big red box

Key features

High Rated AMD CPU AMD Graphics Scratch Build Custom Paint Job Water-cooled

The build

The case is made mainly from particle board, the side panels are plywood for strenght. The red parts are cloth, actually bedding sheets. They double up as air filters. Air enters front, left and rear and gets pushed out on the bottom (PSU airduct) and right (radiator). Because of this, the mainboard sits upside-down on the left, CPU on the bottom, GFX on top. The metal parts (drive cage, mainboard tray and expansion slots) are scalvaged from my former case, the Sharkoon Rebel 9. On top i have integrated a handle, there would have been no way i could carry all 50 pounds the case weights with all hardware installed. The case is covered with an aluminum mesh on the inside to keep all ESD and EMI out. The 3,5" hole in the front will be home to a cardreader. I know the cables are a mess, i will clean them up. Also, i need to build a water block for the Nortbridge and VGA and CPU VRMs since those get kinda hot.

System specs

CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.8 GHz
CPU Waterblock
Aqua Computer Cuplex Kryos Delrin
Motherboard
Asus M4A78 Pro
RAM
Kingston Value RAM 8 GB DDR2 800 MHz
GPU
XFX Radeon HD 5870 @ 1000/1250 MHz
GPU Waterblock
Zalman (modified CPU block)
Storage
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1 TB
PSU
Be Quiet! Pure Power L7 430 W
Radiators
VW Scirocco Automotive Radiator
Pump/Reservoir
Innovatek HPPS Plus
Tubes
11/8 mm
Fans
Revoltec 140 mm x6
other
Homemade Filter (50 mm PVC)

Performed mods

VGA stickered with heatsinks
VRMs are cooled using one third of a AMD boxed cooler

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7.7 / 10 · Superb · 20 votes
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10 Comments on big red box

#1
Frick
Fishfaced Nincompoop
Very nice. Very nice indeed. Good thinking using bedsheets too. :)
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#2
Loosenut
I like it, great ingenuity.

I gave it a 9/10 only because of the wires.
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#3
Funtoss
10/10 from me! that is really nice!!!
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#4
Funtoss
I voted 10/10 because:

I like it very much!! i wish i had one^_^
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#5
AsRock
TPU addict
Nice!, shame about all those wires and small pics.
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#6
Pedroo
6/10 because of awefull cable management! IF that would be fixed -> 9/10
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#7
Luciel
I love it, simple but very stylish, 7/10 only because of cable management
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#8
lnd2288
I voted 10/10 because:

10/10 OVERALL GREAT DESIGN I ALWAYS SAY ITS GREAT TO SHARE WHAT OTHER MAKE FROM SCRATCH KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK AND MODS.
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#9
imitation
XMS drive

So no one even saw the Corsair XMS drive??? Shame on you guys! ^^
Yes, that is a Corsair RAM heatspreader on the ODD...
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#10
klawrence
10/10 I like the liquid cooling with all the fans as well.
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