Case Mod - Complete Project: L3p L4n - Mod Of The Year 2012 Nominee.

Not one to give credit where its not due.. 100% overwhelmed at the build in general - full marks alround..

I have seen mars in batter.. I have seen Mars on the news... never seen a Mars II under water and so pretty though.. (unless you class the mars in the swimming pool as a joke) .. genuinely pleased I have the opportunity to view your work log

 

Let me just say......WE ARE NOT WORTHY!

 

Incredible work. and now that's some serious attention to detail . Absolutely Amazing.

 

Thanks Waynio
I just opened it up again to see if I can improve something

Thanks myrizzle! Think we looked too long at the Red GT series

Thanks m8! Don't worry about that

Thanks for the comments guys!

Thanks for all the compliments Blarte!
There's only one reason I'm posting all this.
I mod cause it's my .. ehm ... 3rd love of my life, also love to take hundreds of pictures just to motivate others to start getting their out of the closet

 

Love the SSD mod, looks fantastic. Reminds me of when extreme modders used to stick windows on their mechanical drives haha .

 

only you Peter... only you can find a way to perfect perfection!!!!

 

WOW! been following this project for a while now, and that blue LED light really makes the red on the bottom of the SSD's pop! looks amazing, keep it up! (i would have thought that a white light would make the red pop more, but i dont think that is possible after what i have seen)

 

That's quite easily the best thing Ive ever seen done with an SSD.
So obvious, but old thinking tells us to not **** with our storage media casings.

Good thinking man

 

When I started going through your log I was glued to it so much that I read it 3 times over! Awesome job on this one!!! Really man great job with the scratch built GPU cooling!! Had a good learning experience !! Cant wait for more!!

Keep up the good work!!

 

Awesome work... really like how the SSD's turned out.

 

that looks so amazing! the attention to detail is fantastic, and everything has had that attention paid to it- well done!

also its nice to see even the experienced modders having problems heh heh

 

Stunning, absolutely stunning!

 

Thanks for all the comments guys!

What a week .. 28°C inside and I'm busy with 2 builds

To finish L4n I had quite a checklist to walk through.

- Add cables for SSD, Leds and pump.
- Change in RGB Leds and wiring.
- RGB controller/remote died, had to replace it.
- Finding the right coolant color.
- Testing loop + blocks + fan/pump controller without MARS.
- Testing all hardware with loop without MARS.
- Testing loop with MARS in it.
- Full stress test of complete system.


First .. lets add an SDD activity led




SSD in action. (2GB copy)




Also removed the RGB above the SSD and added RGB between the acrylic of the SSD's




Bringing 3 little cables to their destination out of sight.... 45 minutes




RGB controller replaced and proper connection instead of soldering.
Literally removed the radiator 30 times to get it in.




Then I found out I still had to extend the pump wire. -_-




Playing with test tubes in RGB light.
Seems EK blood red looks good in switching red/blue light.




First looptest without MARS.




Loop needed exactly 1 liter.






Never thought something would go easy.
Reservoir isn't the highest point, still it keeps on level nicely and de-aeration works perfect.




Pump on speedsetting 1, completely silent and enough flow to cool it down.




SSd's and memory ... check.




Lapped CPU + cooling ... check




Leaving it running for the night.




Right before getting the MARS in I changed something on the contrast of the aluminum text.
(Thanks NOCA!)




Not much luck again ... really .. somehow the motorized screen pressed the color-change button of the enermax fan when opening. Cause of that it had blue and red leds on, not something I wanted.
Had to drain the loop and build the pump completely out to reach it and fix it for good.




Finally testing the full loop!




Pump on speedsetting 10




Love bubbles.




And leaving it for another night.




Next day ... testing the complete system.
MARS leds lit




Pretty scary, don't know what the MARS temps are before I'm in windows.
Quick USB install




Unfortunately....
It seems 1 of the 2 cores isn't getting cooled as it should.
With a furmark stresstest in SLI 1 core goes to 65°C, the other one.. goes slowly up to 100°C and starts to throttle.
I'm almost sure it's the thickness of the heatpads I used, I will have to re-open it again completely.
There are a lot of options I can still try with different combinations of heatpads/paste, sure I can solve it.
However .. going to keep that for another time, tired of it for now.
I'm actually more glad both GPU's still work after enlarging 3 holes in the PCB




Atleast the lapped CPU doesn't let me down



Final pics on the way!

 

It looks so beautiful :3, can i has please ?
Keep it up brow!

 

Looking good Peter the end is near

 

Nice subtle effect I like it. From the looks of it, you used the regular HDD activity pins on the MoBo and laid a cable into the SSD enclosure, right?

 

Sad to hear about the GPU man.

It is always a major pain in the ass to get a particular part out of a compressed system. I am also very excited to see if everything in M8 works

 

That's a real bummer after all that work but... you the man; I'm sure you can fix it

edit: Looking good btw!