Project Leviathan - Fully Immersed PC Build Project Log

[kindai]

PC building has gotten a bit boring recently hasnt it?

You buy some bits, slap some waterblocks on, try and do some fancy hardline shenanigans to make it stand out and call it a day.

Last year I was taking a tour of a data center who are experimenting with single-phase immersion cooling. And, being someone who has quite a lot of experience with building tanks, ponds, filters etc, decided that my next rig was going to done the same.

Why? Because why not. And its cool.

After hunting around for months, and looking at building my own case, I decided to cut out a lot of the donkey work I will modify an existing case on the market. It needed a few requirements.

• Mostly box shaped
• Separate chambers
• Rotated motherboard layout.
• Solid construction

Eventually, settled on a Tower 900.




The layout of this case is as close to perfect as you can get without a custom built solution.

So, case ordered. And wait for it to turn up.

 

[dave28]

should be interesting to see the end result

 

[BluSky]

This sounds really cool (no pun intended). Looking forward to pictures of the build as it goes

 

[kindai]

So with the case here, first thing is to break it down to remove various obsticles and un-needed parts.

Fortunately it used easy to drill out rivets.

 

[kindai]

I could then start rapidly templating the parts I need using some 5mm foam board.

 

[kindai]

Which I could then transfer to some 5mm thick alooominum as the mericans call it.

So far only the base plate has been made, this is because it will be the main load bearing point for everything else, so I need to ensure that gets settled into place securely and strongly to take all my other measurements from.

 

[TrojanWhore]

Wow! Can't wait to see how this one comes together - From the title I assumed you meant a fish tank build like LTT/Luke had

 

[WARburton]

This looks interesting. I’ll sub

 

[WARburton]

single-phase immersion cooling

Wow I just googled this. I didn’t know we did things like this on such a massive scale

 

[Jay85]

Immersion builds are awesome, i remember in the early 2000's how popular they were.

 

[Ducky Spud]

I assume it is only the front part of the case that will be submerged and the compartment behind the motherboard will be dry? If so, how are you planning on getting the power cables etc from the PSU to the mobo?

Looks like its going to be an interesting build, look forward to seeing how it progresses.

 

[jabski]

sounds very interesting. I'll be watching this one

 

[Gepetto]

Wow! This looks really interesting. On looking up the basics immersion cooling seem really efficient.

What coolant will you be using?

 

[kindai]

What coolant will you be using?

Engineered fluids EC-110.

I assume it is only the front part of the case that will be submerged and the compartment behind the motherboard will be dry? If so, how are you planning on getting the power cables etc from the PSU to the mobo?

Fortunately, this case lends itself to that problem well, with a deceptively simple solution.

 

[Gepetto]

Fortunately, this case lends itself to that problem well, with a deceptively simple solution.

Up and over?

 

[kindai]

Up and over?

yup

 

[BornEvil]

Looks very interesting m8, good luck with the build!

 

[cjgardens]

Hurry up, need to see this finished

 

[kindai]

With the placement of the motherboard tray different from stock, the existing layout of the top of the case will no longer work.

I was originally going to saw this in half and make my own "front section" but after consideration, decided to save myself a lot of aggro and just removed the unwanted material.

So, onto the wire cutter






Left to run over night so lets see what tomorrow brings

 

[Gepetto]

I take it that the machine is computer controlled, and it's going to make several cuts?