Chiller's Hybrid Level 10

[croimans]

Today i made the plexi acryl,

tomorrow sanding, prime and paint the alu parts (if i'm up for it)

Now it's good visible what i whanted to do with the case to fit the bigger mobo SR-2 in this case (normally no fit lol)

Sorry for the bad pics, not enough light but i whanted to show you guys already what i did today :

 

[croimans]

Here are some better pics in daylight.

I didn't close the cover good, it's not that it has a space between it lol.

The parts have now there first primer coating :

And here the first parts in primer, i sprayed it very thick,

because i nedd to get al the tiny flows sanded out of it, but will get more layers :

 

[heartspains88]

I cannot wait to see the finished product, this beast is officially epic.

 

[croimans]

primed en sanded, nog putting on the first layer of MAT black paint, only the pics sucks lol :

 

[croimans]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0RWZ514aoQ[/media]

 

[croimans]

the alu plate for the mobo cover is painted and mounted, here some pics of it :

 

[croimans]

damn, i got a mosquito in my fresh paint on the big alu plate,

sanding it and paint again

:

 

[croimans]

here a little teaser :

 

[croimans]

putting the isolation on the backplates of mobo, with the inox backplates :

And this is how the case is on this moment, also fitted a 16x2 red/black lcd above the Boreas chiller.

Also you see now how hidden the ATX24pin really is, pure cable management with the 90° connectors :

 

[croimans]

Total overview of the case how he's now.

Most of the cables are on/in it : audio, usb, powerswitch, hdd led, power led, reset, reset led, debug lcd, 2 sata, all atx and pci kabels.

Evga PSU is also on his place together with the dual bay psu in front :

overview of mobo with all cables on it :

Also i have made a cable for the EVbot connection in the mobo IO-Shield, so the connection will be in the front plate, where it's easier to acces to hook up the EVbot :

Total overview of the current cables in the case lols,

but they are not all the cables yet, and need also some controllers to put there

(coolit, koolance, poweruse) :

 

[croimans]

New Armaflex lasercutted is in, and fits the SR-2 with waterblock perfectly :

 

[alienware]

Whilst completely amazing (the motherboard) I still can't get over how terribly placed those sockets on the left side middle are.

I know these boards and I know what you can do with them (dual xeons overclocked, nothing short of amazing) but why on earth they put those sockets there knowing airflow would be critical is just a mystery.

I just don't think I will ever understand that.

 

[croimans]

cpu power connectors needs to be close to the cpu's.

PciE connector for power when running multi vga's needs to be close to the PciE slots,

simpel lol

 

[croimans]

Here are some pics with all coolers on there place, now you see also why i make the 90° connectors on the mobo :

Here you see, with fittings and all, i calculated just enough space for cpu block etc :

and this is why i made those 90° connectors, so maximum on cable management :

 

[croimans]

next layer of armaflex :

Cut-out for the waterblock :

And also soldering some SMD-led's for in the case,

when you solder these smd-led's be shure you use Kynar whire, THE wire for working with SMD's :

And putting the smd-led's on place with double component epoxy :

Just like i put 320 smd-led's in previous casemod : Chiller's Evga Monsta :

 

[croimans]

 

[Dewinte]

Just wow, good work and persistence. The silver studding on the red plexi + aluminium was wondering if you'd be painting them black or red? Or maybe leaving them silver as there are crap loads of them but idk maybe the silver looks a little out of place with the theme. That's a whole lot of work in what you've done, as the others say, will be great to see it finished!

 

[croimans]

you mean the screws on the red acryl on the outside?

they are black, but on pic it look they are silver, pic doens't show it good.

the alu plates i made are painted black, pics of it are show above

 

[Dewinte]

Oh wow really? They look actually silver haha properly shiny silver in some of the pics. Fair enough though shame the pics do that

but great they're black! Looking good

 

[tinytomlogan]

Is it just me that looks at this and thinks awesome effort but shame its on such a shit case with poinless and deafening cooling?

Ive got these Xeons myself and ..... well lets just say at 95w they are far from hot. My 970 is hotter and thats hardly breaking a sweat.

Awesome effort dude, but all those wires and those massive coolers just look plain wrong imho.