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Fantastic build this mate, I'm loving the Acrylic details your adding, it really brings the build to lifeI can't wait to see more updates on this
Thanks for the comments, It's a challange trying to branch into a new direction. It can go either way. Next few weeks it'll finally be at a point where you can all see what I've been seeing in my mind everyday for the last few months
Cheers mate.
My last few shipments of fittings and pass through ports could be another week or so, so I have some time to fill, I've made some minor tweaks here and their to resolve some areas that have niggled me for some time. Particularly the reservoirs.
It just didn't quite work and took away some of visual effect I had hoped for. The fix is to move them into the smaller mid chamber. Rather than bury them away I will cut out sections either side of the motherboard tray. so they'll still be seen, and the mid windows have more purpose too.
Also playing with SSD window cutout design, may still need some tweaking.
I will add another piece behind the one shown(which adds support to the frame too)
Where I will mount the SSD's , It'll need some lighting to to work as I plan, and will tie in nicely with what I have in mind for the low/mid plate where the dragon/branding is set to be put too.
For the Lighting, Two White PC LED strip purchased from Mnpctech today, http://mnpctech.com/pc-led-lights/
New mid plate cut with windowed area, it's actually 3mm to big just now so out with the file...
Also the side sections are partially done, the SSD windows panel will stay. Ignore the section I have placed in the top chamber, that will be revised soon. It will be opened up to show all the internal tubing
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I have a feeling this is gonna look really cool when it's finished. I love the 'unique-ness' of a scratch built case and, unless they're made of wood, they usually end up looking really clean.
Associate
This is epic!, i love it 
prefure MKII to MKI, keep up the good work, and when your done, ill place an order
Good job mate
prefure MKII to MKI
, keep up the good work, and when your done, ill place an order Good job mate
Hehe last time project I did was fromMDF, we agree!
This is epic!, i love it
prefure MKII to MKI
Good job mate
Yeah no doubt the most recent revision is the better, Dare I say MKIII is...no wait...let me finish this one first
So little update again, As I said earlier, Just filling time now waiting on fittings to arrive, then its all go. I set about taking the extra 3mm off the new motherboard tray.
*New Fittings*
I won't get into specifics about these but again, stock issues, time frame and budget. I had to look for something that I couldn't find anywhere in the UK or even EU (Bitspower alternative).
These fittings are something I stumbled upon on another forum and decided they would be a decent plan B for this loop. Their not a name I was familiar with either, "Barrow".
I took a chance and order a batch of 90 Rotarys, Pass through's and some cool looking T pieces.
( I'll add a link to some high res unedited images in due course)
I know their are some theorys about them and I've no idea really, nor do I really care. This isn't a good image to compare either, as they are different style fittings.
On the quality side though, they are very good, all but one of the passthroughs are perfect, as are T Pieces, the 90's well hard to say as the packaging was quite poor, the majority have very small dings (under the paint) but nothing major.
Anyhow, with some fittings here I can do *some* of the loop now. I've had to be creative and used some old primochill ghost fittings. As my Bitspowers ones aren't here *yet*. So try and ignore the rainbow effect, it only temp!
More to follow once the final set of fittings arrive, thanks for reading
Associate
Wow great job so far, there'd going to be some serious plumbing going by those renders!
*PICS WILL BE RE-UPLOADED NOT SURE WHY A MAGNIFYING GLASS IS REQUIRED ! *
Thanks mate
Cheers, Appreciated.
Cheers mate
haha, I can confirm this is true
Next little update for you lot before I make the first massive hurdle that is powder coating. Which I have to be honest I'm struggling with the colour choices, I had a choice in mind but as I progress, I'm really on the fence just now. That said I have only a few days to make my mind up!
Anyhow I want to once again express my gratitude to guys at OCUK. I've been in regular contact with them in an attempt to track down and source the mammoth amount of fittings this build requires.
Sadly we couldn’t meet the deadline in time but did manage to locate a good chunk of them. 22 of the required 32 required fittings.
Some slight alterations to the lower chamber will be made for the sake of getting this rig to I52, It's a LAN rig after all these thing happen!
