Project Devastator

[fireisdangerous]

Hello again, This project is a rebuild of my current colossus build. I have removed the hard drive tray so I can fit another 240mm rad at the bottom to go with the 240 rad at the top. I have also purchased a new res. I am also changing the colour scheme but i will keep that part a secret for the time being!. So here comes the pictures of what i have done so far.

Here is the bare chassis with the hard drive tray removed. It makes the case look even bigger I think.

I had to drill a couple of holes in the front of the case so i could fix the rad to the front with the radiator grill.

Side shot, perfect fit

New res, gpu backplate and cpu block fitted. I think the res is a thing of beauty!

Closer look at the gpu and xspc rasa cpu block

Pump mounted

Picture of how things stand at the moment.

I already have the tubing and fluid purchased (colour to be revealed later). I am just waiting on my new radiator to arrive tommorow then I will have all the gear i need. I think i am going to buy some new compression fittings, i currently have the black dark nickle xspc fittings but they are not dark enough. So i think i am going to buy some of the matt black EK fittings and sell the ones i currently have.

Hope you like the look of the project so far.

Tony

 

[fireisdangerous]

Got my 2nd rad fitted last night and have planned the loop order. To make the tubing as neat as possible i am going with the following order

Res-Rad-pump-gpu-rad-cpu-res.

I know you shoud go from res to pump but the tubing is too tight if i do it that way and the pump top i have has a 100ml res built into it so the pump will never run dry.

I have had my new fittings deliverd today so should finish the build off tonight

 

[fireisdangerous]

Got the loop set up and leak tested last night, preety happy with the results, the pictures dont do the green colour justice. It looks amazing under UV but need to find out how to cature UV lights on my camera, any tips welcome

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[cbiltsouris]

looks pretty good man

but may I ask why is there only one fan on the front mounted 240?

 

[Solidarity]

Got the loop set up and leak tested last night, preety happy with the results, the pictures dont do the green colour justice. It looks amazing under UV but need to find out how to cature UV lights on my camera, any tips welcome

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If the pictures aren't doing the green justice, and I thought the green looked amazing in the pictures, i can't imagine what it's like in person

 

[ruthless_villain]

looks pretty cool good job

 

[S_I_N]

looks pretty good man

but may I ask why is there only one fan on the front mounted 240?

semi passive cooling??? lol

looks good bro but MOAR PICS!!!!!!!

 

[fireisdangerous]

looks pretty good man

but may I ask why is there only one fan on the front mounted 240?

My second fan has arrived today, i have only leak tested it so didnt need all the fans yet.

 

[fireisdangerous]

If the pictures aren't doing the green justice, and I thought the green looked amazing in the pictures, i can't imagine what it's like in person

thanks alot pal, hoefully get some nice pics of it when it lit u with UV and it looks even better.

 

[yassarikhan786]

I agree that the green coolant looks brill in the pictures. Keep the updates coming!!!

 

[fireisdangerous]

It is safe to say i've had a nightmare this evening, finished installing my hard drives and my new fan controller, go to boot my pc and get a "no boot drive available" so I do the usual troubleshooting and it still doest even show up in the bios, this is the case for my ssd and hdd. Tried them in other pc and hdd caddys and they wont even power on so looks like my mobo has wiped my 2 drives gutted!!, i plugged in my spare hdd and it boots fine so I have no idea what has gone wrong just that i've lost loads of data!!!

If anyone has had this or knows away to get data of hard drives that don't turn on please let me know, as i need my mass effect saves back. Anyway end of rant.

Here are some pics of the rig with the UV, not perfect pictures i will get some better ones over the weekend but these will do for starters.

Thanks for looking

tony

 

[Solidarity]

The coolant in the res in the second pic looks so damn nice

 

[Scoob]

Hi,

Ouch re: your hard drives, not sure what could have happened there!

The rest of the build is looking very good indeed, the green works well - even though we're not getting the full UV effect in the photos.

Tell me, your res, is that type easy to mount as you have or did you need to drill any new holes in the case? What sort of fixtures does such a res come with? I'd pretty much been looking exclusively at bay res's for my build as they're quite a neat solution. However I don't think they will work with my overall design so well, purely from a visuals perspective.

Cheers & best of luck with the continued build.

Scoob.

 

[Paulie]

That green looks sick and great looking rig, what custom top is that on your ddc

 

[G-Dubs]

Very nice Tony

Love the UV green.

HDD problem, sorry no idea. Be sure to post up on the relevant areas of forums and i'm sure you'll get an answer.

Best guess would be cables.

 

[fireisdangerous]

The coolant in the res in the second pic looks so damn nice

Thanks alot im very happy with the way the colour turned out

 

[fireisdangerous]

Hi,

Ouch re: your hard drives, not sure what could have happened there!

The rest of the build is looking very good indeed, the green works well - even though we're not getting the full UV effect in the photos.

Tell me, your res, is that type easy to mount as you have or did you need to drill any new holes in the case? What sort of fixtures does such a res come with? I'd pretty much been looking exclusively at bay res's for my build as they're quite a neat solution. However I don't think they will work with my overall design so well, purely from a visuals perspective.

Cheers & best of luck with the continued build.

Scoob.

My res is a phobya balancer 240 black nickle , it comes with 2 clamp fittings to hold the res up. I have had to drill 2 holes to fix the res but depending on your case you may not have to.