Silverstone TJ11 Carbon

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Hello my friends.

About 4 weeks I was doing nothing, My wife was getting crazy.
But now it is here ......... a new build, with a beautiful case, the Silverstone TJ11
When I first saw the case I had something like "I to want to mod this one"

I must admit that a number points are not so nice at this case.
This "negative" points I will certainly adjust. But they have also a lot of beautifull things renewed.
The main hardware and other materials

De hardware:

Case: Silverstone TJ11
PSU: Coolermaster 1200w
Motherboard: I’m not quite sure, but for the fitting and measuring, gonna use a EVGA Classified E759
Processor: i7 930
GPU: 3 x GTX 480
Memory: 6 x 2GB Corsair DDR3 1600
HDD: 2 x SSD 120GB And some sata

Cooling:

Water cooling of course, but have to gather and brainstorm what best suits the TJ
So it’s a bit of a gray area. But I have some great ideas.
For now:

2 x EK 360 radiator
EK HF Supreme plex
EK Ram cooler plex
BitspowerSilver shiny
Tygon tube Transparant
And more…….

Other products/ materials:

MDPC Sleeve, colors: Black and...........yellow
Carbon fiber film
SMD lighting I think, but not too much this time
Some Acryl, yellow and black

About what exactly will happen, I will not say too much for now. I have a lot of ideas;)

The beginning:

My hero the guy of GLS, delivered the package of highflow.
Luckily, he treats the case with love and the TJ is without damage.
It’s big, really big…………..but beautifull

De Silverstone TJ11

The box

Out of the box

Inside

Top-mounted slide out motherboard tray

9 uninterrupted 5.25” drive bays

9+1 expansion slots

6 x 3.5” hard drive trays

Dual see-through air intake vents

Dual ATX/PS2 PSU compartment

2 x AP121 fans with hot-swap adapters

Extra large motherboard tray cut-out for CPU cooler backplates

And a little box with small stuff

Manual……….lol

Fasteners, unfortunately silver not black. Missed opportunity

SSD Brackets

Horizontal mount bracket for the PSU

Filter

PSU cable

And a Silverstone logo for on the case or something. could laugh about this

Because the painted this on my beautiful expensive case

Do not mind that it’s made in China, but please don’t do this anymore
This was the case step by step. next challenge is to brainstorm how to install the various components.
New case, new challenges I love it :clap: ............... to be continued;)

Grtzzz.

They could have made it one of those little thin clear plastic stickers, but it looks like they chose to silk screen it instead. Especially when they choose to let you put their logo on it, but write the "Made in China" tag directly on the case.

That is just what anyone wants to see on a $600+ case, no? I hadn't even realized China could make something that cost $600+, lol.

Can't wait to see where this is going.

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Originally Posted by NightrainSrt4

That is just what anyone wants to see on a $600+ case, no? I hadn't even realized China could make something that cost $600+, lol.

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They don't, they make a $49 case for Silverstone :D :facepalm:

Update: dismantling the TJ

What a pleasure, I didn’t need this today. No rivets in this case

Only used this one

Have almost the entire case apart and this is what’s left

First removed the air intakes what was quiet easy apart from one thing

The speed controllers on top are not with a connector, so had to remove it from the case

Back side with the filters

Hotswaps also removed

These will still be used

The fans from the bays

When this was out, had playtime with some motherboards
Find the board

Small isn’t it, can you see it?
No, not this one......... but for now this one

Still is a nice motherboard with the EK blocks. Maybe it willstay with some changes to the red, but I’m still not sure

Back of the tray. Enough space for swapping the backplate

Enough slots

Continuing the dismantling. The top panel is simply push / click, but it’s a very nice design, therefore some pics;)

Other side

Quick look at how it’s gonna be with a 360 radiator

PSU in..........lots of space :)

Further......still with my Phillips screwdriver, the drive bays. Very easy to disassemble

Had to disconnect the power switch because it is connected to the switch on top

Nice hole can be adjusted

Omg where is the TJ?

Midplate. This was a bit more difficult, I had to remove the motherboard slide
But still managed without too much trouble

It’s huge ……..63 cm

Hmmm, not much left of it

And again placed the 2 radiators inside with the fans on the inside pulling air through the radiators

Like this I have enough space between radiators for the tubes

psu in it. Not the psu that is finally coming in, but I had this one lying around

And some pictures of the color combination
Carbon and black

Yellow sleeve with it

And always nice..........the black one

Looks nice!!!

Just ordered some stuff for the case itself. I will keep you informed ;)
Grtzzz.

You sir.


Have a very nice camera what ever it is.

