Project: Cosmos-S-Trail

[w3bbo]

You certainly have some skills there m8 - very pro job.

The Quad SLI works fine - easy to setup and run aslong as you have the power to run them (which it looks like you do). Crysis was the only ball ache as sometimes it threw a hissy fit for no reason but more often than not it worked a charm.

 

[coolmiester]

MIPs Ram Freezer 4 turned up first thing this morning so i set about getting it fitted but ran into problems right off the bat

Basically once i got the stock heat spreaders off the Hynix HYMP512F72CP8D2-C4/Y5 Ram it soon became apparent that the centre processor was 1.2mm higher than the memory chips either side.

Hmmmm........after much head scratching i decided to shim the memory and as luck would have it i had some cheap aluminium heat spreaders which just so happened were 1.2mm thick and already had thermal pads on them.

So i set about cutting eight of them in total (two for each stick of memory) down to 50mm x 15mm which fit perfect.

Just a case of adding them and a little AS5 to the reverse side of the memory and and assemble as normal.

Leaving the actual RAM hex bolts loose so the four individual memory stick could move from side to side in the slots, the whole unit then fitted straight into the board with no problem at all then the hex bolts tightened up.

All in all a bit fiddly but well worth it as it's one of the best machined blocks i've laid eyes on in a long while.

I'll let MIPs know of the issue with this particular RAM so they could maybe machining some heat spreaders for this memory which would be easy for them to do and make life much easier for anyone else in this situation.

Still not linked hose up yet but its been running fine for the last few hours so all is well but looking forward to see if it actually works.

Also today, my good mate Tom also picked the 2 chassis up this morning and it should be back here Tuesday so i can start getting it re-assembled(mines the black one)

Anyway, a few pictures as usual..........BTW the 3rd but last picture shows the copper/brass version along side the copper/brass nickel plate one i'm using.

 

[JN]

Holy cr@p I think I just fell in love with some memory blocks! Not seen those before and they look awesome :yumyum:

 

[Pat123]

Damn those are some fine Ram sinks/Blocks.. :O

Stella job

 

[Silentsnake]

OmG!! Beautiful Ram HS & Blocks i dunno what to say except OMG I WANT THEM

 

[coolmiester]

Not sure if this is in the shops yet but the nice people at Coolermaster sent me a couple of their new Ultimate UCP 1100W PSU's to play with so got one hooked up to the Skulltrail already and is working a charm............very very quiet

Also Zotac contacted me this morning and have another GX2 being shipped for tomorrow so i can eventually get this HUGE chunk of copper strapped to them (weighing in at 2180g i think they will need some kind of support made)

 

[Mr. Smith]

Noice

I'm with Jim on the spluuuuuurge front!

 

[Luigi]

Is that a mini cosmos in the background?

 

[coolmiester]

Tiz indeed.............i chopped a Cosmos 1000 down and turned it into an exturnal waterbox.

Linky

 

[Luigi]

Wow I need to me one of those!

 

[haofeng]

that is such a cool/innovative idea...if only i had some nice,sexy cases lying round

 

[Colossous]

Top job once again duder !

 

[coolmiester]

Thanks for the feedback

Got the case back from the anodisers this morning in Ikea flat pack form courtesy of Tom so set about re-assembling it which was a lot easier than i first thought looking at all the bits.

So glad i went with anodising rather than paint or powder coat which i did consider at one point as it looks great.

Once that was riveted back together i had to keep going and added the painted surrounds and chrome rails just to see how it was looking.

All in all a pretty productive time as its the first time i've seen it starting to come together and i think i'm liking it already.

 

[Silentsnake]

B*NER lool very nice mate! what more can i say

 

[JN]

Looking real nice dude. Are you going to do anything about the plastic buttons on the drive bays (spray silver maybe?) Or will they fit in with the internal colour scheme?

 

[haofeng]

love the contrast between the mesh and the alu...stunning

 

[coolmiester]

Thanks for the feedback

Anyway, decided to mod a couple of EK 775 mounting brackets for the back of the motherboard and as there was some hot looking stuff on there thought it best to drill some air holes in just to be on the safe side

Once that was done added the mounting hardware and blocks to see how things were looking and looks like the NB block fits a treat though not sure what colour it should be?? - i'm thinking brushed alu might be better in keeping with the RAM Freezer though i'm not counting out black just yet.

Mounted the Board in the case for a test fit with a couple of standard CM Aquagate Max'x and it looks like hose routing is going to be just about perfect though i'm bound to come across some hitches along the way but doesn't look too bad at all as it is.

I had my doubts about all the cables on the PSU but CM have certainly put a lot of thought into it, especially for the Cosmos S as it fits a lot better than i originally thought.

BTW this is all just test fitting for now and a total strip down is imminent but i'm a happy chappy and can go for a pint feeling pretty good with how things are coming together

 

[Mr. Smith]

Sublime

 

[rrjwilson]

I could really start to dislike you Cooler That is freaking awesome :worship:

 

[Orion]

oh snap!

wait, are those TWO quad core processors?

hell, i didnt even know you could do that.

that thing is just gross. you know how when you played through mortal kombat the first time, and then got to "goro", and found out that not only did he take up a third of the screen, but he had four arms? and then you were like, "oh damn, im screwed like a tied-up goat"? yeah. this thing is goro.