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    My new Phase unit courtesy of Gray.

    I just wanted to start this thread to show off my shiny new Phase unit, and to thank its creator; Gray Mole.

    Its taken a while to make, but im very happy with the end result. Im not going to say too much, as im sure Gray can fill you in on the technical details, but this is my new baby;

    Take a v2000 and strip it down;


    Choose some parts, including a stunning Aitor/Silencer enclosure, unseen controller and NL11F compressor;





    And put them all together to make a very nice unit;








    Ive now got to do quite a bit of modding on the unit. Im planning on Anodising, Powdercoating or using acrylic to make the inside black. Im also going to make a cover for the drivebays to neeaten it up a a bit, and make a mount for 2x120mm fans to draw air over the harddrives. Ive also got to fit a waterloop for the GPUs and NB in there. Hope you all like it ias much as I do.

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    Very nice and clean setup

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    Ahhhhh. Very nice.

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    I feel like blushing

    I'm glad you like how it turned out. It was a really 'picky' job this one. I wanted all the details to look 100% and it worked out well.

    Unseen/Gsmaster's controller worked exceptionally well, and Ssilencer/@itor's evap and mount, well, you can see that for yourself, it's just beautiful.

    The EL wire and LED setup on the line and head ended up looking good, and I'm glad you could get a nice pic in the dark of it, my cam didn't want to do the job. You've captured the look of it that I though only we'd be able to see in person.

    The short tech list...

    Unseen/Gsmaster's 'freeze pack' controller'
    Ssilencer/@itor's Clear enclosure and amazing evaporator
    White EL wire under braid and 4 x white LED's in the enclosure
    Standard mach size condensor and desuperheat coil, painted matte black
    7' of .028" captube, fully wrapped and taped w/long suction return
    tuned for approximately 220w max capacity at -29c / 150w at -44c
    Danfoss NL11F compressor
    402a 'blend' for increased glide, allowing low fans for 24/7, high fans for benching with reduced temps
    Sunon 120mm condensor fan, 2 x papst 80mm rear exhaust fans

    All in that sweet V2000 case

    It took more time than I'd wanted, but when you're putting together a V2000 cooling system, it's worth the extra to make it something special, and I hope it works very well for you

    I'm certainly looking forward to seeing it in action and I hope your cpu gives you some nice results as well.

    Cheers

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    That looks fantastic Gray, great build! Doesn't painting the copper pipes deduct efficiency? I remember reading that somewhere.

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    looks great ! very clean, i love it

    say, how do you plan on keeping a 24/7 100% condensation free ?


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    That looks amazing! It must be the nicest V2000 phase mod I've seen yet! (and I use to have one )

    I especially like the colour coding and lights in the evap

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    Very nice work there Gray, its nice to see somthing a bit diferant to the normal setup, keep up the good work mate.

    Sacha

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Byter
    looks great ! very clean, i love it

    say, how do you plan on keeping a 24/7 100% condensation free ?


    Armaflex, dieletric grease, and the unit has a vapochill style backplate heater.

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    looks really great mate ive been after a black lian li v2000 case here in the uk but can't seem to find one .
    subbed to this thread mate to see the finished job .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barnsley-Bill
    looks really great mate ive been after a black lian li v2000 case here in the uk but can't seem to find one .
    subbed to this thread mate to see the finished job .
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    Thanks guys

    Painting the desuperheat coil made no appreciable difference to it's ability to shed heat that I could measure, and the fins weren't painted on the condensor, only the pipework, so it didn't make any difference to the performance there either.

    Yup, that site girth mentioned is the place I normally get my V2000's from, about the best price around and they give decent service too.

    The V2000 'can' be an easy enough phase mod to do, but I tend to overcomplicate it with prettyness so it takes a lot more to do.

    I'm definitely looking forward to the performance as well, making it look good is important and all that but it's the cooling power that we're all after isn't it?

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    Agreed Gray, when the case door is on all that counts is the OC. Unseen/Gsmaster's controller looks very good.
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    cheers guys just what im after going to order it then when it comes take this stacker apart and stick it on ebay lol.

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    I love that extra blue string-light thing and the lit up evap head.

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    Loving it! You payed attention to the first and last detail : clapclap:
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    Wow you got it done at last! Don't miss not having mine done at all now

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    Nice work from Gray as usual, super looking unit, cant wait to see the whole system together.

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    Beautiful work there Gray
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    Hello all,

    Just a bit of an update. Ive had quite a few troubles getting this rig together. In the end ive got a new mobo, cpu,ram and gpu. Buit its certainly heading in the right direction and im very pleased with the results;




    Ive also got to modify and add the drivebay cover as can be seen in this earlier pic;



    Im not sure whats going on with the cpu/mobo temp sensor though. It reads -35 to -40 ish in the bios, which is about right, but it reads a constant 4 degrees in Core temp, a constant 19 degrees in TAT, and speedfan can't see a cpu temp at all.

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    Looks good, I'm actually doing some acrylic work in my V2000 to clean it up a bit, but remember to still keep good airflow over your motherboard. I lost a motherboard because I had too much water/phase cooling and neglected air cooling a bit too much and a mosfet went up in smoke.

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    Damn it looks good. Nice work Gray!!
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    very nice clean work there Gray.

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    I was giving someone a hand that I made up a V2000 for as well, and had the same issues with TAT. It was reading all over the place, though finally we found a temp monitoring program that was reading somewhere close to where it should be.

    The bios temp sounds correct to be honest for the idle, and it's just a matter of using MBM or Speedfan and going into the settings and finding the right sensor to pick up the same one.

    Really like how it's turning out though I mean, the cooling is what it is, and will get you some really nice results, but it's the look I'm impressed with more. I did what I could to keep it looking nice on my end of things but you've done wonders to make it really stunning I love the bay cover, that really get's rid of a lot of 'mess' and leaves the rest to be admired.

    Nice work


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