[FD Array] Purple Haze

Hello XS! :)
I'm back here yet again with a new build (how unexpected..) this time based on a Fractal Design Array case.

It all started with Fractal releasing their new case, and when I first saw it i found it so interesting that I contacted Fractal, and they were kind enough to let me have one for showing people what can be done to it. :up:

Basic hardware list:
CPU: Trusty old Intel Q6600 with EK Supreme LT (Plexi/Nickel)
GPU: Probably a ATI HD5770 with EK FC5770 (White Acetal/Nickel)
MB: Zotac 9300-ITX wifi with EK NB/SB 5 (Plexi/Nickel)
RAM: N/A with Aquacomputer Ramplex (Plexi/Nickel)
PSU: Silverstone SFX 450w with MDPC-X sleeving (Purple/White/Aquamarine)
HDD: What ever will fit, maybe a mechanical 2,5"
LC: EK Multioption 250, EK DCP 2.2, EK CS 120 and 240, Masterkleer tubing on Fatboys, Primochill purple liquid.

Pictures will follow in the posts below!

The renders.
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The basic hardware.
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The liquid cooling parts.
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The new psu.
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The sleeving.
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Wow.... I'm in love with this build.... Oooo and nice pics...

Yaaah! I like the candy sleeve .. delicious! Awesome photo too!

Very very nice work so far, looks great! Keep it up!

A great start to what looks like being a fantastic build. :up:
Great choice of colours especially that sleeving. It just goes so well together. :)

Sweet:up:

Love the braided sleeving :D.

Laine - Where have you been hiding this worklog? Is it over at sweclockers? Otherwise I think you've been holding out on us as this is a lot of progress!

I'm interested to see how the tubing run is gonna look. Looks really great!

(o/

\o)

*Dance, Dance*

This build is awesome!

1st: @OP: lovely build and gorgeous pics

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Originally Posted by LogAn'sRun

Laine - Where have you been hiding this worklog? Is it over at sweclockers? Otherwise I think you've been holding out on us as this is a lot of progress!

I'm interested to see how the tubing run is gonna look. Looks really great!

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maybe in his HDD ( this is what I would do if sometime I make such a big build) :)

Subscribed to this Thread like I did with your other builds!

I'm falling in Love with your work Laine, it's simply amazing and nice pics as always.

You should post with higher resolution for a wallpaper the photos you made to the EK radiators with those green plants...are beautiful :eek:

I really like the colour scheme and I was wondering how Aquamarine Blue was going to fit with Purple and you make me decide that I want that combination, so thanks :up: It's a fresh colour combination!

Laine has the touch :up:

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Originally Posted by malkiewicz

Wow.... I'm in love with this build.... Oooo and nice pics...

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Thanks! :)

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Originally Posted by JoeChuo

Yaaah! I like the candy sleeve .. delicious! Awesome photo too!

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Yeah it's a fresh combo.
Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Anemic

Very very nice work so far, looks great! Keep it up!

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I'll try, thank you. :up:

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Originally Posted by Red-5

A great start to what looks like being a fantastic build. :up:
Great choice of colours especially that sleeving. It just goes so well together. :)

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I hope so, and I'll try to actually complete this one, lol.

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Originally Posted by kwscore

Sweet:up:

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;)

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Originally Posted by Alexandr0s

Love the braided sleeving :D.

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yeah it really makes the sleeving look more like the smoke I want it to resemble.

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Originally Posted by LogAn'sRun

Laine - Where have you been hiding this worklog? Is it over at sweclockers? Otherwise I think you've been holding out on us as this is a lot of progress!

I'm interested to see how the tubing run is gonna look. Looks really great!

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Not proud to be recognized with Swec, but yes it's in my misc build log. :)

I'm changing the loop in my head everyday so we'll see!

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Originally Posted by iHannes

(o/

\o)

*Dance, Dance*

This build is awesome!

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Thanks bro! :D

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Originally Posted by Duh

@OP: lovely build and gorgeous pics

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Thanks!

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Originally Posted by guilleguillaume

Subscribed to this Thread like I did with your other builds!

I'm falling in Love with your work Laine, it's simply amazing and nice pics as always.

You should post with higher resolution for a wallpaper the photos you made to the EK radiators with those green plants...are beautiful :eek:

I really like the colour scheme and I was wondering how Aquamarine Blue was going to fit with Purple and you make me decide that I want that combination, so thanks :up: It's a fresh colour combination!

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Thank you, subscribers is always nice and I like it when people really follow the build process.

The combination really pops so I think that it'll be a hit.

