New Madness!

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Originally Posted by barfastic

i wish i had your bank account :P
hehe...

mind showing how thsoe filters work exactly? i figured you shut off the valves, and then remove the gasket, and some liquid falls out and then you have a filter? which can be removed and cleaned? something like that?

with so many orders, your shipping bills must have started to creep up on your actual hardware list :P

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You figured it out, and yes my shipping cost are getting out of hand!

I spent a little time with the Aqua filters... the two legged spiders!

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Yes, the fittings cost much more than the filters...Obviously, I made a template and did a rough cut out of white acrylic, the final may be black or red.........

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I know the spacing is not even, which is due to my plumbing requirements, fittings and many other mistakes on my part!

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This plate will be mounted like the res plate from the bottom and now have to decide if I should re-plumb half of my system to make room for the filters?

Time for a drink...............:drink: Thanks for following along and the comments!

Looking sweet! Keep up the great work and maybe one day it will be functioning. JK :D

sorry dude, but you must do something with your cables, maybe you have sleve cables but it look horrible

Great build :up:

Trying to contribute to your build with my thoughts :
The 3 reservoirs on top of each other does not look pretty.
The mixing of reservoirs, tubes and cables does not look clean and you have so much place.
If it were me, i put one or more reservoirs in the back compartment.


PS : Sorry for my english :shakes:

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Originally Posted by Utnorris

Looking sweet! Keep up the great work and maybe one day it will be functioning. JK :D

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Smart A*s! Thanks for your input JK!

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Originally Posted by ThePunisher

sorry dude, but you must do something with your cables, maybe you have sleve cables but it look horrible

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Suggestions?

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Originally Posted by Makymaco

Great build :up:

Trying to contribute to your build with my thoughts :
The 3 reservoirs on top of each other does not look pretty.
The mixing of reservoirs, tubes and cables does not look clean and you have so much place.
If it were me, i put one or more reservoirs in the back compartment.

The reservoirs will all have different color H20 and it is still a work in progress, but thanks for your input. It will look much different when finished, if I finish it!

OK, so I have something very crazy that I am working on regarding the filter mounts and that should be unveiled tomorrow, I hope?
In the meantime I decided to rough cut three pieces of acrylic for the Tri-SLI bridge...the white sucks...

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The red is too much and too stark of a contrast....

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The black, she is a perfecto!

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The black, while quite subdued, lend itself better to the Aqua bridge, at least IMO.
Now, a hint of something white that will show up (GPU loop) in the next few days...

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Cheers and thanks for looking in!


PS : Sorry for my english :shakes:

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On with the show! I did not really like the look of the filter mount so I had a scotch and this happened....

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The filters are not permanently installed, but close.....

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Mood shot.....

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How about a look under the hood....

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The only problem is that the filters will add about 2' of tubing to the CPU and GPU loop. However, I believe that the 4 D5's will be able to handle it.

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I will probably paint the mounting plates black to match my floor. :eek:

Cheers...:drink:

My helper says goodnight...

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Pppppppuuuuuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yyy :d :d :d :d :d :d

-pb

looks like you're running out of hardware to fill up the case :D

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Pppppppuuuuuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yyy :d :d :d :d :d :d

-pb

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Thanks I think?

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Originally Posted by emoners

looks like you're running out of hardware to fill up the case :D

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Wait until you see the extra tubing..........

Thanks to Martin my SATA breakout cable is sleeved, along with a few others, thanks Martin!

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I know how to sleeve and I have done it, but Martin (psychoSleeve) is an artist! Martin can sleeve ten cables before I can pour a drink! 99% of what you see is Martin's sleeving. I am sleeving the easy stuff, flow sensors, fans, temp sensors, pumps, A5's and the regular SATA cables.

