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Old Sep 2, 2012, 06:34 PM   #1
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cdawall's SG05-B redux

This is a carry on from this thread were I was trying to water cool my entire mini ITX build. Well I decided I would try and stuff everything in and around my SG05-B.

The original build looked a bit like this.









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Intel Core I3 560ES
GSkill Tridents 2x2GB 2000CL9
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Intel Xeon 3440
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Silversone 450w SFX

Now onto the case...For some reason Silverstone never intended for anyone to mount dual 120mm rad's in their case (jerks) so some minor modifications are being made to make do.

Some temp fitting inside of the case.









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I want to mount the radiator external for one I think it will look cool and for two there is not enough room to easily mount it. Now looking at that should I run some thick black tubing (I have some rubber 3/8" power steering tubing that would look kind of cool) or clear or what? I decided to mount the res in a different spot. Need some angled 3/8" barbs now.






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Will be interesting to see what you gonna come up with.


Remove the spoiler tags and show off the pics!
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Will be interesting to see what you gonna come up with.


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I guess I could do that...

That tubing and those connectors for the res?

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Stupid grey gone.







Anything else I should be looking at getting?

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Gonna be kinda sweet to see how this comes along. That is a tiny case for what what all you wana do.

off topic, You know your going back over? I was army MP. How many yrs you got in? rank?
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Gonna be kinda sweet to see how this comes along. That is a tiny case for what what all you wana do.
Thanks I am excited to see how it turns out. This will be my first shot at doing cables and making them pretty . Along with the fancy tuning etc.

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Januaryish, been in about three and Sra.
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Take your time on the cables. That sure can be time consuming.

Good luck when you leave. Definitely keep in touch. I spent alot of time on TPU when I was over (Iraq '09).
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Case is assembled and painted. I am just waiting on parts now. Still haven't ordered the parts from frozen yet.

















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What fan you running on that rad? You sure it can keep up with static pressure of running it sandwiched on both? Otherwise, awesome work C. Can't wait to see the finished product. Friendly tip, try for some 90* barbs on the pump..
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What fan you running on that rad? You sure it can keep up with static pressure of running it sandwiched on both? Otherwise, awesome work C. Can't wait to see the finished product. Friendly tip, try for some 90* barbs on the pump..
I shouldn't need 90 degree barbs with the Apogee drive II pump/block combo thing...



Right now there is just a Antec trispeed inbetween the rad's I am looking into what fan I should have in the middle. I have a set of yate loon high speeds I can use if this one wont cut the mustard. Plan is to use the onboard fan control again like I did with the ultra kaze. No noise until you need it.

Other thing should I look into a set of 1TB notebook drives?

Refurbished: Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD10TPVT...

$70 a pop in raid 0 would be quite nice AFAIC.



That's what all I am looking at from frozen...anyone have any other tips? concerns?
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Refurbished: Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD10TPVT...

$70 a pop in raid 0 would be quite nice AFAIC.

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That's what all I am looking at from frozen...anyone have any other tips? concerns?
Didn't know you were getting the apogee drive. Sorry. Think it will hold up with adding the GPU? $140 eh? What's your current drive setup?
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Didn't know you were getting the apogee drive. Sorry. Think it will hold up with adding the GPU? $140 eh? What's your current drive setup?
The apogee drive has my old ddc1t in it so it should hold up fine. Current drive setup is a 1.5tb esata and breaking up my raid for a ssd.
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breaking up my raid for a ssd.
Sorry, i have a bad memory as of late. If you're already doing an ssd and breaking up a raid, if you really need the drives to show up as one volume just do a spanned windows dynamic volume unless you need to dual boot for any reason.
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Sorry, i have a bad memory as of late. If you're already doing an ssd and breaking up a raid, if you really need the drives to show up as one volume just do a spanned windows dynamic volume unless you need to dual boot for any reason.
Well that's my thing if I buy the 1Tb's I wont break the ssd's up or add the 1.5tb external. Will simply run the 2x1tb drives in raid 0. All internally the case
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I would just go the SSD route, adding it to your current setup.
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Got the block in today.



It gets a little close but isn't touching



This one ends up being a little bit taller since I used a DDC1T



Again close but not touching

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WOW! Didn't know they made shoehorns that size! Good job getting it all in there

Those APD2 pumps are going to make a lot of loops possible that wouldn't otherwise be and/or they are gonna make loops a lot cleaner. i just wish the base or "housing" was more conducive to performance/flow as the port ID is 1/4" i think, would be nice to have them @ 3/8" at least. Maybe they did it on purpose to keep pressures up?
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Those APD2 pumps are going to make a lot of loops possible that wouldn't otherwise be and/or they are gonna make loops a lot cleaner. i just wish the base or "housing" was more conducive to performance/flow as the port ID is 1/4" i think, would be nice to have them @ 3/8" at least. Maybe they did it on purpose to keep pressures up?
Yup it's a little cramped...
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lol You can say that again! I really am surprised you got that much stuffed in there

You got a lot less room to work with then me and lots more modding too! I got off easy with this latest build
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You got a lot less room to work with then me and lots more modding too! I got off easy with this latest build
Yup I do I am thinking I want a different gpu for it as well. Can't decide what but it has to have a full cover block available. Maybe a 7850 or something.
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Thanks for posting this up CD. Damned impressed on what you have managed to cram into that tiny box.
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Im impressed too, thats incredible!! Love the idea of small space high performance, well done!! Thanx for posting up, really interesting and inspiring.
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Thanks shouldn't be much longer before its full assembled. Goal is to have the Xeon cranked out to 3.8ghz since 4.2 smoked the board. Along with some form of overclocked vga. 7850 would be cool for eyefinity.
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Yup I do I am thinking I want a different gpu for it as well. Can't decide what but it has to have a full cover block available. Maybe a 7850 or something.
Why not a 6 series Nvidia? IIRC their "mid level" cards are physically smaller and still perform on par, if not better, then ATi

Don't get me wrong the 7850 is a freaking beast of a card from what i have seen and if you can swing it, fockin' wing it!

FC blocks aren't for me, i prefer die only for some reason. I just wish i didn't get the run around from people regarding stock levels. It's in stock untill you pay then it magically is backordered for 3 weeks
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