Case Mod - Complete ⭐ Minimalistic - Case Mod World Series 2019 - #CMWS19

Hello everyone,

I’m AK from Taiwan.

I want to create a simple and elegant design concept.

This year I will be modding the C700M and experimenting with using handmade leather and attempting to create a custom resevoir made out of wood.

Whilst making it look modern, clean and sleek.

Specs:
COOLER MASTER COSMOS C700M
COOLER MASTER V1300 PLATINUM
COOLER MASTER MASTERFAN SF120M
NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 Ti
ASUS ROG RAMPAGE VI EXTREME OMEGA
G.SKILL TRIDENT Z ROYAL 8GX8
SEAGATE FIRECUDA 510 SSD 2TB
INTEL CORE i9-9980XE

Water cooling:
EK-CPU LIGNUM-WALNUT
EK-FC RTX 2080 Ti LIGNUM-WALNUT
EK-HTC LIGNUM 12MM - WALNUT
EK-XTOP REVO D5 PWM (INCL. SLEEVED PUMP)
EK-COOLSTREAM SE 360 (SLIM TRIPLE)
EK-HD TUBE 10/12MM 500MM
EK-AF FITTINGS

CUSTOM RESERVOIR
CUSTOM CABLE

Massive thanks to Cooler Master, ASUS Republic of Gamers, NVIDIA GeForce Taiwan, G.SKILL, Seagate, EK Water Blocks, for supporting my projects.

 

• Some hardware photos

COOLER MASTER COSMOS C700M









COOLER MASTER V1300 PLATINUM







COOLER MASTER ATX 24 Pin 90°


COOLER MASTER Mastergel Maker MG-11


NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 Ti



ASUS ROG RAMPAGE VI EXTREME OMEGA






G.SKILL TRIDENT Z ROYAL 8GX8

 

Received water cooling hardware, thank you very much for the sponsorship of EKWB!

 

"Mastergel Maker" Do you ever wonder if CM names stuff weird on purpose?
You do good work, so I expect this will be fun.

 

Lol!!!

I'll give my best.

 

• Some hardware photos

EK Water Blocks Lignum Series.

 

• Leather processing

The bracket part will be covered with leather.

 

• Anode treatment

Case external aluminum removal, anode matt black treatment.

 

Not too much though please, I want to have my chance at CMWS19

 

• Some hardware photos

Seagate FireCuda 510 SSD 2TB.

 

• Spray paint

Appearance polished, first spray primer and finally sprayed black finish.
The light guide plate is treated with transparent black paint to make the overall blackening more complete.


The light guide strip is sprayed with transparent black to make the whole black tone.

 

• 3D drawing

Internal structure design, wood processing design.

 

• Walnut

This big challenge, using walnut to make water tank, need to be processed twice, using epoxy resin as the first layer of waterproof treatment!
There are also side panels.

Cutting and smoothing.



First time CNC, water tank shape.


Epoxy resin filling.


Second CNC processing.




The result is not bad! Then it needs to be polished to completely transparent to see the wood inside, and then spray the transparent paint.




Side panel finish.

 

• Metal processing

Stainless steel appearance 4mm test.
Subsequent nickel plating.

 

Walnut and stainless steel? The epoxy/wood technique has a lot of potential. You could add an epoxy water level window in the res, or add filled grooves for lights. Plus wood under a thick polished layer of plastic looks beautiful.

 

Yes, walnut and stainless steel combination! haha

This proposal is great!!!

 

• Nickel plating

Stainless steel 4mm and aluminum 10mm nickel plated finish, the results are very satisfactory.

Motherboard bracket Aluminum 10mm CNC.


Walnut water tank bracket aluminum 10mm CNC.


D5 water pump bracket aluminum 22mm CNC.






Case external structure Stainless steel 4mm.

 

I didn't know you could be blinded by a photograph. You are going to have a lot of trouble taking pictures from now on.
SS wire holders: I like you. You are crazy.

 

I tried to make some wire holders with walnut, late update.

 

• Internal

Keep a simple design concept, perspective
The cable will be a big problem, so it took a lot of time here.