PROJECT: MAGNUS AQUA DOMUS!

The motherboard will show the size better, especially if anyone has used or even seen an 800d as the board I'm using will not fit in an 800d but should be dwarfed in this case.
 
Fairly sure someone has stolen the chargers for both of my battery drills :mad:

Have to see if my boss can get a drill sent over to me, if not the 1080 cut will have to wait until saturday.
 
Today has been a little slower then I would I liked, though I did get quite a bit done, still hunting for a charger for my drill too.

Part of the reason today has been so slow is this fella, laying on everything I touch :(
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Got the MOSFET block installed:

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MSI REALLY like their TIM:

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Block on:

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That backplate...just wow.

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Will update with more pics tonight/tomorrow just got the other GPU block to install now I'm happy it doesn't leak. Provided I find the charger tonight or can get to work tomorrow I Should be finished somewhat tomorrow as I now have the stand offs for the CPU block too :D
 
It was my choice to have them that big, I was torn between big logo and small OCUK/AMD/MSI logo's down one edge.

The skys the limit really with what designs I could have had, I'll be picking a different design when I change cards when the 8970's arrive :)
 
Thats nothing to what the second card had on it, absolutely swimming in TIM :o

Can't really move much further forward until I get the holes drilled for the 1080 ports :(

Searched high and low for a charger its just gone, will have to swing by work tomorrow and pick up another drill.
 
squarehead94 said:
Lol classic wait for x chip... Why? 3930k has been the top dog for about a year. And spending this much on a tank setup is ridiculous... May as well have just got z77. Or went for a 3930k. Look how disappointing the gtx titan was and the 3570k in terms of improvements from previous gen stuff (gtx 680/90 and 2500k respectively).
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I had plans to spend £800+ on a chip, I may as well wait until the final top end for that socket arrives, even if it does bring slight core improvements, it will most certainly bring improved IMC, my methodology. I went over this a few posts/pages back. Besides, a 3820 is faster then a 26/700K and will clock far higher then a 3770K under normal circumstances. Since I set my heart on a final move over to X79 my game plan was ALWAYS to start with a 3820 then to high end IB-E. I don't think Titan is a let down, over-priced, certainly, but it does what it says on the tin.

acme15 said:
Haha fair enough :) How are the logo's printed onto the backplates? Is that pad printing?

Will be interesting to see what kind of performance the next generation of AMD cards bring. It was a nice jump from 6000 to 7000 series :)

I'm more of an NVIDIA guy personally, mainly because I love PhysX :p

Had an FX5200 (those were some dark, dark times :rolleyes:), 8800GS, GTX480 and now this GTX660 :)

Hopefuly I'll have a build log in a few months :D I have a rough plan to do a re-build of my sig rig with a few changed parts (mobo, ssd, psu, cooler, case, another 660 or maybe sell it and get a 670 and a tad more RAM). Nothing as elaborate or powerful as yours mind :p
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Ahh I think I had (and still have somewhere!) an FX5200 from circa 2004? I'm expecting big things from AMD on the next gen, they have finally figured out how to harness GCN and Titan has set the pace nicely :)
 
Oh the plates are laser cut from a single sheet of acrylic then the logo is pressed into the gaps with coloured acrylic :)

Yep still have my 3.06ghz p4 with HT that it was paired with somewhere, I remember playing half life 2 on it so I can't have been that bad though iirc I was stuck with a mere 512mb ram.
 
Yep, he can also laser-etch an image into the acrylic too, they just look stunning, will look even better once they are in my system later today.

Nipped into work this morning, grabbed a charger and a spare battery to get everything drilled today, also picked up the 280 radiator, everything looking good to go for completion today :cool:
 
:p

His brother has been 'helping' today. Like sitting on a panel I'm trying to fit a radiator to :rolleyes:

Almost ready to start plumbing, 280 radiator is fitted (had to slightly modify fans to fit) & 1080 panel is drilled, grommets fitted and radiator fitted.

Next to do (possibly in this order!):
  • Fit CPU block and ram
  • Fit and secure rear pannel, start sorting cables out
  • Fit GPU's into system
  • Start plumbing
  • leak test
  • Deal with the possiblity of something going wrong, take it all apart and get drunk.
 
Still at it, just finishing up the cable management :)

I may leave filling it and bleeding until tomorrow, its been an effort today :D

Also I don't suppose anyone is familiar with the wiring on dimastech switches are they? My brains completely fried.
 
lol, I'll figure it out tomorrow, just finishing up the plumbing though half of the tube clips I have are for 5/8 OD not 3/4 OD :(

Debating using cable ties, not sure if its going to look **** or not.
 
Hmm I'll see how I get on, if I can do it without making them look gash I will, I don't really want to drain off 4L of mayhems for a few days use :o

Words can't describe how frustrated I am right now :(
 
Will have to wait until durring the week now, a fair few of the barbs I have, the thread is slightly too long for the bitspower angle fittings, threads are bottoming out before the oring compresses.

I'll update with some pics of the current state in the morning, for now I'm off to sink the last half of this bottle of soco :)
 
It is BUT Phobya also designed this around the exact specs of the G.Changer series of radiators, you have no idea how tight that XTX360 was to fit in the bottom due to it being ~4mm thicker then a G.Changer. The 280 in the front was a last minute addition, very impressed with the quality of HWLabs radiators :D

80mm Rads would almost certainly be out of the question for the top and bottom I would say.

I would have struggled with a 480 in the roof too due to how the res sits.

My conclusion thus far is that this is a really really poorly designed case BUT if you pay it enough attention it can be fantastic. Though I get the impression Phobya designed this case specifically around their range of radiators, without consideration for size variations on other brands.
 
Cable management is a complete nightmare, which is why I've gone so nuts with the braided cables, as they'll have to be on show just tidied up somewhat, if I end up struggling I may put some trunking in for the cables to sit in. It doesn't help that the motherboard tray is actually bolted to the rear panel, you have to take 3 screws out of the motherboard tray before you can start removing the rear panel.

Well designed for water, not for cables unfortunately. That said, for the price I paid for it (switch 810 price range) no other case comes close to it for radiator space.
 
Haha, I did actually consider making a plate to cover the exposed areas, in the end I opted out of it.

I'll maybe try get the cables all sorted out tomorrow, with the exception of the two 6 pin cables on the GPU's, forgot to order extensions for those :p
 
AHHH BINGO!! I saw a pack of these while ordering things last week and thought "they'll come in handy" then totally forgot about them!

Though I'll never be the cable management god that RJK is :( That guy has some serious talent in that department.
 
They weren't straight to begin with, the solid link joining the cards is helping quite a bit, those aquacomputer blocks are pretty damn heavy!! I actually spent a good 20 mins fitting the cards to get them to sit as straight as possible :)
 
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