JR404's revenge of the Cube

[Leeghoofd]

Lo guys small update , I readied the rig for a small friendly LAN party ( I think they all are friendly lol), put in the P5K DLX as the Striker was acting up and gave me several CPU Init errors ( after carefully dissambly I saw the mob was heavily bent due to one of the mobo placers was loose... anyway RMA'd the Striker in hope to get the rev with the fixed bios... that one will fit my quad nicely...


So I built in the P5K DLX and upped it with 4 gigs of Mushkin finest ram...



In the foto you can spot the new EK 150 reservoir I got and which handles the strong pump quite nicely...



Mobo P5K in place, the reservoir is in between the radiator and the 2nd case, fit's really nicely and when I have more time i will get the Delrin quick fill port in... ( this is with 2 dimms of Gskill ram )

And for another fuzzy picture, damn my camera is getting worn of the rig in action , the reservoir is nicely lit up by the blue glow of the power led...

[Leeghoofd]

On monday I will try to adapt the sidepanel to fit a cool 25cm fan I rippe doff an Aplus case... so the Nb and PWM area get's loads of nice and fresh air...

Keep you guys posted...

[Leeghoofd]

Today I had not much time so just the sidefan had to be the job of the day... I assembled lately a few A plus cases and fell in love with their 25Cm sidefans, silent, though shifting loads of air, ideal for all those passive heatcrap pipes they put on our beloved overclocking boards...

First after some measuring I took an old abused Antec case sidepanel, I previously tried to make a 20cm hole in it though failed as the holesaw scratched more instead of really cutting through the panel... I needed to cover up the old cut and with the A plus front panel that wasn't an issue...

So after 15 misn of Dremel action I got a pretty nice cutout for the fan:



The cut needed only to allow the fan to slide in as the second picture will make more clear

Fan fits nicely, got even a few mm room to spare



Drilled the 4 holes to fit the front panel ( too bad of the logo )



Masking tape rocks not even a scratch on the panel when it was removed



On the inside of the case, fan will be fitted on the front panel :



Panel installed on the case and quick release fits nicely with a few mm to spare

[RubberDuck]

Looking great I like that fan you mounted on the door

[Leeghoofd]

Thx for the kind reply, fan is already replaced by the normal round A plus variant..., Cube is not progressing at the moment as I'm testing the Maximus Formula mobo now, again a totally different approach to setting up the rig... and I had too many rigs in line for the shop, but I' getting there, end of next week Cube has to go to the painters... dark red/Blue or just dull black on the inside.... any ideas ?

[FrobinRobin]

very nice work so far! I also like the huge side fan
I havent done much case modding but my CMStacker has a few scratches now so its ready for some mods. I'm gonna start small (replace the top 80mm fan with a quieter 120mm) :P
Anyway I sprayed an old black case about 6 months ago with some car paint, metallic blue and it came out awesome... wish I could show u the color but I broke my cam! I think red would also be good... so anything but black!

[ShoNuff]

My vote is for the dark red. That would look sweet!

Your project is coming along nicely. Looking forward to seeing the finished product. Keep up the good work!

[Leeghoofd]

Dark red it will be master of the quads !!! think it will look fab with all the black hardware inside... still one lanparty to do next weekend then it's off to the painters....

Also Zeus informed me that my WC loop is wrong, so I'm gonna rebuild that for the LAN, piccies of the ready to go Cube prolly end of this week...

[disruptfam]

wow man looks good.. not a huge fan of that small tubing though

[Leeghoofd]

K I rebuild the WC loop for the LAN, again not much time to do it so I kept it prety basic as Zeus instructed me to do, only thing tomorrow is to hook up the top fans on the GT extreme flow block and do some soldering work on them...

I tried to tuck the cables and co neatly away...after this LAN I'm gonna rip her completely apart and send the 2 cases off to the painters...



Pump no longer pumps into the reservoir though into the PA120.3 now, less air now in the circuit resulting in less noise , temps about the same...so I'm a pretty happy guy... Thx heaps Zeus

[Lumb3Rj4ck]

woah! great build!

[didineedthis]

totally awsome ....

it will look the dogs bollocks when its all painted up.

great fan on the side of your cube,

great project mate.

[aldave]

why does it say A+?

[Leeghoofd]

why does it say A+?

Sidefan comes from the cases from A plus brand... I couldn't find any 25cm sidefan to buy seperately and these ones where the cheapest and have an adjustable fan speed which is great...

http://www.jaha.be/product_info.php?...oducts_id=1809

[Leeghoofd]

K I was getting pretty annoyed each time I had to refill the reservoir, it was so difficult to get access too and it put a lot of strain on the tubing as I pulle d the reservoir slightly towards me... after refill 4 I broke one of the reservoir supports... damn...

I ordered the reinforced ones from Ekwaterblocks which are more bulletproof and provide a better grip...



Clamp reservoir holder



In 2 pieces, in fact second piece isn't really required, think Eddie disigned it like this when transporting just to make sure the reservoir won't snap out


Zeus also had a look at my pumps and advised me to get Petratech's tops for the Laing pump

So with the Dollar at it's current level it seemed a good thing to do , I immediately ordered two... in case of I need one in the future... thx guys at Petratech, very kind and quick delivery, good job !!



Top, damn black looks so sexiiiehhhh



Bottom shot

[Leeghoofd]

So for the filling problem I could go 2 ways, one way was to install a Fill port, second option to place the reservoir somewhere else...

Option 2 was for me the better choice as I still had plenty of room left on the PSU/HD side of the cube... though I needed to use 90° elbows to get the tubing aligned between the reservoir and the pump inlet... but I'm pretty happy with the result and the filling is way easier now !!



I placed the pump below the optical drive rack and near the outside of the cube, I only used one clamp as thye seem to give beter grip then the original ones delivered with the reservoir... also this allows me to swivel the reservoir to give better acces to fill it up

Other side of the cube seems less occupied now and less messy regarding tubing...



Now some small cleanup on both cases and then it can go to the painters... finally !!

[worthIT]

Awesome job yet again Leeghoofd. Good to see you back at another cube. This one looks like it is going to be even better than the last one. I'm glad to hear the little one is doing well too!

I'm mainly impressed that you lasted so long with your Striker. I gave mine up months ago.. I just couldn't take it any longer.. I've now got myself an EVGA 680i A2 Revision.. It's the best thing I ever did.

Let us know how this goes when it comes back from the painters.. Cheers.

[Leeghoofd]

Cube mod on vacation for a short while, till I finished this Antec P160 WC setup for my Maximus board...

Little worklog here : http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=171077

we got another LANparty on the 2nd week of January where my airbrusher will be too, I prolly give him the stripped cube after the LAN so we finally can finish this too

[lazy]

i was really getting into this build.. cut the vacation short ! =p

[Brian MP5T]

Subs for final Pics

[nosboost300]

very nice! i wish i had the ability to do stuff like that!

[Wolfsburg18]

Case looks great and nice ideas. Just one small note in some of the early photos you had the water going in the corner of your fuzion and output the center from what I could tell but I could be wrong.

I would suggest that you flip your block 180 so that the output is the top corner and air can bleed out without having to flip your case around to bleed the block.

[Leeghoofd]

Yep you were right, already corrected it now mate, cube is dismantled and I'm gonna rectify some small issues I have with it... Cube and P160 survived the last LAN pretty nicely though I limited the CPU clocks to 3/3.2ghz as it was pretty hot in there ( as usual )

Thx for the comments, more piccies soooooooon

[Junimrox]

Nice case, really enjoyed the idea of sticking two cases togheter to make a cube, never seen anything like it. Congratulations for the awesome case.

[[XC] NetburstXE]

Can you post some more pics? This really looks awesome