Onwards and upwards by Parvum Systems

 

This will be written by Justin but will also feature Shaun. We are the two that make up Parvum Systems. We would love to expand the company but for now you are stuck with just the two of us!

 

This thread will be a close look at the Parvum Systems team building a fully W/C rig into one of our own S1.0 Cases. There will be some big changes and a lot of custom work done to the case. Hopefully enough to keep your attention. This is just one of the number of cases that we will be taking to the iSeries LAN even at the end of March in the UK. We plan to head out to other EU LANs later in the year. Including Dream Hack.

 

We would first like to briefly introduce ourselves. Say a little bit about us and how we started Parvum Systems. If you wish to skip this part and get to the photographs then do so by all means! :)

 

Parvum Systems was started approximately one year ago after a discussion about SFF cases. I myself have been working with SFF systems for my last 3 builds. One a full custom Acrylic build. The other two Lian Li cases. However I was always frustrated at how hard it was to put so much water cooling equipment into a case while showing it off at the same time. So with the power of Shaun's architecture degree & CAD knowledge and my case modding/water cooling skills we figured we would start something of our own.

We have come a long way in this year. I would approximate we have easily used thousands of Euros on Acrylic in the testing and building stages of the S1.0 . It has had its ups and downs and has been extremely frustrating at times but I would say we are finally happy with our first of many products.

We have every intention to start to involve far more people in expanding Parvum Systems and when we develop the S2.0. We would love nothing more than to involve more people. Get opinions and even meet up with other case modders and builders to help provide the market with exactly what they want.

 

This project log will feature an adapted version of the S1.0. It will be a reverse ATX version of the case. We will also be milling a custom reservoir for the roof of the case and a few other surprises along the way. The beauty of this project is anything that we create will defiantly be something we will look to sell as an extra or a future product on the Parvum Store.

 

Our S1.0 case can currently be purchased on the highflow store here or the OCUK store here!

 

Here are a few photos of our warehouse space and what runs Parvum Systems:

 

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In the next update (a few days time) we will show you the CAD designs & the initial CNC cutting of the panels.

 

Thanks for reading, see you on the next one!

So here is a small update for today with another to shortly follow!

 

We started by drawing a 4 panel selection for the case. Somewhat close to the S1.0 but with a couple of changes.

 

• All the panels have been flipped/mirrored in certain ways to accommodate for reverse ATX
  
• Additional holes have been cut to mount a bottom and top chamber
  
• One of the rear 80mm fans has been removed and replaced with the Parvum Logo
  

 

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Tool paths exported to the CNC PC. She is a mighty fine build in one very old case...

 

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Drawing ready we moved onto tool set up and to start cutting. For these two panels we will be using a 3mm and a 1.5mm single flute cutter:

 

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Tool change to a lovely Belin series 1.5mm single flute to get into the tight edges of the Parvum logo:

 

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A quick look at the four panels once the backing had been removed:

 

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Finally for today we started to bend the mid wall. This mid wall is just for testing purposes at this stage. I want to mark up all the holes for pass through connectors/cables etc to make them exact rather than the pre-spaced ones we offer in the S1.0

 

Mid wall spacing measured and marked up:

 

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Then continued to make the first bend using the line bender & bending jig:

 

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Tester mid wall successfully bent and ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will be cutting the two frosted red panels to accompany the white & start the initial assembly.

 

Sorry for the poor lighting towards the end of the photos. The day light ran out fast here and we don't use a flash.

 

See you tomorrow.

Hello guys, back again. Sorry most updates will be short but posted more regularly. We try to get a little bit done each day outside of cutting customer items/cases.

 

iSeries event is coming in fast so expect to see lots of updates!

 

So first for the day we attached the 6 x nickle cubes to the base of the case with 6mm hex bolts. These are black but we will change them to white for this build at a later point:

 

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Next we put down the frosted red sheet to cut the inside accent panels. For this we used our work horse tool the 3mm single flute. There is a little bit more to this panel so we thought we would show you the cutting process step by step.

 

First we did the inside profiling. Nothing too uncommon here:

 

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We have a large amount of these shape off cuts. Defiantly use them in another project at some point:

 

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Next we have to countersink a section. This allows a piece of 1.5mm aluminium to be sandwiched between two panels. We will come back to this later:

 

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and finally the outside cut:

 

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We then moved on to cut the front accent panel. We wont show you any more cutting because you get the idea now. Here are the two red panels:

 

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We now start the assembly with more of the nickle corner blocks. We use 12mm hex screws to pass through both 5mm panels and safely into the block. Again we will change these to white bolts if possible:

 

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A close up of the Parvum logo. We will be lighting this from behind the frosted red with a red LED pad:

 

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To finish today's work we placed the middle wall in for a quick look. We used this old middle wall to mark up the exact point we want holes for cable management and watercooling pass-through connectors. We will then recut the panel with the perfect spacing:

 

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Thanks for reading guys! In the next update you may expect to see fitting the mobo, cutting cable management holes and fitting the new bottom and top chambers.

