Scratch Build – In Progress Casebuild - 29TB gaming rig - 5th. gen - upd 3 apr 09 - Second waterloop installed!

That makes a hell of a lot more sense now...

 

You suck!

 

Looks great, maybe you need to setup a webcame to follow the progress This looks greate

 

OMG that's huge!! But i like it

 

Arrgh jealousy!

 

Ey guys, small update coming up

Plans for the day:

* Fix fittings on top radiator
* Get waterblocks on the gfx cards
* Mount up the 2nd mobo
* Mount up waterblock on mobo
* Start hosing up
* Hopefully get comp booted for a test run
* Check water ress - Water tightness

 

A new couple of weeks has gone by, and its time for a update again

Havent been able to do alot lately much because of the arrival of wrath of the lich king -.- god i hate that game and the destruction it causes to normal life tasks... Anyways, had a few hours to get some work done again

Whats been done
* New radiators mounted up
* Watercooling in place
* Water ress pressure tested
* Second mobo in place
* EK Waterblocks fitted on 4870 and 4870x2 cards

Whats left
* Case etches, decals
* Cable management
* Get more coolant
* Get lighthing proper
* Fix LEDS
* Fit power buttons
* Fit DVD/RW slimline drive
* Boot it up
* Take some final pics and video of ress in action

The radiators - LEAKING

Last week had lots of frustration in it, when i finally mounted up the watercooling for a test run, it appeared that not one, but TWO radiators were leaking, the large one on the top, and a 240mm radiator at the bottom...

Had to order new ones


2x Mist 360 and 1x Mist 240 radiators ordered up with 1/2" nozzles


Unwrapped and good to go


Cut out a fitting piece of plexi to hold the double radiators together, ill get some etches on the plexi at a later stage








The watercooling

All of the hoses are now mounted up, and i have done a 24h test run to ensure that its no leaks with a closed loop... the noise level of the pump is just awesome, gotta love full magnetic driven rotors =)

Used 1/2" hoses all the way, with coils at some points to allow bending in steeper angles, also had to fetch a full 24 hose clamps to seal it all up, got clamps thats acid and rust ressistant , and they look somewhat shiny

Also got a few liters of Motocool coolant in there, this is a solution that prevent damage to any material, and its temperature ressistant between -54c and up to 135c

Hopefully able to get some temp checks when i get this one booted up, shouldnt be much of a problem to keep it all cold though

 

are you going to fill up those res's if so thats alot of coolant u got there nice rig id hate to defrag it

 

Watercooling that RAM too?

 

Nice! Nice

 

The Rig is super man.
That many HDD will create lot of heat.
Do you have any plan to W?C HDDs ....?

 

Friggen sweet! You should warn people if you are going to make a sexy, big-*ss reservoir. Defragging is easy if you have ONE empty drive. You just move everything from one drive to that drive, then repeat X 40.

 

You've got me salivating profusely!
Nice to see a fellow norwegian doing good work. Keep it up!

By the way; where did you get those square aluminium tubes? I've been looking, but have so far been unable to find some.

 

W00t, that thing is so big! And so nice! I really like the case, succes with completion

 

Nope, only gonna have the ress around half full, wouldnt really matter if it leaked down below, but from the top would be a different story Though the watertank has been pressure tested at 4x the load the pump could ever deliver, if its gonna leak somewhere, its not gonna be from the ress

I would, but the nossles of the OCZ flex modules are way to small and will mess upp the water flow bigtime

Nope, got aircooling for that part =)

lol, i guess ;P

Takker og bukker =)

The alu has been ordered from a local iron monger, just do a quick search in the phone directory for aluminium, you will get alot of hits

thx alot m8 =)

 

Added some comments and progress to previous update =)

 

Small update guys


My second kit of OCZ Flexx PC 9200 - 4GB should arrive today


along with 4x fractal design 15db 120mm fans for the 240 rads

Also got most of the case design ready for the labelcutter, pics later today ^^.

 

Who said decals cant look decent? ^^

More pics to come later today

 

Wow... that thing is evil...

But simultaneously pretty...

 

definitely !
awesome! i love your rig

respect to all the work you put in it!!

sometime when i will have won in the lottery i'll phone you up, to build me such a thing, ( maybe a bit smaller )