pinwmpires Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Hardware MOBO: MSI Big Bang Marshal B3 CPU: 2600k RAM: 8GB Corsair Dominator GT 2133 GPU: 2 x MSI NGTX560 Ti Hawk SSD: OCZ Agility 3 HDD: WD Raptor 74 GB RAID 0 Watercooling Pumps: 2 x Swiftech MCP655 on Dual Serial Bitspower Top Radiators: 2 x Phobya Xtreme 400 Fans: 4 x Phobya G-Silent 180 Fittings: Compression 13mm-19mm Bitspower Fittings CPU Waterblock: EK Supreme HF Full Copper GPU Waterblock: EK Supreme HF Bride Edition RAM Waterblock: Bitspower 4 DIMM Waterblock MOBO Waterblock: Bitspower Full Cover Block Special thanks to Bitspower and Phobya for sponsoring the project. Lets start with some photos of the parts that i ll be using.. Some Bitspower Compression Fittings 13/19 Phobya G Silent 180 Ek Supreme HF - It started as full copper but i nickeled it and then powder coated the cover. Some more parts from Ek.. The full cover block for MSI Big Bang from Bitspower What i love about bitspower is that in their packaging they include spare o-rings and screws etc.. Naked Board getting preped for the waterblock The block is on.. it looks lovely but there is too much dust on it.. Clear link from one part to the other.. it looks pretty awesome.. Mayhems Awesomeness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinwmpires Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 So .. lets start doing some work now... I took a small project box to house the power connections for the 2 pumps, so now with 1 4pin molex i power both of the pumps without any wires being uncovered. The case that i ll use is a Coolermaster HAF X, the idea is to remove all of the drive/hdd bays etc and have an empty case to modify as i want.. So i took all the 5.25 bays off and from the HDD cage i cutted out 2 slots and throw the rest of it away Dremel.. Temporarilly placed it behind the pumps to check the free space that i have.. Now i took some cardboard to make a prototype of the covers that i ll make.. After a couple of dummies i finally made it to go for the aluminum, now everything is measured correct and i added some throwpasses for cables etc. 3 mm Plexi on top of the cover.. HDD trays accesible from the fron of the cover.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinwmpires Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Time for sleeving, i used MDPC sleeve.. Thanks Nils! I got the plastics back from painting, thanks to George ( a.k.a Kopritis ) the outcome is really what i had in mind. Fan blades at the same color.. Custom made logo.. i am really happy with the result, i love the fact that it have that "Stock" look.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinwmpires Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 At this point i am trying to figure out the loop path... A small bracket for a 24pin molex made of plexi.. Time to do some soldering.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinwmpires Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Now.. its time for the hard part of the VGA cooling.. As we know there isnt any full cover waterblock for the 560 Ti Hawk on the market.. so i had to find a way to cool the vrm's and the memory.. This is the fatory plate that keeps the card component cool.. i measured everything and went to the waterjet I took 2 pieces of Fischer heatsink Thats what is left from the heatsink.. that waterjet is a reall piece of machinery! And thats what i have now! I reduced the height of some fins so the bridge of the waterblock can pass through it.. After many many days of searching for someone to anodize the heatsinks.. i didnt find anyone So i had to paint them, i used heat resist black matt spray, the result is really nice Drilled some holes on the heatsink and open threads for 2.5 mm screws, i used little springs to tension the heatsink on the vga. Sleeving time again.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinwmpires Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 I wanted to somehow change the fronpanel.. i decided to remove the slide panel that haf x has and replace it with 1 mm aluminum covers Black Powder coat Starting to take shape.. Some cable managment on the back After many many hours of testing and testing i finally found the way to illuminate the plexi without being clear the position of the source of light.. What do you think of the outcome? The board is on... Some more assembling and we are done.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinwmpires Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Time for the photoshooting.. Special Thanks to Mike a.k.a Barfastic for helping me with the project and for the time he took to photoshoot it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinwmpires Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Thank you very much for your time! I hope you 'll like this project as much as i enjoyed building it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z999z3mystorys Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Very impressive, I like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinwmpires Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Thank you very much @z999z3mystorys ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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