Cheers gents, subtle colour but quite nice in person! Worth the extra £35 to order that finish in. Will post up more designs as I finish them...
Cheers gents, subtle colour but quite nice in person! Worth the extra £35 to order that finish in. Will post up more designs as I finish them...
Still working through/getting better at designing in CAD but getting to the layout before I start mapping out the ports to finalise the distro plates... PSU shroud is finalised and measured/model built and good to go!
There will be two distro plates, the base one is a simple connection for the radiators where it will exit the two in build D5's to that plate and in and out the radiators before heading back in to the top plate and beyond. I've also ordered one of these and a basic air cooler to strip my rig further and make all this stuff so much easier to measure and map while I finish the project!
Always wanted one anyway for testing and this open source model is amazing:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/streacom-bc1-aluminium-benchtable-black-ca-059-sr.html
Thats it for now, i'm going to focus on the tray and making sure I dont mess up the board alignment to the IO plates etc. Once that is done the distro is actually pretty simple to do in CAD... Well we will see
There will be two distro plates, the base one is a simple connection for the radiators where it will exit the two in build D5's to that plate and in and out the radiators before heading back in to the top plate and beyond. I've also ordered one of these and a basic air cooler to strip my rig further and make all this stuff so much easier to measure and map while I finish the project!
Always wanted one anyway for testing and this open source model is amazing:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/streacom-bc1-aluminium-benchtable-black-ca-059-sr.html
Thats it for now, i'm going to focus on the tray and making sure I dont mess up the board alignment to the IO plates etc. Once that is done the distro is actually pretty simple to do in CAD... Well we will see
Thanks mate, more work to do but making progress now and it’s just the design work and testing to complete!
It’s all mine
I’ve been waiting for an over the top case which I really like to work with for a long time, it’s planned to be the case and cooling for a long while! Been fun to learn how to design in CAD and looking forward to getting everything made and fitting it, modded the top stealth mount for the radiators today so get those in and crimp up the top fans then it’s time to plan and route the design. Existing massive case is now taken apart and on the test bench so this should be easier to measure things
Front rad is in place with fans, the rest are soldered and braided just need pairing I think I’m to 4’s for the top row... The fans will have laser cut aluminium discs on the rear to tidy the solder job off when I get other parts made.
Indeed, hoping to get more design work done Saturday for the metal parts which means I can properly map out the distro plates soon after and start getting it put together!
So for starters I would probably not recommend it for a first loop - it’s huge and I mean you know it’s big but be prepared for extreme. What’s really missing from the Corsair line is a new 900D Obsidian, would be a great addition if you imagine my case above with fantastic space for dual 480s and about 10-15cm shorter. I’ve seen some builds in the 1000D with minimal kit and although it’s clean to build in it really looks odd, you would be amazed how small a motherboard looks inside.
My other thoughts:
I like the main chassis and panels, it’s a quality piece but there are also a lot of things picky people like me won’t like and as always (even on very pricey cases) things that should have been better. Don’t get me wrong it’s a good bit of kit but my list of gripes:
1. It’s annoying some key bits like the drive cage are riveted in - why? Many people remove it as who wants tons of HDDs up front, you have to drill it out.
2. Internal tray is flimsy and should have been much more quality - I’m replacing mine with thick aluminium one
3. Rear panel is in a shed load of bits for not a lot of reason... it’s only when you take it apart you realise how many little vented parts
4. Rear exhaust fans, cannot fit dual 140mm - looks like you can but it’s a tiny bit out and the strangely mounted IO shield blocks it
5. The plastic bits... they shouldn’t exist on something like this - you don’t really notice but the front IO panel is plastic and it’s like having a plastic dash on an Aston Martin. Would it really have been so hard to make a more solid metal one
6. One Corsair commander included, so 6 fans in this case yeah? Nice one... I’ve got a second and still not enough if you don’t use splitters
That’s it for now, I’m picky I know. I would probably suggest you get something like a 500D for the first go, or Evolve X - plenty of space to perfect the art... of course you can always go big if you want, just know it comes on a pallet and just fits in your door.
