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Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens              

Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens              

Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens              

Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens              

Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens              

Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens              

Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens              

Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens              

Thanks ThermalMike. The pictures don't do it justice, i need a better camera but the glow is not as overbearing in person.

In other news, I have decided to take advantage of the "Step Up" program with EVGA. I will be trading my 980s for a pair of 980tis. They will be mounted with EK Nickle blocks and pretty Blue Backplates to match my color scheme. So stay tuned for more photos.

Thermaltake Core X9
 
Leak Test Time!


 
 
After filling the loops and plugging the pumps into a spare PSU I had laying around, I finished up all of the other cables. Zip ties galore! I let the leak test run for 24hours. One small leak was found up front in what seemed to be a faulty washer at the pump. After replacing the one washer everything else worked great. I also went one time around during the leak test and tightened all the fittings as much as I could just to be safe. 
 
Picture dump of the leak testing.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thermaltake CoreX9
 
With the motherboard tray back in place the final tube runs were completed. Really not much to discuss here so here are the pics I took during the process. Again, it makes it so easy when you plan every run before you even order the parts. With the guessing game out of the way it was pretty easy but man do my fingers hurt. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Thermatake CORE x9
 
Starting with the Thermaltake Core X9. I love the room in this case..and the cost vs quality ratio is such a steal that I couldn't pass up on using this for my build. 
 
One side panel doesn't close all the way and the case didn't include enough fan brackets to mount my hdd drive along with a 420mm rad on the bottom. To make this worse, they have been sold out of these on their site for awhile. Besides those minor quality issues the case is perfect for my needs and budget.
 
 
Here is a pic of the freshly opened case next to my previous Corsair Air 540 build. Notice the massive footprint.

 
 
I decided on the BlackIce 480 GTS rads due to their excellent performance at sub 1000rpm speed, quality, and slimmer profile. I wanted the fans mounted on the lower rad to be fully visible laying down horizontal. The fan controller was chosen due the fitting the color scheme mostly, and being able to power 4 fans per channel easily. I also enjoy the puish button knobs so i can hide them away instead of having them popped out like my lamptron controller. 

 
 
On to the fans. I love these fans! I ordered 4 to test my fan controller as well as testing the noise, performance, and to make sure the lights were not too overbearing. I do enjoy flashy, but i want it to be as subtle as possible. After testing I found that the fans are inaudible at 900rpms yet still push plenty of air through the rads. The light also dims down when you lower the fan RPM speed. All in all I am a fan of these fans. Thermaltake really knocked these out of the park. I ordered 12 120mm for my rads, 1 140mm for the rear exit and i will leave the 200mm front fan that came with the case as it is silent. 

