Guilty

[kier]

Hi fellow modders,

It was a matter of time but here it is... my first real scratch build
Thanks to Nate from E22 for the design.

Sometimes you see a design with a wow factor. This happend too me with this design. After some consultation we decided to try to build this design.
Nate the design and I'm building.

Sponsored by:







And designed by:



The design:



The hardware that comes in is still a suprise...even for me , but anyway there will be an SLI set and some cool watercooling

After buying aluminum strips and other stuff at the hardware store, it was time to start building. After some fitting and measuring the frame was created. I still had an old Mobo tray from a old TJ07.







Cut some plates of acrylic and placed it.



For measuring I have an old blown up Classified.









Made the door/ cover for the PSU



And cut to size the front plate



Now it's a matter of drawing lines on the inside. The result after sawing and filing.







Cut holes for the fans at the front and the lid on top covered with acrylic



Covers closed



Placed some nice 120mm NorthQ fans to see how it looks.













More updates coming very soon

[AMDforME]

Looks real nice. Nice design and craftsmanship. You might find chrome wire fan guards beneficial to your finger tips.

[kier]

Looks real nice. Nice design and craftsmanship. You might find chrome wire fan guards beneficial to your finger tips.

Thanks, there will be a custom E22 fangrill

Update!!!

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Designed by:



Another update Need to catch up with my FB updates

I have covered the acrylic panels with matte black vinyl and installed some fans to see how it looks







And cut two acrylic plates. 1 for the controller (aquaero VF) and 1 for the lamptron switches
Also blackened with vinyl















I want to build this one without too much cost, so in this build if possible, all kind of stuff that I allready have.
The first idea was to purchase a 480 rad, but also overhere a bit crisis. So it's becoming two 240 rads. That's why I made ​​the front panel again with the fanholes more apart.
Side effect is that it looks better i think, left-center-right all the same sizes between them



This also blackened and polished the edges.



Placed the mobo with some EKWB blocks. And naturally straight tubes





Almost straight

[Elmy]

Love the work so far. I will be following the rest.

[dr.noob]

[kier]

Update!!!

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This time a big update.
To start with the rad brackets. Dont want this to be too complicated because I still want enough space behind.
Just a plate with an aluminium edge.





And have it rest on the horizontal bars







Next job ... a PSU cover. Measured and cut a piece of acrylic and drawn the shape of the PSU grill.



Cut the grill shape



Made a bracket ​​to keep the PSU in place.



And placed it



Removed the tape





Polished the edges





Now a little bit time consuming work ... in other builds I've done this before. Ie. single wires true holes.
A piece of acrylic, take some measurements on the PSU outputs, and drill some holes



Done by hand so not all straight but this will not be visible later on.
Pasted red vinyl and put sleeved extensions true the holes



Placed and plugged in











Did the same thing to the PCI-e cables





Nice sleeve curtain





All is finished, 24-pins, PCI-e, CPU and molex





A lot of work, but then you have something













Dismantled everything again because I had a nice idea. Placed a LED strip under the edge of the acrylic cover.
red







Once busy with LED strips, I came up with the idea of placing some more strips underneath the fans for more red edges.













More to come!!!

[tool_462]

That plumbing is sexy.

[paulbagz]

Hey kier, just out of interest, over what time frame have all these photos been taken?

Does it usually take you weeks on a build like this or literally days?

-PB

[kier]

That plumbing is sexy.

Thanks

Hey kier, just out of interest, over what time frame have all these photos been taken?

Does it usually take you weeks on a build like this or literally days?

-PB

this is the result of one month building, evenings and weekends.

[kier]

Update!!!

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Last update to end the weekend.

The first front plate I have made ​​new with different measurments for the fans, so first one was over.
Cut the Fanholes.



Some small changes



Cleaned



And made an opening for better reaching the aquaero and res



Made it black again







Placed 2 other GPUs for measurments. Still waiting for the hardware .... and I want to go on
So no time for waiting



Tubing time!!!

Can't help it but I need to have everything straight ... think it's starting to get an obsession

CPU going up



And GPU's going up



Nice and clean







For now connected it with adapters, but soon with acrylic tubes. Still need to make nice plate for this.









Some detail shots



















Last think I did is making ​​the midplate black. This is finished (I think) because I will run the PCI-e cables through the slanted plate.











That's it for this weekend

[Grifter723]

Where do you get that uber sexy tubing from?!

[3lfk1ng]

Amazing work.

[Church]

Beauty of old EK blocks <heavy sigh>

[matt220]

[kier]

Thanks you guys btw the tubes are from the E22 shop

Update!!!

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It's been a while since I have updated but with a reason... waiting for stuff and never came.
So needed to improvise, because the show must go on.

Little change is that I'm going to use shiny adapters.







Also, a change in terms of the reservoirs. The choice is now 2x EK 250-X3 reservoirs.
Mounted behind a piece of clear acrylic.





















I also tried some different things about the color of the ASUS mobo, but eventually i've made an extra cover for the original mobo cover.

Measured and cut a piece of acrylic.





Installed the cover to see how it looks.









Nice, but it's just not it. So next idea.

Made ​​one side white



And the other side also white



I'm doing this to get an even color playing with the LED strips.
Also pasted a piece of black mat on the front side, and placed some red LED strips at the back





And installed everything again



















More to come!!!

[kinghong1970]

damn that's sexy...

[kier]

Thanks

Some "How I do it" vids:

Acrylic tubes:



Acrylic fan cover:

[kier]

Not a big update this time because I needed to make some vids, so not much time left this weekend.
But I did play with some red LED strips and details

[Evantaur]

i love this design!

[kier]

Thanks!!!

Update!!!

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First I want to welcome a new sponsor:
Lumenledverlichting
This company sponsored my builds from the beginning and always with perfect quality LED strips and other accessories.

So also for this build some beautiful LED strips









But first the cables. Because I have used a lot sleeve for the PSU I chose for flat cables in the mid section. For the GPU I have made a slot as tight as possible. This is to get a nice tight line









Beneath the midplate





For the 24 pins I have to make a nice tight flat cable, but it will be placed like this











I did some small changes regarding the placement of the LED strips
The LEDs on the PSU cover I've placed down instead of up, because it seemed quite bright.

Placed the PSU back and changed the color from the cover where the wires go through.













So with enough LED strips in stock I had a nice idea. A cover with case feets.

For this I cut out and filed the outline of the existing scratch.



Cut out 12 plates and made ​​6 of them black. All this I have glued together with ACRIFIX.





And placed 3 LED strips of 60cm strips... lights on please!!!



In order to get a nice even glow I've placed sixth single LEDs in the case feets.









And mounted.







The plate and feet.





Connected everything.



And placed the components back.





In the dark.

[Saltire]

Friggin Outstanding!!!!!!

[tool_462]

Friggin Outstanding!!!!!!

:nod:

Wonderful attention to detail! Inspiring me for my upcoming mini-ITX build

[miptzi]

damn, that's sexy as hellire

[Armitage]

Can you make another case like that and sell it to me?

swoooooooon

[kier]

Thanks y'all

Can you make another case like that and sell it to me?

swoooooooon

Gonna finish this one first mate, then....we will see