Project : 5th gen - 20TB gaming rigs

Hi all!,

One of those really large updates are finally coming along :P

Been working for 16 hours straight today on this project, so gotten a long way now...

Whats been done
* Finalized water res
* Allmost done with backplates
* Mounted disks and some hardware
* Soldered power circuits and LED's
* Installed Windows on mITX


Whats left
* Get the hoses and mount them up
* Install waterblocks on GFX cards
* Install new mobo
* Install watercooling and water ress
* Install fillport
* Boot it up ^^.




The harddrive rack


Guess this will be the start of stuffing disks in this case =)

Had previously powder coated 4 perforated plates to deal with this one, the disks got tilted somewhat upwards to prevent heat to be trapped in between them... Still have to put down a placeholder in the front of them though, so they dont slide out when the case is being moved, might get some screws and just drill holes and mount them that way too, oh well... ill figure it out

Got about 32 disks in place now, just missing out on 4x 80GB SAS (15k rpm) drives now, and a additional 2x 1TB drives that havent yet arrived, totals out on 22TB when everything is in place, over a total of 40 disks

Added another 2 disks to the mITX board, 2x 500GB WD - One at the top.....

And one at the bottom :P



The water-ress


It was decided early on that i wanted a large tank up front of the case, however, its been a real pain getting this one made, afraid i didnt have a camera available at the buildprocess but ill try and shorten it down here....

First of all, cut off a few pieces of a large plexiblock i had available, then i milled up 4 holes for the water cylinders, and made a 3mm opening inside the block for the o-ring, that would seal them up...

A normal drill was used to get the water paths within the blocks and locked up by a m8 bolt with sealing tape on it in the end, to ensure it doesnt leak....

However, needed some way to get the water down there, since sideway mounting nipples wont happen :P drilled up two holes on the top and the bottom, centered up within the block to ensure even flow of the water... and nippled em up with o-rings at the bottom...

Fixing up the backplate


Time to do something about the plain look of the backplates on the case =)

As you probably noticed, the other 2 radiators have also arrived, so needed some way to get em decent looking (still need fans and grills though) -.-

Started by measuring up the size of it, cut out a piece in cardboard to check out if it checked up... Went further on with measuring up the plexiglass, and got on with the cutting job.. Gotta love jigsaws.... the results doesnt allways turn out like you want them to... so will have to file down some edges on these soon, but have way to much stuff to do to sit down and do that now :P

So will be a furter update on this one later

Snuck in some pics of the thoughpowers along with the two radiators mounted up :P

Soldering and LED's

God, this had been a time consuming affair...

Bought up 90x LED's - Blue, received them last week, and today, finally ready to start getting them up running, also had to do alot of cable soldering to power up the rest of the fans and leds on the case...

All the light's and some of the fans are directly connected to the 300w PSU for the mITX now

Anyways, guess u guys have decent insight in how this work's so ill let the pics speak for themselves =)

Hardware

Ah well, a small chapter for itself... Sadly my "old" Abit Quad GT had to be replaced since it werent to happy about running 2x sas controllers for some reason -.-

So ordered up another Asus P5Q premium, should get this one sometime next week

Heres some current pics though of some of the hardware going in there... god i hate full memory cards when ur taking pics -.- so got somewhat limited this time

Also.. the hoses and waterblocks from EK-Waterblocks should arrive the upcoming week! damn, im looking forward to those, starting to close in on completion, FINALLY

The touch

Windows Vista Ultimate x86 - Installed!

Working flawless, need to get some holes for USB ports so it can be easily reached, and install the touch software for it, then its all good to go... And no... the pics aint taken upside down :p

Mounted the screen upside down so the buttons on it wouldnt show when you stand looking at it, its easily rotated in windows, so it was a better solution this time around, since the buttons are so far up on the screen it just wouldnt look good having them popping out, believe i had some wierd cam settings too, the screen is not that white... hmmz...

:O amazing

That's a lot of hard drives.

ye i rkn... jees........ love the res and the hdds man,.... very cool

love it, do you have like a endless budget?

OMG at the HDD racks. The res looks awesome mate, looking very cool. Do you have any support for the HDD's besides the mounting screws? It would be wise to make one, the are both very long, not to mention heavy. Just a bar that they can rest on would do.

Thats one helluva harddrive rack, nice.

lol im still shaking my head at how big that is and how much it would of cost...

i will be for a while im sure...

OMG! That looks so fabulous!