New WC Build Jekyll & Hyde

[Grimtas]

Brushed = brushed aluminum
All other colores are powdercoated and the one's listed are their standard.

If you want anything else you need to choose the custom color and tell them what you want in the comments of your order, or Call them.

[Grimtas]

Ok the first four of many shipments arrived today so here's a few pics..

Sorry for the quality of the pics ISO 100 is a bit much freehanded. I need to figure out where I placed my tripod.


Water cooling parts


Case fans, controller, grills, and gaskets


Left/right top/bottom
Rad shrouds, wire sleeve (X2), bus covers, solder, 6/32 tap, molex tool, MX-2 (X2), tube coil (Think I gave away the color scheme), tap handle, PT nuke, Red and blud dye, rad barbs, UV lamps, hose clamps, dremel grinding wheels, XSPC DDC pump stands


DVD and HDD's


Hyde OS drive's Raid 1 for them


Scratch drive


Began sleeving the pumps


Modified XSPC pump stand (Even though they are the 3.2 models didn't want to take the chance)


Modified stand with neoprene


Pump mounted front


Back


Acrylic time


Ready for mounting


At least I didn't have to change the faceplates

[Grimtas]

More to come tomorrow

Only thing I messup on that I have noticed thus far was I ordered 80mm fan filters instead on 120mm.

[InfamousChu]

looking good! gonna be a killer build!

[Nate P.]

Lookin' REALLY good!

[disruptfam]

yeah looking really good more updates!

[Yeknom]

3 DVD drives seems sorta overkill to me :P

[Grimtas]

yeah looking really good more updates!

ROFL savage, I've done all I can with todays delivery need more hardware now.

As for 3x dvd burners read my first post this is a duality build two are for the new work station one is for the server for redundant backups. and at $30/ea they were a steal. Only replacing my existing DVD,s from the server for appearance and due to the fact that the servers current two are SCSI and I'm migrating the server over to SATA.. Not to mention they are nearly 8 years old now.

[Grimtas]

Today's earily deliveries


Dell 1720 B/W Laser Printer w/ additional paper tray




New Dell 24" WS Monitor 2408-WFC


There goes the power bill!!!



More to come soon

[barfastic]

Began sleeving the pumps

What happened to PWM cable (Blue one) did u just snip it off?

[Grimtas]

Right pump bottom left corner you'll see the connector. If you look closly at the 4 pin molex you will see where I extended the sleeving to the 3pin connector.

Bah looking at it again it's still a bit hard to see that so here's another pic

[barfastic]

ahhhh, do u need to connect those for the fan to work? or is it only a RPm sensor?

[Grimtas]

I believe just an RPM sensor, IE connect to CPU fan header for basic system protection. Don't quote me on that I could be wrong.

[Grimtas]

I haven't updated in a few days been busy putting the system together, here's the new pics...

NEWEST Arrivals

HP 9180 photo printer for the wife


3870X2 (X2), Rads, MB, and CPU


CPU


GPU's


EK blocks

[Grimtas]

sleeving MB tray fans


Mounted


Sleeved Rad shrouds and HDD's


Sleeved Top


Case coming together (test fits)




Who can name the program on the tele in the background???


MB breakdown


Mosfet Tim not bad for stock




3870X2 breakdown


3870 bracket mod for single slot






EK 3870X2 block top


Ek 3870X2 block bottom


Started plumbing


Issues, I intended to mount my HDD's next to the 120.2 rad. As you can see this will not fit the MM case New order just placed with mountain mods for an additional 120.3 to correct the look of the front panel. Now to find a 120.3 shroud in stock again sigh...


new HDD mounting location. (Between the MB trays will require a slight mod to the trays)


Expanded view


Issue #2 it appears the rear panel of my case is missing a rivet nut. I'll have to contact MM on Monday to see what needs to be done to correct this.

Thats all for now going to take a nap

[Grimtas]

I also need to find a solution to bridge the gap btwn the two 3870X2's for plumbing any ideas? The regular barbs are way too long and from the looks of it the short barbs will be a bit long as well. Any hard pipe or other solution avail? I need some ideas here.

Thanks much
Grim

[[XC] NetburstXE]

At Petra's tech shop (I think) you can get short barbs. They are probably small enough to be used between the 3870X2 cards (don't quote me on this).