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I did say it would be a bit slow right but its been a struggle to get time to crack on with this. I'm now at a point where I need to get the new tray made and in the rig so I can start mapping out the distro routes. As previously planned there will be one in the base and one on the space next to the motherboard, the top rads after much messing about I have settled on using a pass through which will pop out the top of the board tray to route the back rad to the plate - there is no easy route for this its quite annoying really. If i'm honest I almost want to leave the top rads, this would make a superb case if about 10cm shorter with just two mega front rads.
Designs as they are, getting all these slots right to fit the existing back and IO tray was a lot of fun...........
PSU shroud is designed to fit this new toy which I pulled the trigger on, you will be able to see the readout and some of the lit areas:
While i'm busy measuring a thousand times and printing 1:1 scaled drawings for test fits this kit is all out but all ready to be put it, do I have enough cooling?
Fingers crossed I can finalise the mounting holes to the case and then its about ready to get made and put in place! In other news i've got a hell of a lot of XSPC fittings which I'm probably not going to use, I'm almost sold on going with some 12mm Barrows and then i'll be bending 12mm copper for the runs to the distro. Its not going back to copper though, once all sections are completed i'll have them out and then send them to be nickel coated locally - possibly even black Nickel for a different look - what do you think?
Cheers!
I did say it would be a bit slow right but its been a struggle to get time to crack on with this. I'm now at a point where I need to get the new tray made and in the rig so I can start mapping out the distro routes. As previously planned there will be one in the base and one on the space next to the motherboard, the top rads after much messing about I have settled on using a pass through which will pop out the top of the board tray to route the back rad to the plate - there is no easy route for this its quite annoying really. If i'm honest I almost want to leave the top rads, this would make a superb case if about 10cm shorter with just two mega front rads.
Designs as they are, getting all these slots right to fit the existing back and IO tray was a lot of fun...........
PSU shroud is designed to fit this new toy which I pulled the trigger on, you will be able to see the readout and some of the lit areas:
While i'm busy measuring a thousand times and printing 1:1 scaled drawings for test fits this kit is all out but all ready to be put it, do I have enough cooling?
Fingers crossed I can finalise the mounting holes to the case and then its about ready to get made and put in place! In other news i've got a hell of a lot of XSPC fittings which I'm probably not going to use, I'm almost sold on going with some 12mm Barrows and then i'll be bending 12mm copper for the runs to the distro. Its not going back to copper though, once all sections are completed i'll have them out and then send them to be nickel coated locally - possibly even black Nickel for a different look - what do you think?
Cheers!
It’s more about finding the time when you can, I’ve not been able to do this anywhere near as quick as I’d like but over about 5 months but by bit.
Now it’s just about sitting down the odd day when I can design, measure and repeat for 6 hours like today. Rare but it’s progress
Indeed, enough cooling for several PCs lol
Oh hello.
What you thought this was over?
So this has dragged on due to life etc etc etc blah blah. But, finally after a bit of back and forth my metal parts (see designs above) have been lasered, returned, redesigned, lasered again, finished AND now anodised! Phew. First round of parts from the laser were amazingly almost 100%, I had some cable combs lasered at the same time and the quality was absolute crap which fair play they refunded my entire job. Just as well really, the tray I could have done we 4mm off one end so decided to get it made again, with a few design tweaks worked in. So finally at long last some more snaps for you all... Enjoy:
Reminder of the design I worked up:
Left is the raw aluminium (first round of laser) and right is my finished piece which was hand finished to a great standard and then anodised locally with the rest of the bits in natural silver:
Close up:
Rivet back in to place:
Install the new Asus Formula X570:
Showing the colour later at night, the goal was a really flat finish and it certainly looks that.
Shoved a (spare) 2080Ti in with its EK block to see how it looks, tasty. I will need to redesign my bridge though as of course the board is 60mm not 80mm slot gap fml.
Other things I had anodised to match the tray include the 8pack RAM spreaders, I had a front logo plate lasered in 1mm aAlu, 24 30mm discs to tidy up the rewired eLoops and they look spot on even if I do say so myself..
Logo is still backed by the addressable RGB which shows through the center shape:
See one fan has the temp disc to tidy the finish:
New sexy matching RAM:
Could put the 8Pack shrouds back on but probably wont...
And that is it for now, feels great to get some stuff in there and now I can finallise the distro plate designs and get those made to finish off this long long LONG project. I did warn you it was a slow one
Love the look so far so well worth the attention to detail!
What you thought this was over?
