Project "Little Angel": My return to water cooling!

[SoMBrA]

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Aquatuning España / Atlas Informática / NZXT
ProSilentPC / Seasonic / IzarMicro

Gracias a todos los sponsors por colaborar en el proyecto.
Many thanks to all the sponsors for the support given to this project




Ok so time for a update after almost a month without any news...
I can tell you that I've been doing more planing and ordering parts plus waiting for other parts that are not yet available

Hardware update!

Something from Germany just arrived... about 3kg of hardware, any idea?



Big and heavy box, what's inside?



Seasonic X-850!



Great PSU all together but I thought I already got the PSU like a month ago... maybe it was a dream?



I think all this christmas party + family dinner are making me feel dizzy and I see things appear from nowhere...



So this will feed the beast
I decided that will use 2 PSU because that will let me have much better management since these are 100% modular design and also power up the 3 graphics cards (or more!)

There is also another reason to go for 2 PSU's I think I will let you know tomorrow or the day after tomorrow when I have the pictures ready

Thanks for watching!

There are some extra goodies Seasonic decided to send me, just wanted to share them with you







Seasonic decided to send me 3 extra set of cables just in case I mess up any connector while making my own cables


PD: Some Sleeving teaser, this was after I learned how to crimp, just wanted to test my skills :p

Sleeved PSU starter




Big thanks to Seasonic for all the support and all the help is providing to keep this project alive

[bundymania]

Very good PSU choice !

[SoMBrA]

Very good PSU choice !

Yes bundymania, I have only good words for Seasonic. Currently I have a M12 750w PSU that is almost 5 years old and never had any trouble with.

I have to tell you that I've been following your Icebreaker build for a really long time! Your white themed build inspired me to go for white as primary colour
We want you to finish it! (at least me...)

[SoMBrA]

Hello everybody and happy 2012!
I wanted to do some update before the new year, but because I'm still waiting for new parts I decided to wait.... the thing is that I'm still waiting for those parts so thought that I could update with some pictures





Can you guess what is this for?



Little Devil adapter to fit dual PSU setup!








I decided to work with dual PSU to have better space management in the inside since the PSU are going to be placed "outside" the case.
Also, the X850 are fully modular so I will make custom length cables and dedicate one PSU for the cooling + system and the other just for the graphic cards (I plan to use 3 GPU setup)

Thanks for watching

[Furball Zen]

Pardon my disbelief... but all that room and the PSU's sit OUTSIDE? When i saw that i thought it was so you could mount them in the 5.25" bays.

[SoMBrA]

Pardon my disbelief... but all that room and the PSU's sit OUTSIDE? When i saw that i thought it was so you could mount them in the 5.25" bays.

I understand what you say Furball Zen, but I plan to use all the space I have there to improve the cable management and place a couple of PCB's for the leds and another PCB that will link the PSU's together (instead of wiring the psu's together directly)
With dual quad radiator setup in the bottom there isn't much space really because you need to use a "stand" provided with the case so it doesn't gets in the way of the radiators, that leaves the PSU "floating" (hope you understand what I mean!)

Thanks for the comment

[SoMBrA]

Hello again!
I want to show you the 2 PCB's that I'm going to use to both, startup the dual PSU setup and to power all the leds that I plan to use in the system...
I could just link the psu's together but I wanted to do something different and have an easy way of changing the PSU's without much effort (just plug the new PSU's to the link PCB and done!)



Both PCB's side to side... note those brown marks on the acrylic It's just the protector that I didn't remove to avoid scratche son the surface... I'll do that later when I place them inside the case









I expect much more big updates within the next weeks since I plan to start ordering parts depending on availability...
Just waiting for the new revision of the LGA 2011 processors really

[fr0wn3r]

I like those Bitspower PCB's! A nice idea. Less mess for dual PSU start.

[Edited]

Hello, SoMBrA!

Coming along nicely! Please post more, already!

[SoMBrA]

I like those Bitspower PCB's! A nice idea. Less mess for dual PSU start.

Yes fr0wn3r, that's why I decided to go with this option... (less seen also!)

Hello, SoMBrA!

Coming along nicely! Please post more, already!

Thanks Edited, your comments about the radiator placement made me go for the dual PSU concept so I have much more space in the lower section to play with ;-)

Will post some update tonight If I have the pics ready

[SoMBrA]

Hello everybody!
Time for another update...

This thing is going to be really heavy so we are going to need to put the LD on Wheels!
Enjoy!



This old "stands" had to go...



Some quick masking and a lot of measuring... a lot... and finally drilling!



I wasn't sure about my skills with the driller so before you try to drill a 500€ case do some practice on a similar material . This is my old Thermaltake ARMOR sidepanel



NAKED!







IT WALKS! I'm a proud father

[3lfk1ng]

Little Angel?? haha

[Edited]

Wheels look really flush! Nicely done! Cant wait to see some hardware/WC thrown into her

[RCG_Bex]

Oh yes

Awaiting to see more in this build

[SoMBrA]

Little Angel?? haha

Yes I know... as someone stated before that is false advertising lol

Wheels look really flush! Nicely done! Cant wait to see some hardware/WC thrown into her

Yes Edited imho tyres were a must. I was afraid but then I was sure that I wanted to do this...
I waited until January before starting to ordering stuff since I wanted to wait for all the new releases (GPU and CPU revisions), hopefully this will be a good month ;-)

Oh yes

Awaiting to see more in this build

I will be happy to show you more!

[SoMBrA]

Forgot to post a picture with better view of the tyres, enjoy!

[ino]

Looking at the above picture, shouldn't the set of wheels with the break be at the rear of the case?

[SoMBrA]

Looking at the above picture, shouldn't the set of wheels with the break be at the rear of the case?

Hi Ino!
Usually the Lian Li cases mount them this way since you can almost have access to the front side of the case 99% of the time, the back is hard to get to so if you need to block the tyres you have to have easy access to that handle you see there.
The tyres measure exactly the same so you can swap positions at any time!

[SoMBrA]

New toys just landed!
I wanted the #123 but got #124









The block is really nice, it's a pity that I don't like barbs so those will have to go...



Oh I nearly forgot... the new bitspower valve to drain the system, much better than my old and fugly valve...




More soon

[nhenhophach]

God job man!

[SoMBrA]

God job man!

Thanks you sir

I need some suggestions now
As I said already I'm not liking the barb fittings at all (not only on this block, but I always preffer compression fittings...) so I decide to order this "golden" fittings





How does it look better full gold or better add some black so people don't get blind looking at it?





What do you think?
Thanks

[Edited]

Wow, the Swiffy 24k looks much better than I thought it would :O

Gold and black creates better contrast imo

[RCG_Bex]

Gold n' black good sir... the bling... it blinds me!

[SoMBrA]

Wow, the Swiffy 24k looks much better than I thought it would :O

Gold and black creates better contrast imo

Gold n' black good sir... the bling... it blinds me!

Will do, thanks!

I have another question for you Edited and Bex (you seem to love radiators as far as I can see in your worklog ) I'm trying to decide between the new EK XTX radiator and the Coolgate radiator... I love the layout of the new EK XTX but don't know about their performance in quad.
I've checked recent review of the XTX and Coolgate Triple and they perform about the same (the Coolgate wins by a small margin) but the EK XTX has nice mounting options and I like more the rectangle shape...

EK XTX 480
Coolgate 480

Edited I think with the XTX I will abel to do the same configuration you suggested and link the radiators...

[Edited]

Hi, SoMBrA!

The EK XTX would be just fine The loop wil actually work much better!