Project: Intel White Box

[Colossous]

Case looks great Vapor, i get mine (Opti 1203) back from the painters within 2 weeks and can start my build and yours is making me impatient lol !

[bullet2urbrain]

yea, its a little cramped

LOL.

Nice work Eric.

Loving the White looks very elegant compared to the normal black with obnoxious lights.

if possible can we get a dark shot of it on??? any LED"s anywhere?

Cheers

[ex2cib]

i'm willing to bet, a lot of $$$, no LED's whatsoever

probably, the only lights on the case are from the fan controllers or optical drives

[Vapor]

Funny thing is, I always wished that the Duality was a bit bigger. Like 24x24x24 for some ideas that I have....Meh maybe I can try to fab my own some day.

Great job so far mate.


-yonton228/timmy

Yeah, I originally was going to do something a little bigger, but it was too expensive. Considering the fact I have no windows or any way to look in, as long as it fits everything, I'm okay with it being messy on the inside.

yea, its a little cramped

Yeah, good point....basically just 9x18x18 that I get for each system, not very big, smaller than a Lian Li PC60.

Case looks fantastic Vapor, very nice work

Thank you I like the look as well Wish I could do more with the inside but I'm just not very good at routing wires and I have too much to route anyway.

Case looks great Vapor, i get mine (Opti 1203) back from the painters within 2 weeks and can start my build and yours is making me impatient lol !

You'll love it...I can imagine how spacious an 18in cube would be for a single system, and the build design is very, very well thought out.

LOL.

Nice work Eric.

Loving the White looks very elegant compared to the normal black with obnoxious lights.

if possible can we get a dark shot of it on??? any LED"s anywhere?

Cheers

...see below

i'm willing to bet, a lot of $$$, no LED's whatsoever

probably, the only lights on the case are from the fan controllers or optical drives

Yup, Brandon's right....even the LEDs on the fan controllers are shorted out, so they never turn on. Only working lights are DVD drives, LAN ports, optical-outs, my mouse, my keyboard's numlock button, and the 2.3million on my monitor.

As such...a dark shot would be....empty, lol.

that looks amazing. nicest looking case I seen lately.

please keep the pics coming

Thank you

Company in town this weekend, may not get much time to work on the build...and I have to wait for the new motherboard, and Leopard comes out tomorrow, and...well, I may not have much time for pics/progress, but I'll do what I can

[SafeFire]

Looking good Vapor, Looking good

Keep us updated on the second part of it please.

[jmmtn4aj]

Why the downwards facing Ultra-120? I imagine that the fan on the HSF pushing air into the fins with the rear case fan pulling it out in a straight line would be a little more efficient..

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Read through, but maybe I missed it.


What CAD program did you use originally to model your case? Thanks.

[NickS]

Why the downwards facing Ultra-120? I imagine that the fan on the HSF pushing air into the fins with the rear case fan pulling it out in a straight line would be a little more efficient..

Probably to direct some more air towards the Accelero passive cooler.. just a wild guess.

Great job Vapor, I can't wait to see the whole rig completed

[Vapor]

Probably to direct some more air towards the Accelero passive cooler.. just a wild guess.

Great job Vapor, I can't wait to see the whole rig completed

Well...the two top fans are blowing downward (and the rear fan blowing inward), so it makes sense to have them push onto the TRUE and have the San Ace pull the cold air through. The Accelero doesn't need much airflow, ran it completely air-dead for a few months with no issue, but since I don't want heat build up, I put it RIGHT on top of the PSU fan, so the Corsair is removing what little heat there is (XBX2's bottom PCIe16 slot is handy for this ....and no, the X1600 will never see a load )

Read through, but maybe I missed it.


What CAD program did you use originally to model your case? Thanks.

"So...what did I come up with? Well, fortunately one of the sample designs was exactly what I wanted!" That exact image was already on MM's website, didn't use any CAD.

[Vapor]

Just playing with Lightroom and needed something to take a pic of so here's one of the inside of the left-side of my case looking up.

[NickS]

Why is your airflow reversed? lol

[Vapor]

Never made sense to me to warm the air over the HDDs and then let the CPU/GPU have it (and ultimately have to
'fight' to move the air toward/through the HSF). Coldest air goes immediately to and directly onto the CPU/GPU (depends on which system). The HDDs can have sloppy seconds, they don't even need the cooling really, I just don't want any heat buildup.

[NickS]

Sounds good

[Polizei]

That fan set up is one of those things that make you say "Why didnt I think of that?"

I supposed its just engraved in our heads that because warm air rises, put the exhaust in the top and back. I guess Vapor's going to prove that with enough air flow, it doesnt matter what direction.

Love the color combo - I would get a white cube as well with black insides and black drives/devices.

[Vapor]

Well, I figure that with an 18x18x18 case with HDDs, DVDs, HSFs, etc, you have maybe 3cubic feet of air.

One YL SL @ 12V moves ~48 cubic feet of air per minute. Theoretically the case's air is completely 'refreshed' 16 times a minute, or once every 4 seconds (or just under). Of course, that requires a zero restriction case....and still wouldn't direct air on the radiators.

With my setup, I have 3xSL@10.5V (on the HDD bays, due to the restriction don't do much more than SL@5V), 3x YLSL@5V + PSUs for exhaust. I have 4xYLSL@5V and 2xYLSM@5V for intake. This adds up to about a 150CFM free-flowing air system. i.e., the case's volume is 'emptied and filled' about every second. Because the airflow is also very directed, and not random, there is not much restriction nor are there hot-spots (that matter...maybe above the DVD-RW drives, but who cares about those, lol).

Convection doesn't stand a chance

(btw, I'd like to thank the WCers here for the idea, though none know they gave me the idea....I saw that they would always put the 'fresh' air on their radiators regardless of placement and decided to do the same thing with air )

[Ar3s]

I did that before for my rig unfortunately i didn't as many vents for exhaust so over time it got warm within the casing. I works great to get th CPU the fresh air first. I love to see the temps when you have the time to post them.

[septim]

fresh air on the rad is the best air your rad could get.

looking good Vapor.

[hoax]

Well, I figure that with an 18x18x18 case with HDDs, DVDs, HSFs, etc, you have maybe 3cubic feet of air.

One YL SL @ 12V moves ~48 cubic feet of air per minute. Theoretically the case's air is completely 'refreshed' 16 times a minute, or once every 4 seconds (or just under). Of course, that requires a zero restriction case....and still wouldn't direct air on the radiators.

With my setup, I have 3xSL@10.5V (on the HDD bays, due to the restriction don't do much more than SL@5V), 3x YLSL@5V + PSUs for exhaust. I have 4xYLSL@5V and 2xYLSM@5V for intake. This adds up to about a 150CFM free-flowing air system. i.e., the case's volume is 'emptied and filled' about every second. Because the airflow is also very directed, and not random, there is not much restriction nor are there hot-spots (that matter...maybe above the DVD-RW drives, but who cares about those, lol).

thank you Vapor.. that is very nice information to keep in mind

[ex2cib]

ok, since you arn't answering me elsewhere, did you ever get the RMA'd board back yet? and finish the right side of the case??? yes or no, whats the timeframe on that side of the case?

edit: and , i hate your avatar btw....and you probably know why, and if you dont, nov 10..football.

[GAR]

nice, 2 systems in one case, thats awsome.