So this has dragged on due to life etc etc etc blah blah. But, finally after a bit of back and forth my metal parts (see designs above) have been lasered, returned, redesigned, lasered again, finished AND now anodised! Phew. First round of parts from the laser were amazingly almost 100%, I had some cable combs lasered at the same time and the quality was absolute crap which fair play they refunded my entire job. Just as well really, the tray I could have done we 4mm off one end so decided to get it made again, with a few design tweaks worked in. So finally at long last some more snaps for you all... Enjoy:
Reminder of the design I worked up:
Left is the raw aluminium (first round of laser) and right is my finished piece which was hand finished to a great standard and then anodised locally with the rest of the bits in natural silver:
Close up:
Rivet back in to place:
Install the new Asus Formula X570:
Showing the colour later at night, the goal was a really flat finish and it certainly looks that.
Shoved a (spare
) 2080Ti in with its EK block to see how it looks, tasty. I will need to redesign my bridge though as of course the board is 60mm not 80mm slot gap fml.
Other things I had anodised to match the tray include the 8pack RAM spreaders, I had a front logo plate lasered in 1mm aAlu, 24 30mm discs to tidy up the rewired eLoops and they look spot on even if I do say so myself..
Logo is still backed by the addressable RGB which shows through the center shape:
See one fan has the temp disc to tidy the finish:
New sexy matching RAM:
Could put the 8Pack shrouds back on but probably wont...
And that is it for now, feels great to get some stuff in there and now I can finallise the distro plate designs and get those made to finish off this long long LONG project. I did warn you it was a slow one
Love the look so far so well worth the attention to detail!
Still chuggin along yes! Should hopefully accelerate now, just dropped in my 3800x and build in to the case so now I just need to crack on with the distro designs to get things finished...
I can vouch for the silence, incredibly quiet. Performance as far as I’ve seen is superb, I had the test bench running for a while with two at first on the air cooler then reduced to one and still the CPU temps were well in control. This was with a reduced speed also...
I highly recommend them, normal use you won’t hear them and I reckon you can even increase the number of them vs other louder fans in push pull.
After my upgrade my system is a little bit louder when watching films I can here the fans but if I slow them down more they stall and the cpus start to heat up then everything kicks up.
I'm going to order an h100i I will pick some up at the same time.
Thanks
Massively quieter than the Corsair fans for sure...
Looking good nice to see updates
Looks crazy with those four radiators!
Go for it, or design a replacement and have it cut for quite a small sum. Having a nice 3mm thick tray is much more premium!
I think I have sufficient cooling right?
I did originally have 4 or the thicker rads but just too tight on clearance
Also 24 fans is probably enough...
I could have one cut easily to size, thinking of a dual loop possibly. Just cutting all the grommet holes and getting everything correct for the motherboard etc which manually would take a lot of time.
Just out of curiosity where did you have yours Cut etc? Something to think about for the future I guess as wouldn’t mind doing a custom loop one day.
Sufficient is an understatement.
Used to have 1080Ti SLI and a 7920x with two 480mms and a single 240 which coped well enough with fans under 1000rpm never mind 4x 480’s in push pull.
Probably won’t even need to spin the fans up.
I got mine lasered, as you can see designed myself including all holes and slots. I had the holes lasered to various sizes and the board mounts tapped to take the standoffs. I then finished it by hand and got it anodised basically...
The amount of unnecessary crap I drilled out immediately!! Design yourself and then a nice big distro with integrated D5s.
I drilled most of the stuff out of my 900D. Mainly the hard drive/optical bays as soon as I got the case and fitted a mid plate to hide the crap in the bottom and some small side playes to cover the gaps up.
Old 900D photo
It looks pretty much the same now but have all stainless csk/cap bolts + clear liquid and zmt tubing. Just to keep it easy to work on and as maintenance free as possible.
It’s hidden away and makes zero noise but like messing around with it even when no one even myself can see it normally anyway
Given me ideas though. Have a lot going on at work these next few weeks so likely I’ll start something soon and keep an eye on yours taking shape to give me more ideas
Yeah we basically did the same thing, my £450 case arrived and I drilled it to bits
. With a custom tray you could definitely do something similar to mine and add a large distro plate where your hiding plate is! Hoping to get some designs updated and find someone more reliable to make the acrylic (not parvum, useless).