hate to see a case of this caliber to go to waste.
 
Here's the fan filters.

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Made out of material which is basically like mosquito net / water strainer the holes are about 1mm each so should get most the dust I hope.
 
cwgk91 said:
That looks like a great way to filter out the dust. That was the thing which put me off the parvum cases. They look sexy as though
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Great job on the filtering, a few other modders have done similar things on the fourms here.

We plan to add filter support to our cases eventually. It's developing a method we can produce in house at our UK warehouse. Wish sometimes we could just tell a factory we want filters and it gets done :D
 
parvumsystems said:
Great job on the filtering, a few other modders have done similar things on the fourms here.

We plan to add filter support to our cases eventually. It's developing a method we can produce in house at our UK warehouse. Wish sometimes we could just tell a factory we want filters and it gets done :D
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Thankyou :) Iv since changed it slightly but same concept

cwgk91 said:
That looks like a great way to filter out the dust. That was the thing which put me off the parvum cases. They look sexy as though
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There made for modding though?

GiraffePencils said:
Looks good,
Hope it doesn't get to close to the sun and melt
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I hope not :D
 
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