Project : TheCurse

[TheCurse]

Hi, i'm new on this forum and since i began to read your worklogs several years ago, i've decided this week to build something and share it with you guys. Nothing really hard or 100% handmade, but it would be my first water cooled Pc. My actual computer case is already modded with a lot of laser cutted aluminium pannel (i was operating a laser cutting CNC 3 years ago).
I will include some pics of it in my next post.

So, for the hardware i'm going low budget, re-using my old O/C Amd FX-60, 2gb DDR400, 60gb OCZ Vertex2 SSD and XFX 9800GTX+.

I bought a second used 9800GTX+ from eBay, and a used A8N-SLI Premium to replace my old A8N-E.

The case i will use is a Sunbeam 9-bay acrylic case (cheap and great looking) and i will water cool the cpu with an OCZ HydroFlow HF-MK1 CPU Waterblock and a Swiftech MCP655 pump.
The main feature of this built will be to use an extruded aluminium radiator originaly used for cooling BRP Snowmobile.
This is huge thing; half an inch thick and it will cover the whole side of the pc case. i don't think that you guys has ever seen this kind of cooler on a computer. Hope you will enjoy.

[Fuganater]

Can't wait to see it!

[TheCurse]

These are some pics from my actual computer case
Before :

After : The front panel is laser cut aluminium, water cut acrylic and laser cut stainless steel. 2 x 80mm fan added

Laser cut drive bay, with some flames graphic in it

custom made aluminium fan grill, to cover the huge 2x120mm cpu cooler (gemini 2)

[Fuganater]

I dig the laser cut products but that SSD.... is that really safe?

[xr4man]

why wouldn't it be? those hefty nylon tie wraps aren't going anywhere.

[TheCurse]

those tie wraps are safe... but since i remove the internal 3.5'' bay, it was the fastest and easiest way to install it.

This is the BRP radiator that i will use

Both ends will be welded, and the liquid will pass sucessively the 4 cavities

[AmEv]

I'm sure the zip ties are safe myself.


The SSD has no moving parts; it's not going anywere.





Although, adding another one to make a "+" or "H" on it would be safer in transport....

[mDust]

Welcome to TBCS.

The SSD is fine how it is. I don't even think it needs a horizontal tie as SSDs weigh almost nothing and aren't going to overcome the zip tie friction unless you're tossing the case around.

I can't wait to see what you do with that radiator! It looks like a brute...a few, thick fins over a huge area as opposed to hundreds of thin fins in a tiny area. I'm not sure how its surface area compares to the average 360 or 280, but it definitely has sheer size going for it.

[SXRguyinMA]

that radiator is also meant to have lots of snow thrown all over it from a rotating track too, they don't air cool too well

[TheCurse]

Hi guys, time has past since the last time
Many update...

i have chosed to not use the snowmobile radiator (sorry) but i chosed instead a nice Phobya 2x120mm rad.

case mods:
Alphacool Graphical LCD-Display 240x128 Pixel Blue Negative

actual water cooling:
Phobya G-Changer 240mm Radiator x
Swiftech MCP655™ Series 12 VDC Water Pumps
OCZ HydroFlow HF-MK1 CPU Waterblock
Magicool 3 Port Plexi/AGB Reservoir - 250mm

sorry for the poor resolution, they are from my old blackberry

The update: i just received some nice things from Tigerdirect.ca to get this PC running correctly...

My 2gb of DDR1 is just not able to run 2012 games...

New parts :
CPU: i7 3770K
Mb : Asus P8Z77V-Deluxe
Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 2133MHz

and to cool everything :
XSPC Raystorm CPU cooler with some Bitpower rotary fittings

New updates to comes !