Been spending some time designing my first build. First thing I need is a name and second is I need some ides to make it look better. It has a mobo in the top and a psu in a seperate zone below and dual 360 rads in the bottom compartment with 9 hdd and a bluray drive. Pumps are also in the bottom and reservoirs are obviously in front. Heres an attempted render. It's not that great but it looks better than sketchup. Any thoughts or ideas?
ResSquared or Res^2 ? Sorry I'm hopeless with names. It's looking like a very interesting concept. What materials are you planning to use? That could help the aesthetics as stuff like aluminium, carbon fibre weave and arcrylic can all be quite pretty.
I'd imagine a lot of people don't use glass because of it's weight. Also, I see a lot of scratch builds that look like they were built durable enough to be thrown across a room, and glass may not fit well with that style.
You can get very strong glass. So any ideas to make it look better. I wad gonna put a few red temp gauges in the front maybe automotive ones and I've made the res filled with red water.
Looks good in the thumbnail, a little bit de-humidifier-esque though. Any chance of a larger image and/or some internals so we can see what it really looks like? Sketchup images are fine, the great thing about sketchup is you can do hundreds of jpeg exports in the time it takes to do one fancy render, we can get a better idea about what you're doing and where to recommend improvements, if improvements are needed. With regards to red liquid, from my reading I'd advise against it(haven't the ca$h to start wc yet, but have been researching for 6months ish) see here for quite a comprehensive thread about such stuffs. Most decent cpu water blocks these days could have some issue with fluid de-emulsification. The way to go is distilled H20 + fine Ag that way there's nothing to go wrong. Materials technology is awesome these days, you can get glass to do/be just about anything you want, this one is quite cute. Heavy, but cute. Glass has higher compressive strengthen than steel or concrete, it's tensile strength isn't so great, but it's quite easy to avoid using it in tension, one (potentially major) problem can be scratches leading to fissures leading to structural failure... But that's also easily avoidable, if you're willing to go all out and have your glass professionally prepared with a laminated sapphire skin, it becomes all but scratch proof, and a little bit expensive...
If you search the ocau forums there's a thread with more pics I'll post some pics later. I decided on a name anasasisxenophontis. It's a name of a song and I just thought it sounded cool so no actual meaning to it. I got suggested a dye that I can mix with water that doesn't make a mess or anythng and then some true silver fittings.
Use glass edge tinted plexiglas. Glass is heavier than concrete, and harder/trickier to shape and polish.
Click to view full size! Still need to add io disk drive and tubing. Anyone know of a slot load blu ray drive or a guide to mod tray into slot? Any opinions? Its still just to simple but i dont know what to do.
Sony and Panasonic both make slot load blueray's. Ok, feel free to ignore any/everything I say and please don't take any offence. 1) Make the whole of the MoBo volume transparent, loose the black streak, it doesn't do your design any good; with such a tall base section you really want to make an impact with what's on top; sort of a protected behind glass, a precious exhibit sort of thing. However that means your tubing/wiring has to be perfect! 2) Checking here, it's great that you've left lots of room for expansion in the base, but put the psu further to either side leaving your self room for a second next to it, with 1200W psu's these days 2 arn't really necessary, but it looks like you've got enough room in the bottom for a chiller at a later date, so a second psu for that would be a boon/necessary. It might also work better at the very bottom, i.e. moving the psu chamber below the rad chamber. 3) Make it square based. I just prefer squares. Then centre the MoBo inside it's acrylic case. Or bring it forward by a proportional amount. 4) Make acrylic PCI slots that'd just look cool. 5) Have a "socket plate" behind the MoBo which all your cables plug into, thereby not having any breaks in the acrylic top. 6) If it would be possible to push your little white box in the rad chamber (presumably hdd/3.5" drives) in-line with the psu, it'd be a bit neater. That is all. For now. Regards, Alex
Reservoirs I'm not to good at lighting yet so I just use sunlight. Thanks for your opinion but I'm terrible at cable management so the stripe would make it easier and the psu doesn't have very long cables so muddled best because it can reach everything. Easy to move the psu across and add another which isn't a bad idea and I might add some 2.5" drives for ssd if I'm ever rich enough to buy a second. Would love to put a phase change in the bottom. Never heard of a water chiller before though. Also black stripe has the name glowing red in a cool font and there are 8 USB and full audio ports in the front. Need a good idea for a power button though. Also Im gonna put done red temp sensors in the front for each loop so there will be a fair few screens on the front.
Ok I need a cool idea for a power button. Also does anyone want me to post the file somewhere so you can get a better look and help me out?
Throw up the file dude would be cool to have a look at it and maybe figure out why your having all those problems
Sorry for the wit but its uploading now. Sketchups been extra annoying and slow lately. It keeps cutting off edges when im not even that close to them. Could take a while to upload i have slow internet.
Motas; you need to start using a couple of the free sketchup tutorials. Groups and components are your friends, they'll make editing things much easier for you and help to make your file a teensie little bit smaller and much easier for you to move and change things. Can't look at it properly until Monday, then can't post about what I think until Thursday.
