Case Mod - In Progress [MOTM] Vault 111 by PEXON 100% - Video and final photos [COMPLETED]

Hey guys, making some serious progress with the build now! On the final stretch!

Aquatuning have been very kind and supplied the rest of the wet gear to get the rig finished

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The cleary blue coolant will look bang on I reckons, as I am just going with clear floppy tubing, the blue LEDs and lights will compliment it well.



Smashed the rad up in double quick time and got it installed with the out and inputs on the top. The tubing routing is a nightmare, I knew watercooling in this case (although its large) was going to be a PITA as nothing is in the right place, hence the reason I chose it, its quirky





I have to have a look around for a little male to male G1/4" extender in order to mount the res on-top of the pump, space in the bottom chamber is a little sparse. I can mount the res on top to keep it relatively tidy.

Also managed to borrow some ram to test the parts



And managed to get a braided IEC cable made







I also met Vault Boy at Eurogamer this weekend too!



Thanks for looking guys

 

Been a while since my last update, but I've been busy with work. I have still managed to get a fair amount of work done though. All the watercooling gear is in now, bar the GPU block. EK only included 4x screws for mounting the block, great. I've opened up a support ticket, but I've yet to have a response. If needs be, to get the rig full of water and leak tested, I will go to the local James Listers and get some of the M3 DIN screws tomorrow. Pretty annoying, but hey, you can't account for these things; I'm not too happy considering I ordered it last week with 1 day DHL express and it didn't turn up til Friday :/

The routing of the tubing was actually not as hard as I imagined, once I ripped out the bottom of the drive bay cage. I got the dremel out and smashed it out in 5 mins, no need to keep it neat and tidy, the rougher the better.



The pump directly feeds the pump via a male to male 1/4" fitting.



As hinted before, the block arrived, buts useless without another 11x M3 DIN screws









On a positive note, ordered the CPU (6600K) and an SSHD (just to play about with) for the build from Overclockers on Friday and it arrived on Saturday, this meant I can get the CPU block mounted and start tubing up.

























As you can see, nearly there! Just get the GPU block in a acquire some RAM, then we are done!

Hope you all had a great weekend! More updates soon!

 

Well, well, well. What an absolutely crazy few days. I've been working like a trooper to get the project finished up.

I did have some issues with some of the EK blocks not fitting correctly, so to save messing about with any RMA, I just bought another and a backplate.

I have got some other in progress shots, however, I am eager to get onto Fallout 4 now as I've not had chance to play it yet! :'(

Without much furtherado... here are some pics























































Photographs were taken with a Canon 70D with a 17-50mm f/2.8 and Manfrotto BeFree tripod.

I also got some amazing help from my friend Tom, who helped me out with a lovely video of the build. We used an outdoor storage area, in an old school house. There was plenty of old tarp, cans, propane tanks, bottles of various cleaning fluids and general junk.

Be sure to watch the video, its pretty epic, even if I do say so myself!



Video shot on Panasonic GH4 @1080p 50fps

Final list of components used :-

Intel i5 6600K
MSI B150M Mortar
Corsair Dominator DDR4 2866MHz (2x8GB)
MSI GTX980Ti
Kingston SSDNOW300 120GB
Seagate 500GB SSHD
SuperFlower Leadex 1000W GOLD PSU

Custom sleeved PSU cables
Blue and white LED strips

Alphacool Susurro 120mm fans (blue) x7
Nanoxia Deep Silence 120mm fans x2
Alphacool NexXxos XP3 CPU block
Alphacool 13-10mm compression fittings (black)
Mayhems 13-10mm tubing
Aquacomputer Double Protect Ultra Blue
EK GTX 980 Ti TF5 Full-Cover water block (Acetel)
EK GTX 980 TF5 Backplate (Acetel)
Alphacool VPP655 and plexi-top
Alphacool Cape Corp Coolplex Pro 15 LT


I just want to say thanks to the following people/ companies:-

Momma and mini pexon
Chris, Steven and everyone @Overclockers (overclockers.co.uk)
Tom @MSI UK (uk.msi.com/)
Pas and Eddie @Aquatuning UK (https://www.aquatuning.co.uk/)

Hugggge thanks to my friends Tom (video magician) and Ryan for helping out with the set up and lighting and of course, to everyone who has been following the build, thanks for the kind words, comments and suggestions. Its been one hell of a ride!

.... lets go boy

 

Final video is awesome! Really nice fitting location. Great edit.

 

Thanks a lot dude!

 

That came out great. The "backdrop" for your final photoshoot is perfect too.

 

Thanks a lot Cheapskate The backdrop was awesome fun

 

Lovely job

 

Cheers Colin!

 

Hey guys!

Team PEXON are at iSeries this weekend and I have bought Vault 111 along too.

As I was not able to get the RAM before the final photos and videos, I will have to wait to take some proper shots after the weekend.

BIG thanks to AVEXIR for providing the RAM for the build!