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.

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

Then added fans because i forgot :')

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

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

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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HUUuunnnnnggggg!

Now is that good or bad comment.. Im unsure

 

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Awesome 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

 

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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

 

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Here's the fan filters.

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.

 

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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

Thankyou Iv since changed it slightly but same concept

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

There made for modding though?

Looks good,
Hope it doesn't get to close to the sun and melt

I hope not

 

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Nice looking build mate. Fantastic design on the filters

Why you ordering a new mid wall?

Bent wrong ever so slightly, Not an issue and i fancy a colour change.. perhaps red :O Although they said some unique colours may be coming.. if any special flaked effects came along id be all over it

Did you go to the Ethermaster school of speccing? that's a damn nice build there fella

I had a spec me thread u may of posted in Thankyou for the comments

 

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Superb, I'm loving the addition of the dust filters, their a must in my eyes

Thankyou, they really do help

Nice Dust Filter mod there mate!! Very nicely done and looks well with the rest of the case! Anymore plans for it ?

New bits when parvum release. 240mm floor vents for more intake

What did you use to tape them to the back of the front panel? How are they performing also?

Insulation tape, performing pretty well i got the idea from your thread

 

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Been gaming today getting temps of 70-80 on battlefield 3 and really noisy I need this bottom panel asap as the case is a pure heat trap as it sits

 

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Nothing from them or ocuk. I think they're busy. Not to worry

 

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Its having a rebuild this week if i can get hold of a damn midwall in black and bottom panel Even just one of them would make me happy at the moment

 

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Heres a new photo with the new fans.. And took on my new camera



Full res photo here

Spoiler

 

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Very nice, would have liked to see some LED fans in the front and back! Good choice of motherboard though!

Going to get some 120mm Led AF Series shortly I agree it does need some led fans.

But i have a big suprise coming in terms of lighting

Great looking build man, nice idea on the dust filter!

Iv changed them fine dust was getting in Gone back to tights ill get the camera out soon and get a new snap up of them!

Looks beautiful mate, I'm really liking where you're going with this . Makes me wanna further mod mine (Mind still waiting on Parvum to get back to me!) but I've recently started modding my car again lol

Waiting for a new mid panel i want a black one now :') White isn't working for my ideas Also a new 240mm fan base panel. (Ocuk will be stocking these in the next two weeks hopefully iv been told by Justin)
What more can you do to your car u know its just a sink hole. U saw mine and thats the point im stopping at i refuse to sink much more into it

 

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Heres a photo with tights. Much more effective in my eyes

 

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Some new parts ordered, New midwall in black, new pci plate in black. Yet to order the bottom plate but my card temps don't worry me too much yet.

May swap my red cables out for white and also thread my cables together too still as im not keen on combs now

May also swap my lighting but undecided yet

 

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Heres some new photos with a new midwall and pci bracket in black, Full RGB lighting is in the process also






I have a cpu waterloop planned soon with a glass res (using old white midwall to test out mounting ideas and the likes) i may have some ideas posted up soon but the idea was to mount it something like this


Cutting a big rectangle out and mounting it into the acrylic wall and silicoln sealing it into place and some brackets

Ill do a proper sketchup drawing when im more decided on which res etc


Full res photos here

Spoiler

 

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Nice mate much love for the Parvum. One thing though mate, those Noctua fans on the back spoil it mate.

Will agree colour wise they do, airflow wise there good. They may have a spray job yet

 

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Erm.. I cannot remember tbh i think 80 as i collected it from him

 

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So project Icarus continues on, Next up is a full custom braid! Im doing this myself when my items rock up hopefully tuesday.

100ft of red and black camo paracord
2m of 5mm heatshrink at 3:1 so im hoping it will grab enough
atx pin tool
heatgun
cable combs figure 8 ones

Had a recent change over to a NZXT Grid+ for fan controller and my full rgb led lighting is also installed on my front panel.

Photos to follow in coming days when i begin braiding