Project Parvum Purple!

infernox

infernox

infernox

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Everyone loves a Parvum build log so I hope I will do the case justice.

First of all Thanks to everyone who helped me in my other thread. "I'm probably going to regret ignoring stulid and not waiting intil Z97 but i'm a child its payday lets buy stuff"

The proposed build is as follows.

Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card £249.95
(£208.29) £499.90

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99

Seasonic X-Series 850w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
(£129.99) £155.99
(£129.99)

Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI GENE Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
(£124.99) £149.99
(£124.99)

Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW)
(£99.98) £119.98
(£99.98)

EK Water Blocks EK-D5 Vario X-RES 140 (incl. pump)
(£89.99) £107.99
(£89.99)

Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD
(£49.99) £119.98
(£99.98)

EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy - Nickel
(£44.16) £52.99
(£44.16)

Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Stealth 240 - XFlow
(£30.82) £73.96
(£61.64)

Mayhems X1 UV Purple Premixed Watercooling Fluid 1L
(£6.66) £15.98
(£13.32)

Total : £1,476.35

With all the other ancillarys and the fittings, getting all of the bitspower fittings and the acrylic tubing is going to hurt my bank account.

Now I can't fork out 1600+ at once so the build will done over a few months.

I started this thread for advice and to show it off. I haven't done watercooling of any sort before so this should be both fun and a good lesson.

To start this off. I had ordered from the guys a Parvum a Custom S2.0.

They are putting a cool stencil at the front (don't even know what it is yet. Said surprise me) and purpling up some of the bits. You guys can wait and see to that should be delivered Tuesday.

At the current time there are a few old parts from my Current machine that will follow me until they are replaced.

16GB Ballistic Tracer
560ti 448. (in ugly yellow. its going to hurt to put it in my purple case.
600W OCZ PSU

The plan for the watercooling is as follows.

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Tell me its not going to work and I will find another way.

I wan't it to be a straight line build and look neat and tidy, which is why I will be ordering from Nils once I know what colour purple it is.

I had a few parts delivered Today which spurred me to do a Log.

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All progress will be posted here and I cannot wait to get this thing build.

Should be ready for i52. Here's hoping.

Tell me what you think, product suggestions and what not and general criticism.
 
Looks like it's going to be a good build :)

Just a quick note on radiators. You should be fine with the x-flow 240 rad in the top, but it won't fit in the front. This is due to the space between the floor panel and the first set of screw holes.

I've just done a build in an extended parvum s2.0 and have gone for 2 x 120mm Hardware Labs GTS Lite 120's in the front, rotated them both sideways and connected up the fittings that way.

Another user on the forums has used 2 x 120mm Hardware Labs GTX Lite 120's (these are slightly thicker than the GTS Lite with a lower FPI).

Have a look through the Project Logs forum to see what I mean :) I went through a number of radiator combinations before I was able to settle on a combination that fitted and worked well routing wise, so hopefully this advice will save you a lot of hassle!

Jim :)
 
Thank you. I will adjust it to include 2 120s.

Don't supposed you could chuck together a list of fittings i'm going to need?

You build looks great and inspired me to do mine.
 
infernox said:
Thank you. I will adjust it to include 2 120s.

Don't supposed you could chuck together a list of fittings i'm going to need?

You build looks great and inspired me to do mine.
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Thanks for the kind words :)

My build ended up consisting of:

14 compression fittings
4 x 45 degree fittings
4 x 90 degree fittings
1 x 90 'L' fitting (for the tight bend connecting top rad to front rad).

You can remove 2 of the compression fittings as it doesn't look like you're using a mosfet waterblock. You may not need to the 90 degree 'L' fitting either. Might be worth looking at some of the standard size parvum s2.0 builds to see how they've connected their loops.

Are you using an EK-terminal type fitting to connect the two graphics cards? I think this is the easiest method, as it could be quite a squeeze to try and do it with normal fittings / tubing.
 
infernox said:
Thank you. I will adjust it to include 2 120s.

Don't supposed you could chuck together a list of fittings i'm going to need?

You build looks great and inspired me to do mine.
Click to expand...

Would be cheaper and easier just to get a normal 240 in the front, would arguably look better as well, and easier on the pump (fewer angles)

Couple of PE rads would work well, though having an xflow at the top helps make the loop look tidier (imho)
 
Nice to see you're doing a build log. will keep my eye on the thread.

How's the braiding going or have you not started that yet? :D
 
haha. fair enough.

Going to wait and see how deep the purple is in the case. Probably going to be from Nils. The voilet purple looks good but might be to light to match the case.

If it turns out to be to light im not sure what im going to do. :s
 
looks good, watching this one as im too looking at rads to fit at the moment but will prob go with 2 x 120 in the front.:)
 
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