the other Pretty Little Alumin.....

LePhuronn said:
Photobucket is blocked at work, so I'll properly check, ogle and drool over your progress when I get home.

However, here's a little something rough and ready for you...

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Honestly pics are low quality and placement shots .
Im also torn on the Soar placement and backplate. If the thermals of the Strix are fine, then she'll stay in the bottom slot and get a Backplate to make up for not seeing it glow.
If the thermals are base, she'll move up to the 16x slot, and the bottom slot will have a PCI fan holder bracket for 2x92mm bequiet PWM fans driven by the Strix

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feel free to email it to me, matthewwalsh1987 and i belong to the google mailing club. will be sure to take a box of tissues to the loo with me when i see it :D

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holy ZEUS , THATS AMAZING! thank you! can send 1 1/2 kit kat chunky bars your way!
 
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nah, it's just a compound image of 2 logos with some extra bits to stitch it cleanly - don't want to be claiming Asus and be quiet's branding as my own work :p
 


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nah, it's just a compound image of 2 logos with some extra bits to stitch it cleanly - don't want to be claiming Asus and be quiet's branding as my own work :p
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and again, thanks :D

right-o , managed to shoe horn in the Eisbaer but not how i wanted it!
Has to be fan against the chassis and its the fan I want on show! The rad hits the window clip and can't take off/nor would I want to, and switching it so ports are on the bottom, just hit the GPU- but i can confirm standard Asetek AIO will work and you'll be able to get two of them in the case.



I think I might swap out for a 30mm thick rad instead of the 45mm and get another fan for push-pull, but will run this first to see how temps are in the system and with OCing the i7.

Tried to orientations with the Eisbaer unit, firstly having the logo displaing horizontally and the second with the logo being vertical but your able to see the windowed reservoir.
I was siding more to the latter option but then saw with the routing it will have to be logo sitting parallel with the Strix. Alpha have made the tubing FAR TOO LONG! I know they intend to sell this kit as retail and to OEM but 90% of users and builders stick single fan AIO to the rear... this forces you to use the front of a case! Tired this unit in about 10 cases, yes it can would if you have a deep case but the tubing just looks really naf!
Will cut it down this lunch then the system goes into hiding for a week.

 
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More phone pictures :( but second Silent Wing 3 fan came in for push pull config. Not exactly happy with it, would have preferred just one on the 45mm or twin on a 30mm but thermals will be hot in such a small case and hoping to hit 4.8 off the 6700k, any help helps.



Before and after

 
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Is it going to totally mess with your head to put one of the fans on the outside of the case and reclaim 25mm internally? I was originally going to do that with Asteria II's 120mm rad, but then I managed (on paper) to get the 360mm rad completely internal so didn't want anything breaking the clean externals.

It'd break your clean externals too, but it's an idea if you're losing too much internally.
 
LePhuronn said:
Is it going to totally mess with your head to put one of the fans on the outside of the case and reclaim 25mm internally? I was originally going to do that with Asteria II's 120mm rad, but then I managed (on paper) to get the 360mm rad completely internal so didn't want anything breaking the clean externals.

It'd break your clean externals too, but it's an idea if you're losing too much internally.
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Wanted to keep it as clean as I can so will leave them inside. Looks are starting to grow on me and I know in such a small case it'll have massive benefits.



Quick snap, everything in. Just cable management left, looks horrid at the mo









 
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I don't think it looks bad tbh, the chunkiness of the push/pull rad balances the chunkiness of the PSU, almost framing the pump block centrally.
 
LePhuronn said:
I don't think it looks bad tbh, the chunkiness of the push/pull rad balances the chunkiness of the PSU, almost framing the pump block centrally.
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Its def growing on me, had the top fan been more to the left, i'd would have stuck with just one fan but looks ok its in position.
Should be interesting to see the airflow in this case with the parts used! In theory, the top 140 will be drawing most of the air and then the Rad and PSU should be stealing some of the flow with the PSU exhaust being caught by the top fan and not reaching the Rad due to having a great air flow rate.
Dust could be an issue but there are filters on the bottom intake.
Just hoping thermals aren't to bad with the STRIX 1070.
Would be interesting to see how many loops on Unigine it takes for it to reach temps to activate fans and then have them full whack!
Will also see how how the Rad set up deals with CPU stress with and without GPU heat being dumped in .

Just hope this build helps others looking at the UMX series of cases as I found little information until hitting Chinese forms, and even still its always Asetek AIOs and air builds
 

First Boot up !

And guess who wired the power button wrong :( luckily mobo had it'd own button. Had a few snags so didn't get around to OS install.


Pump is a little loud, more then reviews, I believe this is due to a lot of air in the system. Worst pre-filled AIO I've come across with is such a shame but easy to correct

 
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Looks like I've turned up late to the party again.