Thanks, and I'll see what I can do about the wallpapers. ;)

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Originally Posted by shazza

Laine has the touch :up:

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Thanks Shaz! :D


The pump.
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Hi Laine
I appreciate the association of colors, the feminine character of the construction. The machine loses of its rustic mechanical aspect (only criterion, the technical management), and gets dressed of a delicate, subtle, attractive graphics.

Also attractive photos, very descriptive of your ideas :up:

Good luck for the continuation.

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Originally Posted by manu_D

Hi Laine
I appreciate the association of colors, the feminine character of the construction. The machine loses of its rustic mechanical aspect (only criterion, the technical management), and gets dressed of a delicate, subtle, attractive graphics.

Also attractive photos, very descriptive of your ideas :up:

Good luck for the continuation.

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Thanks for your input!
I try to make every piece of the build, art itself. Assembling it will make it a artwork made of little pieces of art.

This is my goal. :)


The case planning and fans.
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This is really a very tight build. I'm very curious about how the tube routing will be on this such small place. When I saw the A05N watercooled I thought it was nearly impossible to make a smaller tube routing but well...now I can't think that! :P

I supose that the pump is the EK-DCP 2.2 and the fans are Gelig Wings UV Blue, but maybe I'm wrong.

Like a lot the way you are using whit on the build, I'm very impressed about the quality you reach with the paint. ¿Do you sand all the items before painting them? And well ¿What kind of spray do you use?

I can see all that finished like an explosion of sleeving and tubing white, blue and purple inside the case like a fountain.

Keep on working! :D

the colours look great, loving the purple sleeving, sub'd

Can't understand why there's only 2 peeps responding to this never less than awesome work. It's amazingly well done.

I have Antec 1200 - big thing :) I was always wondering, how people fit all those things in that small case :D

Awesome my friend :)

damn, those zotac mb's are so cute...

Väldigt fina färger på sleevingen :D

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Originally Posted by guilleguillaume

This is really a very tight build. I'm very curious about how the tube routing will be on this such small place. When I saw the A05N watercooled I thought it was nearly impossible to make a smaller tube routing but well...now I can't think that! :P

I supose that the pump is the EK-DCP 2.2 and the fans are Gelig Wings UV Blue, but maybe I'm wrong.

Like a lot the way you are using whit on the build, I'm very impressed about the quality you reach with the paint. ¿Do you sand all the items before painting them? And well ¿What kind of spray do you use?

I can see all that finished like an explosion of sleeving and tubing white, blue and purple inside the case like a fountain.

Keep on working! :D

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Cool that you're following the Simplicity!
The pump is indeed a 2.2 but the fans are Xigmateks.

Yeah I sand everything and prepare them very neatly, that's the key to a good result.

We have the same vision! ;)

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Originally Posted by h20xide

the colours look great, loving the purple sleeving, sub'd

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Thanks man, always got love over for subscribers. :up:

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Originally Posted by iHannes

Can't understand why there's only 2 peeps responding to this never less than awesome work. It's amazingly well done.

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Thanks bro!

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Originally Posted by -=YoGi=-

I have Antec 1200 - big thing :) I was always wondering, how people fit all those things in that small case :D

Awesome my friend :)

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It just takes a lot more planning. :)

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Originally Posted by kinghong1970

damn, those zotac mb's are so cute...

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Indeed they are.


This is my black box, the central point for all the electrics to meet up.
It will deliver power to the pump, my three fans and a SSD/HDD.
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Not a lot of movement on here, haha!

Made a fan-pump splitter to place inside of the black box.
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If it was green sleeving it would have actually taken me a while to notice it between the leafs :p:. Nice job on the sleeving and love the black box :D.

is that a lian li psu cover i see there :D

awesome idea though!

and when do we get to see inside the black box?? The fan splitters is awesome, looks like it was a PITA though. How do you like the shrink tubing on your 3rd hand? Does it help?

Laine "ECO" :)
great photos and build :up:

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Originally Posted by Alexandr0s

If it was green sleeving it would have actually taken me a while to notice it between the leafs :p:. Nice job on the sleeving and love the black box :D.

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Yeah I had that idea too, but it would look too out of place once in the build.
Thanks man!

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Originally Posted by busterben

is that a lian li psu cover i see there :D

awesome idea though!

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It is, yes. :)
Thanks!

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Originally Posted by LogAn'sRun

and when do we get to see inside the black box?? The fan splitters is awesome, looks like it was a PITA though. How do you like the shrink tubing on your 3rd hand? Does it help?

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Well, it's the fan-tree, the sata that goes out the top, and then this PCI-E splitter. :)
It was the biggest PITA ever, and the 3d hand with the shrink works like a charm. :up:

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Originally Posted by reHceK

Laine "ECO" :)
great photos and build :up:

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Haha, yeah! Thanks.


