But where's the pictures?
This is one of those once in a lifetime builds.
The Rig is for a Client who rarely upgrades...but when he does he goes to Xtremes to get what he wants
After working out the details we settled on the Lian Li V2000B old school case. This is still one of the nicest looking cases IMO. But the amount of gear that needed to go into the case was going to make even this 24" x 24" x 8" Tower seem too small.
Where to start:shrug:
Hardware Specifications:
Qx9650
Asus P5E3 Premium Wifi@N
G Skill DDR3 1600 (7 7 7 18)
2 x 150GB VelociRaptors RAID0
Areca1212 SAS Controller>IcyDock (1 SATA Drive) and Lian Li 3-Drive HotSwap Cage (3 x 1TB Drives RAID5)
Auzen Prelude X-Fi Sound Card
2 x ATI Radeon HD4870X2 in Xfire
ThermalTake Toughpower Modular 1200 Watt PSU
Matrix Orbital Typhoon GX with Remote
mCubed BigNG T-Balancer with miniNG and SensorHub
LG BluRay/HDDVD
NEC DVD Burner
Cooling Specifications for CPU Loop:
d-Tek Fuzion Rev1 with Promount and Custom Acrylic Cube Top by Fitseries3 using Shin Etsu TIM
ThermoChill PA 120.3 with AC Ryan Blackfire fans
Alphacool Ultra Pump
mCubed Flowmeter
Custom Reservoir
Feser: Clear (UV Blue) 3/8" Tubing and Black Dye
Koolance: Green Coils, Compression Fittings, and 5-port blocks
Bitspower: Temp Sensors, Acrylic LED G-1/4 caps, M-M fittings and G-3/8 to 1/4 fittings
Danger Den: Delrin Tee Fittings, FilPort, F-F G-1/4 Fittings
Alphacool: G-1/4 Caps
Cooling Specifications for GPU Loop:
EK FC HD4870X2 Nickleplated Blocks with Acrylic Tops using IC7 Diamond TIM
HW Lab GTX240 with AC Ryan BlackFire Fans
AlphaCool Ultra Pump
mCuber Flowmeter
Custom Reservoir
Feser: Green (UV Green) 3/8" Tubing and Green Dye
Koolance: Black Coils, Compression Fittings, Quick Disconnects, and 5-port blocks
Bitspower: Temp Sensors, Rotary L Fittings, Acrylic LED G-1/4 caps, M-M fittings and G-3/8 to 1/4 fittings
Danger Den: Delrin Tee Fittings, FilPorts, F-F G-1/4 Fittings
Alphacool: G-1/4 Caps
Reservoir Details:
Almost 3 dozen individual parts using three tyupes of tube, trianlge extrusion, green and black 1/8", clear 1/4" and 1/2" stock comprise a dual chamber reservoir with a chamfered polished top mounted "lense" and a small cylinder res;
Top facing reservoir has water-tight tube-cavities for CCL and strobe lights that shine through an array of trinagular "prisms" that rest on those tube cavities. A short tube on the bottom of the pond acts as a sump;
Cylinder res is fused to bottom of the top facing res and is made of 1.5" sections of tube with rings of UV green joining 5 tube sections.
Details of mCubed Installation:
BigNG controls all the fans broken into 4 channels: CPU Loop Radiator (3 Fans), GPU Loop Radiator (2 Fans), 120mm Case (3 Fans), 80mm Case (2 Fans) and reads water temps at each Radiator. Com Links attach to the miniNG and SensorHub and an internal USB cable attaches to the motherboard.
MiniNG Controls the Two Pumps and reads water temps at each pump. A Digital Temp probe reads the Chipset temp.
SensorHub Reads two Flowmeters...one for each loop right off the pumps, controls the Automatic Shutdown of the PC, and reads a slew of Analog temp probes for air temp going into the rads, and temps from the 6 HDDs. A DIgital probe reads the RAM temp.
Lighting Specifications:
7 LED tipped toggle switches under safety shields control the Zone lighting consisting of 8 Dual Lamp CCL Kits provide UV, Red, or White light to the Upperor Lower Chambers independently as well as the 9 AC Ryan LED fans lighting independently of the fans operational speed with a mini strobe and CCL UV light kit
inside the reservoir.
Lighting Details:
(Switch asignment from Left to Right)
Switch 1 (Blue Tip) controls A pair of 12" and two pairs of 4" UV tubes and the fan LEDs (8 LEDS) for the upper chamber;
Switch 2 (Green Tip)Controls a pair of AC Ryan OverBoost 8" UV tubes
inside the reservoir;
Switch 3 (Red Tip) Controls a 12" pair of Red CCL tubes for the upper chamber;
Switch 4 (Yellow Tip) Controls miniStrobe
inside the reservoir;
Switch 5 (Red Tip) Controls A 12" pair of Red CCL tube for the lower chamber;
Switch 6 (Green Tip) Controls a !2" pair of White CCL tubes forthe upperand lower chamber;
Switch 7 (Blue Tip) Controls a pair of 12" UV tubes and the Fan LEDs (32 LEDs total) for the Lower Chamber.
A custom harness from the Switches to a Eurostyle connector strip allows for easy tracing of circuits. Each lead is color coded at each end. The Inverters have been stripped out of their housings sealed in UV Blue Heatshrink and placed for easy access.
Fan Wiring Details:
All the AC Ryan BlackFire fans have been rewired into 4 channels to a Eurostyle Connector Strip to ease circuit tracing.
Channel 1 3 120mm Fans from PA120.3
Channel 2 2 120mm Fans from GTX240
Channel 3 1 120mm and 2 80mm fans in lower chamber
Channel 4 2 120mm fans in upper chamber
A custom color coded harness from the Connector Strip attaches to the BigNG
Case Modifications:
Powdercoat everything not Anodized black
Starburst Fiasco All Fan gaurds, All Brackets, All rails and other HW, All Internal Panels, including all non plastic parts os the Icy Dock and LL Hotswap bay
(Mod Details Break Down by Panel/Zone)
Top Panel:
Rectangular opening for chamfered 1/2" thick face of Top-mount reservoir;
120mm hole for blowhole and powdercoated MNPCtech Billet Grill;
Holes for mounting and cabling Matrix Orbital Typhoon GX Display in top panel;
Custom acrylic enclosure for Tyhpoon GX Display.
Front Panel:
Custom black and UV green acrylic 7-Switch Panel;
Lian Li DVD covers cover BluRay and DVD drives;
Icy Dock Single Drive Removable Enclosure;
Lian Li 3-Drive Hot Swap Cage;
Lamptron Vandal Switches replace stock with custom black/UV green trim ring.
Back Panel:
Custom black and UV green laminated acrylic PSU Backplane;
Bottom Panel:
3 120mm Holes for PA 120.3;
2 holes for DD Filports.
BlindSide Panel:
2 120mm holes for GTX240 intake with fine Mesh filters and UV Green Trim ring.
Moboside Panel:
Opening for Lexan Window shocasing Motherboard;
Opening for Exhaust from lower chamber with Powdercoated Formed Hexmesh Guard and UV Green Trim Ring
Other Modifications:
Removed HDD racks and PSU Support to accomodate radiators;
Fabricated acrylic and aluminum support for PSU in top position with PSU fan pointing downward;
Fabricated special mount for VelociRaptors to straddle radiator using decouplers and powdercoated braces;
Fabricated brackets to support GTX240 from chamber divider;
Fabricated Enclosure forCut Down Matric Display
Mounted mCubed HW to Mobo Tray.