How big is that case? Well, as you can see, it is exactly one cat in volume!

Looking good so far. Just the PCI-E power cables (assume that's what's hanging across the front) but that's just admin really.

4.8GHz? Does that mean I'm gonna have to turn my measly 4.4 up then? ;)
 
Cenedd said:
Looks like I've turned up late to the party again.

How big is that case? Well, as you can see, it is exactly one cat in volume!

Looking good so far. Just the PCI-E power cables (assume that's what's hanging across the front) but that's just admin really.

4.8GHz? Does that mean I'm gonna have to turn my measly 4.4 up then? ;)
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Thanks. Im going cut the sleeving off of the PCIe cable. Think just having the 8 plain black coated wires would look better and stand out less with a zip tie or too

Reading from reviews this board should be able to hit it, even at AUTO clocking (single core at 4.8), but to be honest with thermals im not so sure

My Questions to the PC master....
A) WHY is the USB 3.0 cable so god damn thick for every front panel on every case!
B) WHY is ever cable front port cable the same length no matter what size the case is. The USB cable can actually swimming to length of the case! haha

rant over

ALXAndy said:
You've done a nice job there for working in such a small space. I feel your pain man, I had the ITX version !
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Was looking at that version next but its too narrow for beastly cards. my only gripe with mitx tower designs is they are all to narrow.

Lots of lessons haven't been learnt! Modular PSU is key!

Powered up again last night to take some quick reading just to see if mounts are fine before benching etc.
Room temp 22-24c , CPU idle at 32c with all cores run at 4Ghz in BIOS (OS not installed yet). Window Panel WAS attached.
CPU Fans where set to AUTO Mode and Standard fan profile. Set for PWM and at the board Turbo Fan Profile . Looking at predetermined profiles the board likes to give gentle curves right up till it starts hitting 70c.

Most admit, with CPU fans/ Top fan at Low and STRIX fans off at idle... can barely hear a thing!

Looking forward to running CPU bench, GPU Bench then ASUS Bench to test both and see how the thermals are. I dont think 4.8Ghz would be wise in this case and STRIX will need a custom fan profile so not to let the card build up a large amount of heat before dumping it back in.
 
As far as I can see it, you go one of two ways to make wires look tidy. You hide them as much as possible or you make a feature out of them - think multi-coloured sleeving and cable combs.

My 6700K is set to turbo on all cores up to 4.4GHz. With my previous loop and before delidding, it would be in the 70's whilst gaming. Apparently some of that is down to my motherboard being overly generous with the voltage though.

USB3: Mostly shielding. If you've ever plugged a USB3 memory stick into a USB3 slot next to a wireless mouse receiver, you'll understand. You can get an internal header extension if you're trying to get it to loop round from the back nicely but I'm not sure you've got any space behind the motherboard tray. Search for "USB cab027" and you'll find what I mean. As for standard length, I would guess they just stock one part and use it for all cases....but yeah, it's a pain. Cables are always either too long or too short.

Modular PSUs are great - even my semi-modular isn't bad. Be nice if it didn't use molex connectors that aren't available anywhere though. Really hard to harvest the plugs off the end when they've glued all the pins in too! :mad: :D
 
Cenedd said:
As far as I can see it, you go one of two ways to make wires look tidy. You hide them as much as possible or you make a feature out of them - think multi-coloured sleeving and cable combs.

My 6700K is set to turbo on all cores up to 4.4GHz. With my previous loop and before delidding, it would be in the 70's whilst gaming. Apparently some of that is down to my motherboard being overly generous with the voltage though.

USB3: Mostly shielding. If you've ever plugged a USB3 memory stick into a USB3 slot next to a wireless mouse receiver, you'll understand. You can get an internal header extension if you're trying to get it to loop round from the back nicely but I'm not sure you've got any space behind the motherboard tray. Search for "USB cab027" and you'll find what I mean. As for standard length, I would guess they just stock one part and use it for all cases....but yeah, it's a pain. Cables are always either too long or too short.

Modular PSUs are great - even my semi-modular isn't bad. Be nice if it didn't use molex connectors that aren't available anywhere though. Really hard to harvest the plugs off the end when they've glued all the pins in too! :mad: :D
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two lazy for braiding the cables this time around haha. grand experiment this build is :) hopefully just cutting the sleeving off will look a bit better.

70c, will use that as a reference when I get benching. haven't played with i7s much since 860! but i've read INTEL BURN TEST is a no no... which is a shame as its a great way to warm up the house :D
 
Bear in mind that was gaming not benching so the CPU usage wasn't 100% (probably closer to 50%) but the graphics card was heating up the loop too.
After a delid and a 'slight' upgrade of the loop, the CPU hits about 50°C in gaming.
 
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