Project Radster - Case Labs S8

You can actually buy them on auction site in UK.
I bought mine from States because I bought tubing and some fittings at the same time.
Btw. I woke up early and couldn't sleep, so I went to my workshop and painted one of the fans red :-) I'll see the results when it dries properly, tomorrow morning, will post a picture as well.
Its painted in MTN's Intense Red, same as those fittings. Same color will be used for front and top panel of the S8. Funny thing, the small red parts on Z87 Classy are in exactly same color :-)
Almost forgot, I'll post the picture of the sample sleeve I got from you.
It all matches perfectly :D
 
paulstung said:
Looking good mate, I can't wait to put my order in later.

I didn't realise that they were starting to ship the new S8, they were going to message me when they started. I'm going for the full window top, front 360 rad mount and window, and with the same sides as yours. I'm not sure if my wallet can spit enough out for the pedestal
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S8 pedestal with all the options, custom color and 2 360 rad mounts cost 250$ + 80$ delivery to UK/Europe. That's around 200£, definetely good upgrade. Or you can use it as standalone unit. Seen someone use a pedestal from one of bigger Magnum cases to build a complete system. He could hide it in the desk drawer :-)
 
Hey :)

I promised I'll add some pictures I made when painting fans.
Problem is with light and paint being very bright, plus wet paint reflects light.
I chose 2 pictures after all, I'll make some more when the fans are dry.

1. Freshly painted (I warned you they are bright :P )


2. 140mm fan painted, installed. Next to it an unpainted 120mm.


Hopefully tomorrow evening I will have good news, that case have been posted.
 
I asked davido_labido (or Dave :P ) to do that for me, otherwise it could look ugly and destroy the whole build.

Until the case arrives there isn't really much I can show you so it's time to wait now.
Be patient and stay tuned :)
 
It's a shame having to wait for a case! i'm doing the same thing, the white enthoo can't come soon enough!

I did toy with the idea of a caselabs case i liked the Magnum M8, but would be far too expensive to get it to the UK!
 
I looked at Magnum and it was just to close to Corsair 540, just with more rad slots.
Look at Merlin cases. SM8 is a nice choice with space for very thick rads.
My favourites were Magnum single wide cases tho, SMA 8 and STH 10.
Until I saw an announcement of new case coming and seen some specifications, that it will be Mercury line but bigger case. So I waited a bit, then pre-ordered on first day.
I'm patient :-)
The reason I have to wait is because they have to do this in the order.
Apparently Case Labs have only 1 painting studio so they need to paint all black cases first, dispatch, go clean the stuff, paint white cases, dispatch etc.
Last week they admitted 2-color cases will have to wait a few more days.
And mine is pretty rare, don't think many people asked for gray/primer gray combination.
So I may be looking at beginning of March to start building the rig, which isn't di bad actually because I will be able to order more stuff or ask Dave to do the cables for me.
I opted for the MDPC sleeve and it is expensive.

Thanks for the comments :-)
I appreciate that a lot, keep'em coming :-)
 
Well, I had an email from CaseLabs that my order should be shipped tomorrow (that's GMT-8 time, so it is actually around 1 am on Thursday). SO it will arrive at my place by the end of next week.
Unfortunately I won't have any more updates until then.
 
Bart_Hunt said:
Well, I had an email from CaseLabs that my order should be shipped tomorrow (that's GMT-8 time, so it is actually around 1 am on Thursday). SO it will arrive at my place by the end of next week.
Unfortunately I won't have any more updates until then.
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May be quicker than you think to arrive - mine arrived in just two days from despatch !!!!!

You never know.

Mark
 
I said there won't be any updates for a while, but I couldn't be more wrong.
I checked CaseLabs site as usual every evening and... at last:


It is max 5 days from now.
Real work starts soon :D
 
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