Hi my fellow forum friends, It's been a long time ago since I've post a build, but here is another one from MBK. Been very busy with various assignments and other mod stuff, but now... finally a good old-fashion forum mod again. First I want to thank a number of people who make it possible for making this build. Big thanks goes out to Bernice from Gigabyte Also respect and big thanks to Vincent and Lily from Bitspower And for this build, I have access to a number of testbenches from Microcool. Federico from the Italian brand MicroCool has made this possible, so thanks for this Federico. MicroCool has about 3 beautiful benches marketed with names Banchetto K, Banchetto 101 and 103. Which are great Italian designs as shown below in the pictures. The Banchetto K Also for the Test benches I have made some unboxing vids. For this build I'm also going to use a Banchetto 101 Pictures from the Banchetto 103 The unboxing vid: After some brainstorming to see how I can merge these two benches. I have the idea is too make different layers of acrylic to stack it all up. Here I have cut some acrylic same size with the shapes of the original K and 101. Because Gigabyte provided me a very nice Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 (more info on this later) the color will be black and green in this build. In order to enter the height, and the layers acrylic to be applied, I have used the parts of the 101. Because I want a good view at the hardware and apply nice ideas with rigid tubing I have placed the mobo tray in an angle. That's it for this update, but more very soon
Soon my friend, soon. Some beautiful Bitspower p0rn is coming my way, and cant wait to put everything in place
Try to best Banchetto 101 is a very difficult task, only you and few other skilled modders can afford to do such a job... So let update flow! Popcorn and iced prosecco mode on
Thanks!!! Updates will be coming your way mate Strange combination popcorn and Prosecco, but I will try
Update!!! Thanks for the comments, very nice to see and hear that you like to follow this MBK build. I already have quite a few pictures with some progress to show, so selected a nice collection for this update In this build I'm going to place (at least) 2 x 240 rad applied with Nanoxia fans. And will put them between the acrylic layers. Drawn some holes and stuff on one acrylic layer and went to work with my jigsaw. After the sawing and filing, the result... Placed the radiators and fans. Installed it again to see how it looks. Enough space for the air in/out Now this looks good, removed the tape and cleaned the plate. Made it black (glossy vinyl). And the whole unit. For the green and black color combo I came to the idea to use 6mm UV green strips between the horizontal plates. So cut and bent the strips. With this kind of green I always like the frosted looks the best. And I think this is a great match with the green of the Gigabyte motherboard, So picked up my sandpaper and go to work again. But it's taking too long Need more frosting but just to let you see how it will look like. Luckily I have at some great machines to work with... glass blasters. This is making it a lot easier. After some blasting.... The strips totally frosted. More about this later. Thanks to Gigabyte this Bench will become a monster rig. because they've provided me with 2x Gigabyte Titan Black: GV-NTITANBLKD5-6GD-B Was not expecting this, so caused a moment of silence and admiration when looking and testing these beauty's. Exhibited and tested on a different setup Last but not least, a nice picture from the rig with frosted strips. More coming up!!!
Update!!! Just a small update before the waiting begins for the water cooling stuff. Last update was with the frosted strips, which are looking great now I think. I have cut the plate from the Banchetto 101 that was left over and used it for the back cover. And added some small details, such as a cover for the I/O stuff. The blue VGA looks ok ... but not in this build So made a cover with some slots and black green details: It will take some time till the next update, because I have to wait for the water cooling products. But once I've got them, you will be the first to know
Update!!! Time for an update!! Received great products from Bitspower and Highflow To begin.... a lot of Bitspower products. After a hour removing bags.... Beautiful fittings But first I will show you and installed the beautiful Bitspower... The VG-NGTXTITAN Filled with some liquid to see how it looks Also ordered a nice backplate, the NGTXTI780 Carbon Black Everything included After some work Presenting you the Gigabyte GV-NTITANBLKGHZ-6GD-B with the VG-NGTXTITAN Looking good!!! Placed it to see how this will looks Installed some fittings and stops, like the Bitspower Matt Black Enhance Rotary And twice a G1/4" Matt Black Stop Fitting For the pumps and reservoirs I had plans for Using the modkit D5, D5 top and res updrage kit next to the testbench To get this kind of setup I have used a D5/MCP655 MOD KIT And a Bitspower D5 MOD TOP Also a Dual / Single D5 Top Upgrade Kit 250 And last but not least... two amazing pumps from Highflow: De Alphacool D5-VPP655 To make this looks better I have lowered the bracket/ pump. And made this black Installed the modkit/ top/ res/ pump. After this installed the bench again Think it looks quite nice allready More updates soon
Update!!! Last time I mounted the reservoirs with the modkits. For the next step I made an acrylic plate where the flow sensor and input from the reservoirs goes through. For this I've used the Bitspower flow indicators (BP-FI-CLBKMBK) And mounted them like this: Also in this build NO bending, so I've chosen for a big amount of Bitspower Enhance 90-Degree Dual Multi-Link Adapter Connected everything The CPU block I've chosen is the Bitspower CPU Block Summit EF (BP-WBCPUIAC-CUMBKCL) And also here I have made an acrylic plate made for the rigid tubing for the GPU and the CPU. Which will look like this Placed the 2e GPU Backside will be like this Again used the 90 degrees adapters, but also the 30 graden adapters (BP-MBE30DML) to get the perfect angle. To connect al of this... another acrylic strip. With fillports (BP-MBWP-C04) And Multi links ( BP-MBEML) Once connected it looks like this To be continued!!!
Another Update!!! It's holiday time so did a lot of work on the Banchetto mod, and took lots of photos. Therefore, another updated for you guys After some puzzling and excessive use of adapters... pretty happy regarding the completion of the loops. The adapters that I have used includes: 2x Multi-F Block (BP-MBMTFMB) The mini valves (BP-MVV-MBK) Small adapters to create the right heights to connect everything The adapters are: Extenders BP-MBWP-C40, BP-MBWP-C60, BP-MBWP-C62 and some Mini Dual G1/4" Extenders In order to get some more green details, ordered a green plate UV green Next step was to create a back plate, so cut to the right size and made some openings The square holes on the right side are for the extension and the on/ off button from the PSU Removed the tape Also cut the plate for the upper section. And placed it Meanwhile, added some more small details... bought some nice UV green bars which I found in the shop where I've got the UV green plate from. Bend with a heat gun Mounted this with acrifix glue Think it's to much green now so I will add more black accents. More on this later. Thanks to Highflow I've got the perfect UV green liquid For this build, the choice is Mayhems X1 UV Green Here's a little preview of the filling vid... full movie coming your way this summer
Final Update!!!....For today Got a lot of catching up to do. So one more for today With little text and a lot of pictures from the filled Banchetto mod. Here the backside. Now with a lot of green, but as said before ... Will add some more black soon. And the front That's it for today
