The D's Next Undertaking

[SparkleDJackson]

So a few months ago my power supply died "good thing i have a killer msi laptop to keep me going". I decided that i would do a new project build. the only things that i will be keeping the same are the 780 6gb gpus that still have plenty of life left in them. i will be upgrading to the broadwell e platform as the sbe i am currently running is a little old for my liking. which brings us to now. for the past two weeks i have been on holiday in the usa with a family friend with only a wired internet connection. a slow one. so i have had a little time to work on my cad for my upcoming project.
its going to be big, and heavy, and shiny.
i have worked for a a good few hours on previous concepts and i have yet to finish the design but i have a good enough whack modeled that you will be able to fill the majority in for yourself.

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so this is a fully made out of acrylic case design. the front top and back sections will be acting as reservior/ routing for fluids. i will also have an illuminated midplate that will also be machined to act as a waterblock. i have started working on a dual d5 pump top that i will also be getting machined. so this is just the first taster but i hope that the next few months work out how i am planning. yet to name it. thinking something from the metal gear universe.

happy new year guys. be safe.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

so i have had a busy few weeks with work and have only been able to squeeze in a few hours at night and when you are doing cad work on your knee on a sofa with a laptop it can take a bit more time. it is a msi gt72 but still as the piece gets more complicated the speed of viewing, rotating gets slower never mind rendering. the below image at 2560 1440 took 90 mins to render. this could be because the material is clear so it has to do all that ray tracing crap so that you can see the things it the sides of each of the think panels like the fans you can see at the side of the front panel. its pretty cool.

well i have decided that i am going to do a full upgrade. not just a x99 broadwell e jum but i think i am going to do a pascal jump aswell. there is nothing wrong with my 780s really but i could use them on a smaller rig for my tv or something like that. i am about to get this basket in the mean time so that i have some of the bill paid off before everything else hits the market. i am also buying some fresh pumps to replace my current ones. dont want to risk a new build on 4 year old pumps.

i am going to be changing the fan grille style to be something less parvumy incase someone comes on accusing me of being the next thermaltake hehehe. its been fun but very mentally taxing doing this as i am doing a lot of gues work and visualising everything in my head on how things will fit. making paths for water channels. but i do think that if i take my time so that i can make my revisions as necessary that this system will knock socks off. you can probably tell that i get some of my inspiration from the likes of our very own jr and p0Pe.

i hope you like what i have done so far and are lookng forward to future developments in the project.

 

[WYP]

I am very interested in seeing how this goes. Looks like this will be a very interesting build log.

 

[NoobCase]

Looks impressive.. looking forward to the update.

 

[AlienALX]

Are you going to hide the cables? or go super anal with clamps and so on?

 

[SparkleDJackson]

Are you going to hide the cables? or go super anal with clamps and so on?

i have a huge rear cavity so there will be plenty of space for organisation of cables. i will have clips mounted in the back to help hold everything down. for the front side i have to wait to find out if there is a r5e black to see if the pcblayout is the same. if it is the same i will be drilling individual holes for each wire of each cable so that will do the same job as a cable comb. for the sata usb and mobo pins i have not decided how i am going to work them as i dont want big gaping holes with for tiny wires. just because they have funky connectors. i will get round to that eventually design aspect eventually. i have many hours into this but there is a lot more left to go :headscratch:

 

[Tolemac]

I really like the look of this and looking forward to this interesting build

 

[Bartacus]

Subbed, I love liquid channel panels, or whatever you call those things.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

Good day folks. So after i finished with the front panel the midplate and back panel were seriously easy to bang out. The screw holes havent been drawn in but they wont be hard to do. I think it looks pretty cool. I went with the bitspower dual d5 top as you can see, and the two tubes from the pump and the four from the cpu and gpu are minimal in length so far the design is fairly clean. Once i have finished with the fuild carrying panels i will be able to focus more on doing cool stuff to the motherboard panel and fixing the designs on the fan sections. You will see on the rear view that i have slotted venting for exhausting the air brought in the bottom section and out here. Im no engineer but i think that with 8 fans blowing in even through a radiator i think should be positive pressure. for the brain section of the built there will be slot vents in the top panel also for exhaust. heat rises and all that jazz and again 3x af120 fans should be enough air flow to keep dust in control. i havent figured out how i am going to dust filter the inlet in this section. and it not look like crap so that is another brain buster for me to think about.
i was also speaking to a church friend that has access to a cnc mill and he said that if i provide the materials and any mill bits for the process that he will cnc everything for free.

