black cosmos S and watercooling [photos]

hey everyone,

just finished my core i7 rig, and wanted to share it with you.
maybe some of you might find a few ideas for themselves (that's what I've done for a few months to get to this point).

so here I go...

let's start with the many parts I used:

http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/parts.jpg


and then, after many many hours of hard work (I actually started with a CoolerMaster CM 690, which was to small to get enough air on the radiators...), this is what I got:

http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/IMGP1501b.JPG

http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/IMGP1506b.JPG

A little bit of explanations...

When you see the first picture of a stock Comos S, sometimes you would think it's black.... No no no! it ain't! it's faded grey, and did'nt look so nice to me. So the whole case (inside too) has been painted in shiny black (by a car painter) so not only it looks great, it is also pretty strong paint!


I designed a sticker with the BloodRage logo and had it printed by a friend, then got 4 white LEDs behind... well, you'll see for yourself!
(wanna get the JPEG of the sticker to get one... or want it printed... ask me!)


Behind the 3rd "grill" from the bottom, I have a DVD burner. The "grill" has been fixed to the sliding part... works well and looks awesome!


I also modded my Zalman ZM-MFC1 to be hidden behind the top "grill"... and now the front looks united. (if that means anyhting in English :D )


Inside the beast. I managed to get only two colored parts for almost everything... and painted what wasn't. So it's all black and red! The hard part was to get a silent but yet efficient watercooling solution. The first pump I had in the CM690 (Eheim) was very loud (don't know why, the ones I used before never were! :shrug: )So I decided to get a Laing DDC with its plexi top and tank... and don't regret it!


Now I cool my core i7 920 (D0) to 38°C idle (less then 50°C on load) @ 4GHz 24/7... which is cool I'd say ;) and can hardly hear it! :up:


Oh... wanna see inside maybe ?? :D
Here you go:

http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/resized/IMGP1439.JPG

http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/resized/IMGP1442b.JPG

http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/resized/IMGP1461.JPG

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http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/resized/IMGP1462.JPG

http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/resized/IMGP1470b.JPG




and now with the lights on...




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I hope you liked it...

That. Is beautiful.

Well chosen components, nicely sleeved and put together, cables all taken care of, every single piece of hardware colour matched... You really couldn't ask for more... (except maybe another 4850 - good choice with XFX BTW - and some more HDDs).

And sweeeeeet BloodRage mod.

+1

Nice, I noticed your magma's up top exhaust air. You may find it better to intake air from outside the case to cool your top radiator. As is they are blowing the warmer internal air across the radiator.

what tubing is that 7/16's?

awesome build.. :up: like it..

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Originally Posted by sandman331

That. Is beautiful.

Well chosen components, nicely sleeved and put together, cables all taken care of, every single piece of hardware colour matched... You really couldn't ask for more... (except maybe another 4850 - good choice with XFX BTW - and some more HDDs).

And sweeeeeet BloodRage mod.

+1

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Thanx... It wasn't that easy to get the right parts for the colour matching, but when you know a bit what's made and where to get it...
I though about getting 2 4850... but since I'm no gamer really... maybe some day, if I got the money, the time, the use... ?!
about HDDs... well 1To is already big enough for me (I store on external HDD too), but I'm really thinking about an SSD (tried it with a built I did for a friend, and liked it much)

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Originally Posted by wondergod

Nice, I noticed your magma's up top exhaust air. You may find it better to intake air from outside the case to cool your top radiator. As is they are blowing the warmer internal air across the radiator.

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actually I'm blowing the air out to cool the rest of the parts (RAM, mofsets... which are air cooled) and since I have that big opening on the side of the case, the air I'm blowing through the rad's not that hot! and it works fine like this, so I'm not really willing to get my hands dirty again! :D

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Originally Posted by ILikeCosmosS

what tubing is that 7/16's?

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not exactly I think... I'm using metric here. The tubing is 9,5mm in, and 15,9mm out. 7/16' is more like 11,1/15,9... this last size would be a bit too large for my fittings!

