Rain's Parvum Watercooling Log

Rainagul · 27 Oct 2013 at 15:29

davido_labido said:
Aaah Noooo! That's not good!

It looks like there's not much on any hardware though, so it should be alright!

Yeah aside from scaring myself it was all good, just required a bit of a clean up afterwards.

Started putting everything back into place:

Before

After

How it all looks currently just after leak testing

Will get some proper 'final' photos done a bit later once I'm happy everything is ready again

Tonester0011 · 27 Oct 2013 at 16:01

Very tidy mate!!
What did you use to mount the HDD? I've been wondering how to mount mine when i finally get around to building the damn thing, only got a single drive mind.

davido_labido · 27 Oct 2013 at 16:05

If you have a parvum, there's a little plate with holes in, so you screen the hdds into the plate, then attach the plate to the mobo tray and the top of the parvum (well, not the very top, there's a little shelf)

joelk2 · 27 Oct 2013 at 18:59

Looks great. I can't wait to get my parvum case. Won the Nvidia Battlebox version.

m1xmag · 28 Oct 2013 at 12:51

joelk2 said:
Looks great. I can't wait to get my parvum case. Won the Nvidia Battlebox version.

Well done on the competition win, how did you manage that?

m1xmag · 28 Oct 2013 at 12:53

@Rainagul - glad the temporary mishap didnt do any damage, hopefully not to the floor either!

Look forward to the finished pictures

joelk2 · 28 Oct 2013 at 13:32

m1xmag said:
Well done on the competition win, how did you manage that?

was a competition on facebook, just the put in your email address kind.

luckily i won

joelk2 · 28 Oct 2013 at 19:50

http://www.flickr.com/photos/parvumphotos/sets/72157632434661426/

found these photos of the hdd mounting technique.

Tonester0011 · 28 Oct 2013 at 22:10

davido_labido said:
If you have a parvum, there's a little plate with holes in, so you screen the hdds into the plate, then attach the plate to the mobo tray and the top of the parvum (well, not the very top, there's a little shelf)

Mine was bought directly from Parvum as a custom design...they forgot to include those! Ahh well, will ghetto mount them somewhere

They cut out USB mounting on the front and didn't include the actual USB either.

Rainagul · 28 Oct 2013 at 22:59

Tonester0011 said:
Mine was bought directly from Parvum as a custom design...they forgot to include those! Ahh well, will ghetto mount them somewhere
They cut out USB mounting on the front and didn't include the actual USB either.

Have you tried contacting them about it?

All the niggles I had with my case and needing spare parts were dealt with immediately.

davido_labido · 28 Oct 2013 at 23:43

Yeh, give them a shout buddy, they will sort you out, they are both awesome lads and are exceptional when dealing with customers. I've recommended them many times and still do!

NoustieChris · 29 Oct 2013 at 08:43

Looks good, but very dark inside. You going to be using any lighting inside Rain?

Rainagul · 29 Oct 2013 at 09:40

NoustieChris said:
Looks good, but very dark inside. You going to be using any lighting inside Rain?

Indeed, I have two LED' installed at the moment. Trying to get some decent 'final' photos but the lighting in my flat is bad it's making it a bit of a challenge at the moment.

Rainagul · 29 Oct 2013 at 14:34

Not the best photos but it will do.

So to start off with, here is how the case looked before the watercooling began.

And how it looks now!

A long exposure shot for fun

Neatly tucked away on my desk

Whilst no project is ever really 'done' I would have to say that for the moment I won't be touching it again for ~6 months (probably be 2 weeks before I start tinkering again

)

Think my next upgrade will be a new top end Nvidia GPU with a proper backplate!! (never did find one for the 580 :rolleyes:

)

I'd like to give thanks to the guys are Parvum who delivered impeccable service when I needed it, really love the case and can see myself investing time & money in the future with your products again.

I would also like to thanks davido_labido for the braiding he did for me on my 24 pin and 8/6pin cables. Excellent prices and overall a very good job. Check him out on Just Sleeve it to me

Cheers

joelk2 · 29 Oct 2013 at 14:38

nice work.

when you had the corsair "all in one" cooler in there what config did you have? pushpull on the rad as an intake or an exhaust? and the fan next to it also?

Rainagul · 29 Oct 2013 at 15:21

joelk2 said:
nice work.

when you had the corsair "all in one" cooler in there what config did you have? pushpull on the rad as an intake or an exhaust? and the fan next to it also?

I only had 1 fan on the bottom of the rad that was pulling iirc.

Due to my motherboards heat-sinks I couldn't fit in another fan at the top.

Also that H80 was quite large in width, so much so that I couldn't fit the side door onto the case. So keep an eye out for that if you are going with something similar.

joelk2 · 29 Oct 2013 at 15:33

Rainagul said:
I only had 1 fan on the bottom of the rad that was pulling iirc.

Due to my motherboards heat-sinks I couldn't fit in another fan at the top.

Also that H80 was quite large in width, so much so that I couldn't fit the side door onto the case. So keep an eye out for that if you are going with something similar.

ahh ok thats good to know,

could you not have fitted it so the tubes out the rad were on the left hand side? (as you look at it from the windowed side)

im actually looking at the H100 (orientated as i described)

joelk2 · 29 Oct 2013 at 15:41

alos another wuestion if you dont mind, which 80mm fans did you opt for?

are they quiet?

davido_labido · 29 Oct 2013 at 15:42

aaah, thanks for the nice mention rainagul! It does look an awesome build!

Rainagul · 29 Oct 2013 at 15:59

joelk2 said:
ahh ok thats good to know,

could you not have fitted it so the tubes out the rad were on the left hand side? (as you look at it from the windowed side)

im actually looking at the H100 (orientated as i described)

Potentially, I remember at the time I wasn't worried about having the window off as I was doing the rebuild pretty soon after. I think the issue was I couldn't mount my H80 any other way due to heat sinks from the MB getting in the way.

I would look at the dimensions of the h100 and compare with the parvum and to take into any sticking out objects like RAM or motherboard heat sinks that potentially could get in the way.