Case Mod Test bench mod by Ace_finland NEED HELP

[Fuganater]

Coming along great man.

[KrunchR]

I'll high 5 this. Looks fantastic!

[Ra6]

Red leds look amazing! Great effect with the plexi!

[Waynio]

Coolest test bench I've seen, in 2011 this is totally 5 stars.
In 2012 everything is being trashed it seems yet modding continues to get better.

About the stupid ratings, head over here & cast a vote, it's unofficial but people who are bothered about the misuse of the system are trying to make bit-tech take note, some have been turning the rating system to meaningless dribble & it needs dropping.

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=250884

Options are.
1. Get rid of the voting system.
2. It's a useful indicator (but it isn't anymore).
3. Don't care.

[Ace_finland]

Originally Posted by Fuganater

Coming along great man.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by KrunchR

I'll high 5 this. Looks fantastic!

Thank you!

Originally Posted by Ra6

Red leds look amazing! Great effect with the plexi!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Waynio

Coolest test bench I've seen, in 2011 this is totally 5 stars.
In 2012 everything is being trashed it seems yet modding continues to get better.

About the stupid ratings, head over here & cast a vote, it's unofficial but people who are bothered about the misuse of the system are trying to make bit-tech take note, some have been turning the rating system to meaningless dribble & it needs dropping.

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=250884

Options are.
1. Get rid of the voting system.
2. It's a useful indicator (but it isn't anymore).
3. Don't care.

Thank you! I'll check it out, not so bothered about the ratings

[Ace_finland]

New update! Getting close to the end of the Coolermaster competition! Have been very busy the last weekend, spent around 30hrs on the computer on saturday and sunday and had to take today off work just to get it up and running. Taking it to get photographed tomorrow so i can get some proper shots of it for the competition.

Sorry if its not in order the update, a bit stressed due to still having a lot to do before the photo shoot.

Anyways, gonna start with the parts. A lot of the parts are from my previous build but there are also new parts

Coolermaster test bench
Intel 3570K
Asus Maximus GENE-V
Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB 1600MHz
128gb OCZ Vertez 2 SSD
Corsair AX850 PSU
2 X Gainward GTX570
2 x Lamptron FC5 V2
4 x Schyte Gentle Typhoon
A lot of leds

Watercooling:
2 x EK-FC5X0 GTX GW Backplate - Black
2 x EK-RES X3 150
2 x EK-DDC X-TOP CSQ - Acetal
2 x EK-CoolStream RAD XT (240)
1 x EK-MOSFET ASUS M5G - Acetal + Nickel
1 x EK Supremacy cpu block
1 x EK Dual parallell sli block
2 x laing ddc pumps
A lot of EK fittings
Mayhem's Aurora tharsis red


Sleeved the led wires, the cat loves it


Installed in the acrylic


The lamptrons installed


Mounted the rads and the fans to an xspc rad mount, quite a tight fit, a little bit over 1mm to spare


Plumbing done on loop 1, was a bit more difficult than i first expected. Ignore the blue cables, resleeved them after


Had to check what it looked like with the Hyper212 that i've used during the build. Had to remove all the water cooling so i could get all the sizes right


So many cables, had to cut every cable and shorten them, they would not fit in the case as is.


Tried to get hold of some genuine CoolerMaster sticker but it was a lot harder than i expected. So contacted Coolermaster and got approved to make my own stickers. Was gonna go with normal stickers but due to the case is slightly textured it wouldn't look good so went with these polyurethane based "3D" stickers. Got a few different color combinations made so i could pick the one i liked the most. Big thanks to Mr Glasberg over at staffans.fi for making these priority 1 and making them in more or less a day



Assembled and more or less ready to go. Still have a lot to do but this will have to do for the competition.

Leak test ongoing



Don't wanna post too many pictures of the bench, gonna wait until tomorrow after the "proper" photos are taken. Next update most likely tomorrow.



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[Editor22]

Sweet lord that is awesome!

[Ace_finland]

Originally Posted by Editor22

Sweet lord that is awesome!

Thanks, i've gotten a lot of inspirations from you renderings in the past! Love all of your builds!

[KrunchR]

Niiiiice!

[Ace_finland]

Originally Posted by KrunchR

Niiiiice!

Cheers!

[Meelobee]

oh wow the videocard mount matches the memory, that makes the mount even better

[Ace_finland]

Originally Posted by Meelobee

oh wow the videocard mount matches the memory, that makes the mount even better

Was waiting for someone to notice, in due time the ram will match the videocard mount even better just need to figure out how to do it so it looks as standard ram but with acrylic in it

[Ace_finland]

Hey guys, pics will be up tomorrow from the photo shoot, until then a teaser

and yes, i know i need to bleed the system again

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[Pranja]

Looks great. I can't wait for more pictures.

Pet the cat for me.

[Ace_finland]

Originally Posted by Pranja

Looks great. I can't wait for more pictures.

Pet the cat for me.

thanks!

[Fuganater]

I keep forgetting how small this build actually is.

Can't wait to see your final photos!

[Ace_finland]

Originally Posted by Fuganater

I keep forgetting how small this build actually is.

Can't wait to see your final photos!

It is quite small but it's very heavy due to the aluminum panels they will be up tomorrow!

[KoSoVaR^]

The teaser looks great , some bleeding wouldt be a bad idea ;D

[Waynio]

Sweet sweet sweetness

[Meelobee]

Good stuff Ace