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Originally Posted by belmontrich

awesome build.. :up: like it..

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thanx... I tell you a secret: me too ! :ROTF:

It looks excellent
Great choice of components

Did you rewire your Corsair PSU ? The 24pin wires on that arent black they are the standard multi colour wires but sleeved.

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Originally Posted by Scubar

Did you rewire your Corsair PSU ? The 24pin wires on that arent black they are the standard multi colour wires but sleeved.

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good point you got there....
took me a while to figure this out!
actually, since I needed an extension for the 24-pin, I bought 4 of them and only kept the black cables!! cost more, but looks better :bravo:
same thing for the 4-pin, but we almost can't see it !

Sick setup!! I love it. Only thing is I really don't like the Cosmos S because of its old school interior design, with the drive bays all turned inside. The original looks much higher quality IMO. I just recieved my Cosmos today & I love it. Blew my expectations away.

What bank should I rob to afford all the pretty shiney in the pics? nice setup... I haz jealous.


P.S. Needs moar cowbell !!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn, this rig looks great! :)

P.S. I applaud you for putting all the hardware and specs in 1 picture instead of showing us 2141344 shots of you unpacking your SATA cables and brand new and exciting zip ties :up:

Looks awesome!

WOW simply WoW !!!!!!!!!!

I liked it! :up:

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Originally Posted by Hidetaka

Damn, this rig looks great! :)

P.S. I applaud you for putting all the hardware and specs in 1 picture instead of showing us 2141344 shots of you unpacking your SATA cables and brand new and exciting zip ties :up:

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yeah, it takes a little more time (not that much), but I find it more comprehensive andit looks good that way too.

I do that rather often when I prepare a setup for someone. that's the kinda file I send them by email so they can see what's it's gonna be (they usually understand better the cost too!)

Beautiful, the Dominator GT memory have a perfect look to your system, go for thats! :p::p:

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Originally Posted by AC3421

Sick setup!! I love it. Only thing is I really don't like the Cosmos S because of its old school interior design, with the drive bays all turned inside. The original looks much higher quality IMO. I just recieved my Cosmos today & I love it. Blew my expectations away.

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yeah I thought about getting the black edition of the cosmos... would have been easier that painting this thing like I did!!!
but I needed room for the watercooling rads and pump so the 6 hard-drives bay was an obstacle to me. and you don't have the same top either for the 360 rad! besides I like the outer look better... so the choice was made for me ;)

but I'm glad you find something you like and hope we'll see your pics soon ! let me know !

almost forgot.
for the BloodRage fans...
here's the background I designed (used the BlackOps one and worked on it!)

with Core i7 logo

with Core i7 extreme logo

(they're the old Core i7 logos...but that's easy to change)

Nice wallpaper josk1 :up:

About the Blood Rage legend and the logo of Foxconn & QF at the side of case, how you get that, print??

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Originally Posted by josk1

yeah, it takes a little more time (not that much), but I find it more comprehensive andit looks good that way too.

I do that rather often when I prepare a setup for someone. that's the kinda file I send them by email so they can see what's it's gonna be (they usually understand better the cost too!)

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Could you let me know how you put those pictures together? The first one with all your parts in it.

Just PM me if you want, or post it here.

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Originally Posted by Orego

Nice wallpaper josk1 :up:

About the Blood Rage legend and the logo of Foxconn & QF at the side of case, how you get that, print??

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actually I had that done by a friend of mind who does all sorts of commercial printings (t-shirt, store boards...) and he's got that huge color printer (like 2 meters wide) on which he can print sticker. I asked him to print this logo on a clear sticker and sticked it on a diffusing white plexi board (3mm thick), put 4 white LEDs behind and VOILA !!!
I really did not think it would come that well. the printing quality's just the best I've ever seen!

ps: like I said, I can give you the image I used, or even have it printed for ya!

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Originally Posted by AC3421

Could you let me know how you put those pictures together? The first one with all your parts in it.
Just PM me if you want, or post it here.

