Watercooled RC-1000 Cosmos Case

[BigDK]

Standard 80mm Akasa Amber fans mount in there with no problems.

It looks like there isn't enough room for standard thickness fans 'thats what I thought originally' but they go in with loads of room at the back.

Just hit a major snag as well, spray can fell off shelf onto the plastic front panel and cracked it at the top.




Managed to glue it together and sand it flat again, another spray of primer before the black, so thats set me back a fair bit as I can't now start the black until a lot later.



One good reason not work in an over crowded untidy area

[Spawne32]

Standard 80mm Akasa Amber fans mount in there with no problems.

It looks like there isn't enough room for standard thickness fans 'thats what I thought originally' but they go in with loads of room at the back.

Just hit a major snag as well, spray can fell off shelf onto the plastic front panel and cracked it at the top.




Managed to glue it together and sand it flat again, another spray of primer before the black, so thats set me back a fair bit as I can't now start the black until a lot later.



One good reason not work in an over crowded untidy area

[BigDK]

Garage part tidy on the way, at least I'll be able to move around.

Ended up using plumber pipe weld to fix it 'does the job' and I've got a few tins knocking about.

Have now sprayed the black (1st coat) second will get done later on today.

Have started working on the door mod as well 'very early stages ATM'

Will post some pics of both in a couple of hours 'when my stomach is full'

[ultimeus]

'when my stomach is full'

Waiting for mine too

[TedShred]

wow, lookin' good BigDK!! Glad you recovered nicely from the crack.

I'm also planning to take remove the acrylic from the door, amd cutting out/ sticking back on that oddly-shaped little cooler master logo (or maybe put it somewhere in the interior). Very retro cool!

Can't wait to see the final result.

Edit: cutting out that CM logo on the brushed aluminum part of the VGA "tunnel" thing migh also make a nifty badge

Edit: just wondering about the HDD cooling (one of my bigger headaches in figuring out how to mod this thing), given that it appears you're retaining the stock HDD cage setup while putting fans up front. The 6 hdd's are stacked on top of each other in pairs, with air channels between the stacks. I think the original design was that the exhaust fans would draw air from the (surprisingly small imo) bottom vent under the cage up through the vent on the top, blowing by either side of the vertical hdds (that was the theory anyway). With the HDD on the top interior getting the added benefit of the stock intake blowing up beside the meshed steel part of the cage (maybe a bit of a added-draw benefit from the opening to the hdd right underneath.) So won't the airflow from the fans up front (intake I'm guessing?), run smack into the 2 HDDs closest to that end? No doubt cooling those down a lot, but I'm wondering it will benefit the other ones very much. I'm no expert at this by any means, but I thought I'd mention that thought.

[BigDK]

cutting out that CM logo on the brushed aluminum part of the VGA "tunnel" thing migh also make a nifty badge

Very nice idea, I've got two of those lying 'again in the loft beams' never saw any use for them before.


This shows the spare room between the front mounted fans and the drive bays (about another fan width approx)



At last the black paint is now applied to the repaired panel.

I again needed to do more work on it as after black was applied to crack I could see a faint line dent, so I ended up applying toy model filler to crack and sanding before yet more primer and then the black x 2.

I have done a bit of a tidy up but I really need to clear the bedroom furniture out of here asap.



This is my answer to those controller knobs, I need to finish the slot off with some very boring sanding work, but it should look pretty neat and will serve the purpose.



I then need to source a mesh for the bottom part of the door to allow the air through to the fans.

Will do some research tonight, all ideas welcome.
The distance between the inner door recesses where the perspex was removed is 160mm, ideally I will keep 20mm within that.

Ideas so far are to look for a domed grill either round/oval or (last choice)squared/rectangle.

I'll probably put the cut perspex back around the cut outs and the side strips will be orange.

[TedShred]

Love the door mod for the controller.

Did you see my second edit? After seeing the pic I'm thinking there may indeed be enough room around the cage that the fans will provide a nice overall benefit.

Man, I'm getting a lot of ideas here.