Project Parvum Purple!

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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
Well looks like a email to parvum is in order.

Also my Midwall doesn't seem to be purple...

Sigh.
 
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Building this thing is time consuming.

Sorry for the awful quality. Lighting is terrible in here and my LG G2 struggles with light. Ill move it once completed to get some nice shots.

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That is where I left off for the night. Tried to align the graphics card as people know that is a painful process of realignment all the time.

I like the purple. Looks darker when set off with the black of the case. Slightly annoying I didnt get the purple mid board but I like it like this so meh.
 
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Swift response from the guys to say they will sort out my midwall. Props to them.

Any fellow owners of Parvums around that could tell me wether the bolts in the front black panel are countersunk? My bolt don't clear it.

I also have a random bolt sticking out on the floor panel aswell? Anyone elses like this?
 
Been reading the 750 G2 EVGA Supply looks really good for the money and a 10 year warranty. How can the seasonic justify double the cost?
 
Hi thanks for the help. The machine is built with what I have for now. Although the purple motherboard tray isnt here yet. Case is on the **** to so I bodged it with paper until I fix it.

Ill take some photos tonight. Its so much faster than my old machine was.
 
Okay, I know I promised pictures and I'm sorry. Poor quality pictures from my crappy phone will not do. Ill be picking up my Samsung Smart Camera which should do a better job on the weekend.

Not much has changed. Loving the SSD. So much faster than my old vertex I had.

Waiting on Payday now so I can fill this case with expensive graphics cards and watercooling.

Stay with me folks. Us poor people have to make do.

Edit: Don't seem to have heard anything from the parvum guys about my Motherboard tray. Will drop them an email in the next couple of days to remind them.
 
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