Here is a list of the cables to date;

MB: 24 Pin, 2 x 8pins and 2 x 4 Pins = 48 wires
VC: 3 x 8 Pin, 3 x 6 Pins = 42 wires
SSD: 6 SATA, 6 x4 Pins power = 30 wires
HDD: 3 SATA, 3 x 4 Pins power = 15 wires
Flow: 3 = 3 wires
Temp: 6 = 6 wires
Pumps: 4 x 2 & 1 x 1 = 9 wires
Fans: 12 + 6 extensions = 18 wires
A5 & PA2's: 6 x 4 Pins, 3 Aquabus & 3 USB's = 30 wires

That is a total of 201 wires! I still have the power, reset switches and lighting to do, and I have no idea what I will do for the lighting.:confused:

The plan for tomorrow is to finish all the connections to the A5's, PA2's, tubing to the filters and fill one loop and leak test. Nothing like blind ambition...:D

Just checking up on your progress - glad to see everything is coming along. Don't you just love complicated builds? Can't wait to see the finished product.

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Originally Posted by shazza

Just checking up on your progress - glad to see everything is coming along. Don't you just love complicated builds? Can't wait to see the finished product.

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Sharon, Never again, this is much too complicated....I am an old dog and this is a new trick!


I slapped in the A5's and the PA2's along with a bunch of cables....

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Nice mess!

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Then I did a little plumbing and cable pulling....

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Every time I think I am getting close, I realize that I have a long way to go!
There is much cable management to do...

Cheers

Did you buy those cables pre-sleeved or something? They have kinks in them!

I think you've gotta take this in steps.
Make sure the cables are straightened, no kinks.
Manage each cable separately... those cables that are draped over the mobo could potentially go under the board.
Figure out which tube-routing is unnecessary.
Keep tube routing vertical and horizontal... that seems to be the best-looking.

WOW I thought my rig looked crowded! Tough job there making that look tidy! Good luck mate!!!!
You might need to re-think your cable and tube routing, Im just not sure how you can make it look much tidier with so much going on in there.
Im glad I went with single colour sleeving. I think you may have a challenge making it look clean unless you shorten some of the visible cable runs somehow.
Impressive to get so much go'n on in there an to not go cross eyed!

stop filling up your own cup, and fill up your beast and show us!!! FFS!!!!

hehe... im looking forward to this :D

A small update today; all but six cables are in the box. I did a few zip ties to get an idea of where I need to go, and I added the tubing from the filters.

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Yep, still too messy...

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However, most of the front is hidden, especially after I put the barn door on...

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I was starting to feel good and stretching the tubing on the backside when I heard, snap, crackle, pop and it wasn't my cereal or an ice cube!

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My acrylic filter plate broke! This was pilot error on my part. I cut my templates from 1/4" and use 3/8" for the final mount. I used 1/4" so I have to cut another one, no fun! I may use black acrylic this time...........

Cheers

BTW, Dogs do eat fish!

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Damn that sucks. I think the black will look better and add some contrast to the white case. Anyway, damn you have a lot of tubing, but that goes with the territory when doing three loops. Now put the drink down and get back to work or learn to multi-task better. :D

Alot going on in that case....

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Alot going on in that case....

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Yeah I was thinking the same thing, I guess there's not much that can be done with the tubing when you're running 3 loops, but I was hoping he finds a way to make the cabling look a bit tighter and cleaner. Its a great build with awesome components, in an amazing case, its just a pity it looks a bit messy IMHO. I know how hard it is though, I have a MM extended ascension that im just doing sleeving for now with 2 PSU's, 27 fans, 4 GPUs and 4 rads on 2 loops and I know how hard it is.... and I dont even have the benefit of the built-in cable management of his awesome case..

Lets hope he finds a way to tame all that gear in there! Would love to see this finished with a cleaner look, though that looks to be difficult with the layout he's got to work with.
As I've said before, if he can shorten some of the cable runs to the tray cut-outs somehow and run more behind the tray out of view I think it will look a lot better even if he cant do much with the tubing.

Haha love puppies :D

Builds coming along nicely, so much hardware, its amazing.

-PB

Thanks guys and I am trying to sort it all out. It may take a while!

OK, so I cut another piece of acrylic and remounted the filters. I should have worn a mask....sneeze

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I added the lights and of course one burned out...........

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Mood shot....

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The SS filters are very fine as you can see, and if I have any bad guys in the loop...goodbye!

Cheers

Those filters look really nice... and simple to use :D

keep us psoted Seeker :D

Those drive bays look like they seriously need to be reinforced.
Not like your are going off road with that case, but it would look more serious.

Just my 2 cents.

This would be easy to clean up but its not my build...

theseeker: Have you had to clean the filters yet? Or even see any grit forming?