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easy one: Photoshop is your friend !!!
I choose the parts I want, get a nice picture of each one on the web, copy it on Photoshop and resize it the way I want to fit the image... very easy, but takes a bit of time. You might want to save your work from time to time (had bad experiences... ;) ) You can do that on other painting sofware, but I'd say Photoshop is the best.

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Originally Posted by Orego

Beautiful, the Dominator GT memory have a perfect look to your system, go for thats! :p::p:

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or just paint those upper heatsink parts in red :)

great rig!

Sweet rig. Once again makes me want to send my 1000 out for powdercoating. :yep:

I like the all black power wires. It looks great and a nice alternative to Murdermods sleeving.

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Originally Posted by josk1

easy one: Photoshop is your friend !!!
I choose the parts I want, get a nice picture of each one on the web, copy it on Photoshop and resize it the way I want to fit the image... very easy, but takes a bit of time. You might want to save your work from time to time (had bad experiences... ;) ) You can do that on other painting sofware, but I'd say Photoshop is the best.

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But doesn't each picture of the products have different back grounds? Or do you find shots that have white backgrounds?

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Originally Posted by millertime359

Sweet rig. Once again makes me want to send my 1000 out for powdercoating. :yep:

I like the all black power wires. It looks great and a nice alternative to Murdermods sleeving.

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yeah, sleeving is very nice too... but everyone does that!! and I don't like to have the same thing than others! that's supposed to be the first idea when you mod, isn't it??

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Originally Posted by AC3421

But doesn't each picture of the products have different back grounds? Or do you find shots that have white backgrounds?

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use the little "lasso" if not, but in most cases the background is white !

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Originally Posted by josk1

actually I had that done by a friend of mind who does all sorts of commercial printings (t-shirt, store boards...) and he's got that huge color printer (like 2 meters wide) on which he can print sticker. I asked him to print this logo on a clear sticker and sticked it on a diffusing white plexi board (3mm thick), put 4 white LEDs behind and VOILA !!!
I really did not think it would come that well. the printing quality's just the best I've ever seen!

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Its really good looking, the printing its a very nice quality like i can see...perfect!!

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Originally Posted by josk1

ps: like I said, I can give you the image I used, or even have it printed for ya!

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I really thanks you if send me the file via PM :):up:

OMG!!!!!!!!!!! That is what I call a GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!!

Im a love the Cosmos S Case, and your is awsome!!!!!!!

Nice job.....

PS: are you from Toxico-pc Forum Orego?

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Originally Posted by ShArKo

OMG!!!!!!!!!!! That is what I call a GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!!

Im a love the Cosmos S Case, and your is awsome!!!!!!!

Nice job.....

PS: are you from Toxico-pc Forum Orego?

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The friend josk1 have a good visual taste & better components choice...:)

PS: Yes i'm Orego from TXC-PC...o como decimos aca...si chamigo, soy el Orego de toxico!! jajaja

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Originally Posted by Orego

The friend josk1 have a good visual taste & better components choice...:)

PS: Yes i'm Orego from TXC-PC...o como decimos aca...si chamigo, soy el Orego de toxico!! jajaja

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Buenaaa chango...... jajajajaja los Argentinos a FULL en XS :up::up:


PS: Sorry for the OFF TOPIC

I put the link to the images here so that anyone can get them.
again I used Photoshop...

this first one is the image I had printed! the proportions are the right ones if you want it to fit the dimension of the case. Just print it so it's 40cm high and 20cm wide!

http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/bloodragefinal.jpg


and this is just the logo:


http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/bloodrage3.jpg


enjoy... but let me see what you do with it :D

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Originally Posted by ShArKo

Buenaaa chango...... jajajajaja los Argentinos a FULL en XS :up::up:

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jaja a full shark!!, a full!!:)

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Originally Posted by josk1

enjoy... but let me see what you do with it :D

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thanks josk1, when my new proyect start, i can use this image, i dont know yet how or where...but somewhere can be placed...:rolleyes:

you'll be the first to know :D

very nice build dude. What did you do to make the mesh stay on the side panel without the 200mm fan attached?