I present to you, the legen-.. wait for it.. -dary PCI-E 6pin splitter that will be located inside the black box. It's still missing a large heatshrink to cover the splices.

The PSU was modded to fit a 5770, but as I'm stepping up to a GTX460, I had to make this. :D
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The photos may differ, and I'm sorry for that but I'm on a old laptop far away from home, using a borrowed D40, and I'm no Nikon-guy.

I love 'em bro!

Dam dude extraodinary sleeving skills, u should see my work its shocking!

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I love 'em bro!

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Thanks bro!

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Originally Posted by Johnny87au

Dam dude extraodinary sleeving skills, u should see my work its shocking!

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Thanks man!


This I'm damn proud of, finished my black box exactly how I wanted it. And I love it!
The fans will be connected through the holes on one of the sides. :up:
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Looks like candy! I want it :eek:!

Wow man the attention to detail is crazy good. Cant wait for the finished project.

holy :banana::banana::banana::banana: laine. I love every one of your builds.

Beautiful build. So class!

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Looks like candy! I want it :eek:!

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Wow man the attention to detail is crazy good. Cant wait for the finished project.

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Thanks man!

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holy :banana::banana::banana::banana: laine. I love every one of your builds.

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And I love people that like my builds! :)

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Originally Posted by imersa

Beautiful build. So class!

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Thanks!


I finally got my parts, so that I could mount my other radiator. :up:
Also got a ram block, will have to cut the fans to make space for a fitting, going to be fun.
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lookin' good fellow,

good luck with the tubbing management though ;)


are you intending to let it seen through a plexi or something?

Loving it :) As usual.

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Originally Posted by josk1

lookin' good fellow,

good luck with the tubbing management though ;)


are you intending to let it seen through a plexi or something?

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Thanks man!

I'll let the other plans bea secret for now.

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Originally Posted by dreamaxx

Loving it :) As usual.

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Thanks!


Made an adapter for the power supply, and test fitted the reservoir.
The liquid turned out great. :up:
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Looks amazing so far, good work!

I really love that colour for the liquid. Incredible job on the PSU adapter, you have nice skills for every task you do, I'm jealous :P

this is superb, i have looked at this case a lot recently, never thought you would be able to stick all of that in there!

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Originally Posted by -Whiteroom-

Looks amazing so far, good work!

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Thanks Whiteroom!

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Originally Posted by guilleguillaume

I really love that colour for the liquid. Incredible job on the PSU adapter, you have nice skills for every task you do, I'm jealous :P

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Yeah the purple is lovely. The psu bracket was just a test version, will make the real one out of stainless steel. :)

Thank you!

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Originally Posted by rjkoneill

this is superb, i have looked at this case a lot recently, never thought you would be able to stick all of that in there!

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Lovely case to work with though, top and bottom is removable, the case walls splits in two L-shapes.


Because of the small size of the case, my ram block and fittings hit the fan and barely missed the radiator.
Today I finally went ahead and made something about it, turned out really good imo.
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You can't stop surprising me. That job on the fans to let the fitting go through it's nearly perfect, I've never seen anything similar to that.

You have inspired me to change my ATX board rig for a MicroATX to try something on a smaller case because I'm tired of big cases but I really "need" Sound Card and I want to use mi i7 920 so the only way it's to use MicroATX and maybe I will try on the future V354.

Keep on working, this is going to be one of the best SFF builds for sure.

that's one sweet option you got there! :up: mate!

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Originally Posted by guilleguillaume

You can't stop surprising me. That job on the fans to let the fitting go through it's nearly perfect, I've never seen anything similar to that.

You have inspired me to change my ATX board rig for a MicroATX to try something on a smaller case because I'm tired of big cases but I really "need" Sound Card and I want to use mi i7 920 so the only way it's to use MicroATX and maybe I will try on the future V354.

Keep on working, this is going to be one of the best SFF builds for sure.

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Thanks man, extremely kind words!
Going small is a big pain, takes a lot of planning, and is totally worth it every time. Over and over again. By a million. And a bit.

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Originally Posted by josk1

that's one sweet option you got there! :up: mate!

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Don't really know what you mean by option? Is it the reservoir? ;)

Some more pictures with a borrowed GPU.
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3104/39675398.jpg

http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/4493/27023413.jpg

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1103/98593420.jpg

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Cables in the res? What do they go to?

I must go sleep now because in 3 hours I will be work but well I think that the sleeve in the reservoir it's only for taking fun on pictures. I remeber mcp and fhantastic doing something similar on their worklogs. But well maybe I'm wrong and it will go there with the liquid :O

For a while I thought you made holes to the reservoir on the side and that you were connecting the Ram block to the reservoir when saw the fifth picture because of the angle of the picture LOL

The Aquacomputer Grill looks better on this last pics, you really don't have fear to show the grill like on the Lian Li A05 Simplicity, I admire it, a lot of people are scared about showing accesories that don't come with the case.

