Hi everybody,
I would like to introduce you to my new Project - TITAN.
Concept
The idea is to build a custom case from scratch.
Goals
A big, full aluminium, case with plenty of room for watercooling gear and support for multi-gpu setups and large motherboards form factor.
I do not have a laser cutting machine or anything like that, so I "only" made the design and then I took them to a local carpentry that took care of laser cutting and bending.
The hardware that I'm going to use is the following:
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k
GPU: 2x GTX TITAN in SLi
RAM: 16GB (4x4GB) Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz CL9
MB: Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z
SSD: Crucial M4 256GB
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
PSU: Silverstone Strider Gold Evolution 1200W
Cables are going to be custom lenght (custom made) and sleeved with the following colours:
MDPC Black
MDPC White
MDPC Red Color-X
The watercooling gear I'm going to use is the following:
1x Aquacomputer Kryos XT
2x Aquacomputer GTX TITAN Kryographics Nickel plated acrylic glass edition
2x Aquacomputer GTX TITAN Kryographics Active XCS backplate
2x Aquacomputer D5 Vario with speed signal
1x Aquacomputer Aquaero 6 XT
1x 5L Aquacomputer Double Protect Ultra Clear
1x EK-D5 Dual Top CSQ Acetal
1x EK-RES X3 110
1x EK-RES X3 Anticyclone (Short)
4x Alphacool NexXxoS UT60 480mm Radiator
16x Noiseblocker NB-eLoop B12-1 Bionic White 800rpm
1x Arctic-Cooling MX-4 20g
2x 4Pin Molex to 6x 3Pin Splitter
1x 30x30cm NoiseBuster Insulating mat
2x 10ft Primochill Advanced LRT Onyx Black tubing
... And a lot of Bitspower White Barbs and Compression fittings, plus some 90? and 45? adapters and drain valvle and fill-ports.
Here's a render (sort of) that I made so you can get the idea.
This PSU is one of the best I ever had. I like the simple design and the finishing on the surface is pleasing. I hated my AX850 for the stupid pinout design.
EK-D5 Dual Top CSQ Acetal
Mounted on the nice black stand
Added some Bitspower low-profile stop plugs
TITANs do look sexy
Some of the Bitspower 45 and 90 degrees adapters
Fill-port and drain valvles
Some of the 1/2" ID x 3/4" OD compression fittings I'm going to use and some barbs
A small portion of the huge amount of sleeving I'm going to use for this build (sleeving method will be shrink-less)
Sorry for the crappy quality.
TITAN Kryographics waterblocks are awesome...
Here are some pics of the case (sorry for the crappy quality, I took them with my iPhone 5s)
Those are the front and rear cover of the case. The front can support up to 3x 5.25" bays, and 2x 120mm fans with a custom 240mm radiator mount. Also there's a 16mm hole for the power switch.
The rear panel is ventilated and there's support for a 120mm fan. The I/O shield plate is 10 slots so there's support for multi gpu setups.
The case will be fully hand painted with spray cans. I know that with a compressor and proper setup you can achieve better looks but I'm pretty happy with the final result!
The only pieces that aren't custom made are the 10 slot I/O shield plate wich is made by DangerDen and the PCI-E ventilated covers which are made by LittleDevil.
The color scheme is going to be glossy white / brushed black.
For the screws I'm gonna use a mix of MDPC's M3x6mm black screws, EK's M3x10mm black screws and ColdZero's UNC 6-32 8mm screws.
Nuts and Brainwashers are all MDPC
Here's the laser cutted, sanded, bended and painted windowed side panel. It is made from 3mm thick aluminium. I only have 5 pieces left that need to be Painted, then I can finally start to fully assemble the case and put hardware and watercooling parts in it.
Left side panel (you can see the radiator mounts behind the ventilation cut-outs)
Back of it, with the inner frame and the radiator mounts. Every radiator mount has four little square "holes" for fans cables management.
Then I added a transparent plexy panel. Yep, that's me in the reflection
And this is basically how the left side is going to look from the outside
Close-up shot
That's it for today, hope you enjoyed this little update.
Stay tuned for more
Marco
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