Thank you sir ;)
Not really a special camera
A Sony alpha300 with a Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC Macro lens, but most important ...........daylight

Update: First carbon practice

3M Di-Noc CARBON FIBER FILM

Yesterday been playing with the carbon film

To test my skills, I have coated my classified block with the film
before

And after

Also my Supreme HF coated. Again before

And now with carbon look

Put everything on the motherboard

Also did the laptop

Just kidding

The waiting is for the materials now, but luckily I have some stock
For the radiators I’m gonna make a sort of bracket, from beginning to end of the case, at least on the visible side

other side gets an open area for cables and other purposes
Piece of iron plate with the angle to cut

Round edge marked

Cutout for the psu

And here the custom plate, perfect fit

Opening made for the radiator, so that you don’t see the mounting holes and just straight to the air intake of the sidepanel

Sidepanel on it

Rear intake is gonna be closed and the whole will be covered with carbon

That’s it for today.
Bye bye

Update: Front plate

Fortunately i’ve received some products this week, modding time !!!
To place some hdd’s put the hdd bays together

To get this build a little over the top I’m gonna put in 3 BP hdd coolers. A while ago I had two from L3p bought for a future build, but this is the perfect case for the coolers. So This week i’ve bought the third. L3p Thanks man!

Later on hdd's underneath with some support at the sides

The bay is accessible and gonna be placed like this

And i’ve used an old piece aluminum panel that I had left after a window cutout ........ never throw something away

Draw some Lines for the jigsaw

After some sawing and filing it already starts to take shape

Adhesive tape over it to see how it is going to be

And tried without tape

After that the slot for the slim-line DVD-RW

And then put the plate on the upper and lower bay cover with

3M Scotch Clear Mounting Tape #4010

And put everything back

But not finished yet ....... missing something.

I ordered some yellow acrylic. Really a gamble because no pictures were there of the yellow color
But fortunately it is just the right color that fits with my yellow sleeve

Made some french fries

And made the yellow lines in the slots of the hotswaps. Don’t have to be open because the water cooling. And the yellow lines will come back more often in this build

And the remaining three hotswaps finished

Imagine the front plate with carbon film (vertical straight lines)
And finally a hardware exchange. The Classified goes out the to a buddy of mine, he was in love with the carbon blocks. And I got an nice opportunity

Rampage III Extreme

With EK full cover block

This will also be covered with carbon;)

That's it............Grtzzz

Looking good. :up: The new front panel really cleans it up.

Update

Now that I have the REIII I can not stay behind in order to coat it with carbon. Before I'm going to do this, there is some treatment needed.
If I stick the carbon film without doing this, you will see the holes where the bolds are in
That's why I’m gonna cover the holes. What we need:

Detergent

Ammonia with some cotton swabs

And some silicone sealant

First I have cleanedand degreased the holes and bolts

Then the put the sealant in it and smoothed it with detergent on the finger

When everything was dry I put the carbon on. Heated the carbon with the heatgun to get the Straight edges

Cut the edges and lines with a sharp knife

Then it was time to treat the motherboard. Screwed the The original blocks off and used a cleaning kit to clean everything

Arctic Silver ArctiClean Reinigingskit

A few drops

And it's clean

Placed the Waterblock

Finished

I also changed the cover of the radiator, as I need to have optimum heat dissipation. That's why I cut a 120mm hole next to the radiator
.

This fan will blow the hot air out from the lower compartment

To still stay a little original , I’ve have made a custom midplate, this will be covered with yellow acryl

1mm Aluminum plate

First tape it and marking it

Total shot coming up. The air intakes in the side panels are in my opinion not pretty, but it offers a possibility to use it for 2 aquaero's
Made a bracket and fitted it with an old Aquaero

For this one also created openings for the midplate that still has to be bent. I had hoped that I already could showed, but I'm still waiting for my new little folding machine

Then placed the two Aquaero's VF

Placed the midplate in front

Also placed the side panel

To get smaller recess in the side panel I have a made a piece of aluminum and marked it

And made this also with openings in the size of the display of the aquaero, s

These I put on the inside and on the outside I have made another piece

This I have made as tight as possible because there wil be later on carbon on it and I do not want to have ugly edges visible. Just put a little bit carbon on it to show what the intention is

Soon as I'm going to do the whole panel, and maybe I’m gonna place another acrylic display for it

Am also has been busy with the hardware and the WC stuff. Gonna place the reservoir at the back. For this there are coming 2 x EK-DDC X-RES with 200mm reservoirs
To see how it will look i’ve placed them like this

Fits tightly next to my Corsairs

Placed the two GTX480, third one is coming. Still gonna do someting with the gpu’s

Now there are nickel backplates but these will be exchanged with black ones

Nice to have Corsair

Tuesday my folding machine is coming and I can finish the midplate

That's it on my last day of my vacation, tomorrow back to work ........... unfortunately
Updates will now take a bit longer

Grtzzz.