Casemod Cooler master Cosmos II MbK

[kier]

Cooler Master Cosmos II MbK

Hi my modding friends,

My entry for the 2012 Mod Competition: the Cosmos II MbK

The new flagship of Cooler Master.

The hardware:

The Cosmos II

The Asus Sabertooth X79

CPU:

Intel Core i7 3930K

RAM's:

Corsair Dominator 4GB DDR3-1600

GPU's:

2 x ZOTAC GTX580 1536M 348BIT DDR5

PSU:

Cooler Master Hybrid 1050W

Fans:

White Xigmatek XOF-F1251 fans

Dvd:

Sony optiarc Slot loader

Controller:

Aquaero 5 XT

Watercooled components by EKWB

The color combination is going to be black, gray and white

Now...... it's modding time

I removed the top mesh and made ​​a number of strips.

Which are directed obliquely backwards, this is still a rugged design and has yet to be finished

Cut out the fan controller carefully

Here is coming a slot loader DVD or Bluray.

For measuring I used this one .

And made a slot for it

Where before was the sliding panel I cut and bent a piece of aluminum

Which is placed like this

And made the slot for the slot loader drive

Just to compare the size of this beast

And next to some other cases

I removed al the plastic and there's not much left

These fanholes might become handy

Also removed the HDD bays and some other stuff, now there is a lot of space left for two 240 Rads. It,s possible to put 360 rads in there but I want lots of space for the cables and tubing

The front is also cleaned

I have a nice idea for the lower compartment. For this I sawn a piece of 1mm aluminium

Bent it

With a slide angel

Covering up the whole compartment. Other side is becoming just the same

For the fanholes I had a nice idea. I really like the shape from original fanholes, so this I,m going to make in the lower panel

After some sawing and filing

Second one also done

Removed the tape

And placed the rad and fans. This cover is going to be black (I think)

Just one more to make I also liked the shape from the air intakes behind the mesh in the front,

so I copied that to a piece of 5mm white acrylic

And placed it. I think i'm going to place another black layer on top of it

Also made a 5mm white acrylic midplate

Maybe illuminated

That's it for now!!! coming back soon

[pcjunkie209]

well look what the cat dragged in! Awesomeness thats all I can say for this mod.....

[frozensnail]

looking very nice my friend, can't wait to see further results of your work, keep it up looks sweet so far:-)

[paultan]

hello richard, good for you that you were able to join this project.

[FelipeOld]

IACM representing! Good luck Kier!

[kier]

well look what the cat dragged in! Awesomeness thats all I can say for this mod.....

Lol, yup couldn't let this compo pass

looking very nice my friend, can't wait to see further results of your work, keep it up looks sweet so far:-)

Thanx bro

hello richard, good for you that you were able to join this project.

Thank you Paul

IACM representing! Good luck Kier!

[kier]

Update: The front

Continuing with the appearance of the case. I want the front to turn black / white. So I have sawn a piece 3mm black acrylic, the same pattern as the white plate. Only now with the recesses 5mm smaller.

White plate on it

I like the looks of it. Also have now some great air in/ outlets, finishing of this part later

I previously mentioned that the controller is coming in the upper 5.25 compartment togheter with the I/O stuff, all of this in the black and white theme

So marked a 5mm white acrylic piece

To keep everything in place there is coming a piece of black acrylic behind it with recesses for the controller and I/O stuff

Witch is placed like this

To get a nice contrast around the controller, I've cut and filed a edge of 3mm black acrylic

And also made two black strips cut for the I/O stuff

And placed in the Cosmos

For the lower I/O section cut rectangles and circles for the USB and audio

And after some carefully filing

Top I / O section also done, and put everything in it for the looks

Above the Cosmos controller is still a big white surface, this seems to me a nice place to put a display.

For this the perfect display: The Aquaero 5 XT. So ordered and received

Hmm that's a unpleasant surprise, the controller with touch buttons isn't black anymore (like the older version) but Aqua Computer has replaced / filled this with stainless steel buttons.

Itself is looking very nice with the new buttons... but not for this build. So first i'm going to try to get an "older" version. Until I know more I will stop working out the display.

First idea was to make this cover with a angle just like the other side, but a change of plans.