 

[Tolemac]

That looks so nice well done so far

 

[mod_ex]

Thats looking sweet dude cant wait to see this unfold well done

 

[SparkleDJackson]

here we have a mini update as i havent been able to sleep. i was lifting carpet today and there was a dust explosion and it has triggered my allergies, so i have been sneezing soo hard it has kept me awake so i thought i would be productive.

now you can see that i have finished designing all four of the water panels. WOO HOO. i just have to add in the screw holes for the mid plate but that wont take too long. i also have the roof venting added in. i decided that parvum cant have a monopoly on a 45 degree line HAHAHA.

on the mobo panel i have begun the funkifying. the bits of blue i am unable to render how it will actually look. you can visualise it yourself if you alternated layers of transparent blue and opal white acrylic. from there the layers are then shaved down at an angle. hopefully this give a fibre optic effect and the trans blue layers shine brightly at the edges. i hope this is the case because it would be well cool. for the most right section of the mobo panel i am planning to make cuttouts to flushmount ssds. the problem is are ssds going to be relevant for long inn their current form factor. with all these m.2 and u.2 drives that are about or are about to be about, are the 2.5" drives going to remain popular. or do i bite the bullet and buy a few 500gb drives and make blanking plates for future expandability???? that is the question of the day.

oh yea i forgot to mention. i was playing with the idea of going white instead of black. what do you guys think. either colour i think is fairly cool.

anyway guys thats it for tonight.

PEACE

 

[Tolemac]

White and Blue goes really well together looking forward to see which colour you finally choose though

 

[MadMarc]

Very cool project dude, but imo it looks a bit empty. It would look much better if you made it shorter and with just 7 or 8 expansion slots, this way the mainboard would fill the space nicely. There's nothing wrong with big cases but for me an efficient use of space, not too crammed and not too empty, always looks best.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

Very cool project dude, but imo it looks a bit empty. It would look much better if you made it shorter and with just 7 or 8 expansion slots, this way the mainboard would fill the space nicely. There's nothing wrong with big cases but for me an efficient use of space, not too crammed and not too empty, always looks best.

i understand what you mean. at the minute yes its is very bare. but fortunately i am not finished and broadwell e is 4 months away. the pci backplate is that size because it was the only size that i was able to source so you cna only work with what you get. size wise its not going to be much larger than a 900d but with the space i have left i still have a few pieces work my magic on. i also prefer the look of three fans in the front instead of two. its probably going to be considerably deeper than a 900d but i will have space in the bottom section for 2 layers of monsta 480 rads with a layer each of fans and between each bank of rads and fans i have the psu snuggled in between with plenty of breathing room. just wait budzilla. when its done you will have an anime style nosebleed hehehe

 

[SparkleDJackson]

so todays update. i have been speaking to several different suppliers of acrylic so hat i know what i have to spend and ideally i try and source my materials locally when i am doing any projects to support the local business and all that jazz so the local supplier emailed me the quote for what i need and in comparison to the cheapest mainland english supplier they were more expensive by over 150 pounds so i thought to myself. they can get stuffed not including delivery. they wanted over 500 inc vat for acrylic i sat on my sofa and laughed as i read it.
I received my g1/4 tap set the other day and i have some 5mm thick scraps that i can practice with in the mean time.
in the pictures i have now shown that there are ssd mounts embedded into the panel. the ssds will sit proud very slighty seeing as most ssds have a filleted or chamfered shell it would look stupid to sink the drive so the face was flush and there to be a gap around the edge where the chamfer is. nah mate. its just means that i have to use regular thickness ssds or make spacers if i get some of the thinner for factors. for the drive positions that will not be occupied by ssds there will be blanking plates made to fill the gaps so future expandability is taken care of.
i have finally added the gpu, 4pin and 8pin mobo power cables. i am still working on the 24 pin. they are a pain in the neck.
every panel has every thread that is required modelled so there is no more of that to do. for the sucuring of the windows i was thinking about using some very thin neodymium magnets with a relatively low pull force between 1-2kg each so it should hold he panels on nice and firm but i hope the field is weak and far enough away that it doesnt jigger anything. there is a good bit of insulation with the acrylic everywhere. if we have any physicists on here magnetic advice would be nice.
finally i have decided to go with white instead of black.