Shipment 1 [22] Bitspower Multi-Link Adapter G1 / 4 inch OD 12mm - Matte Black
Shipment 2 - Various extenders and such, as well as a few more [Bitspower Multi-Link adapter 90 degrees - Matte Black] fittings to compensate and adjust the loop
Also picked up a few odds and ends from E22, Time depending of course, I shall attempt to sleeve the PSU. I've opted to use white and grey to keep the amount of colours in check too. I've no real experience in sleeving but I shall see how it goes, luckily my father in law has the ideal tools for such a task too
With enough fittings to hand I could now finally begin the loop, with some small changes thought due to stock issue with the BP fittings
Massive thanks Pascal also. I Wanted two Alphacool reservoirs for this build and he managed to get them to me in time.
I'm tired as hell lately, juggling far too much real life stuff, even the tools are feeling exhausted and packed up at one point: D.
So that's where I'm at today with more to follow, oh and I’m working on this too
More soon, and again thanks for reading!
Insomnia Gaming Festival attendees [I52] Feel free to come and see me at the MSI Stand
vcolinmcr said:
Thanks mate
[Shivy011 said:
Cheers, Appreciated.
Cheers mate
haha, I can confirm this is true
Next little update for you lot before I make the first massive hurdle that is powder coating. Which I have to be honest I'm struggling with the colour choices, I had a choice in mind but as I progress, I'm really on the fence just now. That said I have only a few days to make my mind up!
Anyhow I want to once again express my gratitude to guys at OCUK. I've been in regular contact with them in an attempt to track down and source the mammoth amount of fittings this build requires.
Sadly we couldn’t meet the deadline in time but did manage to locate a good chunk of them. 22 of the required 32 required fittings.
Some slight alterations to the lower chamber will be made for the sake of getting this rig to I52, It's a LAN rig after all these thing happen!
Shipment 1 [22] Bitspower Multi-Link Adapter G1 / 4 inch OD 12mm - Matte Black
Shipment 2 - Various extenders and such, as well as a few more [Bitspower Multi-Link adapter 90 degrees - Matte Black] fittings to compensate and adjust the loop
Also picked up a few odds and ends from E22, Time depending of course, I shall attempt to sleeve the PSU. I've opted to use white and grey to keep the amount of colours in check too. I've no real experience in sleeving but I shall see how it goes, luckily my father in law has the ideal tools for such a task too
With enough fittings to hand I could now finally begin the loop, with some small changes thought due to stock issue with the BP fittings
Massive thanks Pascal also. I Wanted two Alphacool reservoirs for this build and he managed to get them to me in time.
I'm tired as hell lately, juggling far too much real life stuff, even the tools are feeling exhausted and packed up at one point: D.
So that's where I'm at today with more to follow, oh and I’m working on this too
More soon, and again thanks for reading!
Insomnia Gaming Festival attendees [I52] Feel free to come and see me at the MSI Stand
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Im so envious of you design and fabrication skills! i love how this is coming along! Good work man!
Associate
You are very talented! Looking forward to seeing the final build
FaNaTiiCzFaNaTiiCz said:
I appreciate the comments
As above thanks!
Trying to keep them coming asap!
Always good to see a scratch case
Thanks mate
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*I am uploading temp images until I can access some better/HQ ones*
As an avid build log reader, theirs nothing worse than large chunks of the build not being documented, for many reasons I don't have as many images as I would like.
I would like to thank Phil for the late last minute help with some additions!
This is something I made in sketchup, I wasn't happy with scale of the MSI tail and hands when placed, I opted to use the Circuit Design from the MSI Gaming range packaging.
case Feet are something else I had overlooked, stock of the ones I wanted was issue [...again]
Thinking outside of the box I opted to used some spare Alphacool res tops and selections of nuts/bolts
I set about adding some additional cable routing for the 24 pin and SATA ports.
Next I began sleeving the cables, I must state I really wished I had
1. Started sooner
2. Ordered even spare terminals!
I can say with confidence It's no easy feat to sleeve. even after mass research I found the cable towards the end much more to my liking, as with everything you have little experience with that is.
The added challange being that the CM power supply uses a rather unusual wiring method. The 24 pin actually bridges off to 10 and 18 pin connector.
So rather than double wire to one terminal approach I used the lutro0 solder guide. Results where mixed and I will redo them soon!
