Project VRS by S.PiC

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Good day to all! I am glad to participate in the CMWS contest once again. 

 

The previous project Simple Case became my main working computer. The air cooling there is thought out and the temperatures are quite low, the only source of noise there was a video card with turbine-type cooling. Experiments with liquid cooling of the graphics card and processor have yielded sufficiently low temperatures and a very low noise level. 

 

The requirements that I set myself: 

1. Tower-type housing with liquid cooling in order to get rid of noise and free up the desktop as much as possible. So, the housing must have the minimum possible dimensions. At the same time, the minimum size of the radiator for sufficient cooling of the assembly is 360 mm.

2. The design had to be quite strict, without excessive details, all connections had to be hidden from the eyes - therefore, the assembly on the rivets was immediately dismissed and it was decided to make a welded body.

3. All wires should come out from the back at the bottom of the housing. A tray for peripheral equipment wires should be provided.
4. Additional air cooling of the power supply, motherboard and video card. Warm air should not linger in the housing and leave it freely.

5. Installation of a coolant tank on the front panel for aesthetic beauty. Power button and USB 3.0 ports on the front panel for convenient operation.

6. Demonstration of the motherboard on one side and the graphics card on the other. Demonstration of additional SATA SSD drives.

7.  The use of rigid tubes for aesthetic appearance and pre-designed holes for them.

8. Installation of a temperature sensor for visual control of the temperature by your own.

 

 

The prototype was developed without components on hand, according to drawings and photos from the Internet. In the front part of the case there is an EK EK-Quantum Volume FIT 360 D-RGB tank (350 ml, 360 mm), on the back wall there is a radiator combined with a pump - Barrow DARIDP-30. Fans that blow through the radiator should also take warm air from the power supply, motherboard and video card. There is a place for a 120mm fan from below, the air flow from which is directed to the video card in order to cool its backup and supply cold air to the power supply.

Edited August 2, 2022 by SPiC

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While the drawings were being drawn, the prices of components, in particular for video cards, flew into the sky! Fortunately, the guys from Cooler Master, INNO3D and Transcend were able to provide the bulk of such expensive components. Thanks a lot to them for that! Without kind people, my projects would not have come to life, but would have remained on paper and only in my head! 

 

 

Edited August 2, 2022 by SPiC

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So, accessories:

For a small assembly, you need an SFX PSU! 
The Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold 850W power supply is a miniature high-power power supply with a GOLD certificate and modular cables.

 

 

 

And here is the mounting frame for the power supply. 

 

 

 

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Cooler Master MasterFan MF120 Prismatic fans with ARGB backlight, air flow up to 93.5 cubic meters per hour, noise level - from 8 to 27 dBA. Excellent performance and diffuse illumination is a good choice for me!!

 

 

 

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M.2 PCIe SSD Transcend MTE220S 1 TB SD drive with DRAM cache, TBW 2200 terabytes and excellent speeds (read 3500 MB/s, write 3200 MB/s).
Convenient access to the disk and the CPU cooling backplate is organized. 

 

 

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2.5-inch SSD drives with SATA III 6 Gbit/s Transcend SD 230 S 512 KB with a five-year warranty and DRAM cache.

The SSD drives are mounted on a special mounting plate, the wires to them are hidden inside the housing.

 

 

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DDR4-3200 Transcend JM3200HLE-16G RAM – 2 modules of 16Gb and 3200 MHz frequency. We will install cooling radiators on the RAM.

 

 

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The most expensive component in the assembly is the INNO3D GeForce RTX 3080 iChill X3 (LHR) graphics card. I could only dream of such a thing!

A video card that can pull on ultra graphics settings all the best games at the moment! Moreover, there is a factory modification of the INNO3D GTX 3080 iChill FROSTBITE graphics card with a block from Alphacool, which is on sale separately.

 

Photoset of the original cooling of the video card, which we will later replace with a water block. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Every time I sit down for a new project, I think I will be able to play a bunch of interesting games, but in recent years, the only game that really dragged me and I passed it is Horizon Zero Dawn. Every year the number of games that you want to play is growing, but there is still no time for them – there are too many things to do).
We discussed it with my friend - he has the same problem - starts the game, then after a long time returns to it when there is free time... And even if you start again, you don't remember the plot and gameplay anymore))

 

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Back to the project!) Here is a photo of the original water block from AlphaCool, which are placed by the manufacturer on these cards.