the golden sail

Hello,

Now it´s the time for a something bigger project, after my “masterpiece” (Sine curve) gets slowly long in the tooth.

The aim of the project is nearly similar how by my project Sine curve, briefly speaking I´ll try to build an “ideal PC”. But how it is by every “ideal”, it isn´t possible, you could only approach on it. Moreover everybody of us has another view of an ideal PC. But generally a PC should have a lot of performance (power), should be very silent, nobody around the world should have the same case, all people should stand in front of the PC and say only “WOW” and at least the PC should be as small as possible.
All who thinks now “Yeah eventual a little gaming PC”, I have to fail you, because the pc will have at the end a similar size how the Sine curve and the CoolIT PC. The reason for that is on the one hand that I don´t play a LAN-parties, so it doesn´t matter whether the PC weighs 5kg or 30kg. On the other I able to implement the other three features (performance, super silent and unique design).

I want to create a computer in the shape of a sail that stands on a socket. The sail will be made of gfk and the socket of aluminum. A central theme will be the water-cooling system. The long Plexiglas tube in the front will be later the reservoir for the cooling circuit. In the tube with a diameter of 40mm will be a tube with a diameter of 12mm. This smaller tube has in the upper part a lot of very little holes. Through these holes the water that comes from the socket will splash at the inner site of the thicker tube. This has two advantages in my eyes, on the one hand the reservoir wouldn´t mist up and on the other hand it looks better. The reservoir will be illuminated by two Highpower LEDs, one at each of the two ends. For the cooling I take highly likely radiators from coolIT systems with peltier-elements, because they cool better than normal radiators.
The inner case will be impressed with 24 carat leaf gilding. To get a contrast to the gold all hardware will be black just like the tubing and the water cooling fitting (black nickel). Moreover all cables will be sleeved with black sleeve. To get a great illumination the inner case will be illuminated by two high-power LEDs. Besides the two single radiators the PSU and the pump find a place in the lower part of the sail. The hdd/ssd and the optical drive find their place in the socket. The optical drive is at the back of the socket just like a 230V power connection.
At the back of the sail will be leaf gilding, too. These will be illuminated by 5mm diffuse LEDs, which shine how all the other LEDs in warm white.

Well after some words about my “plan” where the separate things find their place in the case I tell you something about the hardware I´ll use. But at first I want to say a big

THANK YOU

to all the following companies how support this project, because without them the project wouldn´t exist.

Because I´m not sure about all hardware I´ll use I start with the hardware with is to 99.9% sure


Mainboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE

CPU: Intel Core i7-920

RAM: CompuStocx Diablo3 6GB 2000Mhz Kit

PSU: be quiet Dark Power Pro 100W

Pump: Laing DCC
Radiator for the cooling circuit: CoolIT Freezone Elite Chiller (only the radiator)

Fans: NB-Multiframe® S-Series MF8-S2 und NB-Multiframe® S-Series MF12-P

CPU block: EK-Supreme - Acetal

Sleeve: MDPC Sleeve

LEDs: Seoul Z-Power P4 Star, 2 Chip Superflux LED und diffuse 5mm LED


So and now we come to the hardware that I contemplate, but that isn´t sure.


Video card: GeForce GTX 280 or Radeon HD 4870 with at least 1GB RAM and also water-cooled with EK Waterblocks

HDD: 2 x 1TB

Optical drive: slimline slot-in DVD burner

Tubing/water cooling fittings: 10/8 black tubing and 10/8 black nickel fittings




Well I hope that I could give you a more or less good view about my idea for a nearly ideal PC. Certainly I am looking forward to criticism, suggestions, opinions etc. during the whole process of this project log.

Concluding it´s to say, that I´ll try to provide you each one or two weeks during the next 4 months, 4 days, 4 hours and 4 minutes, because after that it´s the 09/09/2009 9.09 o´clock (at least in Germany) and this is the ideal time for some (final) pictures of the wedding between the case and the hardware…

it looks nice and i like the tube routing.

i do have some concerns for the sake of your heat load and what you plan to do with it.

are you saying your using the coolit with the tec to cool, or just the rad from that unit? is that the only rad in the loop?

what pump are you using?

i wouldn't get the ek supreme if thats all going to be in the loop, its restrictive and does best in a cpu only loop with a good pump .

another crazy project from you! +rep and +sub

WOW! That is insanely cool!

If you make it crisp enough, I can see you winning some competitions and such. It's a nice clean design. Really can't wait to see how it turns out.

An unusual but unique design none the less. Reservoir placement is interesting.
I really like the 3D animation, and renderings. Interested in seeing more of this. +Rep

i would sub but i look at every project so.. no point

good luck

So I think it´s time to inform you about the current situation of the project. Unfortunately I could show/tell/write, because I haven´t the Plexiglas tube for the reservoir yet, but I´ll should get it this week.

Nonetheless I build the appliance to warm up and bend the tube. This was indeed more difficult than I thought, because nowhere I founded some progress reports about bending a 130cm long Plexiglas tube. Therefore I had to think of myself how I´ll bend such a tube, whereby to bend it isn´t such a big problem rather to warm it up. For this problem I had two ideas. The first one was to build a box in that I put the form over which I would bend the tube and the tube itself. This box should headed up by a hot air blower, but I think that is very difficult to get a constant temperature in it for maybe 20 minutes, so I discard this idea. Because of this I´ll try my fortune with my second idea. At this the tube will rotate and I´ll try to warm it up with two hot air blowers. Certainly I don´t know if my deliberations are right, but I´ll know it after the first attempt. Well that you have a better imagination what my idea is, here some pictures of the bend-setup, indeed without the tubing, that I´ll glue between the two Plexiglas slices.

Unfortunately this was all that I made last week, and I couldn´t write anymore. The only thing that I could say is that the aluminum socket will be most likely a stainless steel socket.

At least a picture that the postmen bring me last week…

…what inside is I´ll show you in one of the next updates.

@Spawn-Inc: Well I´ll use the coolIT with the tec, whether one, two or three I don’t. But if I´ll only use one, I´ll use a 240mm “normale” radiator moreocer.

@SXRguyinMA/jdbnsn/Ichbin/Electgicos/don’t-FeaR: Thank you and I try that your aren´t disappointed!!!

very nice bend set up mate.. good work so far.

wow... that sail is big. lol

way to use legos! they rock. :)