 

See you then!

Back again with a little more. On the check list for today:

 

• New middle wall
  
• Motherboard test fit
  
• SSD Bracket
  
• Corsair love
  
• Quick GPU test fit
  

 

So we decided to go with a frosted red middle wall. This was for a number of reasons but primarily as we wanted to use white braid on the PSU and didn't want it to get lost on the middle wall. Plus we are really in love with this color!

 

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Tapped and inserted the motherboard standoffs:

 

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A quick motherboard test fit:

 

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Next on the list we started the SSD mount. The placement and idea actually came from k3nnys Parvum build. You can take a look at that here.

 

We first put down an old piece of white acrylic. We try not to waste any off cuts or discarded panels:

 

1.5mm cutter here. Extremely tight work on the Corsair logo:

 

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Next some detailing to one of the sides. Tool of choice here is the V bit cutter. If ran at the correct speeds this will leave a really nice 45' cut:

 

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And the cut process:

 

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The finished piece needs some file attention. This is mainly excess swarf:

 

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After hand finishing:

 

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This is the area for placement. The problem we face is the small hex screw head that you can see. The black one. The reason we couldn't countersink this was because we did so on the other side of the motherboard wall.

 

To combat this we need to make a small hole on the backside of the SSD mount. We found this little trick works kinda nice. I'm sure there is a better way to do this but that's what first came to mind:

 

Applied some thermal paste to the screw head:

 

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This then leaves a mark on the SSD mount:

 

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Which we cut with the Dremal & press:

 

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Perfect fit after a couple of goes back and forth:

 

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We now got to test fit two of the SSD's. Subject to change the SSDs later as we expect to feature a raid card in the build:

 

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Really happy with the look. Like we said at the start of the log; cable access holes will be cut at a later point so there will be one hole per sata cable. More on this later though.

 

To end this update a quick GPU test fit. Would like to change the GPU but we will see how the budget is before iSeries. Just had to see it with the reverse ATX:

 

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See you tomorrow (hopefully)! :D

Stunning work, the logos & exact panel bends are really impressive.

 

Sticking with this thread all the way through!

Stunning work, the logos & exact panel bends are really impressive.

 

Sticking with this thread all the way through!

 

Thank you very much. Heres another update for you and hopefully others here to take a look at!

 

We start the day by installing the extra blocks for our new chamber. We added these to support the extent of the water cooling and to cover up the black radiator. We want to keep the white as the focal color rather than showing to much black:

 

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Next we took some measurements and spent some time in Auto Cad to draw the bottom chamber. If I am being honest this did take two attempts. I messed up on a few measurements for the 1/4' radiator threads. Shaun took charge and redid them, perfect of course. I suppose he does do it better than me after all.

 

The finished product with some nice chamfer detailing to hug the front 240mm radiator and the back 80mm fan:

 

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Here you can see the thing installed. Really happy with how this works. The fans do still fit with the extra 5mm thickness on top of the bottom radiator.

 

Also I took the plunge and got myself a Rampage IV Gene. Board is lovely. Also installed the Ek CPU block from my old build.

 

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To see if the hard work was all worth it; radiator test fit:

 

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We wont be using these exact ones but gives you a nice idea:

 

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Next up we have to cut the only part of the case that isn't acrylic. This is 1.5mm aluminium.

Similar tooling here but with the addition of coolant. We removed the misting system for photos.

 

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Here is the finished article with a little basic sanding:

 

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Now we have to make the 90° bend. To do this we move to something somewhat older than a CNC ;)

Lovely machine for the job.

 

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Finished with the bend:

 

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We next install it into the rear of the case. This is sandwiched between the two 5mm sheets that you saw in one of the first updates:

 

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Thats us for today. :rock:!

 

Hope to see you all again tomorrow!

First things first. :headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:. I guess that's last to. Sooooo epic.

First things first. :headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:. I guess that's last to. Sooooo epic.

 

Haha thank you! Lots of headbanging is just fine as a response !

UPDATE 13th March:

 

Before our update I would like to introduce our sponsor Alphacool! We have a very good friend working with/for Alphacool & am super happy to have them onboard. As far as sponsorships go we are usually doing work in return for people where we can so it is more of a trade. But welcome to the watercooling power!

 

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First thing from Alphacool was this 240mm radiator. Real nice quality and lots of options with fittings. Very useful when working in smaller spaces. This is the 60mm version:

 

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The copper logo or the radiator colour don't suit the build so we decided to make a cover. We also wanted to make a nice feature with their logo.

