Intro
Hello again! I am Jamie and am working under the name Space Bar Mods, which is a little computer side business I do with my family. This involves my teenage kids working with computers, graphic design, animation, and all the fun stuff that comes with modding. We have added lots of fun things to use and now have 3- 3D Printers and a Laser CNC. This is our second time submitting a build and cannot wait for next time. Our ideas grow so much, and we expand what we can do each time.
Project design concept and inspiration
This build’s theme was all from the kids and came about in August. They play this game with their friends and frequently watch streamers play. With the new VR edition out, we all thought it would be fun to make our own little bean. Being “Red” is the most sus, we went with him as our primary objective. After doing soft cooling last build, we decided to give hard tubing a go and make some crazy bends to simulate the inside of our lil bean. We ran with it from there.
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Components
Case: Cooler Master - Cooler Master NR200P
Power Supply: Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold
Motherboard: GIGABYTE B550 I AORUS PRO AX
Processor: AMD RYZEN 7 5800X
Memory: Gigabyte AORUS RGB DDR4 16GB (2x8GB) 4400MHz Memory
Graphics Card: GIGABYTE RTX 3080 Eagle
Storage: WD Black SN750 SE NVMe M.2 2280 1TB
Fans: Cooler Master MasterFan MF120 Halo
Liquid Cooling: Alphacool Blocks, Radiator, Pump/Resevoir Combo, fittings, tubes, and drain system.
Coolant: PrimoChill Vue Sky White SX
Creation process
We knew we wanted to turn our case vertical to give the aspect ratios of a bean. To give him, more character, we created feet and a head using Fusion360. We sent those to our larger 3D printer. The head took close to 9 days and the feet another 2. We really wanted a clear visor, so after creating that, we sent it to our resin printer, which only took about 12 hours. Two of our kids are into graphics design and created some animations and hardware backgrounds for a monitor we decided to add to our visor. While all that was going on, my last daughter and I dismantled the entire case and began our sanding, priming, sanding, painting process for all of the pieces. Once complete we began altering for our needs. We completely flipped the power cage to the outside so we would have room for a larger pump. The larger pump had holes made so it could be screwed into the back of the case. We made a cut out that allowed our power cables to come to the power supply and then bundled it nicely into our beans backpack which was made in fusion as well. It is mounted using magnets. His little feet got sanded, painted, and attached. His head had to be filled sanded and painted (more about him later). We then attached our visor and his rubber gasket. We mounted our screen. We tested our components on a test bench to make sure everything was A-OK and then began flushing all our water components. We then installed blocks and began assembling our water loops. Hard tubing was a lot of fun! We tested our loop overnight and booted our bean up for the first time. We then installed all our graphics and animations to our display.
Issues & Problems
The 3D printing of our head (9-day print) almost had to be restarted at 74% due to a thermistor breaking. The build cooled too much and almost broke completely. We were able to get it fixed and restart the build with minimal issue. It took a little filling and lots of sanding, but in the end, we made it work.
Our visor took 3 tries to get right. We used filament which did not give us the effect we wanted at all. Then we used our smaller resin printer, breaking it down into multiple pieces, but that was just an eye sore. We purchased an amazing larger resin printer and got exactly what we wanted.
First time working with hard tubing was a learning curve! When they say get extra tubing and fittings, y’all weren’t kidding!
