20m of alu sheet lol, bloody awesome.
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20m of alu sheet lol, bloody awesome.
And this would be the welding plans for now =)
I like it, this is gonna be a monster of a build.
counted it up just now... 166x60x30cm WITHOUT feet -.-
Bloody hell... didnt think it would end up at those sizes, lol
kinda thinking about building one large ass box instead of 2 mini and 1 medium
I would still keep it modular, would make it a lot easier if you ever have to move/transport it.
^ this. As long as you make the cabling modular too, leaving it as three pieces would make it worlds easier to move. Considering the size and weight of this thing, if you build it as one piece, I can't really see it moving....ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
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How do you have all those drives managed? I'm in the process of re-building my fileserver, and I haven't been able to find a really nice way to deal with lost of drives across multiple controllers.
another monster..
nearly wet myself looking at all that lian-li gear lol!
A new day, new opportunities =)
As mentioned , more then 20 meters(!!!) of 25x25x2mm aluminium have been cut up today in appropriate lenghts..
The welding will start the upcoming thursday most likely, some results will finally show by then, OCZ have sendt 3x of their hyrdoflow aswell today, so should receive them sometime soon :P
Placed up the stuff i allready received just to see if everything fit as it should, and it really seem promissing this far, however... the middle mobo tray is rotated the wrong way :P have to cut and fit it to the mATX standard first :P
Next week this little fella will be visited =)
And for those of you that wanna see how a CNC Hecksaw works, click here
And a small view of the plating thats been ordered ^^
I said it before and I will say it again, that is a lot of alu lol.
Starting to take shape mate, keep at it.
wow... cnc hecksaw... thats lazy.. lol
lots alumi i like :)
Time to pick stuff appart! YAaAaaY!
For some reason is having a front mounted screen really cool and hip these days... so how could this project be anything less =)
Front mounted screens are supposedly used for computer monitoring or something...
In the lack of something better to do i decided to get the planned screen out of its precious little hideout...
Todays victim :
1x HP Compaq EVO 620
With the outrageous :
1.5ghz dual core pentium M
1gb memory
80gb hdd
15.5" LCD screen
it even comes with a xp home licence :P
And yes... i know it will count up as a 4th computer... but hey... need something to run the screen aswell 0.o
Ran out of time, ill do a write up later =) enjoy the pics for now
mmm, shiny. You should find a touch panel that'll fit that LCD..I know I've seen 9" and 10" ones that weren't very expensive, not sure about 15.5" though...
Whoah! This is going to be epic :D
Hi again guys !
Had some more time at my hands so have been able to work a bit more on the screen and towards making some screen mounts to align the screen flat on the laptop, u wouldnt believe how small the screws used for stuff like this is .... talking about a half mm tick or something.... such a pain in the ass to get ahold off in the local stores
Found a decent 1mm alu plate down in the working area... cut off a suitable piece and drilled some holes to get the screen attached..
Crazy small...
Screen mounted up in its vertical position =) hopefully this should look good
Aaand the other side =)
There we go.... screen mounted up on the laptop, just flipped over the opposite was as normal, still have to solder some wires for the on/off button and the thumbstick =)
Another thing that came to my attention today was the lian li brackets placed beneath the disk holders... that allow the holder to be removed from its baseplate... in my little world cant i really see the use of stuff like this beside taking alot of space... a decent 2 cm buildup on each of em...
U can see the height difference quite well... they have to go...
8 done... gotta love hecksaws... *truly hate em* -.-
should be able to start putting the rack together tomorrowish =) so a large update will come by then
x88x : a touch panel would be sweet :P throw me a pm if u see someone selling it, untill then ill just have to move the thumbpad outside the case or use BT =)
-Cg
Loving the laptop mod mate, very cool.
win!
Precision crafting at its finest. Eyes are glued. +Rep
Thx alot for the support guys =) Ill do my best, hehe
Got a delivery from OCZ today !
After a couple of days in transit the Hydroflow's arrived at the shop =) The finish look's awesome this far... and its delivered with both 3/8" and 1/2" nozzles ^^
Cant wait to get em mounted up, just have to decide on wich motherboards to go for 0.o
Very nice blocks, you're a lucky man.
/\ yeah agree
Have done quite a bit of work today, the entire frame is now ready to go, gotta love Forsa knots ^^
:eek: Holly flying crackmoneys that thing is huge... I like the little make-corners-easy-thingies, I'll have to remember about those if/when I do a full fab case.