 

Started with the drawing part:

 

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And onto the cutting. Recycling old acrylic in this build as much as possible, especially for the smaller parts. Cutting the female part:

 

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After we used the 45° cutter to detail 3 of the edges, looking nice so far:

 

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Moving onto the frosted red for the male parts. Same cutter, more recycling of old panels:

 

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Here are the two pieces finished. The cutter was running a little thin on the last pass and left a few little bits needed cleaning up.

 

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Using some lubricant and some careful teasing the male pieces fit into the female *ok please go ahead and quote this, I really should have reworded this one*:

 

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Just the inside of the O's to fit as a second inlay. Super happy with the results. Here are a few shots:

 

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Moving back to the case we test if the new radiator:

 

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Very tight fit here. Shaun likes to keep his tolerance very tight. If I say make it fit he will leave 0.2mm! Works really well here.

 

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Next we decided to make a change to the front. We wanted to reuse the same technique that was used for the Parvum logo at the rear of the case and cut these new lines. We are both really happy with the results:

 

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To finish today we today we test fit the radiator cover:

 

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The bottom of this is actually a 45° cut going into the lower chamber 45°. This gives a really nice fit:

 

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And a final shot of the case for tonight:

 

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What do you all think about the new front? I'm sure a taste thing but we both really like it.

 

See you again tomorrow....!

The overall awesomeness is accelerating exponentially!

 

:nutkick:

 

(emoticon illustrates you (green guy) and your skillset compared to me (yellow guy) and mine...

The overall awesomeness is accelerating exponentially!

 

:nutkick:

 

(emoticon illustrates you (green guy) and your skillset compared to me (yellow guy) and mine...

 

You have a way with words! Haha, thank you !

Here we are again, stayed after work for a few hours to get this update together.

 

The main focus for this update was to make a custom reservoir. We decided to do this for a number of reasons. Mainly because they look amazing but also because we are going to be pretty tight for space once we do a double loop.

 

So we started by cutting a test piece of 5mm acrylic. The same size as the full reservoir to ensure a good fit:

 

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A little later and the tool paths are set:

 

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Onto the milling. Tools for the job, 2mm & 6mm:

 

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Lots of mess when milling thick acrylic:

 

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A little more cutting:

 

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After a little cleaning down here is the finished item. We are really happy with results. After the o ring is installed and a little tapping we are in business:

 

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Next the Gentle Typhoon fans are installed in the front:

 

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Fitting really nice:

 

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Then we cut the test top panel for the case. The top section for the case will be two layers. The first is this 5mm frosted clear. This also doubles as the lid to the reservoir. We went with this to match the frosted EK blocks and add a somewhat gray tone to the build:

 

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Thanks again for reading. Can't wait to see fluid in this thing.

Next you can expect the second layer to the top & the top chamber.

 

Thanks for reading :rock:

Man, how many case-modding competitions is this going to be entered in?

 

Because it is seriously full of win!

 

:headbang2

Man, how many case-modding competitions is this going to be entered in?

 

Because it is seriously full of win!

 

:headbang2

 

As just a team of two trying to enter into the market with our cases I don't think it would be fair to enter competitions. We would love to just to see how we do. I think if we did any competitions with prizes and were to win something, we would want to donate the prize :)

 

Thanks for the compliment!

Small update for you all.

 

We would like to first introduce another friend on board. Mayhems. You all know plenty about Mayhems and the coolant will be perfect for the build:

 

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Started by drawing up the top chamber. There is reason to all this madness. We really wanted to gain the extra space in the top at the bottom to help route tubing. The build will be using acrylic straight tubes which as you can imagine will be somewhat difficult in such a small space. Because we want to use a window for both sides of the case this means a lot of straight tube stress. We will be using the top and bottom chambers to give access to more flexible tubing and help work the whole nightmare out.

 

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Moving onto some cutting, sorry its a bit boring to show CNC cutting so we will keep it breif:

 

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Next we test fit the Enermax fans. Both 120mm & 80mm. Love the cluster fans! Always been a favorite and love white LEDs:

 

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Here we have the item cut earlier; looks strange but you will understand the use more with photos:

 

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Installed in the case:

 

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That photo really shows that the alphacool rad cover really DOES need to be made full length. We will be heading in a few hours early for work to get this done in time.