Hello All,   It's been over a year since my last build. I had two builds planned last year but due to unexpected circumstances (medical emergency) I had to cancel my 2014 build plans.   However, silver linings as they say, as I won a random Facebook contest through In Win scoring a Mini D frame during that time frame. As much as I love this case I needed something more for my personal gaming needs. I decided to give the Mini D frame to my son and together we will be building a i5 devils canyon gaming build that he can carry off to college when the day arrives.    My wife bought me a Thermaltake Core X9 build that had been sitting in one of my online shopping carts as a surprise father's day gift so this will be my starting point for my new i7 devils canyon build.    To avoid making the same mistake as last year (failing to see my projects through due to circumstances) this time I waited till all parts were ordered before making a build log. As of today all parts are ordered and the builds have begun to take form.   Both builds will be mainly for gaming. Mine will be a custom water loop and my son's will have a AIO cooler. The fun part of this project was finding the balance between our two separate needs and wants..while also staying within budget. I would imagine it's what it feels like for my wife when she has 15 outfits that she LOVES in her cart...and has to narrow them down to 2.     Thermaltake Corex9 (Black and UV Blue)(Complete!     I  have a gross obsession with water cooling. I love it. It's pricey, excessive and the costs rarely outweigh the performance but something about it just makes my knees weak.    I know that I could have used the water cooling money to jump into the X99 world and even upgrade to two 980tis but water cooling means that much to me. I wanted to see how far I could push a fully overclocked rig with absolute silence. Here is the  fully ordered shopping list.   The build will be centered around  a 1440p curved ultra wide.   Two Swiftech MCP655 pumps Frozen q Bay Res and Frozen q cylinder res (with UV Blue) Primochill rigid black revolver fittings with UV Rigid Tubing EK-Supremacy EVO CPU Water Block - Nickel/Acetal Corsair AX1200i PSU Coorsair Dominator DDR3 1866 (4x4) Asus Sabertooth Z97 MArk 1 Intel i7-4760k EVGA 980 Hydro Copper x 2 EVGA Pro SLI Bridge V2 500gb SSD and 750gb WD Hdd black Thermaltake 120mm Blue Riing Fans x12 (also 1 140mm) 3 420mm Black ICE GTS Radiators (2 for cpu and 1 for gpus) Couple UV Cathodes Sytche Fan Controller     Here are a couple of teaser pics until I get my pics organized and I will show my progress and explain the thought process behind each piece of the build as I go. Feel free to ask any questions or provide feedback.       InWin D Frame Mini - (Red and Black)(Complete!   My sons build will be an affordable 1080p gaming rig. Something mobile that he can easily carry away to college in 3 years. I also wanted it to be easy to upgrade so we decided not to use a custom water loop.  
Corsair hi100 Thermaltake 120mm Red Riing fans x 4 (push/pull) Corsair HXi750i PSU G.skill 1600 ram (2x4) red Intel i5 4690k Asus Impact mini 120gb SSD 1tb HDD green 500 HDD black ASUS Strix 970     Here are some preview pics of my sons build. Same thing will go through the entire build as parts arrive and i get organized.        Super excited to be building new rigs after some time.   

Thermaltake CoreX9
 
It's alive!!!
 
Booted up without a hitch. 
 
In closing, I planned these builds for almost a year. I wanted to build for my son that he could  easily transport and that would meet his gaming needs at 1080p for a couple of years.
 
I wanted a new build for me for gaming at 3440x1440 for the next couple of years with no issues. Something that would be direct 12 ready and with massive amounts of watercooling. My son wanted a classy clean build with a little bit of pizzaz while I wanted something that made people step back in awww when they walk into my office. 
 
With a $3000 budget and a few spare parts I think i achieved those goals. I do wish I had a little bit more cash to move up into x99 and a pair of 980tis but then again.. another reason for another build down the road.
 
Hope everyone enjoyed our builds. I will still be updating with overclocking numbers and tweaking with the software features but the builds are up and running. Cheers!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks guys! The door not latching was simply one screw that was just shy of catching. I was able to just use a difference thumbscrew. The brackets aren't a big deal, i may pick one up in a couple of weeks when they are in stock but I am going to try to mount 2 sdds under the mother board tray and my one hdd elsewhere in the meanwhile.
 
Thermaltake Core X9   Last nights update.   Rinsed out all of the radiators, but I was surprised to not find a single bit of debris! These Black Ice rads come so clean internally one has to wonder if they do a rinsing themselves before shipment. I also filled the two Frozen queue reservoirs to check for any obvious leaking. Everything looks good so far.    Mounted the fan controller and planned wiring out.. I have found in all my builds that if you START with the wire management out in a build it's much easier once you are cleaning up the wires at the end of the build.     
Channel one will control the rear top 480 fans and there is a in-loop g1/4 plug for the temp of the first loop. This rad will support both GPUS. Channel two will control the front top 480 fans and the in-loop g/14 plug for temp of the second loop. This rad will be one of two for the CPU loop. Channel three will control the bottom 480 fans and has an air temp sensor at the 200mm intake fan to measure incoming air. the rad supports the cpu loop. Channel four will control the case fans and includes a temp sensor outside of the case over a rad to measure outgoing air temps.      All fans hooked up. Next will be mounting the UV Cathodes out of site somehow and mounting the two pumps. However, if my package arrives today my son and I may start on his mini d frame. 

Thermatake CORE x9
 
Starting with the Thermaltake Core X9. I love the room in this case..and the cost vs quality ratio is such a steal that I couldn't pass up on using this for my build. 
 