This is now becoming a straight cover, but with 2 HDD attached to it. The place for the HDD's was a bit limited because I removed the HDD cages and almost all the space is occupied by the water cooling products

So this is a nice solution. There will also be a SSD, but this is placed on the side of the 5.25 bay

For the cover I sawn a piece aluminum and marked it

Bent it

Cut out the Fanholes again

And drilled the holes for the HDDs. Of course I will make some adjustments for noise reduction

All placed like this

Also made the recess for the cables

I've covered the two plates with black vinyl, which gives the same black color as the rest of the case

And placed them

Pics with the white front

For this build I purchased a nice new mobo: The Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Really a great motherboard, here some pics:

Some standard stuff

And the motherboard

Placed right away in the cosmos

So the Sabertooth, really is a beautiful mobo

I also bought some beautiful rams to fill up the sabertooth, 3 x the Corsair 4 GB DDR3-1600 Kit

I will place EK ram coolers on these.

En last but not least, the white Xigmatek XOF-F1251 fans, which fit perfectly with this build

Placed on top

360 rad fits

In the last update I had shown you the white midplate, Ive adjusted it a bit for 2 pumps

Which will be placed like this

Received approval from my great friend

And also cut a white acrylic plate for the mobo tray

Beneath and beside the motherboard I have a lot of space, this will be filled up;)

I would like the same line as the EK tops, and I want a nice light distribution in terms of the illuminated midplate. For this I am going to raise the midplate about 4 cm, for this I have sawn and bent an aluminum strip cut

Behind it I placed 2 CFL lights, and we have an illuminated midplate

For an even better light distribution I will do some adjustments, but more on this later.

I've made a bracket for the rad

I still need to make the top bracket but this I will do later

Enough room for the fittings

And here the radiator with fans

Applied a layer vinyl coating to the strip

Looking good I think

I have received a lot of watercooling products. What would it be... a lot of boxes

To begin EK-PSC Fitting 10mm - G1/4 Black

Also the EK-PSC Adapter 45° G1/4 Black

and some beautiful EK-PSC Adapter 90° G1/4 Black

A great CPU block: EK-Supreme HF - EN

and two EK-RAM Dominator X4

For the 2x ZOTAC GTX580 gpu's iv'e got 2x a EK-FC580 GTX+ - EN

Also with two EK-FC580 GTX Backplate - Black

2 great tops with res: the EK-DDC X-RES 140 - Acetal

To cool everything I ordered 2x EK-CoolStream RAD XT (240)

For the top of the Cosmos I''m gonna place a EK-CoolStream RAD XT (360)

And for the sabertooth board iv'e picked the EK-MOSFET ASUS X79

For this build I'm gonna use 2 x ZOTAC GTX580 1536M 348BIT DDR5

Some specs

Chipset :

-Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA®

-GPU GeForce® GTX 580

-Core clock 772 MHz

-Stream Processors 512

-Shader Clock 1544 MHz

Memory :

-Memory Clock 4008 MHz

-Memory Size 1536MB

-Memory Interface 384-bit

-Memory Type GDDR5

It's ashame that I need to undress the cards, but it needs to be done

And placed the EK-FC580 blocks

Placed the backplates

I have placed all the WC blocks, so here are the pics

The mosfet block:

Next the Supreme HF.

After that the RAM coolers

Placed the 2 ZOTAC GTX580 GPU's

Looks good Placed everything in the Cosmos II

And installed some fittings

Now everything is in place it's time to mod again...to be continued

[kier]

Update!!!

Had some fun these days with cutting and sawing in the Cosmos:

Hole for a straight Fill-Port and also a slot for the fitting of the pump.

Holes for the gpu, s in-and outlet

A hole for the wiring of the gpu, s

And adjusted the slot for the sata

Did the same thing for the 24 pins powercables.

I also made ​​a hole in the side of the 5.25 bay

And made 2 fill-ports.

And at the bottom of the 5.25, I have made a large hole for the in and outlets of the reservoirs, etc..

All this I have covered with U-channel edge from Mnpctech.

Furthermore, did some nice things with the pump / reservoirs. All with fixed tubes;)

More on this later. I also started with the cables. For the GPU power, I have marked some holes.

Pre-drilling with 1.5mm

3mm

And 4.5mm

This is enough to go through with a sleeved wire.

