THE FIRST ORDER (Supermicro CeBIT 2016)

I keep seeing images of cable combs and it just reminds me how much I need to buy some as the improvement they make is night and day as the cables look much nicer and trained :) Also the subtle hint of grey in the cables breaks up the colour and looks great :)
 
I keep seeing images of cable combs and it just reminds me how much I need to buy some as the improvement they make is night and day as the cables look much nicer and trained :) Also the subtle hint of grey in the cables breaks up the colour and looks great :)

Thanks man. It is actually carbon coloured sleeving (so a weave of grey and black). I had it left from another build and I am really liking it in combination with other colours. Thank you for noticing :)
 
I wanted to do something funny with the SSD. It was self bought so we could do anything we wanted with it. It was originally a HyperX Fury SSD. I kinda wanted to give it a Star Wars theme with a wink. Like it could be in a Star Wars ship. But also like HyperX could bring it out in 10 years ;)

So I ended up making a HyperX Fury HYPERDRIVE of 240 Petabyte :D

I mounted it in the front dual 5,25 inch bay as I had no use for it.
There is a full red plexiglass enclosure around it so you cannot see any cables or the inside of the case.







 
Thats a nice mod at the front and the cables to the "Hyperdrive" :D look clean, also I don't suppose you have any of those Petabyte drives left lying arround do you as I could use one :D

Great work as always :)
 
Thats a nice mod at the front and the cables to the "Hyperdrive" :D look clean, also I don't suppose you have any of those Petabyte drives left lying arround do you as I could use one :D

Great work as always :)

Thanks man :)

I am not sure man. Some Jedi came over yesterday asking me for one. He might have taken the last one xD

Nice to see Supermicro gettin some love. Another to note though is instead of cable combs you can always sew the cables as I always think it looks a bit cleaner. (http://www.overclock.net/t/1309854/cable-sewing-tutorial)

Thank you for your comment.

The final photos won't have many in plain sight as the PSU cover will take care of a lot of the cable directions already.
 
I started work on putting the system together. Like always I need to do it in a specific order to be able to reach everything I need. I will never learn xD







 
Meh, it's no fun if there's actually room for everything! :D
Are the front fans easily removable for draining the loop or do you expect that fan to get so hot as to need extinguishing on-tap?! ;) or is there room to screw a 90° bend on when necessary?

How thick was the acrylic in your PSU shroud? Mine's metal but the existing holes are in the way and won't let me tidily mount the filter. I'm thinking of just laying a piece of acrylic over the top and mounting into that but not sure how thick it needs to be. I'd look at replacing the whole piece but it'd need multiple bends and it's structural in my case....and also, I'm lazy :D Worst case I could vinyl wrap over the acrylic onto the metal so it at least looks like one piece.
 
Meh, it's no fun if there's actually room for everything! :D
Are the front fans easily removable for draining the loop or do you expect that fan to get so hot as to need extinguishing on-tap?! ;) or is there room to screw a 90° bend on when necessary?

How thick was the acrylic in your PSU shroud? Mine's metal but the existing holes are in the way and won't let me tidily mount the filter. I'm thinking of just laying a piece of acrylic over the top and mounting into that but not sure how thick it needs to be. I'd look at replacing the whole piece but it'd need multiple bends and it's structural in my case....and also, I'm lazy :D Worst case I could vinyl wrap over the acrylic onto the metal so it at least looks like one piece.

haha I still hurt my hands enough with this build xD

There is room for a non revolvable 90 on it. And otherwise the front grill and fans are removable without too much hassle (read; without having to take the entire build apart).

The acrylic I use is usually 3mm thick. But it is not a structural part of the case. It kinda depends on how much weight it needs to hold.
 
The final part I wanted to make from plexiglass was a shroud for over the GPU.

I wasn't allowed to mod the GPU itself because they wanted it to be easy swappable with another GPU. I still wanted to do something about the appearance.

So I made this cover with a small wink to Nvidia and Star Wars.

I hope you like it.



 
Devious. Like it!

Thanks :)

Looks amazing, that front drive mod is a thing of beauty.

Thank you sir. Great to read it :)

Love the cover, I think it's even better that it looks great but you can still change out the GPU with ease. Form and function :)

Thanks TM UK. I had to adapt to the wishes of the client here. I also think it came out rather nice :)

very nice

Thank you KS73
 
For the first time I am trying to use more 90 degreen pipe to pipe fittings. Because I thought it would fit the theme.





 
Nice runs with the fittings, you're right about them fitting the theme although I bet it bumped up the total cost of the loop though :)
Also, I was just wondering that since one of the tubes is suspended downards from the radiator how secure the fittings are to stop the tubing falling out.
 
Nice runs with the fittings, you're right about them fitting the theme although I bet it bumped up the total cost of the loop though :)
Also, I was just wondering that since one of the tubes is suspended downards from the radiator how secure the fittings are to stop the tubing falling out.

I have been affraid about this in the past myself. But even using a non-compression fitting (so one with 2 o-rings in it) they stay put fine. And I have had multiple systems being travelling Europe and no leaks untill today.
 
I finally came to fitting the midplate. I had finished all cables to everywhere, mounted a fan hub powered by a molex connector for all LED strips and fans. But all invisible under the PSU cover.

I really like this shot :)

 
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