Before powdercoating I mocked up the frame with some spare vinyl and photoshoped it, right up until the last second I was still unsure to go Black or white.
White just seemed to work better
Mock up with the side door [Not fitted yet]
Last minute deleiverys to wire up all the fans and LED's
This is where I was at one point at 5.30 AM fixing things
Now sadly I don't have any decent images from Insomnia...other than these
Mid filling...working on the air bubbles
Within and hour or two of setting up. I faced an issue of no display, then no power to the system. Due to extremely restrcited work space their was little I could do. The system was moved to another part of the exhibit, on onto a funky oil drum of sorts. The system that was wired up into my spot after also faced power issues and blew their hard drive. At this point I was very concerned at just how much damage had been done
Things went south that night as we took the rig back to our hotel, in attempt to getting it up and running. We where struck down with food poisoning and after missing out all of Saturday, we hit the road and traveled 230 miles back to get some much needed rest.
I've spent the last few days getting back on my feet and getting the rig running again. Nothing major was damaged... thankfully.
These are the only images I have from my phone atm
I will take some HQ shots of the rig and have them online ASAP!
While it wasn't the most ideal outcome I still had a blast and will be back more at the next iseries event
As an avid build log reader, theirs nothing worse than large chunks of the build not being documented, for many reasons I don't have as many images as I would like.
I would like to thank Phil for the late last minute help with some additions!
This is something I made in sketchup, I wasn't happy with scale of the MSI tail and hands when placed, I opted to use the Circuit Design from the MSI Gaming range packaging.
case Feet are something else I had overlooked, stock of the ones I wanted was issue [...again]
Thinking outside of the box I opted to used some spare Alphacool res tops and selections of nuts/bolts
I set about adding some additional cable routing for the 24 pin and SATA ports.
Next I began sleeving the cables, I must state I really wished I had
1. Started sooner
2. Ordered even spare terminals!
I can say with confidence It's no easy feat to sleeve. even after mass research I found the cable towards the end much more to my liking, as with everything you have little experience with that is.
The added challange being that the CM power supply uses a rather unusual wiring method. The 24 pin actually bridges off to 10 and 18 pin connector.
So rather than double wire to one terminal approach I used the lutro0 solder guide. Results where mixed and I will redo them soon!
Before powdercoating I mocked up the frame with some spare vinyl and photoshoped it, right up until the last second I was still unsure to go Black or white.
White just seemed to work better
Mock up with the side door [Not fitted yet]
Last minute deleiverys to wire up all the fans and LED's
This is where I was at one point
at 5.30 AM fixing things
Now sadly I don't have any decent images from Insomnia...other than these
Mid filling...working on the air bubbles
Within and hour or two of setting up. I faced an issue of no display, then no power to the system. Due to extremely restrcited work space their was little I could do. The system was moved to another part of the exhibit, on onto a funky oil drum of sorts. The system that was wired up into my spot after also faced power issues and blew their hard drive. At this point I was very concerned at just how much damage had been done
Things went south that night as we took the rig back to our hotel, in attempt to getting it up and running. We where struck down with food poisoning and after missing out all of Saturday, we hit the road and traveled 230 miles back to get some much needed rest.
I've spent the last few days getting back on my feet and getting the rig running again. Nothing major was damaged... thankfully.
These are the only images I have from my phone atm
I will take some HQ shots of the rig and have them online ASAP!
While it wasn't the most ideal outcome I still had a blast and will be back more at the next iseries event
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First off, Thanks to Mick from Mayhems for supplying me some Liquid - Aurora 2 Red
A few more images for you guys with some new addition such as the IO area, I've boxed in,
Their are still a few rough edges to sort and small tweaks to add Im playing with the colours, I wasn't happy with the amount of red in the build, around the CPU mostly, likewise the red circuit may become black
I've just not had much free time lately, sorry for the lack of update but more to follow.
A few more images for you guys with some new addition such as the IO area, I've boxed in,
Their are still a few rough edges to sort and small tweaks to add
Im playing with the colours, I wasn't happy with the amount of red in the build, around the CPU mostly, likewise the red circuit may become black
I've just not had much free time lately, sorry for the lack of update but more to follow.