Project MiniMe - Smallest (ever?) Watercooled mITX PC

[oliverw92]

Thankyou very much!

I have managed to break the mousemat somehow i beleive it has shorted out inside, which is annoying since it is glued shut and i doubt i can get it apart without screwing it up. So it's back to the drawing board on that one

[TheGreenFoX]

Nice build... reminds me of my LL v351 WC build... I like it small

[oliverw92]

That's what she said... :P

[edimen]

@oliverw Hi, very nicely done, normaly I don't like all those lighting stuff, but in your project I like them pretty much

[oliverw92]

THankyou very much edimen

[Bill Owen]

Great layout, look forward to seeing more updates

[B.E.E.F.]

You are awesome.

Consider selling these.


How did you make the curvy tubes in sketchup though? And the components. They are very detailed.

[oliverw92]

THe tubing in sketchup, there are some tutorials bit-tech.net about it. Check them out

Update #9

I am very pleased to announce my latest sponsor, AquaTuning!



They are going to be my watercooling sponsors. Watercooled-pcs have lost contact. I am not sure what has happened. THanks so much to Pascal for bearing with me!



My AC Ryan sponsorship has arrived! Yay for awesome brushed aluminium!







Slimline CD Drive







USB backplate



More CAD work is done.

Black line = cut
Green = reference
Red = engrave

This is the bottom plate for the slimline drive. The screws are so dam small for the drive i have decided to glue an acrylic plate to the bottom of it and then screw into the plate.



The aluminium base plate. The circular things are the feet, top left block is the psu, top right small block is the fan and fan mount, middle bottom box is the cd drive and bottom right is the HDD bay. You can see the amazing clearance of 1mm between the hdd bay and the PSU!



Fan mount



HDD Bay. There are 2 of each of the bottom pieces



This is the motherboard tray. I promise all the crazy holes will make sense in the end!



Finally, the masterpiece is unveiled! The completely redesigned fan controller and ccfl/led power board. This is the control hub of all the lighting. The board measures 8cm x 4cm.


So not a very big update. I have ordered the acrylic, should be here tomorrow. Then i can cut up some acrylic!


Oh wait i nearly forgot something...




Custom made waterblock for the 9300 chipset FTW! Thanks so much to duniek, can't wait to get some money so i can pay him and get it shipped to me!

Ok that really is everything now!

[HuffPCair]

Very nice build.

I also have a question about your keyboard. I have the Tarantula and deathadder lover them both just with my key lit up. I was thinking of selling this one and getting the same one as you, but I heard the touch part of the board can be kind of picky and such. Have you ran into any problems with it so far?

[oliverw92]

Yes i have had issues. I can't get the media keys to work any more. The volume and backlighting ones work fine, but the media ones don't. I may rma it.

[HuffPCair]

Yes i have had issues. I can't get the media keys to work any more. The volume and backlighting ones work fine, but the media ones don't. I may rma it.

OK thanks I may just keep this board then. I do love it just wish it had back lighting through the whole thing instead of just side keys. Never got why they did that.

[oliverw92]

The tarantula by razer is a nice keyboard and doesn't have the touch bits. I don't think i would get somethign with gimmicky touch sensitive buttons again. I'm addicted to backlit keys now though! It is so good when gaming. You can turn all the lights off and get properly involved with it all.

[Origin_Unknown]

wow - great sketchup skills

[Boulard83]

awesome, keep posting man !

[ed.howell]

Very nice!!!
What CAD system are you using? Solidworks? Did you start this CAD drawing/assembly from scratch, or were you able to somehow get CAD models for some of the stuff?

Thanks,
Ed

[drizzt5]

Very nice I am impressed! I would also like to know the above question.
I can't wait for your finished project

[oliverw92]

Hi Thanks for the comments!

I used Google Sketchup PRO for everything. I found models for the motherboard, rad, gpu and ram and a few other things. The rest i made myself.

I should have an update out in a few days, be it fairly small

[Angry]

Subscribed

*edit* And my first post since...2002.