 

With the GPU installed, will change the GPU block to clear due to it being a focal point of the case. Annoying that we already had the black one:

 

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Cables fitting real nice:

 

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Considering an underside backplate. Overall fit is pretty nice for first try:

 

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Installed the first of the acrylic tubes. Sourced this tubing from E22, of course 100's of places supply acrylic tube but our usual UK suppliers is awful for tube. The tolerances some people don't mention can be wild. Thanks nate:

 

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Final shot of the case in it's current state:

 

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As always, thanks for reading! See you on the next one.

welcome aboard Mayhems

 

parvumsystems

i have over 3500 in each one of my builds and they just cant compare to your build

deep pockets no doubt ;):

welcome aboard Mayhems

 

parvumsystems

i have over 3500 in each one of my builds and they just cant compare to your build

deep pockets no doubt ;):

 

The fluid will work charms!

 

3500 dollars or pounds?? To be honest Bitspower was about 50% of the cost here haha.

The fluid will work charms!

 

3500 dollars or pounds?? To be honest Bitspower was about 50% of the cost here haha.

 

american dollars

that includes half of my 34 tb hd's tho

Sponsors:

 

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Hey all! Back again!

 

Sorry for the delays; we focused more on the build but taking photos as we go of course. Log had to take the back foot for a little while.

 

So first up some more products from Alphacool. The massive 360mm is for another LAN rig don't worry haha. Not going to try get this to fit! I'm sure the d5's are MORE than overkill but I like to reuse and expect to use them in an SR-2 rig for summer:

 

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And some Phobya goodies:

 

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Next up today we start putting some more fittings into the top chamber to connect up the CPU. The loop here is very strange. The aim was to only use straight tubing in all visible spots:

 

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We then recut the Alphacool. It just had to be done to look good:

 

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Playing around with the top chamber connectors and the loop:

 

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More pass through connections. These actually send the loop to the back of the case by going under the front fans. They then connect up to the pump & res in the back:

 

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A few final shots for the update, sorry it was short:

 

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See you again tomorrow (and iSeries if you are there)!

can you point out your corsair hardware????... seems that you are missing ANYTHING made by corsair

Two Corsair Force GT 60GB SSDs are just under the Corsair logo in this pic:

 

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Two Corsair Force GT 60GB SSDs are just under the Corsair logo in this pic:

 

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+1 what this kind person said!

Sponsors:

 

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Hello again, back for a short update. We actually put the full rig together in a very slap dash format just so we could take the rig to LAN. It was actually great practice as we could see any flaws and find any issues that would need to be addressed. The rig is now drained and stripped back for rebuild so the project log will continue. Thanks for the support and everyone we met at i48.

 

Sorry very short and sweet this time. More tubing and rebuilding!

 

First we added the EK RAM blocks. Loving the 2 X RAM blocks! More eye candy!!

 

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Then comes some more straight line tubing:

 

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Ending the day (we did say it would be a tiny update) we have correctly installed the 80mm fans and wanted to show you the start of cable routing/management.

 

Next update will provide you with much more to look at :D

UPDATE TIME!

 

Sponsors:

 

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So to continue with the rebuild to get all the cable management in place. We did it almost in a backwards fashion. No cable holes initially then after a full rig build mark up the exact measurements and cut again. Long winded indeed but gets the finish we wanted.

 

60mm Alphacool back in place:

 

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Gentle fans installed via the second layer/accent panel:

 

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Would like to welcome Pexon on board. We met James from Pexon at iSeries and got to spend a good bit of time together. We have actually traded work for work here and this is a shot of the PSU as you may have seen already if you follow his work:

 

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Next some floppy tubing that needs to be used in places that wont be seen in the final. It was impossible to not use any in a build so small but it wont be seen. Also the 8pin EPS for the motherboard:

 

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With the Enermax fans installed:

 

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And as promised the EK block changed to clear/frosted:

 

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We had been lucky enough to part exchange an old card for a second GPU and got the matching block for it. SLI connector goodness here from EK:

 

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A little idea of what is going on up there to make this thing all happen. Lots of holes, lots of mad connectors. Excuse the mixture of fittings. These won't be visible so it didn't have to all be bitspower ;)

 

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So now because of the second GPU that we didn't take into account efficiently we had to change the tube routing. It doesn't look as amazing as the all in line tubing but after seeing it filled with tester fluid it still looks amazing and we are really happy.

Here are some photos of the fittings and changes:

 

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A few random shots of the PSU cables and the top chamber, starting to take shape:

 

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To end the update a few shots of the routing system. Though not all direct to the top they work really nice and straight tubing is killer:

 

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Again thank you SO much for reading. It means everything to us. Please throw questions, advice and/or ideas at us!

 

See you on the next one!!

AMAZING!!! How I would love to have the machines you have to do this work. I have a couple questions if you dont mind me asking. When it comes to finishing the acrylic pieces after milling, what is your process? They look so smooth and... delicious. :headbang::headbang:

 

And for the frosted acrylic - did you buy them this way (frosted)? Or did you do some kind of process to make them like this.

 

Great job again!