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Originally Posted by Rumpus01

very nice build dude. What did you do to make the mesh stay on the side panel without the 200mm fan attached?

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you get an idea an this picture... I cutted out everything but the frame and screwed it back on! works very well, but takes time to get it right without breaking it ! :D

http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/resized/IMGP1490.JPG

josk1 I don´t understand the photo. Can you post a closer photo of the mesh please???

The Cosmos or the HAF 932/922 has to be my next case.

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Originally Posted by ShArKo

josk1 I don´t understand the photo. Can you post a closer photo of the mesh please???

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the photo is taken from the front of the case looking inside (I've taken the front "grills" out) over the top of the pump!
I have no picture of it open, but if you really still don't see, let me know I'll take some ;)

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Originally Posted by lollerskater69

The Cosmos or the HAF 932/922 has to be my next case.

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'like them all, but it depends what you wanna do:
- air cooling: I'd go for the 922, looks the best to me and excellent in air cooling
- watercooling: it's either 932 or Cosmos S (not the Cosmos, well not as good as the "S"), then you'd have to choose which one you like the most... or maybe your wallet will decide for ya :D

Ha. Coolermaster has some nice refurbs at a good price.

The HAF's in looks are like riced out boy racer hondas with ugly ass body kits.

The Cosmos is a BMW M3 (e92).

Colour matching is really good thats why this Cosmos burning like hell LOL! :up: I just do not like the cable sleeving a bit, it could be better.

By the way, can you give some information about your temps please?

Cheers,
Arthur

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Originally Posted by AC3421

The HAF's in looks are like riced out boy racer hondas with ugly ass body kits.
The Cosmos is a BMW M3 (e92).

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e92 is nice, but in my heart, nothing's better than the gold e46 (looks like crap on pictures, but the most beautiful car in real!!!!)

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Originally Posted by Arthur

Colour matching is really good thats why this Cosmos burning like hell LOL! :up: I just do not like the cable sleeving a bit, it could be better.
By the way, can you give some information about your temps please?
Cheers,
Arthur

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my Core i7 920 @ 4GHz 24/7 stays around 38°C idle and 50-55°C on load (room temp: 28°C !!!! hell it's summer time !)
the max it went this afternoon was 74°C (but wouldn't stay that high), when the Vcore was around 1,6V and the frequency... 4,630GHz to get down to 8,8sec @ super pi 1M :D
(can't get the 222 Bclk though :shakes: )

Nice Build!!! One ? is that heatsink on the northbridge copper or aluminum? If its the later you might have some issues down the road with the different metals in the same loop. :shrug: Just something to think about.

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Nice Build!!! One ? is that heatsink on the northbridge copper or aluminum? If its the later you might have some issues down the road with the different metals in the same loop. :shrug: Just something to think about.

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The NB heatsink on the Bloodrage is 100% copper.

They learned their lesson from Black Ops.

Nice build dude. :)

full copper that's for sure... this thing weighs more than the cosmos itself :ROTF:

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Originally Posted by josk1

the photo is taken from the front of the case looking inside (I've taken the front "grills" out) over the top of the pump!
I have no picture of it open, but if you really still don't see, let me know I'll take some ;)



'like them all, but it depends what you wanna do:
- air cooling: I'd go for the 922, looks the best to me and excellent in air cooling
- watercooling: it's either 932 or Cosmos S (not the Cosmos, well not as good as the "S"), then you'd have to choose which one you like the most... or maybe your wallet will decide for ya :D

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Please take some photos... I want to know how do you do it :p ejejej

here you go:
take this and this and cut the thing :D


http://teamdlp.free.fr/pc/IMGP1509.JPG

wow.... oh... my... god.... :slobber: :D
simply amazing! thats definately the best looking bloodrage styled system ive seen....
black tubing was a great idea... :toast:

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