Scratch Build – In Progress OPTERON PRIME - Supermicro 4P folding mayham - folding numbers

And much less expensive! Just add a little uv coolant to spot it more easily than plain water...

Really gutted to hear she's got leaking problems... that cause new leaking problems once fixed. Some builds simply love to play whack-a-mole like that. Just keep chugging along and eventually she'll stop playing hard to get.

 

Thanks a lot mate
I kept digging in and coming back with new fittings. At some point I was going to defeat the dragon!

James

You are probably right. But since I was going to use pastel and you never know how much water is left in the radiators or other hard to use spots I thought I would try and do it this way.

Thanks for the comment man

I dig exactly what you advised and the outcome will be in the next reply

 

It finally happened!
I took the bottom apart for the 4th time, changed 2 fttings, put it all together for the 5th time, checked everything for the 5th time, filled the loop FOR THE 5TH BLOODY TIME.

And... SUCCES!!!! NO MOAR LEAKAGE W0000000000000000T

I am so happy right now that I am going to cover you lot under a pile of photos.

I still put a 2 by 3 nbetween the case and the pedestal to be able to see leaks soon. I will now be taking those two from between and go ahead and finish some of the details I still need to do such as; midplate, sidePSU cover, SSD cover, sata cable to SSD xD, fit the arch and connect it all, fit the vandal switch, put in the PSUs. And then....
Oh crap I forgot about the sidewindow and the top window. Enough things to be done. Better get a move on Hukky.

But first....













































PS there are still some airbubbles in the CPU blocks. I will need to put the pumps a notch higher in power so they will force out those bubbles.

 

Congratulations! It must be very satisfying to see the conclusion of months if planning and building actually work for the first time.

BTW, gently tapping the blocks should shift the bubbles.

 

^this^

Turning out really well, looks as good in the day as in the night..

 

Looking great day or night.

Congrats on fixing the leak, one big headache gone.

 

Wow, gorgeous !!!

 

Looking great. Congrats, mate!

 

Looking great.

 

did we take a wrong turn into a l3p corner somewhere???

I don't particularly love UV, but that definitely looks hawt

wd

 

Well done mate. Been following this from the start and you've done yourself proud.

 

LUV IT! Only a few things missing here Tim... A big box and a sticker with my adres. But apart from that it looking amazing

 

Thanks Nexxo. It is indeed. I am closer to finishing this baby then ever. looking forward to powering it up so much!

btw I tapped al I could (that's what she said) but they're not coming out
Flow isn't high enough probably. For now I will have to do it like this. I think it will be fine.

Thank you SF The day gives it a more apple green and with UV more a nuclear green. I do like it has two faces this way

Thanks Craig and thanks for coming by to support me here my friend

Thank you Matt! Happy to see you here.

Thanks Pranja.

Thank you.

I am Peter his padawan, didn't he mention this? I do all kind of chores like folding his underwear

Thanks a lot for the kind words

Thanks Andy. Great to see you have been following this from the start. And thanks for the kind comment.

haha just mine enough BTC Ian and we'll talk

Thanks a lot man!

 

Time for a small update. I am really busy now trying to sort out all the small stuff I still needed to do. I don't want to cut any corners now I am so closing to finishing it. All the small stuff is important as well. Here is a small picture loop of the progress so far.

First I started work on the sidepanel. It needed a big window to show all the goodies. I am normally not a fan of just one huge window. But I have so much stuff to show it was kind of inevitable.









He is the cover for the SSD I made from the UV Green acrylic. Ianovski made a vector for me for the sticker thqat will cover it. You will see it later.
Also here is the 1m sata cable I ordered for the SSD. All sleeved in shade 19 by MDPC-X. Turns out later it was a) too long and b) the 90 degree connector was too long making it get into a conflict with my illuminated midplate. Needless to say.... the midplate won. I ordered another SATA cable now.



Back to the sidepanel. Here is it all sanded and cleaned. Ready for its coat of primer.





I received my SSD cover sticker. The company that did it was different from last time. They took a million years to reply to an email. These guys also sent me 2 (in case I would do a boob and destroy the first one). As you can see coverage of the black isn't as good as the other one when backlit. But when in the case you cannot see this as it gets frontlit.











Here are the panels done.
It was NOT an easy trip to get here.
I have just shown you a picture of the door in primer.
So I prayed it black (soft shine).
First the inside of the panel. One coat, a small wait, another coat, perfect!
Turned it around, one coat, nice and clean, wait a bit, the second coat...during this second coat the can of spraypaint started to spit big blobs of paint instead of a nice even spray. Finish completely destroyed grrrr. Had to wait till it was dry next day to sand it all of again and spray it again. So next day in my lunchbreak went to a DIY shop and found they only had MOTIP spraypaint. Which was matt black. Meh spraypaint is spraypaint. So I bought a can. That evening I sanded, cleaned, sprayed....son of a b***h.
The spraypaint was enjoying the primer as much as Oekrain and Russia at the moment. In some spots it looked like the paint had been attacked with paintremover. It just bubbled up with cracks and all. ARRGGHHHHH
Now I got pissed and actually grabbed my can of paint remover. Decided to go back to the metal this time. Got almost everything off. Sanded it nice and flat with 400 grid. Primed it AGAIN, went to my usual shop to get the spraypaint I usually use. Sprayed it again using 3 layers of black soft shine. And here we go. Finally





Nice and clean and it fits the pedestal very well







I am working now on two more covers and have ordered some aluminium L-pices to hide the UV-strip in. See you next time.

 

looking nice!

 

Thanks

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I have been working on a cover for over the IO ports (to cover the silver boxes) and am still working on a cover for over the PSU compartment. Next to this I have bought an Olympus Pen3 camera (PL3) and I am slowly trying to learn how to make photos and from what angles and lighting etc. So I added two okayish photos xD
The IO cover can't be seen very well in the photos. Because there is so much going on there I just grabbed a piece of UV green acrylic. Bent a 90 degree angle in it. Kept it short so the heatsinks would still get airflow but the silver boxes can't be seen. Painted the entire outside black but kept the sides uncovered so a small line of UV remains visible when looking from certain angles.

The PSU cover is not done yet but some from photos you can guess how it will look when it is finished. I wanted to re-use the material that came from the sidepanel when making the hole for the window.

 

This really is a gorgeous system you've put together, looks equally as good under UV or just daylight!

Any idea on it's PPD yet?

 

Looks amazing. Can't wait to see final pics.

 

Thank you very much man. Happy to hear you like it

Thanks Pranja, means a lot coming from you.

I need to receive one more small package and then I can finish this baby. And press the ON button for the first time

 

Back with another update.
I today almost finished the 2nd cover I was making.
This is for the PSU section.
The placement of the illuminated logo is so that when the sidepanel is on the logo is viewable through the window in the most right bottom corner.

The hole on the left of the cover is for venting the PSUs.
There is a big vent there originally and didn't feel like torching them up.
So tried to create something around the vents that was in line with the feel and look of the build. I hope you guys think so as well.

















PS due to a wrong cut by me in the acrylic I had to make the rear of 2 separate pieces sadly as I was fresh out of UV green plexiglass.