Project Flynn

So guys from my inactivity from the forums there have been several developments. The first being that I am fitting it all into a switch 810 which is going to be tight. Second I switched out the 560ti for a evga 670 ftw which runs rather toasty and overclocks strangely. Today I bought tools and other components require to make a power board for the LEDs that will illuminate the water blocks and a few hours ago I ordered a second ftw ek waterblocks to suit and backplates more fittings and rotaries dyes alchemy cables that will be resleeved so a good 700 has been spent today on parts. I believe in the end I shall have a rather snazzy looking 810 and a real powerhouse at the same time. When the packages arrive I shall take some pictures vim guessing it shall take a week to construct as I don't want to half ass it at the final hurdle. The designation has changed to Flynn 2.0 as it has been re tinkered with that many times

Cheers guys
 
Been busting my butt doing things over the last week. Made gpu power cables but they doesn't work so I will be using the corsair standard cable till I get new ones made. Got a 360x60 rad in the front which will fit push pull for the bottom two fans but the top will have to be pull only. Not ideal but. Already had the rad before I had the case and I guess a single nff12 will be enough for pull. I will have a few pics up soon. I am mapping everything out in my mind as I go along. I have an idea that I'm not saying hasn't been done in a switch. I just haven't seen it yet so in the end with all the parts in it will look pretty cool I am having a major hold up from specialtech keeping everything apart so I will put some pics up when I get a minute. So just letting everyone know that Flynn lives. He's just a bit lazy
 
so it has been almost a month since i ordered the gpu waterblocks and only one came due to a stock system error and staff not bothering to make me aware of thesituation until days before christmas which i am really really miffed about and on the 27th i went out with a ladyfriend for a meal but she didnt tell me that she was dying from the winter sickness, she covered up impecably and the next morning i woke up on deaths door HAHA and have still to this very second lost my voice. so while i was off i stripped everything out, bent metal with my hands did some soldering and sleeving and i thought i would take a pic and show you the plans of what is going to happen once specialtech get their crap together.

a, second 360 going in the roof push pull nff12s
b, front 360 2 push 3 pull (possibly leaving one 120 section passively cooled)
c, 2 watercooled gtx 670 ftw's with backplates
d, mounting reservoirs to front rad using brackets
e, covering remaining aly panel in vinyl cf
f, mounting 2 d5's with plexi tops to a baseplate then mounting on anti vibration tape on large aly panel

all f12s will be acting as intakes with one 140 phanteks as an exhaust at the back i/o panel and possibly a second exhaust under the bottom. i hope that the positive pressure will keep dust from getting sucked in but wont turn the case into a hotbox but we shall see what happens


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Project Flynn Updated with pics FOR REALZ 56k alert

hey guys. i bet you all thought i was talking crap the whole time this thread has been open. well i have been a busy boy the past few nights till 3am lol. so i thought i would get some photos to show what i have been doing. now bear in mind it is nowhere near finished as i have a lot of custom lighting to solder and cable parabraiding for the gpu power

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sli bridge

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i hope you guys get a little enjoyment out of them
 
Flynn lives

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After countless hours the past week I have finally got it to leak testing time. The mayhems orange dye is weird. One drop it looks like pee. One more drop and its super super dark. I weighed the thing without liquid and panels and it was 4 stone. That's some weight. Ill get it up and running then ill overclock and test and get some screens up

Woot woot
 
Yea I scrapped the desk idea ages ago. It was going to be too much like the Lep desk. But I didn't have that amount of money lol. I looked at azurite a desk but I decided that the ergonomics would not suit. So I just got a switch but really it isn't big enough for 2 loops with360s and d5s lol. She's tight. Once is get my s3 replaced ill take some good pics. Future bigprojectmay be in a case labs
 
Brief testing

so chaps. did some brief testing this evening for a few hours here are the pics and i will discuss more after them

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waiting on more atx pins and prewired leds for lighting

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so as you can see i have the cpu at 4.5 again which is a level i am happy with and i have overclocked the cards a little. i know i can probably push them further but i dont think i will need to. temperatures wise as you can see on the cpu hit a max of 56oC the room is about 20 using a crappy thermometer so that would be a delta of 36 am i right. but the figure of 56 is fantastic because before wehen i did any testing the cpu would hover around 65-70 using mayhems pastel but this is just using distilled water and for some reason there is a huge difference in temperature. the biggie though is the gpus. a max temperature of 46 has me gobsmacked. when i was playing assassing creed 3 pre watercooling the overclock wasnt as high and the temps were hovering usually around 80 so to double the amount of cards and half the temperature i am just super glad. and on the whole the system is fairly quiet too so finally after about 18 months flynn 2.0 is fully functional and a bit of a badass. i am running windows 8 which has me freaking MIND BLOWN. i dont even see how tablet users could find it useable. ballmer must die because of this but it only cos me 25 quid from the ms store so its not a big loss lol. its gonna take me a while to get the thing looking like it was on 7and half useable. so guys tell me your thoughts if anyone but yass is still interested lol
 


so the latest change to the build is swapping out the 2 acool d5 drive reservoirs and changing back to d5tops in series into acool 300mm fusion tube res x2 in series. i dropped the ram blocks as they were a pain in the butt to work with and if i want to change the ram now i just have to slot em out. added a third radiator an acool 45mm 240. ek fc link triple parallel bridge. i think i looks cool. i put in a panel for the res etc to sit on with ccfls underneath to give a bit of a slight glow through the opal acrylic. im fairly happy with it so far. all the ssds and hdds are where the odds should be. the psu is seriously loud but it works, im pretty sure the fan controller is buggered but i cba waiting a month for corsair to send me a new one. everything else is quiet. i cannot get the thing properly bled. there is an intermittent waterfal noise. it aint leaking. i leak tested for 2 days without an issue i just have to keep an eye on it.
 
hmm I've got some bitspower stuff coming.. but I do like the look of their dual top instead of 2 singles.. BUT, that actually looks alright... you might have just changed my mind..

Annoyed that you can only get the buggers from the US :(
 
hmm I've got some bitspower stuff coming.. but I do like the look of their dual top instead of 2 singles.. BUT, that actually looks alright... you might have just changed my mind..

Annoyed that you can only get the buggers from the US :(
i just used what was there and im happy enough with how it looks. not too expensive either for someone working on a budget but still wants dula d5s (budget lol dual d5s lol)

Project flynn hey lol thats my name baby better make it good

it was flynn in the switch 810. the change to the 900d it became zangetsu.
 
28/5/14 update



new dominator platinums
new silent ax1200i
new evga gtx 780 6gb x 2

two runs of firestrike with 30 seconds of overclocking
firestrike 17131
firestrike extreme 9053

pretty chuffed ill do some proper overclocking after i get some sleep and some work done.
 
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