One side panel doesn't close all the way and the case didn't include enough fan brackets to mount my hdd drive along with a 420mm rad on the bottom. To make this worse, they have been sold out of these on their site for awhile. Besides those minor quality issues the case is perfect for my needs and budget.
 
 
Here is a pic of the freshly opened case next to my previous Corsair Air 540 build. Notice the massive footprint.

 
 
I decided on the BlackIce 480 GTS rads due to their excellent performance at sub 1000rpm speed, quality, and slimmer profile. I wanted the fans mounted on the lower rad to be fully visible laying down horizontal. The fan controller was chosen due the fitting the color scheme mostly, and being able to power 4 fans per channel easily. I also enjoy the puish button knobs so i can hide them away instead of having them popped out like my lamptron controller. 

 
 
On to the fans. I love these fans! I ordered 4 to test my fan controller as well as testing the noise, performance, and to make sure the lights were not too overbearing. I do enjoy flashy, but i want it to be as subtle as possible. After testing I found that the fans are inaudible at 900rpms yet still push plenty of air through the rads. The light also dims down when you lower the fan RPM speed. All in all I am a fan of these fans. Thermaltake really knocked these out of the park. I ordered 12 120mm for my rads, 1 140mm for the rear exit and i will leave the 200mm front fan that came with the case as it is silent. 

After recieiving my money back I decided to just buy some sleeving and a sleeve tool from amazon. I need to get this htpc done so we can catch up on all the movies we have been missing.
 
Learned a bunch with my first sleeving job.
 
I was too forceful with the tool the first time and slightly bent the tool. I didn't measure out the heat shrink well enough and so they came out uneven.
 
Besides all that im happy with it..better than multi color wires all over the place. Will definatly take my time and measure with more care in my next build. Here is a sneak peak. Next up will be ordering the mother board when I scrape up a bit more cash.
 
I keep having second thoughts about the fm2+ socket and have been looking at some dedicated gpu combos. More decisions!
 

Went from air coolers to self contained liquid loops to soft tubing custom loops to acrylic to PTEG. If i had the tools I would try copper tubing.
 
 
I agree with jackjack, once I started custom loops I fell in love with the process. It's possibly the most frustrating part of a build for me but also the most rewarding. The noise/performance is top notch and it opens up so many possibilities. I still use self contained loops for my rigs built for friends and family since it is plug and play. 

Update for project Red Screen...(formally green screen)
 
Completed the custom screen needed for the front intake along with matching the top screen. Basically Matt black paint, J-B weld..some black Duct tape and a lot of time.
 

 
 
Finished the exterior painting, along with the PSU/Rad painting.
 
I used Plasti-Dip on the PSU and RAD so that I could peel it off if I hated it.

 
 
Then I proceeded to paint everything with Red!!

 
I then proceeded to hit the rest of the case with Matt Black for that Subtle look.

 
Once everything was painted and dried I was not happy with the color combination. The red items stood out way too much against the Matt Black paint. 
 
It looked like a Goth girl with Bright red finger nails and matching bright red lipstick. 
 
I needed to tone it down. So I experimented with Matt black and some red splatter effect. In the end I was happy with this result. From a distance, someone walking through my living room wouldn't even notice the red...up close with some accent lighting on..i think the red stands out. Paired with the cable sleeving and hardware I think it will go nice together. 

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Here is the final picture, excuse the horrible angles, lighting and cell phone pic. Once this build is complete I plan on finally buying a decent camera and a camera light so I can take some more pro-style pics. 

 
 
I just placed my order with Lutro0 Customs and will attempting a Heatshrinless finish for the first time. I also ordered the Lutro0 tools available. Once the cables are all done, hopefully I can order the crossblade Ranger from Asus )If they ever release it) along with the HDD, Ram and waterblock. 
 
Once again thanks for following.

After reading a few reviews of the Gigbyte Sniper board and looking over the Asus ROG new FM2+ board.. I have decided to change the theme from project "Green Screen" to project "Red Screen".
 
