The Boston Cosmos

To be fair this isn’t a full blown mod due to unforeseen time restraints as from what I can gather it will be going straight out onto a road show as soon as its complete so I best get my skates on to get it complete in time to make its debut though I have been advised a more full blown mod could be in the pipeline.

Its sponsored by Boston who are primarily a UK server based company, guilty of producing this water-cooled blade which caught my eye at CeBIT 08, hence the monster hardware supplied to deck this one out….so lets take a closer look at what we got to work with.

System Spec:
Coolermaster Cosmos S
Supermicro X8DAI Motherboard
2x Intel EXXXX CPU’s
Coolermaster Real Power M1000 Modular
6x Hynix 2GB 2Rx8 PC3 – ECC / Reg RAM
Unknown GFX Cards but possibly nVidia 2xx series, ideally Sli
Unknown Hardrives

My brief - to keep things looking as simple and clean as possible so the hardware can easily be recognised and maintained while watercooling CPU’s and GFX cards to keep things cool and quiet so dual loop is a must.

Watercooling Spec:
HWLabs 360 X-Flow Radiator
HWLabs GTX 240 Radiator
2x EK Supreme LT 1366 CPU Blocks
2x XSPC Dual Bay-Res / Pump Combo
Feser Coolant
½” Tygon over ½” Barbs

Even though I would have preferred more time to give the Cosmos the full treatment and give it a unique look, I still like the challenge of working with an extended ATX server board and routing hose as simple as possible.

So lets get this Cosmos S ready to accept both radiators, which unfortunately is basically all the modding the case will be getting but first some obligatory hardware shots….

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_1.JPG

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_2.JPG

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_3.JPG

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_4.JPG

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_5.JPG

Really nice ! Keep going..

Very interested to see how you'll set everything up in the Cosmos S. Don't ya just hate it when these companies keep sponsoring you and you've got to just build one kick a$$ rig after another :up:

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Originally Posted by shazza

Very interested to see how you'll set everything up in the Cosmos S. Don't ya just hate it when these companies keep sponsoring you and you've got to just build one kick a$$ rig after another :up:

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it must really get annoying after the first $25k worth of free parts....:up::rofl::up:

very nice case and mobo,mobo is very good for server,if you want to make a server or workstation,its more eficient.how many radiators wants to put in this case?

Cheers for the comments.......:up:

Just thought i do a bit of test fitting to see what these EK LT blocks look like and maybe get the crunching tonight and its a good job i did because i came across a problem straight off the bat.

The Board comes with fitted metal back plates which are already threaded but unfortunately threaded with some obscure thread so the standard EK mounting won't fit and as back plated are stuck on with some ridiculously sticky stuff, replacing them isn't going to happen.

Anyway after looking around i found some threaded brass rod which is a perfect fit so i'm going to have to cut to length and make me some mounting hardware.

You just can't plan for things like this but what can you do.

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_7.JPG

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_8.JPG

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_9.JPG

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_10.JPG

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_11.JPG

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/Boston/boston_12.JPG

I really wanna see what you'll do with this one. BTW how come you haven't posted any worklogs of any CM stacker 830 yet?

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Damn I want that board.....

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Originally Posted by Baleful

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Damn I want that board.....

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LOL, i would if i could you know that Bale ;)

Was doing a bit of research on these CPU's and came across this review which shows even the X5570 literally spanks everything including i7 965 and my Skully QX9775's so looking forward to kicking this one into life :)

Intel Xeon X5570 and E5520 Gainestown Processors

The CPUs look like jewelry boxes to be :D

sweat;
wooh i'm seeing another crazy build :lol2:

looking awesome as always :up:

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Originally Posted by coolmiester

Cheers for the comments.......:up:

Just thought i do a bit of test fitting to see what these EK LT blocks look like and maybe get the crunching tonight and its a good job i did because i came across a problem straight off the bat.

The Board comes with fitted metal back plates which are already threaded but unfortunately threaded with some obscure thread so the standard EK mounting won't fit and as back plated are stuck on with some ridiculously sticky stuff, replacing them isn't going to happen.

Anyway after looking around i found some threaded brass rod which is a perfect fit so i'm going to have to cut to length and make me some mounting hardware.

You just can't plan for things like this but what can you do.

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Agreed, I ran into the same issue. I have the SM X8DA3, same as yours only has an added SAS controller.
The solution is an easy one.
I got the right screws from Petra's, same thread as the TRUE heatsink screws.
Best of Luck!:up:

that's some absurrrrrrrrrd hardware right there! $3500 for just the mobo & cpus!! :eek:

its not absurd,if you have money,buy everything..
cheers coolmiester

correction on that... if you have nice big named sponsors, you're good to go...

CM i see nice build in the making, even though not the full works, but still good...

i know that,coolmiester have good sponsor,but not just for fun,coolmiester its a a master of the modding in coolermaster cases

looking foward to this. any up dates so far?

Perhaps putting nice Thermalright Memory Heatsinks on is an option, they do look :drool:worthy!

upgrades?