Project Robmos

[Dark NighT]

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Hello OC3D!

The time has come to upgrade from my Cosmos RC 1000 to the Cosmos S, but with a few tweaks and addons, this build has been inspired by Orca, specifically the aluminium plates, but first lets look at the current situation with my cosmos RC1000



As you can see it has a 360mm rad on top, now this is because the Cosmos RC 1000 doesnt have native 360mm rad support and there is a 280mm rad in there already, which will stay in there as it wont fit in the cosmos S.

Ive done some mockup work for the aluminium plates with some cardboard.

The center plate that covers the optical bays wil be a mesh type, so it can still draw air in from the front, behind that there will be a alphacool all copper 240mm radiator.

A good mate was kind enough to donate his hard drive cage from his Bitfenix Prodigy for this build, i didnt want to use the stock cage that comes with the case because its to big, the space between hard drives is to tight and i couldnt reverse it so the cables are at the front.

Barely fits, but that works!

Been dremeling some cable management holes, they still need some work, but they will have a rubber trim edge to make things look better.



Cut the grill that was in the top, all it does is restrict airflow (minor thing) and collect dust (BIG thing) so away it is.



Ordered the aluminium plates as well as all the stuff i need to finish this baby.

I also ordered 2 vandal switches, the cosmos s has a horrible touch activated power button and no reset switch, so i will be putting proper switches in because, well i dont know what coolermaster was smoking when they desinged that because it was a terrible idea.

The hardware that goes in there,

Msi Z77 Mpower
Intel i5 3570K
Corsair 8gb vengeance 1866 kit (red dammit)
2x gtx 570 with waterblocks
Asus Xonar Xense audio card
120gb OCZ ssd
Corsair HX1000 watt psu.
3 1tb hard drives.

I will update as soon as stuff comes in.

Cheers.

 

[The Orange One]

Looking forward to see the progress

 

[alpenwasser]

I really like the Cosmos S, it's just so cavernous; a nice clean slate to do stuff to .

Will there be a window?

 

[Dark NighT]

Yes i will take the window panel from my current case untill i get a hold of some new plexi panel and fit that in the original panel where the side fan is mounted.

 

[Dark NighT]

Well i didnt post for a few days, was to busy sorting the stupid alphacool reservoir, it kept leaking even after using some teflon tape to seal it even more, no good, it still leaked, even though it was only a drip of water every few hours, i was fed up, extremely fed up with all of it and after 3 full years of running watercooled systems, ive decided to go back to air instead, no more hassle and the simple truth is that hardware these days doesnt get that hot to really warrant the costs of watercooling, apart from the looks obviously.

Here are some pics when the case with watercooling was complete, it looked awesome, i still would have needed a few 90 degree fittings to hide that tube going to the radiator, but not anymore i guess.

Water.

Air cooling!

I will invest in a proper air cooler for my cpu at a later date.

Thats it folks, im so done with watercooling, all it did the last few days is make my life complicated, which is a nice challenge but at some point you just have to say Stop, and that happened today!

 

[NeverBackDown]

Should have stuck with the watercooling build... Oh well too late i guess

 

[alpenwasser]

simple truth is that hardware these days doesnt get that hot to really warrant the costs of watercooling, apart from the looks obviously.

Even though I've been totally addicted to W/C ever since the original Cuplex, I sort of have to agree on that one. Once tower heatsinks with heatpipes came along which were powerful and relatively silent (gone the days of Swiftech MC462's with 5000 RPM Delta fans :lol: ) W/C was for the most part rendered obsolete when considering cost/benefit. Of course you're going to get better temps for less noise with a proper setup, but the cost is .

I mostly do it because I'm a total silence freak, like the looks of it and love to tinker with it. But pragmatically speaking, cost/performance is rather miserable imho.

Wish you all the best on dry land :lol:

 

[Dark NighT]

Yeah it brought a tear to my eye while i was taking it all apart again, but i do stand by my decision, ive grown weary over the last few days and the possibility of it all going horribly wrong was in my head all the time, i dont have the money to replace all of that hardware, so its gone, im keeping the pump and some bits to watercool some old stuff just for fun, but my main system will be on air from now on.