alexciobanu Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Got another update for you guys! Some vinyl work for the rads and fans as well as finished some of the acrylic panels. The vinyl work is based on the Elite Dangerous game, that's actually the emblem from the game. Think it looks really cool on the fans and rads. Had to do a lot of fans! I would stick the whole thing and then peel out the bits not needed. Pretty easy but time consuming. This panel is the bottom front panel. Some MNPCTECH mesh, will look awesome behind the panel once painted. Front bottom and top as well as back bottom acrylic panels mostly done! MNPCTECH mesh and grills painted black. And the case frame is back from powder-coating. Also bottom rads are in! Pump/res combos as well as the PSU are mounted. And did some cable management for all the 16 fan cables coming from the bottom up into the top section of the case! I used four 1 x 4pin extension cables to turn the 16 fan cables into just 4 and these will connect straight to the Thermaltake fan controller at the front of the case. Thanks a lot to Performance PCs for helping out with these fan extension cables. That's it for now! Thanks for checking it out! Cheers, Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 I have probably one of the most exciting things to share, at least I think it is I have been waiting weeks to show these! Custom reservoirs Canis Majoris style! I really wanted the reservoirs to be unique in this build and I had an idea of these round spherical reservoirs with Mayhems Aurora fluid in them and making them look like a red giant star and a white dwarf star. So those are the two colours I'm going for in the two loops in this build. One will be orange looking and the other one a white with a little bit of blue in it. The reservoirs have two 5mm LED holes as well in order to try and light them up nicely and with the Aurora fluid they should resemble the two stars pretty good. This idea came to me from the Elite Dangerous game as every time you exit a jump next to a star it's just an awesome experience! These are about 150mm diameter and they are made up of two domes put together. I had a long chat with an acrylic manufacturer in my area for making these and at first they weren't really sure what I wanted but we managed to sort it out in the end. This design was sorta the only way to make a spherical reservoir thick and strong enough to drill the G1/4 thread and be all sealed and water tight. At first I wasn't too happy with the way the gluing looked on them however after some Rustoleum frosted glass spray paint they came out really good. With coloured fluid in them they should look even better! Check it out and let me know what you think. I'm not sure if anyone else has done this before. They took about 1.1L of water to fill each so there will be quite a lot of fluid going in this build! Thanks for checking it out and stay tuned for more! Cheers, Alex Smash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Hey guys, Here are some pics of tubing up the bottom section with the rads and reservoirs mounted. Sorry for the bad lighting in some of those shots Here is the side panel, one full clear piece of acrylic to cover the entire case! And some work on the front panel windows or a stealth window as I like to call it. Thanks for checking it out! Cheers, Alex Smash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 Testing out the bottom fans before building on top of them and I can't access the cables! Custom reservoirs are in and I started taking off the protective backing on the acrylic sheets. The nice reflections are just what I was hoping for! Also hardware update! Thanks a lot to RamCity.com.au for sending out these two Crucial MX200 500GB SSDs and also an awesome 512GB Samsung SM951 M.2 PCI-E SSD! The two Crucial SSDs are in! Just having a laugh as I can't believe how many Strix 970s I have acquired! Two are going in the Parvum build I've been working on for a mate for ages now, some of you may have seen it! And the other either 2 or 3 are going in this build! Time to install the MB, CPU, GPUs, RAM and all the awesome Tt water blocks! Thanks for checking it out! Cheers, Alex Smash and clinty01 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 A quick look before tubing up! Most of the part were in at this point! Thanks for checking it out! Cheers, Alex Smash and hotcoolman 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted October 14, 2015 Report Share Posted October 14, 2015 Okay guys, here it is all tubed up! This is how I had it set up for the EB Games Expo and only used two cards. Not sure if I will change things around with the loop before final completion. I'm waiting to receive high res pics from EB Games but I can post some I took with my phone later on. Let me know what you guys think of the tubing, I really like it going around the outside like that! These shots were taken around 5am when I was rushing to get it finished in time to get picked up for the EB Games expo in Sydney last weekend. I'm currently waiting for the build to arrive back sometime this week, then more work will continue! I'll post those EB Games pics in the next update Cheers, Alex Smash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 Hey guys! Here are the pics from the EB Games Expo! The build is about 90% finished here. Just some minor things still need to be done and I will be changing some thing with the loop. The build should arrive back on Monday! I'll also have some better pics up shortly from the EB Games Expo! Thanks for checking it out! Hope you guys like how the build looks at this point Cheers, Alex Smash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Here are some better high quality pics from the EB Games Expo! Previous was from my phone Must have been tweaking something here Thanks for checking it out! Cheers, Alex Smash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrtype Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 spherical water tank are amazing, compliments! alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurySevenSix Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 I think you definitely deserve to win, I got to see this beast at EB Expo and I have to say it is phenomenal, the case layout, attention to detail not to mention the sheer scale of it was just brilliant.You can see that there was a lot of thought put into its design and execution (not just for the case but also all of its components), it was simply extraordinary. alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDCustomMods Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 The astrological concept of Alex's build is ingenious. Those reservoirs are unique and fit the build well. He definitely gets my vote for this event. alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradwv Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Alex, the build is looking great. I love the spherical tanks. The concept alone and technical skill in teh mod should get you the win. alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure_Death Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 You really should win Alex, absolutely love your build, really reminds me something from a crazy mad scientist's lab, the choice of colors is just perfect, how I wish that my build was something like that, would be so happy alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smash Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Ive been saying it for weeks lol, you def deserve the win on this dude. Amazing build alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 spherical water tank are amazing, compliments! I think you definitely deserve to win, I got to see this beast at EB Expo and I have to say it is phenomenal, the case layout, attention to detail not to mention the sheer scale of it was just brilliant. You can see that there was a lot of thought put into its design and execution (not just for the case but also all of its components), it was simply extraordinary. The astrological concept of Alex's build is ingenious. Those reservoirs are unique and fit the build well. He definitely gets my vote for this event. Alex, the build is looking great. I love the spherical tanks. The concept alone and technical skill in teh mod should get you the win. You really should win Alex, absolutely love your build, really reminds me something from a crazy mad scientist's lab, the choice of colors is just perfect, how I wish that my build was something like that, would be so happy Ive been saying it for weeks lol, you def deserve the win on this dude. Amazing build Wow thanks a lot guys! I really appreciate it Glad you guys like the build Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filipadrian1980 Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 I like what you built Good luck alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piciusz Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 Nice work, gl! alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddworld Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 i love this mod, its just awesome alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 I like what you built Good luck Nice work, gl! i love this mod, its just awesome Thanks a lot guys! Much appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krahll Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 This mod is awesome, good luck!! alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebe Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 WOoooohh.. I think you already won the contest bro (Y) alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexciobanu Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 This mod is awesome, good luck!! WOoooohh.. I think you already won the contest bro (Y) Thanks a lot guys! Make sure to show some love as official voting is now live! http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/1937-vote/ Cheers, Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocSmileyDK Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 You got my vote, gonna be interesting to see it finished :-) alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueHorseStudios Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 Great Work Alex, Best of luck alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaticFX Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 pretty cool... i like the reservoirs! alexciobanu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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