Alexander Hede Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 Back with a new update! Finally decided to go with circular mesh, the hex mesh i got was only 1mm thick aluminum and was not stable enough. This is the color i went with, gun metal gray. Will make a slight contrast to the black powder coating. For quite a while I've been thinking about what to do for GPU supports, I've seen a few versions out there but nothing that would fit my mod. The biggest problem has been production time of something more complicated that i would have to mill or grind from aluminum. So when I finished another project of mine (homebuilt CNC router) I decided to put it into its first good use (haven't had time to use it since all my time has been spent on the case). This is what i wanted but wouldn't have had time to complete without the router. Test mount straight after milling all three parts. Glass blasted and painted. Also countersunk one side and threaded M5 threads into the rear of the aluminum. Close up of the support Now you are probably wondering how i will physically attach the gpu's to the support. Haven't had time to see if it works but there is no reason this shouldn't. You mount it from the rear of the support so the tab from the GPU go between the support and the "extra bit" Then you just turn the screws to pinch the tab from the GPU to the support. Also tried some engraving, my gf wasn't happy with the font, placement, size and basically everything, but I like it, It's about 0.5mm deep Also covers a extra hole in the case, although this won't be visible when the motherboard is installed but still a nice touch Still needs a bit of filing to make it fit perfect. More updates coming very soon seeing that the mod competition ends in about a weeks time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hede Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Had to assemble the case in order to figure out where to drill holes in the mesh, so figured i would try to take a photo of the leds going at the same time, took around a 100photos before my gf snapped these two. It still doesn't show off the real red but it is awesome in my eyes This is as low as it goes, if i crank it up all the way u won't see the case. Gonna check with some ppl if there is a solution to get this right for the final shots. Let me know what you think! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hede Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 New update! Getting close to the end of the Coolermaster competition! Have been very busy the last weekend, spent around 30hrs on the computer on saturday and sunday and had to take today off work just to get it up and running. Taking it to get photographed tomorrow so i can get some proper shots of it for the competition. Sorry if its not in order the update, a bit stressed due to still having a lot to do before the photo shoot. Anyways, gonna start with the parts. A lot of the parts are from my previous build but there are also new parts Coolermaster test bench Intel 3570K Asus Maximus GENE-V Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB 1600MHz 128gb OCZ Vertez 2 SSD Corsair AX850 PSU 2 X Gainward GTX570 2 x Lamptron FC5 V2 4 x Schyte Gentle Typhoon A lot of leds Watercooling: 2 x EK-FC5X0 GTX GW Backplate - Black 2 x EK-RES X3 150 2 x EK-DDC X-TOP CSQ - Acetal 2 x EK-CoolStream RAD XT (240) 1 x EK-MOSFET ASUS M5G - Acetal + Nickel 1 x EK Supremacy cpu block 1 x EK Dual parallell sli block 2 x laing ddc pumps A lot of EK fittings Mayhem's Aurora tharsis red Sleeved the led wires, the cat loves it Installed in the acrylic The lamptrons installed Mounted the rads and the fans to an xspc rad mount, quite a tight fit, a little bit over 1mm to spare Plumbing done on loop 1, was a bit more difficult than i first expected. Ignore the blue cables, resleeved them after Had to check what it looked like with the Hyper212 that i've used during the build. Had to remove all the water cooling so i could get all the sizes right So many cables, had to cut every cable and shorten them, they would not fit in the case as is. Tried to get hold of some genuine CoolerMaster sticker but it was a lot harder than i expected. So contacted Coolermaster and got approved to make my own stickers. Was gonna go with normal stickers but due to the case is slightly textured it wouldn't look good so went with these polyurethane based "3D" stickers. Got a few different color combinations made so i could pick the one i liked the most. Big thanks to Mr Glasberg for making these priority 1 and making them in more or less a day Assembled and more or less ready to go. Leak test ongoing Don't wanna post too many pictures of the bench, gonna wait until tomorrow after the "proper" photos are taken. Next update most likely tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozensnail Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Looks great so far, nice bit of hardware you got for the mod. keep up the good work, not long to go now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hede Posted December 4, 2012 Author Share Posted December 4, 2012 Looks great so far, nice bit of hardware you got for the mod.keep up the good work, not long to go now Thanks! Yeah, a bit of the components are getting a bit old but don't wanna upgrade seeing they work just fine Do you got a mod going in this competition? tried looking but didn't find any Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozensnail Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Looks great so far, nice bit of hardware you got for the mod.keep up the good work, not long to go now Thanks! Yeah, a bit of the components are getting a bit old but don't wanna upgrade seeing they work just fine Do you got a mod going in this competition? tried looking but didn't find any Thanks for asking, yeah kinda got a new mod for the comp, but the hardware only arrived last week, water cooling components in transit with carrier atm, bits of case all over the place! I'm working crazy to try to finish on time, but sometimes you get a bad feeling about things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hede Posted December 4, 2012 Author Share Posted December 4, 2012 Hey guys, pics will be up tomorrow from the photo shoot, until then a teaser and yes, i know i need to bleed the system again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hede Posted December 5, 2012 Author Share Posted December 5, 2012 So here we go. As I'm looking through the pictures taken yesterday i realize i should have taken a lot more. Anyways, here are most of them without posting very similar looking ones. Enjoy! Without leds on. Sadly a few fingerprints on it but better with them there than photoshopped away Gpu loop Leds on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hede Posted December 9, 2012 Author Share Posted December 9, 2012 hey guys, Did a compilation photo of the mod for the competition so thought i would post it here aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozensnail Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Your modded test bench does look the business & now is far far away from the standard chassis, top job & good luck in the competition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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