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

[SoMBrA]

I've been doing some sleeving to the 24 pins that are going to be plugged to the dual PSU starter I have.

Check the picture but this is not going to be the final result, you will have to wait some time to see the end result



Custom length wires ready!



Each wire sleeved individually and because of the custom length of each wire the sleeving was a bit of a pain in the.... fingers. A lot of measurement going on!







Finally because of the personal way to start the PSU's I had to measure each wire individally since I didn't want end up having some short cables and other long cables once plugged into PSU and PCB.

As already said, still waiting for some other parts to make all this more eye-candy hehe

[RCG_Bex]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Smeggin beautiful!

[SoMBrA]

Thank you Bex for the kinds words

I've just finished sleeving the pump, so let me show you the "almost finished" product



First thing I had to do was to solder extensions to the original wires and get rid of the molex type of connector since I'm going to plug the pumps directly to the PSU (Molex out, 6 pin connector in!)



Green and blue wires are used to send the PWM signal to pumps



To have both pumps at same speed at the same time I just had to connect the PWM wires in series.
I also replaced the white connector with 4 pin black connector.



This is how I decided to route the cables to the lower section and onto the PSU.
I think they look good and will be hidden aswell



Motherboard connections will also have black & vanilla color combination, just not sure about the pattern



And this is how I left everything last night.
I like the routing but needs to be improved, maybe will have to add some other clips to keep the sleeved cables stretched instead of this spaghetti style

[nigelke]

sweet updates

[SoMBrA]

sweet updates

Thank you my friend!

Today It's my day off, so I'm already doing some work on the motherboard.
I took some pictures last night, just wanted to share them with you













The bullets don't look that bad once the board is installed but is something that I don't like and will have to do something about it...

I will update later!

[arkadur]

i think that waterblock might solve this issue

why you didnt go with the RIVE?

[SoMBrA]

i think that waterblock might solve this issue

why you didnt go with the RIVE?

I wanted to keep Black / White / golde theme and also I love the MSI Big Bang Xpower II

More updates from today!





I've been doing some wiring and crimping today.
This board has 2 4pin connectors instead just 1 as we can usually see in other motherboards.



I think that it looks quite nice!





Tomorrow I will finish the routing of cables and will crimp the other side of the connectors aswell.
I still need to measure each wire so once connected they still look nice, and then jump to the sleeving!

[SoMBrA]

So I've managed to finish the wiring for both of the 8 pin connectors and here you have the results!







Now I'm busy with more wiring... and after that sleeving!

[SoMBrA]

More wiring / sleeving!
today, power and reset buttons!



New buttons, love them



Wires soldered, need to sleeve and cover the connectors with heatshrink



Time to think about the routing of the wires...



Almost done, need to double check connectors and make sure not to put them in wrong position!
There are 2 wires that are not going to the motherboard but to the Aquaero 5 unit instead.
Those wires will handle the auto-shutdown function.



Time to have wires ready to connect them to the Aquaero 5





Special connector is required...



Done!



Buttons are crimped into a 10 pin connector, 5 pins per row, and then directly to the motherboard.
I think it looks much better like this!

Final pics with sleeving!





I need to redo the heatshrink of the motherboard connector since it doesn't look quite good... I think it's because I used lighter instead of heatgun!

[Edited]

This is pure eye-candy! Marvelous work!

[SoMBrA]

This is pure eye-candy! Marvelous work!

Thank you my friend!



I finished sleeving some Aquaero wires that were left (USB and flow meter)



This is the flow meter cable, the first time I see a connector that big that is not a MOLEX hehe.



Caviar Black 2 TB... I think I should get another one





2 x Corsair Performance Pro. I'm going to use this in a RAID 0 config.
As you can see they are already installed on the little devil SSD mount

Ok, now I need to send power to all of the units... so more wiring!



This is the last picture I took, It is from last night and I did a hour of work after the picture... hopefully I will finish tonight and will post the results

[Edited]

Those SSD's are nice. Have a Force3 120GB myself, works good.. Better than my X25M 80GB

Cant wait to see her dressed up!

[SoMBrA]

Those SSD's are nice. Have a Force3 120GB myself, works good.. Better than my X25M 80GB

Cant wait to see her dressed up!

Yes... I just read good stuff about these SSD's, can't wait to turn this thing on!

I've managed to finish the wiring of the SATA power SSD's & HDD's and I've decided not to sleeve them, just the part that comes from the PSU until the first "bridge"





I tried to stretch the wires as much as possible but the white wire have a different isulation (thicker) and that caused some trouble... but I'm pretty happy with the end result.

I had to swap positions of my SSD with one of the HDD because the bridge connection was not good enough.
After the swap all the wire flow much better to the bottom of the case.

[fr0wn3r]

Great implementation of this bridge idea! Totally agree, you need no sleeving the way it is.

[SoMBrA]

Great implementation of this bridge idea! Totally agree, you need no sleeving the way it is.

Thank you

Yesterday I had my RAM dressed with some new toys and of course I took some pictures.
Hope you like















After pics!



Naked ram... so sexy xD





Installed





Today more wiring to do....
Will update later

[Lu(ky]

Great work log you have going on here and nice pictures as well..

[SoMBrA]

Great work log you have going on here and nice pictures as well..

Thank you sir

[SoMBrA]

A little mod I did today:


Thanks to ProSilentPC to make it possible

I will let the images speak today

















In the last picture still need to cover more parts but you get the idea

[theseeker]

Very nice build.

[sews]

Excellent mod

[SoMBrA]

Very nice build.

Excellent mod

Thank you very much!

I've been doing some wiring for the GPU lately and figuring out how to route them to the PSU's since it's getting very busy down there xD



I already got my GTX 680's but just recieved one EK block, the other one is on it's way... I rushed after seeing their new design lol :duh::duh::duh:





I think I will do some sleeving tonight!

[Edited]

Good work and good choice, SoMBrA! A good thing you have the old design, and not the horrible circle thingy.

[SoMBrA]

Little update from the HDD's and SSD's rack



I've added the SATA data cables, by the pictures it looks like it's just one connected but using 90º angled cable I managed to connect all of them without many troubles.



Side picture to better show you what I mean



Yes... now all of the wires you see need to be sleeved of course!
Still trying to decide what pattern to follow but I was thinking Vanilla for the SSD's, black for the caviar blacks and white for the other RAID 1 drives...

[SoMBrA]

I've been busy with sleeving, I will show you just a before and after pics... more to come!





Thanks!

[SoMBrA]

More sleeving work

This is what I did to solve the problems I had keeping the wires straight for my SATA power for the DVD unit



I think I might reroute the SATA Data cable now aswell since I like the contrast against the white background...



Sleeving done for the dual 8 pin connectors (CPU), maybe need to add lace it to keep the pattern consistent.





Side view for the GPU power plugs.
Can't tell with the pictures but wires are too bulky down at the midplate area so I might need to route each set of plugs different.
With this routing the plug look as just one when looking from the side, like in this picture: