Case Mod Project Thief - Monster Water Cooled Build - March 9th

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Originally Posted by leslie

I'm not a Doctor Who fan, but seeing it being moved through the house, all I could think of is that it looks like Dalek is chasing you.

Haha so true, if you stop getting updates, it must have learned to exterminate!

Originally Posted by Reg216uk

mmm what a monster

haha thanks yeah it's a beast!

Originally Posted by dream1

Well your case looks huge and 5.2 Ghz is nice to but what are the cpu average temp ???

Well 5.2 was just for benching, the temps were actually fine (70s), but it wasn't stable for 24/7 nor were the volts friendly for 24/7. For now I'm running 4.9GHz 24/7 and folding bigadv I get temps in the 59-69C range across all cores with a 25C ambient.

Originally Posted by Phyonics

I think you should go with option F for the cabling.

The case is looking really excellent but it still seems kind of overkill at the moment. I can't wait to see it finished though

Thanks don't worry it'll fill up, just will take some time

Originally Posted by daletur328

Epic build, F option looks like a winner.

Thanks for the feedback it helps

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Took a break to put together an ivy rig for a co-worker:

A board!



blah blah blah marketing - where's the window that the extreme boards have?



Now there's a board



I liked the door hanger - unfortunately this is for an overclocked workstation so not too useful here:



A large box for some memory (32giggles):



Matching:



Oh and a cpu:



Best put that in the socket then:



We should remove that plastic cover too:



Putting in that H100:



Yeah I know no custom water loop, but this is going to someone who can't be trusted with such things

miniThief is getting there:



miniThief- now with 100% more PSU:



Don't forget a GPU (9800GT cheesecake!)



Close up:



ISO:

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Also made an unboxing video of the mobo/cpu/ram:

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So back to the *real* project. Now that my workstation was up and running, I could take the old one down:



OMG dust! This is three months worth:



Still yucky:





Got out the duster and started taking it apart:



Nearly done



Now I've gone and made the kitchen messy again:

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So as it's the weekend you get bonus updates

This is how I initially wanted the PSU's to give maximum air intake:



However the left PSU once it had cables would conflict with the 360 rad mounted in front of it, so I decided to move it:



Done, you can see there's still a good amount of space in between:



Now to mount them - they're going in the second to bottom compartment:



and mounted:



Now time to mount all the hard drives - here are the gaming rig drives:



Now let's add in the workstation drives:



old skool x25e:



All done:



Now to cable it - I hate how asus only give you sata cables with right angles at one end and straights at the other. For this build I really need straight to straights, so I had to order some more from the egg, this is the temporary rats nest:



Yikes!

[KidMod-Southpaw]

Your insanity pleases me.
Love this!

[Nutman]

Haha, even in a case this big you run into space problems. Hilarious.

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Originally Posted by KidMod-Southpaw

Your insanity pleases me.
Love this!

Lol thanks

Originally Posted by Nutman

Haha, even in a case this big you run into space problems. Hilarious.

Haha too true!

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Alright a quick update as I got some more time to process photos (on a side note the first mdpc package came woot!)

I got the workstation back up and running:



But I had to use the gaming side for location of the power supply as the cables were not long enough to reach the real location. As you can see it makes a good storage room also:



Workstation in action - no 2nd 8800gt yet because I'm only driving two screens, the card is being used as a test card for now for some other rigs I'm building.



Again a lot of fittings are temporary. So now back to the gaming rig. I transferred the sweet trident ram from my worksation to the gaming rig (I think it maybe hypers), it can do 2130 CL 8 and probably more but that's the limit of my 990x IMC. Should have tried two sticks in the 3770K rig I slapped together to see what it could really do! The ugly p6t board that was being used for the workstation is now going into a generic network maintenance use and will be put in a rack.



A shot of that sexy ram:



And the motherboard tray:



Here you can see I had soldered on an extra molex connector to the board (just to the bottom of the STX). My old case didn't have room to connect a power cable to the real connector, so this helped me give the gpus enough power.



And now time to swap the 920 for that sweet 990x:

[whyte]

must try.. and contain.. jealousy....

[KidMod-Southpaw]

:jizzface:

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Originally Posted by whyte

must try.. and contain.. jealousy....

Originally Posted by KidMod-Southpaw

:jizzface:

Lol thanks

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Alright time to swap those cpus - out with the 920:



And in with the 990x:



Close it up:



Mount the CPU block and add the g3/8 adapters - luckily the 5Noz has a very wide port spacing:



Which means you can mount the high flow VL4N quick disconnects - unfortunately they are g 3/8 and don't come with right angle options, so I have to have adapters both ends and then a g1/4 female to female before I can add in the 90 degree rotary fitting:



Here we are with the old GPUs mounted too:



And here's how it will look as this will be the reverse ATX side:



Now it's time to repurpose that clown board:



And done til the case comes:

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Second update of the day - sleeving came in:



Always interesting to see stamps from a foreign land And of course the obligatory nils drawing



The results from the last survery were clear:



So now I made them with real sleeve (24 pin left and 8 + 6 pin right) (only one row of course) (photographed outside under cloud, the background is the pedestal back plate which is powdercoated the same color as all internal parts):



















I'm leaning towards D or F. However there's one last complication there is red or the "x" color that is basically a deep red-brown kind of color. As far as I can tell, the x looks better when next to white, the red otherwise:



Let me know what you think!

[Bladesingerz]

I really like A and G the most! That sleeving really looks good

[Big Elf]

I prefer 'B' although I'd probably use a maximum of 3 colours. Have you tried sleeving the red onto a white cable? It tends to brighten it up a bit.

[Foregasm]

A and G are my favorites.

[KoSoVaR^]

the last one with color x!

[n1c3tr1]

Option D with Red.

Also keep the updates coming!!! I check almost everyday to see how much progress you have made.

I guess I will have to find something else to do with my time when you complete it...

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Thanks everyone - keep those votes coming - here are the results so far: