Case Mod - In Progress Sleeper G5 Water-RGB

very good! keep us informed!

 

Update 5# GPU bracket and some tubes.

First time bending tubes. Hot one bend a little hot but it is quite easy to do.

Can't do any more work for a couple of weeks now

 

that beast of a gpu give me anxiety on top of that tin cute mobo ahaha

 

Teaser photo while I am waiting for my CNC man to get back to Australia from the US.... It could be a while.

Temp reservoir to test everything else.

 

You hard-lined a Gatorade bottle. I'm giving it a like for the shoelace. It adds that extra little bit of class.

 

Nice use of the case not seen one of them before.

 

Originally started this to see if i could fit a bigger Rad than LTT into my Mac Pro case (That's a 360, but a 360*180 - it fit's perfectly to the millimeter) but i think i'm going for something more similar to you OP - here's a teaser of my upcoming Mac PrO11 Dynamic buildlog https://imgur.com/a/4DRIEcv.

How're you progressing under quarantine? I unfortunately ran out of black carbon brass tube before getting to the gpu (as you can tell by that softtube) and don't have acces to my usual space to make a distroplate so i just used a bayres to emulate one for now.

 

Hey lewinernst

Quarantine has brought this project to a screeching halt. I need to access a CNC for my custom distro plate and that is not going to happen.




I have spent my time Changing the 3xUSB2 ports (one front, two Back) to USB3.1. Manual soldering on to some little connectors.


It will be a while I think till the last update.


Andrew

 

Update #Going Mad

So I may have had an idea of something to do while in lockdown and then I may have bought 3 more cases.

Was only $15 AUD ($5 each)

Update again shortly

 

I love this case, this case have no time, all aluminium...solid.

 

Update 6#

I have had to leave the original bref a little.

1. The USB ports on the back and front will now be blue USB3 ports. Changed from the original grey of the USB 2
   
   I will see if I can do something to make them look more grey but I don't like my chances.
   
   I just needed to do this to make it usable.
   Before 2x USB3.1 and 7x USB2
   Now 5x USB3.1 4x USB2
   

I was hoping that this would not happen but the PSU was heating up because it was a bit starved of air.

I have cut 2 big 92mm holes in the bottom of the case to let the air in. They have the same grill as the back of the computer and should not really be visible.

I think it looks good but it is not the original bref of “No external changes apart from what is in the PCI Case slots”

 

Update 7#

I have completely changed the way the mounting plate works. Now it’s glued onto the inner case and the outer case is screwed on last.

It's hard to explain. I hope the pictures help.

Basically now I can see the cables on the back of the mounting plate and there are no visible screws holding it in place.

I am however losing a little rigidity over all as the inner case can only be screwed onto the outer case on one side.

 

It always amazed me that they could make a mesh case that overheated.
Do what you must to it. You can only improve the design.