I love the looks of this board...I will be finishing up the exterior of this case with red accents and ordering the cable sleeving to match. My only concern is that there are soooo many red themed builds out there....we will see if mine can stand out a bit. 
 
I Wants!!!!

Finally got around to finishing the custom window side panel. I messed around with plasti dip and instantly fell in love. However, I found that the over all best look to make the panel match the plastic molding from the top/front panels was rattle can in mat black. The plasti dip will probably be used on the interior acrylic work down the road. 
 
 
Plasti-Dip Fun
 

 
Primer and Matt black Rattle Can. 
Window Molding cut from door weather stripping.
One finely cut sheet of Pexi Glass.


Next up Will be the Mesh to finish up the exterior while I put aside some funds for cable sleeves and sleeve tools. 
 
Thanks for watching.

Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens              

Hello Thermaltake,
 
I have a build thread going over at OC.net and I just saw the announcement of your new community forum. 
 
I have decided to be one of the first to share my build here since the new build is based on cutting up my old thermaltek Mk-1 Chaser chassis. 
 
 
I recently finishing up my first attempt at hard pipe water cooling for the Corsair Domination contest and have grown bored now that it is complete. (for now at least) Link to most recent build thread.

I am in desperate need of an HTPC that can house my collection of "legally obtained" media, personal family photos, years of home movies and many many Johnny Cash mp3s.

I had planned to start this project in August and purchasing the newly announced Corsair Air 240 mini however, I have a few spare parts laying around and it feels silly to not take advantage of what I have and use the money that I would have spent on upgrading my main rig next year.

In an earlier build, I had been using a 400mm Phobya Rad that sat OUTSIDE my case and decided that it looked cheesy so I threw it aside and forgot all about it, until now.

Just recently, we were watching a movie in the living room and it hit me, that 400mm rad should be the main piece of hardware in my upcoming HTPC build. It's large enough to cool the spare A10-5800k and the 200mm fans on low settings should be inaudible. Brilliant. (or so I hope)

Only, what case out there can house a 400mm fan internally?... Surely my old Mk-1 Chaser from thermaltake couldn't hold it...unless.

After building many a PCs... all for fun and not for profit..I have never once taken to saws and paint. All of my builds have been hardware/watercooling expressions of love...but fear kept me from mutilating a $100+ investment on cases that looked great as they were imo. Now I have a reason to saw..a reason to buy a rotary...a reason to walk out of home depot with sheets of acrylic and an expression of confidence that can only be found by a man on a mission. Wish me luck. 

Current Parts list:
AMD A10 - 5800k Thermaltake Full Tower (Mk-1 Chaser) 1200 InWin Commander PSU (iffy, as it seems like way too overkill but it's what I got) A ton of left over clear PETG Rigid tubing from PrimoChill Swiftech MCP655 Pump (G1/4 threaded) PrimoChill CTRâ„¢ Compression Tube Reservoir System Phase 2 - 240mm Clear Phobya 400mm rad Needs
One SDD and at least 8tb of HDD space Gigabyte Sniper A88x Some green RAM (not decided) AMD water block (Brand undecided, leaning towards the EK clear so the green liquid can show) Green/Black/Grey MDPC sleeving (first time, super exciting about this!!!) 4x 200 MM fans(Probably black with green accents and no LEDs) Looking for a unique Mesh that will keep dust out and not look to tacky Green accent lighting (Still undecided, so many ideas to chose from) Numerous sheets of acrylic, this will be my first time playing with acrylic sheets so I may get carried away. Sorry in advance. Build Mission

To build a Full Tower HTPC that can internally house my 400mm Phobya rad, be completely silent, CLEAN, green themed, powerful enough for HD movies/light gaming now with enough pre-planning to easily upgrade to 4K capability in the future and just showy enough to have visitors ask me what the #### is that when they step into my living room.
 
Old Build with my Mk-1
  New Build What I have working WIth  
Case modding begins   Finished cutting   400mm Phobya Rad and it fits!!  
That's all I could do until next weekend. Hope you enjoyed the progress so far!    
Fiberglass mesh I will use as screens