For the GPU power I used extensions

And sleeved it in 4 colors. Black, titanium gray, gray and white

Other side still loose

One by one put the male connector through

Did the same thing for 24 pins cable.

And placed everything. One gpu have to wait ( need more heatshrink)

For the Sata cables I've made 2​​ openings

Sleeved some Sata cables

First four sata placed

Second layer on top

It's all a bit messy now, but this will be better It need to be as tight as possible ...

To get this so tight, I drilled some holes on the back from the mobo for the tyraps

Tightly folded around the edge

I will not use them all, but I dont want free sata slots.

In the front there are still some open holes, So I've cut some mesh for this

Placed the acrylic cover back again

I wanted something more for the "fins" on top, so for this I have pasted some DI-NOC

Looks better. To have the same DI-NOC effect in the front I have also pasted the slide panel

And now the big moment ... making the loop ready for filling. For this I have cut the hard acrylic pipe and placed it

Checked the remaining tubes etc.

All connected...yes, fill it up

Fill Port right above is to fill the first loop. Never mind the silver shiny stuff, don't have any black left and don't wanna buy new. This is not in sight

And then it was really time to fill it with... Mayhem Pastel Ice White

Starting to get full

Nice color isn't it

Just one more loop to go:)

Second loop also ready without any major problems

[kier]

I spent some time to the front, and changed the plan to put the usb and other stuff into the front regarding the looks and the space behind the panel.

I think this looks better now without the, usb stuff and without the touch buttons from the Aquaero. These doesn't look good and do not work properly in my opinion

So i've cut 3 pieces of 3mm acrylic. The first one looks like this

And two of them like this. One of them with a smaller recess for the display

Everything put together

The touch buttons I do not need because I can set everything with the remote control. And once set I usually do nothing more with it, just look at the temps. The remote has a good range like this, so it's okay

Placed in the Cosmos

Power on

I doubt whether I'm going to put black or carbon on the acrylic.

The wurst thing happened to me .... lost the flat cable connecting the PCB push button and the controller.

In the beginning I was thinking that I must put the flatcable somewhere save before I lose it.

So I've lost it . Fortunately there was Ruud from Coolermaster, who still has parts of the Cosmos

Cooler Master Europe Store for all your spare parts

Ruud... thanks man!

And everything is online again

Inverse color display is a nice thing

slide panel closed again, nothing to see anymore

Cable management is still a big mess, but this is how I placed the controller

This will become more organised ​​

Drilled a hole for the switches and HDD LED

And I have cut a 3mm black piece of acrylic to make a cover for the side bay, I don't like holes and slots So this will disappear.

Made a second layer and cut out the form of the CM push buttons.

Placed the first layer back

Second layer on top

Past some black film on the second layer

And the result

Nice, tight and the good color.

I also been busy with the XL window for the Cosmos. What appeared to be quite a challenge because lots of plastic and little space

The acrylic window I've made ​​1cm larger as the existing hole.

Need to put more pressure on the edges , but this is how it becomes

For pasting the metal cover back on the plastic, I used contact adhesive. This is because I don't have to much space for double sided tape, and it just needs to be good. Placed everywhere clamps and other stuff, which will stay on for a night. And need to make the inside a bit nicer. Ofcourse after installing the window wanted to see how it looks.

And also have been playing with the enlightened midplate for some nightshots. I'm also thinking to put some lights in the midsection or top.

That's it for now...Grtz.

[kier]

This will become 1 of the last Cosmos updates my friendly followers. Just one more to go, the final photoshoot.

The Cosmos is as good as finished now, the last small things in this last update.

The white front I covered with black film, which looks better then the white acrylic. But with some white lines still visible.

All side panels opened and the big, big Cosmos exhibited

A great modular power supply, the Cooler Master Hybrid 1050W

Enough connections

And enough space left, which comes in handy for the excess length of the cables

Some cable management

Side cover is placed with the HDDs

Because it was too dark inside, I have placed a single CCFL in a custom bracket that I have bolted to the 360 ​​rad using the existing holes. Now was to bright, so I made it ​​softer with a small piece of white paper.

Finalized the sleeved cables, a little tightening etc.

Total shot of the PCI-e SATA 24pins and sats

And the internal end result

And my favorite picture

Next update....Final photoshoot