Project Myria - The workstation (Corsair Carbide AIR 540)

[HCP]

Well, i may have too much projects going on but i got curious on the Corsair AIR540, so i ordered one.
This gonna be a soft mod (compared to my others).
The name "Myria" is something popped up in my head, dont know where i got it from

Things on the todo list.
X is done.

- Paint all meshes [X]
- Paint all expansion slots [X]
- Cut parts for new floor [X]
- Paint bays at 5,25" hotswap [X]
- Sleeve the 24pin & front panel cables [-]
- Cut holes in the new shrouds for all connectors [-]
- Wrap shrouding in matte black vinyl [-]
- Dust filter under the case [-]
- Install watercooling [-]

Hardware i´ll put in is my AMD A10 6800k stuff.
16gb GeIL EVO Veloce
2x120gb Intel 320 SSD
VTX3D Radeon 7950

240mm radiator, EK DCP2.2 pump and clear tubing, nothing fancy.

Gonna change my ITX board for a mATX later, but for the first weeks i´m gonna use my ITX.

Well, enough talking.

First up is some pics of the darn thing!

I´m lucky to have some help while measuring

Aaaaand, here´s the color.
Its called "Maroon", covered with 3 layers of flat/dull clear coat.

Roof & front

Color on the expansion slots too

And the mesh on the hot swap bay

 

[Bartacus]

Love your projects sir!! Subbed!

 

[Feronix]

Liking the subtle colour

ITX/mATX boards in an Air 540... not so much.

 

[HCP]

Liking the subtle colour

ITX/mATX boards in an Air 540... not so much.

Hehe, ITX is just because i dont have time with reinstall right now and using that right now in a Prodigy.

My raised floor may inflict with a full ATX board, its 28mm higher off the regular one above the drive cages.

But now when you say it, i have to measure it more careful and see if there is any ATX boards that fits, would look soo much better to "fill" the space, and more space for cards.

Edit: Thanks Feronix, you got me to measure better and a ATX will fit

 

[HCP]

Been trying to mix Mayhems dye´s to get this maroon color but no luck.
Blue+red + a little black, and blue+red in different ammounts, no luck yet.
I´m close but no banana!

So i went ahead and put all exterior stuff together.
And made some changes to fit a ATX board.

Still need to mod the 5,25" bay, its about 5mm wrong in the holes and makes the drive bay sit too far in, going to change this.

Next up is routing the watercooling and make a fixture for the reservoar and the new floor.
Probably going to put reservoar in the big chamber with the radiator, and pump in the floor of the smaller chamber.
A pump-res combo should look nice, but no money for that right now.

I´ll wait some more with the backplate until i get the new ATX board.

 

[Feronix]

Good to hear that an ATX board will fit in there. Will certainly look a lot better!

 

[sheroo]

What you've done is so subtle - very elegant looking indeed. Looking forward to your plans for the inside.

 

[HCP]

Made all parts for the inside this weekend and got some vinyl to cover it with.
When i got to the reservoar i didnt really like seeing the fittings on top and bottom.
After some thinking i found two 50mm plastic pipes, and got an idea.

This will hide the connections and just show the reservoar, perfect!

 

[HCP]

Aaand, the pipe-parts for the reservoar is done. Just a light sanding and clear coat to be done.

Will give the res a stealth look, only tubing visible is the ones from the radiator and cpu block.


The insides
Panel cut and test fitted, some minor changes to do before vinyl wrapping.
The backplate is just a dummy, the real one has bigger cutout for CPU backplate and to house a ATX motherboard.

 

[Wraith]

Looking clean so far which Vinyl are you going with?

 

[HCP]

Looking clean so far which Vinyl are you going with?

3M, matte black. Going to cut some patterns and logos aswell for the background and floor.

 

[HCP]

A smaller update, i got into trouble by measuring the wrong GPU, too much projects going on

Well, here is the setup right now.
Red panel on the GPU is off and i probably wrap it or paint it, and polish the pipes a bit.
Going to re-wrap the bottom part of the reservoar pipe-part also, its messy.

Mockup with GPU, fans and res-pipe.

Some sleeving, going to try some cable sewing to get them into bundles

 

[Feronix]

I like the sleeving, the colours look classy.

 

[HCP]

Well, this is done enough right now.

I have some small details left to do, as lacing the cables, adding two more memory modules and stuff like that.
But i need this computer now so i have to get it up and running

 

[Feronix]

Not bad! Lights are a bit too bright for my liking, but overall it looks good.

 

[Conchubair]

Love that rez, its awesome..

 

[HCP]

Not bad! Lights are a bit too bright for my liking, but overall it looks good.

Yup, for my taste too, but i have a switch in the back to make it completely dark
Will replace it with a variable resistor later.

 

[Ghosthud1]

Looks like your cooling it with syrup or iron brew, both of which i enjoy.

It's an odd colour scheme, but it's growing on me!

 

[Noz_God]

Looks good

 

[TUiZHD]

Looks good, would love to see an update when you have the finishing touches added.