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CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Haswell Devil's Canyon
GPUs: 2x Sli Nvidia Galax/KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Hall of Fame (HOF)
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400MHz DDR3 (4x4gb)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
PSU: SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 1300W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black
Cabling: Custom cabling ordered to fit the red/white theme.
Watercooling loop:
Coolant: Mayhems Pastel Ice White
CPU Cooler: EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy EVO
GPU Blocks by Diamond Cooling - White Acetal
14/10mm Acrylic Tubing
Barrows Black compression fittings
420mm Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Stealth 420 (Push+Pull)
360mm Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GTX 360 (Push+Pull)
Pumps: I am using two different pumps because I already own them and taking them off my existing loop
Pump 1: Swiftech MCP35X Industrial Pump 12 Volts
Pump 2: Swiftech MCP655-B Water Pump 12 Volts (EK-XTOP D5 Pump Top)
Radiator Fans:
420mm Rad: Push/Pull - 6x 140mm Akasa AK-FN063 Viper Fan High Performance S-FLOW Blade Quiet Fan - 3.12 mm/H2O
360mm Rad: Push - 3x 120mm Corsair SP120 High Performance Edition High Static Pressure Fan - 3.1 mm/H20
Pull - 2x 120mm Phobya G-Silent 1500rpm + 1x 120mm Cooler Master Fan
Having selected the C3 acrylic case from the states as the main box I set about making some custom internal body parts. This is the first thing I built which was a clear sheet of acrylic heat formed to make a box across the whole base width of the case. The object of this box was purely to house a million metres of cable that were to be installed in the coming months. You can see the first ones in this pic which are the ATX header switch cables. They travelled in their own shower hose directly to the headers and a small adaptor plate was made to keep it in the correct position. The four other holes were to fix another 4 shower hoses to carry cables to other various locations later on. The shower hoses fitted very nicely to the glands shown which are made by Kopex (Part no GAM0404).
The whole box was then clad in chrome sheet and fixed into the main case by 4xM6 hex cap machine screws.
The handbuilt breakout control box was fabricated from what started life as a removable CD holder designed to fit in 3 spare drive bays. 3 spare drive bays was never going to happen and frankly it was a waste of space. So I mounted it as the breakout control box and held nicely in place by 2 flexible microphone goosenecks. These were rigid enough to hold the box in position and flexible enough to reposition as required during use or to position the PC at different angles. The main power feed can be seen inside the box having come through the Gooseneck. The hole in the top of the breakout box was to allow a small case fan to be fitted in extraction orientation to take heat off of the cathode inverters which were to be housed inside the box.
liquid cooling system - coolant flows from the radiator (left) over to the dual-core amd64 cpu (top), then down to the nvidia 7800gt graphics card (bottom), and back through the pump (bottom left corner).
view guts of a liquid-cooled silent pc - _MG_1777 JPG on a black background.
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Haswell Devil's Canyon
GPUs: 2x Sli Nvidia Galax/KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Hall of Fame (HOF)
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400MHz DDR3 (4x4gb)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
PSU: SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 1300W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black
Cabling: Custom cabling ordered to fit the red/white theme.
Watercooling loop:
Coolant: Mayhems Pastel Ice White
CPU Cooler: EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy EVO
GPU Blocks by Diamond Cooling - White Acetal
14/10mm Acrylic Tubing
Barrows Black compression fittings
420mm Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Stealth 420 (Push+Pull)
360mm Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GTX 360 (Push+Pull)
Pumps: I am using two different pumps because I already own them and taking them off my existing loop
Pump 1: Swiftech MCP35X Industrial Pump 12 Volts
Pump 2: Swiftech MCP655-B Water Pump 12 Volts (EK-XTOP D5 Pump Top)
Radiator Fans:
420mm Rad: Push/Pull - 6x 140mm Akasa AK-FN063 Viper Fan High Performance S-FLOW Blade Quiet Fan - 3.12 mm/H2O
360mm Rad: Push - 3x 120mm Corsair SP120 High Performance Edition High Static Pressure Fan - 3.1 mm/H20
Pull - 2x 120mm Phobya G-Silent 1500rpm + 1x 120mm Cooler Master Fan
Piñasphere joined the fray for the Case Mod WorldSeries 2022
I wanted to experiment how far I could get with the design of a Computer case, from the standard that people picture in their mind when you talk about a PC, a boxy shape.
Even though it is watercooled, it is also less than 5 litres, and weighs about 2 Kgs.
I didn't paint it because I wanted to reach a point in which it looked good that way.
The black Petg of the case is Recycled Pet
Right now It is my main PC, it works for everything and the specs allow for it, from 3D editing on Blender and Fusion 360 to playing at 1080p.
Specs:
Mobo: Asrock X300 M-STX
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML120LV2
Fan: Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700PWM
RAM: Corsair vengeance SoDIMM 2x32Gb@3200
1st & 2nd SSD: Samsung 980M.2 1Tb
3nd SSD: Samsung 860EVO 2.5" 250Gb
WiFi: Intel AX200
This shot probably best shows the thinking behind wanting to get the cooling components largely out of the main case. The tubing, pump and radiator were all mounted on the outside as supposed to the customary inside. My thinking on this was simple.. Why have components designed to cool the water mounted in an essentially hot envioroment? Get them outside in the free air. Seemed to work well as the water temp was regularly around the 30-34C mark under load (un-clocked). I was particularly pleased with the appearance of the way the tubing exited the case in an unusual way to connect to the major components. Shades of Megadeth anyone?..
Everything inside in orgasmatron that could be modded, was modded. And as such the rear housing for the pump was made from a chromed cap for a domestic light pull switch, then drilled vents in the top to allow heat dissipation. Much nicer than the standard blue barrel on the back of the pump.
The optical drive bays had a custom cut acrylic overlay as did much of the front face.
These were laser cut and then engraved to my specification.
You can see behind a smearing of Araldite which I used to hold them on which in hind sight was a bad idea as it shew through the front, sadly it was too late at this point and I just had to put up with that.
2 x SATA Plextor DVD/RW drives were the optical drives of choice and at the time just about the best thing out there. The eject buttons relied purely on the flexibility of the acrylic to activate them which I thought was a nice touch. Another small oversight here, you may notice the emergency tray release holes were not available for use which was a real pain if you needed them as the front of the case had to come off first!