[barfastic]

Issue #2 it appears the rear panel of my case is missing a rivet nut. I'll have to contact MM on Monday to see what needs to be done to correct this.

Thats all for now going to take a nap

Ia that the corner of the case? if it is, all those screws can be replaced with thumbscrews. Im trying to find some skulls for mine :P

[Grimtas]

That is a corner of the case and I'm currently using the thumbscrews sent with the case till I find better ones. The issue with with corner is it does not have the rivet nut inplace to use the thumbscrew. IE no threads for the screw.

[barfastic]

oh, that sucks man... dunno, mine all thread normally. well i havent checked the bottom panel yet, so you never know :S

[Grimtas]

I just wanted to put a big THANK YOU plug out to petras. I initially screwed up my first order and ordered 9x the wrong item. I contacted Alex and shipped the wrong item back paid the diff and the right items are on their way. I placed two more orders over the weekend and Quoc noticed it and shipped them out in the same package to reduce the shipping charges.

There's alot to be said for customer service. I was in the wrong and admited to it but Petra's was willing to work with me saving me nearly $50 in the process for my initial screwup and additional orders.

You won't find many e-tailers that are willing to work with you, for that and thanks again Petra's I'll continue to do business with you anytime and recommend your shop to all I know.

Edit, I also wanted to thank Mountain Mods for their quick response with the Pim nut missing from my back panel. I was a bit disappointed I had to fork out $35 for a replacement, but I fully understand the industry and that only 50% ish of request like this ever send back the defective part. They also added the additional panel to my re-order for additional rad's as the 120.2 + HDD rack will not fit the standard 120.3 cutouts no matter which way I point the barbs.

to MountainMods as well

Now back to modding the case for a duality/Horizon (two system setup)

Cheers,
Grim

[louie101086]

nice

[Grimtas]

New parts have arrived. Ordered a 120.3 to replace the 120.2 to finish off the front look as I couldn't fit the HDD tray next to the 120.2. Ordered EK shorties for the GPU link. Made a custom bracket to support the upper MB tray. The bracket goes from front to back which also supports the front and back panels from flexing. Test fit of the Server MB will not fit the case as it's an extended ATX board. (Planned on replacing later this year anyway) Started Cable management and plumbing. Missing components still EK-SB-SMAX (Southbridge block) and DDR3 Memory (Still out of stock).

Now for the PICS (I also adjusted the white balance on my camera so no more orange pics)


Case back


Front, Cut holes to provide 4x USB connections 1X FW and 2x CCFL Switches. My dremel skills need a bit of improvement, I'll either polish out the mars or just body fill them if I paint the case later on, the silver is kinda starting to grow on me.


Pump/Rez side (Still need to mount the second Rez)


Pumps (Gave up on the XSPC pump bracket's)


Upper MB tray and PSU


Other side


When the server is upgraded there will be a total of 9 HDD's in here. You can see three for the workstation in the back middle, a bracked installed for three of 4 server raid HDD's, the server OS Mirror HDD's will be mounted in the last two remaining 5.25 slots under the server DVD behind the acrylic cover. I plan on attaching a 80mm fan to the acrylic cover to provide ventalation to those HDD's. The bottom bracket was cut to fit one HDD and provide clearence for the server MB. This placement took alot of thinking to get it to all fit correctly


Upper view, that ATX connector is begging for sleeving


SATA pwr cut to length for both HDD's and DVD's (DVD Shown, forgot to take a pic of the HDD cabling prior to installing in the case.


That's it for now back to work mounting that second rez, then I think I'm going to dissamble the CPU loop, clean all the components, Fill and leak test.

[Grimtas]

Second Rez is now mounted, CPU loop is now completed. Filling/bleeding only took approx 5 mins, no bubbles except on the side of the rez. Currently leak testing the CPU loop. I'm on a plane tomorrow for a weeks work in CA. Might even get a chance to swing by Petra's while I'm out there. The build will continue when I get back from work provided the Memory and SB block are in.

Here's a quick pic

[barfastic]

sweet build! can you take close up pics of the 2 hd3870x2 cards? im wondering what kind of fittings u used, cause with normal sized fittings i think i might have a problem with spacing.

Thanks alot