[drizzt5]

Subscribed

*edit* And my first post since...2002.

lol...Did you just figure out how to post? This is your first one, congratz!

edit:NVM! found it
anyway, you have me very interested and subscribed.

[Neox69]

Any updates my friend?

[oliverw92]

Update #10



Left side acrylic panel cut and engraved! Aqua tuning sponsor's logo.



eBuyer logo etched out



Holes for the GPU fan. Around 180 holes!



More shots of the engraving



The entire left side panel. There is a version of this without the sponsorship logos so when the time comes i can submit it for MDPC (MDPC doesn't take PCs with sponsorship logos on).



CD drive base. This will be glued onto the cd drive (please don't kill me! I swear it is the only way for this to work!)



Right hand acrylic panel



Top acrylic panel with holes for rad and fillport.



Motherboard tray (i told you it was complicated!)



Here we have some orange UV anti kink coils. These things are great!





SATA laptop optical. This thing actually isn't the right cable, and it annoys me greatly, since it took 3 weeks to ship from hong kong! I have no idea what it is, but it isn't a normal sata optical.



4gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer 800mhz - £20 from someone on OCN!





It is finally here! My nickel-plated-custom-made-insanely-awesome 9300 chipset waterblock for the zotac 9300-itx wifi motherboard! Thanks Duniek! The craftsmanship is stunning...





Perfect base



Latching vandal switch (blue LED)



Pins for...



24 pin and 4 pin connector



Approves!



Some mesh from MNPCtech! Thanks Bill! http://www.mnpctech.com/moddersmesh.html



Hard drive bay. Not glued yet





Test fit of CD drive, cd drive base and hard drive bay





This is the design for the aluminium front surround. The 2 larger holes are the power switch and the light switch, the two smaller ones are fan controller potentiometers. The slot hole near the bottom is for the CD drive. Those funky designs wrap around the components



And finally, V4 of the fan controller! This now measures 83mm x 33mm and is gonna be awesome! I have ordered all the parts for it. I will start PCB manufacture maybe on friday.

Thanks for reading!

[Boulard83]

waiiiiiiiting for more !

[oliverw92]

You shall have more, maybe after the weekend

[oliverw92]

Ok i lied, have more now!

Update #11

My watercooling sponsorship arrived!



Thankyou so much to aquatuning! http://www.aquatuning.co.uk . Thanks especially to Pascal for putting up with me!



Here we go...



Black Ice GT120 lite with 45 degree compression fittings on. These things are so cool, they rotate!



More rad



Fractal Design 60mm fan



Cable ties + bases



Fillport with compression fitting



Low profile straight compression fittings



45 Degree rotary compression fittings



90 degree rotary compression fitting



Mah lovely black nickel plated compression fittings!



Bitspower T-block with compression fittings



Couple of tube clamps for the block



Momentary dot-illuminated vandal switch



Primochill UV Pink Dye Bomb



Distilled water



2 pairs of UV cathodes



Tygon 3/8" ID 1/2" OD tubing



Scythe S-Flex 1600rpm



Apogee drive top



3/8" barbs on the drive



This thing is so cool!



45 and 90 degree fittings on my custom 9300-itx waterblock



Shipment from Rapid is here, bringing with it a multitude of goodness in electronics!



Some cheap sleeve and heatshrink



500 resistors (i'm not joking!)



2 and 3 pin molex housings/headers



Transistor



Capacitor



MIC502 chip. These things are SO TINY!



No that is not a giant key!



Capacitors, diodes and potentiometers



Put some dye in my distilled water. ooooo!



Test fitted the top of the PC (fan grill, acrylic, rad, fan). The rad is literally just as far over as it can possibly go. Another 0.5mm and it would be out of the edge!



From the top



Layers



Fillport in place



Fan/rad assembly



Removed the 9300 heatsink from the motherboard. Messy thermal paste underneath!



Installed duniek's waterblock



Installed the Apogee Drive! It just fits!





How close the parts are!



And finally, PWM Controller V5! I think it is done! Wait, no, just seen a problem! Time for V6...

[miahallen]

Wow! Thanks for the update