And a very unique style that you give to your builds it's that you always keep the original color of the cases, if they are black ouside and aluminium inside you don't powder coat and use the stock look and for me that's a nice feature that define your work, I love that Laine's Style.

cheers

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Originally Posted by ScottALot

Cables in the res? What do they go to?

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Straight to awesomeness, my friend.

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Originally Posted by guilleguillaume

I must go sleep now because in 3 hours I will be work but well I think that the sleeve in the reservoir it's only for taking fun on pictures. I remeber mcp and fhantastic doing something similar on their worklogs. But well maybe I'm wrong and it will go there with the liquid :O

For a while I thought you made holes to the reservoir on the side and that you were connecting the Ram block to the reservoir when saw the fifth picture because of the angle of the picture LOL

The Aquacomputer Grill looks better on this last pics, you really don't have fear to show the grill like on the Lian Li A05 Simplicity, I admire it, a lot of people are scared about showing accesories that don't come with the case.

And a very unique style that you give to your builds it's that you always keep the original color of the cases, if they are black ouside and aluminium inside you don't powder coat and use the stock look and for me that's a nice feature that define your work, I love that Laine's Style.

cheers

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Thanks man, I always enjoy reading comments from you because they are always so well thought through.
And I love hearing other peoples responses when they have a quick look at the case.

It's also cool to see someone defining my building style, haven't thought about it like that.
I thank you for that!

About the rad grill "issue", take a look at this and picture it in your head.
If the grill still seems out of place, then I don't know what to do. :D
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/1091/96407181.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5669/77058844.jpg

A lot has happened since last time, I tested my tubing route, got my PSU together and test fitted (unsure about the lengths still, a re-routing might solve this) and fixed my wifi adapter.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4624/0antenna1.jpg

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/5105/0antenna2.jpg

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/4448/0antenna3.jpg

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I must say that looks absolutley fantastic mate:cool:
I can't believe how much you have crammed in that case and managed to get the tubing on. :)
Amazing build. :yepp:

love it dude,
like the idea of the sleeving in the res ;)
can we get bigger size pictures?

I have somtehing to say:

¿Where are you planning to put the Himuro? :D

I can't believe that you are not using a Himuro on one of your builds :P

I think that it's another of your features when we talk about builds, but now it's not possible haha

Excellent and awesome build, nice ikea fejka's for photography, i have 4 of them at home :p:

To older exposures I put together to form one picture, this time hi-res.
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/9...azebylaine.jpg

Looks great - is this build completed? Or do you have more plans for it?

What are your temps on that? I'm going to attempt a LC SFF build soon but not on your kind of budget (well at least not with those parts anyways since the case itself is a couple bills)

thats brilliant

the accents look superb and make the radgrill a little more inkeeping.

the tubing routing is exactly what i imagined you would do but looks superb

wonderful execution laine :)

Finally managed to get my stainless parts laser cut.
One part of the frame did get messed up, but I'll try to save it. :)

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/8364/37626688.jpg

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/4346/56017766.jpg

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/249/29013563.jpg

Wow Laine, you never fail to impress. Beautiful work!

Mate, this build is nothing but perfection. ALOT of inspiration came from browsing this thread, which I'm now sub'd to!

Just wondering bud, could you tell us how you got your fluid looking like that, because it's seriously AMAZING!

Cheers bud!

awesome word dude lovin it!!

Finally got somewhere with the GPU.
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/9224/73000111.jpg

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/4985/37219364.jpg

I love it, damn I might even have to build one of these. Well done, excellent job.

I really love that Waterblock I have the Acetal/Nickel and it's just amazing.

Laine I have the same PSU, the Silverstone SFX 450W and I want to sleeve it with the MDPC-X sleeve and I'm so interested in knowing how much sleeve should I get to make a tricolor combination like you. I want to sleeve it with Grey- Blue- Purple but i don't want to get too much excess of sleeve of each one. Maybe it's difficult to tell me that since you may have it already from other builds, but well who knows ^^

You have inspired me to create an SFF WC build and I'm still in process ;D

Beautiful work man. A true genius you are !!!

To put an EK backplate on a GPU, do you need a waterblock? I want to put one on an MSi Hawk.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/6274/img0471copy.jpg

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/3941/img0750bb.jpg

Just testing it as a "bench" until I can figure out a way to fix the window frames.

What coolant is that, beautiful colour purple :)

@dreamaxx i used this on my last rig http://www.primochill.com/primochill...uv-purple.html was about the same colour roughly, can add more to make it darker too..