My Fortress Build

[FreyrGauti]

My Fortress Build - Now watercooled

Here's a "buildlog" of my Fortress, but more like a timeline from when I bought it to how it is now. I was upgrading from a Core2Duo 8400 on a Maximus Formula X38 board housed in a CM 690.

23 March 2011 New parts: Core i7 2600, Asus P8P67 Pro, 8GB Supertalent 1333Mhz memory. Reused from previous build: GTX 460 OC, Corsair HX620, Scythe Mugen 2, Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 40Gb SSD OS drive and various data drives.

29.6.2011 Here I've upgraded to a AX1200 PSU, another GTX 460 OC and a Crucial C300 SSD.

16.11.2012 Upgrade time, bought a MSI Z77 M-Power, i7 3770k, Corsair Dominator 2x8Gb 1600Mhz, Corsair H100 cooler and a GTX 680. I had also somewhere inbetween bought a seccond Crucial C300 128GB ssd and have them running in Raid 0.

14.4.2013 Bought a seccond GTX 680, installed individually sleeved psu cables from IceModz, sleeved my IO cables and the 120mm fan cable. Also tried painting the letters on the gpu's.

17.08.2013 - Installed a windowed side panel, build is now finished.

Current specs are: Silverstone Fortress FT02, MSI Z77 M-Power, i7 3770k, Corsair H100, 2x8Gb Corsair Dominators 1600Mhz, 2x GTX 680 in SLI, 2x 128Gb Crucial C300 in raid 0, 320Gb data drive, Corsair AX1200 PSU with individually sleeved cables.

 

[computergeek]

That is gorgeous, hot damn.
A brilliant job you've done there mate.

 

[Feronix]

The end result looks really good!

 

[WYP]

very nice!

 

[theDTP]

Very nice indeed!

 

[Dark NighT]

That looks awesome, the last picture is great.

 

[SavageCupcake]

This looks epic, even though my OCD is niggling me with that h100. Great job mate

 

[rayman2550]

Paint the h100 in stripes. Nice rig.

 

[Sir-Weasel]

that looks sweet dude
and the ram and the ssd out of this vid would be a nice edition

 

[FreyrGauti]

Thx for all the comments, I'm quite pleased with it.
Would have liked to watercool it but I find ordering watercooling parts to Iceland is to expensive.

 

[loglog]

very well done, i dont think i've seen a black and yellow build worth looking at for quite some time

 

[Choklitmlk]

that is gorgeous, love basic colour schemes

 

[TUiZHD]

Love the overall finish to this build great job

 

[Cxizent]

That looks so sweet, man! I love the painted letters. Having the yellow accents and the white light really makes it pop. Also, I love how ridiculous the h100 looks on those huge 180mm fans haha

 

[Rory.Will]

I love it man, nice job! I've got the Raven myself and have been looking around for some good builds with these cases, this is one of them!

Clean wiring That's pretty tough in this case.

 

[Dacho]

awesome

 

[FreyrGauti]

Watercooling time...

New stuffs

Teardown time!

GPU teardown...

CPU Block installed

Hardware install...

Leaktest

Some cable"management"

Finished product

Specs now are
Silverstone Fortress FT02, MSI Z77 M-Power, i7 3770k, Corsair H100, 2x8Gb Corsair Dominators 1600Mhz, 2x GTX 680 in SLI, Crucial M500 960GB SSD, Corsair AX1200 PSU with individually sleeved cables.

Watercooling specs:
Alphacool Nexxxos 540mm Rad, 2x EK-FC680 GTX+ Acetal+Nickel GPU blocks, EK-Supremacy Acetal+Nickel CPU block, various EK 90° and 45° adaptors with EK compression fittings, Tygon E-1000 3/8" ID - 5/8" OD tubing, XSPC Dual Bay D5 Res with Swifttech variable pump, Mayhems Pastel Yellow coolant.

Didn't take as many pictures as I intended since I usually got carried away building...
What you think?

 

[Sir-Weasel]

that looks so good :drool::drool::drool:
But i would instal a white led strip at the bottom and the top
(so you can see al the beautifull things you've put in there)
:drool: 960gb ssd storage :drool the things where dreams are made of )

just one more thing give the outside a good cleaning i can see
some scuffs an the side panel (me beeing a bit ocd :lol: )
when something is so clean and neat on the inside it hould be
dum not to make the outside just as clean

too many drool faces in one post :lol:

just one more :drool: to sum it all up

 

[Feronix]

Is... is that a triple 180mm rad?

Looks sweet dude!

 

[FreyrGauti]

just one more thing give the outside a good cleaning i can see
some scuffs an the side panel (me beeing a bit ocd :lol: )

Yeah that sidepanel is pretty beat up, got it used.

Thanks for the comments, besides that side panel I'm quite happy with the end result.