Sinuskurve

[D.Heiße]

Hello my name is Dominic Heiße. I´m a 19 years old modder from Germany and I study product-design at the Bauhaus University. In my first post here in the forum I want to present you my Casemod Sinuskurve.

Target was to build a PC which has a simple and simultaneous elegant form. Moreover all should go well together, that means the hardware too. Short to say, the PC should be similar to the design of Dieter Rams or Jonathan Ive.

Well at first some impressions of the finished case…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/a-10.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/b-9.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/c-10.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/d-7.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/e-4.jpg

…how you could see shine the Case in different colors. This was very important for me, and so I solder together more than 1300 LEDs. Unfortunately I didn´t know about the advantages of RGB LEDs so in the case are LEDs in 6 different colors (blue, green, white, pink, red and yellow). The LEDs were controlled by a relaycard which is connected via USB with the PC. Only for the LEDs and their control I needed over 200 meters of cable.
Another important thing for me was the watercooling. The radiator which is in the back of the case is selfmade and has a surface of 5 square meters. The fins are aluminum and the tube through which the water flows is chopper. The radiator weighs about 8 kg. Beside the radiator the reservoir is also selfmade. It´s a tube made of Plexiglas with a diameter of 12cm. In this big tube is a smaller tube which has only a diameter of 1.5cm. This tube is in form of a sine curve an in this are mini holes (0,5mm) through the water squirt into the big tube.

Well the base frame of the case is made of Plexiglas, so the edges shine. Over the Plexiglas are 2mm aluminum sheets which are powder coated. The two side elements are made of GRP (glass fibre reinforced plastic) by me. In the front are 5 buttons (power, reset, tft on/off, light on/off and DVD drive out). In the top is a 10” tft which is connected with the graphic card. “Around” the whole case are black Allen screws which are on the one hand for stabilizing and on the other hand for better design.

After this text, full of mistakes (sorry for my bad English), here some more pictures…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/f-3.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/g-2.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/h-3.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/i-3.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/j.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/k-1.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/l.jpg

For all how wanted to know what is inside of the “Sinuskurve” here the hardware that I installed

Mainboard: Asus P5E with Innovatek Cool-Matic MBX
Graphic card: XFX 8800GT 640M with Innovatek Cool-Matic - 8800GT (modded, because XFX hasn´t the referenzdesign of Nvidia)
RAM: Corsair TwinX 2x 1GB
PSU: Corsair 550W with selfmade cable management
DVD-drive: slimline, slot in
HDD: 3 x 200GB

And here some figures

dimensions (HxBxL): 73cm x 43cm x 52cm
wight: 35kg
time to build: 800 hours (1 year)
material costs: 2000€ (with hardware)


Well I hope I could give you a little impression of my work. If you have questions please ask me and I´ll give you as soon as possible an answer. And if you want that I show you some other Cases that I build you have only to say something.


At least two pictures to the theme “Sine curve vs. Audi R8” and here you could see the dimensions of the PC, too
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/m.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/n.jpg

[D.Heiße]

WOW….such a great reaction I haven´t expected!!! But such post give me every day the powder to go in the garage and mod.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Unfortunately I could you show the whole project log, because there are about 2000 pictures. But I will show you some of the important pictures of my work, and if somebody has a special question to something I try to give him a answer with more pictures to this “problem”. I hope it´s ok for you, if not please cry…;-)

Well all started with this sketch in may 2007
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/1-137.jpg

After this sketch I built the main frame made of Plexiglas remains. Ready with this I could begin to build the form for the two side panels…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/2-115.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/3-98.jpg
…which looked in my opinion very clean but at the end I had to fill a lot of that the original panels are smooth as a baby´s behind.


All what is inside of the case are separate modules. So I could tested all modules several before I put all together. And now I will show you the modules.

At first the HDD-Case…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/5-65.jpg
…this case is made of Plexiglas and aluminum. At the bottom of the case there is a 80mm fan which cools the three HDDs.

Now some pictures of the radiator…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/10-15.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/11-27.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/12-9.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/13-6.jpg
…how you could see is it cooled by 4 92mm fans (two blow and two suck). At the top of the radiator is a Plexiglas sheet which scatters the light of the LEDs, which are in the Plexiglas.

This is the case for the DVD-drive…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/14-5.jpg
…between this case and the “real” case is a rubber, so the vibrations of it don´t transfer to the case and it´s more silent.

Here you could see the PSU…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/15-4.jpg
…the cable management is self made. I know it´s no problem to buy a PSU with cable management, but at the beginning, when I bought it I didn´t planed the cable management.

Also the Buttons have an own module…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/16-2.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/17-1.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/18-1.jpg

Well and here some pictures of the “main-modul”…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/25-3.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/26-1.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/27-1.jpg
…this is the control-center for the 1300 LEDs. The case with the 14 bushes is a distributor there I stick the several “LED-parts” (front, back, reservoir…) in.

And that you could better imagine how much 1300LEDs are, here 2 pictures of the main frame of the case where only 200 white LEDs shine.
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/29-1.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/28-1.jpg
Well and if you put this modules in a white curved case you get the “Sinuskurve”…;-)


I hope this pictures could give you some more impressions of my work. And I hope I find time in the next days to show you my other mods (with a little project log), which I built for the last three years. Which will be all in all five Mods and one internet-radio…

And at least one picture of my first mod, there the next thread is about…
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc82/Superpeter69/353.jpg
…because looking forward is the best part!

P.S.: If you have the opinion that I make something wrong, please tell it, and I try to make it better in the next post or in the next Casemod.