Off-topic, is that motorcycle gear/gas tank/wheel I see?
Building my case in a MC shop my friend, so those objects are somewhat common around there =)
Offtopic :
A few pics of the shop ^^
that thing is pretty good. FYI, it would be really nice if you could rotate your pics. My neck can't take much more. LOL
/\ lol my eyes auto adjust
nice shop im jealous
looks good mate
Those pre made corners would bake things really handy, and they look good. The structure as a whole looks great. Awesome shop, you are very lucky to have access to that.
mmm that RC8 is yummy!
Just got a mail from my iron monger, some of the aluminium will arrive tomorrow afternoon, expect a update soon folks =) should also get 4x 360 radiators along with the alu...
Have to figure out how many loops that will be needed when considering the practical aspect
Current plans for watercooling would be :
2x 4870x2
1x 4870 - 1GB
8x DDR3 OCZ FlexX
4x DDR2 OCZ FlexX
3x CPU's
3x chipset's, not sure about this one yet though, but stuff tends to get hot without any fan's mounted to the CPU =)
unknown amount of and reservoirs , pumps will be needed aswell
You have got a lot to watercool lol. For the chipsets you could W/C the NB, or whack a Thermalright cooler on them ;).
sweet cant wait
Guys !
Anyone know if its possible to get a chipset block on the MSI 790FX-GD70? In that case, wich? =)
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7222/mgd7003qf6.jpg
This is a great day indeed !
AMD has decided to join up on this project aswell... in other words, everything will be going full fledged AMD - AM3/Phenom 2/AM2. Alot has changed with the phenom 2 from previous generations, so going to give AMD my full support in this build =)
Hardware changes :
CPU 1 : from Intel Q9550 -> Phenom II 955
CPU 2 : from intel Q9550 -> Phenom II 955
CPU 3 : from Intel Atom 330 -> Phenom II 955
Mobo 1 : Asus P5Q premium (775) -> MSI 790FX-GD70 AM3
Mobo 2 : Asus P5Q premium (775) -> MSI 790FX-GD70 AM3
Mobo 3 : Intel D945GCLF2D mITX -> Asus M3A78-T AM2
Man congratz n the sponsors, you really deserve it. Although I personally prefer Intel, AMD have really been stepping up with their latest releases.
As for the chipset block, I wouldn't bother. The cooler is only on the Mosfets and the SB, the SB only looks after HDDs and USB etc. so that stock cooling will be more than enough to cool both the SB and Mosfets, as long as you have good airflow in the case.
Thats kinda the issue in the first place :P
There will be close to NO airflow in the top and bottom case as all of the items in there will be watercooled 0.o
Could allways put up a active fan on the SB/Mos though
Even if you WC all your components should have airflow. Motherboards excrete heat, no matter how many blocks you attach.
If you really wanted to WC the board you could probably find a Mosphet block that will fit or will be released soon or you could replace it with a Thermalright Mosphet cooler which will do the job perfectly. Then you could either WC the SB as well or add a Thermalright or Enzotech chipset cooler. Problem solved :D.
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Hi guys!
Been a stressfull day with lotsa stuff to do, but managed to get some more work done on the case today =)
got the hdd holders in place atleast, its still somewhat crude though, need some polishing and filing ^^
Ah well... ill write down some more stuff soon, gonna post a ****load of pics now ^^
http://grevaeg.com/images/case010/tg240609/
Made a quick image gallery for those of you who want some larger pics ;O
Here we go ... Visited my iron monger earlier this week and picked up some 5mm alu for the harddrive frame, should be sturdy enough.. however, have to cut it down as much as possible due to the massive weight..
Tape has allways been a decent tool for creativity :P
So out with the jiggzaw and start cutting... think i wasted 1 blade for each plate i cut...
Rubber mountings have been used to prevent the harddrive holders from getting any vibrations out troughout the case
Holes was then cut out both to allow heat to travel around and partly to reduce weight... a 80mm hole of 5mm alu is easily 100g, close to a half kilo's off with just those holes, and hey... it looks somewhat cool :P
Please check out the image gallery linked above for now guys, ill write up some more soon :P
oh oh, and heres a small update on whats coming next :P
.... PREEEETTY..... I love the HDD mount..mounts. What going in the space between the two arrays?
3x 910w PCP&C Silencer, a motherboard tray, a 17" screen up front of em, and fanducts in front + 4x 250mm fans for airflow =)
Doh, that's right *goes and looks at previous mock-ups* :facepalm:
