Paraflow antec 1200 change over

[lkiller123]

Nice project going on, but I think a solid cut (rectangle?) on the side will be more blend-in with the case.

[Pedalmonkey]

Come on man, i know u have updates for us

[Elusid]

Alright so I have a bit of an update on how this is going. It's not dead by any means as I'm sure a lot of you have thought. Anyway, I cut a new divider to go in the cases that goes from the bottom all the way to the top which will seperate all the HDDs, optical drive, and radiators from the rest of the case. It also gives me more room to mount my reservoirs and just will give a much cleaner look. I also cut a front panel that will go from the bottom of the case to just under the optical drive and I need to find a place to cut vent holes in it because... well... the air from the radiators kinda needs to go somewhere. I ALSO was able to make my 5.25 to 2.5" rack which takes up the two 5.25" bays that the two original HDDs took up but now can fit 11 2.5" drives. The plans are right now to go with 5 500GB drives in raid 5 which will give me 2TB of space (and take up all my SATAII slots on the mobo with the optical drive) and then hopefully down the road get 4 SSDs and a RAID card. I'm going to get back home tomorrow so I can take some pics of all the pieces fitting in the case to give you an idea. They aren't painted yet (cut them from some metal shelving I stole from my school) but I will do that after I cut all the mounts anyway.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE (if you call with in the next five minutes we'll DOUBLE your offer)
I've been working non stop the last few days so I have some $$$ to get this project back on it's feet again and tomorrow I'm putting it in the bank on the way back to my house and then ordering the parts when I get there. Anyway, here's what I'm getting. The idea is to get the whole front of the case done so I can start getting components and completing loops next.

x3 EK Res 150
x2 MCP 655
20' White tube
x7 90deg fitting
x6 1/2" Grommet
50' Sleeving
10' Heatshrink
x1 Dimmer (for all fans)
x1 Sound dampening material
x2 70mm fans (to get air moving through the HDDs)

Anyway that's the plan. I'm ordering from 4 or 5 different sites so I hope with s&h it will all be under $500 It might be cheaper to order from fewer sights even if the product is a bit more just to cut down on shipping costs. Anyway, I should have stuff coming in by the end of the week or early next so I'll keep you all posted. I'll put up some pics tomorrow too of the metal I've cut when I get home oh AND of my new mobo that I got.

[Serpentarius]

sincerely, i hope it's not rude .. but i think ur wiring is extremely dangerous!

those wires clipped in the middle of the PSU is very dangerous as it the heatsink could melt the wires under heavy load causing short circuit .... i hope you realise the potential risk (very risky) of hazzard of a fire

[Elusid]

I'm not too worried about it. I've run it like that for a month or so before I took everything apart again and I checked all the wires, no sign of melting at all. I'll check it again after I've got everything put together and running again but I don't think it'll cause problems. Worse comes to worse I just route them a different way through the PSU. I could make two bunches and run them over the top sides and put the fan on the outside of the PSU again, won't be a huge deal. Just got home by the way and will take pics in a sec, still unpacking.

3 x EK-Multioption RES 150 Rev 2 (EK-RES-150) = $128.85
Fitting Size 1/2" Barb for 1/2" ID tube
Reservoir Accessory Add EK-ANTI-Cyclon
20 x Feser Tube Active UV Hose - 3/8" ID (1/2"OD) Anti-Kink Tubing - White / UV Blue (FESER-3812-UVWH) = $55.00
2 x Swiftech MCP655™ Series 12 VDC Water Pumps (MCP655) = $129.90
Water Pump Without speed controller (part # MCP655-B)
50 x 0.125 (1/8") PET Cable Sleeving (PET1/8) = $14.50
Sleeve Color Black
10 x Heatshrink 1/8 Inch (HEATSHRINK18) = $8.90
Heatshrink Color Black
2 x Delta 70 X 70 X 15mm PWM Case Fan - Sleeved (AFB0712HHB) = $19.90
Sleeve Color Black
Heatshrink Color Black
1 x Noise Pax Sound Dampening Material (NOISEPAX) = $12.95
10 x PVC Rubber Grommets 0.50" I.D. Hole (GROMMETS-5) = $1.90
7 x Bitspower G 1/4" Silver Shiny Rotary Angle Fitting - 1/2" (BP-LRI) = $90.65
1 x Sunbeam PCI Slot Fan Controller (SB-FANCONTROL) = $7.95

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Sub-Total: $470.50
United Parcel Service (1 x 23.40lbs) (Ground): $23.78
Total: $494.28

So I was able to compress all the parts to just buying from performance-PCs and it saved me a LOT of money. Every part that I bought through them instead of somewhere else was less or equal to the other site I would get it from except for the bitspower fittings, those were $3 more each... So those should be here at the end of the week or the beginning of next. Alright off to take some pics of the new parts I made for the case.

[Elusid]

Alright image update now

So this is my new mobo installed. I got the AsRock one because it was cheap, i7, had the PCI slots I needed for wifi/possible sound card and also had extra PCIx slots for a RAID card. Plus it matched my white/blue theme well enough.


Alright so on to the parts I cut and made, first off, the front. It fits perfectly now I just need to get the vents cut out of it and figure out a way to mount it. My thought was weld some L brackets onto it because I don't want bolts going through.


I cut a new inside wall so that it looks MUCH cleaner then it did before and adds more space for me to mount my EK150's. Now all the wires will be hidden from the HDDs and optical




And finally, the HDD bay I made. Here are the basic components


Two random laptop drives I had sitting around to test with


Presto! Actually turned out quite nice and there's enough room for the cables to fit in as well as the two 70MM fans for airflow. I just need to cut a hole in the side of the drive bay to feed things through





Alright well next update will be once I get my parts in that I just ordered.

[Elusid]

UPDATE!... (finally)

ok so I got a shipment of parts yesterday so I spent the morning putting them together and... well I'll just show you

The parts


So this is the basic layout of the reservoirs I've had in mind for the last several freaking months but have been too broke to do anything about it until now


Pumps mounted to the wall like I want them. I was going to have them lower so they sit on the floor of the case but that only left about 1" between the outlet and my PSU which wasn't nearly enough for the tubing so I raised them up so the tube will go just above the PSU.




brackets mounted


What it looks like with everything mounted onto it


Closer look at the reservoir setup


Side view


Test fit into the case, pump view







Well that's it for today. I drilled the mounting holes to keep the wall in place and also put the bitspower (or w/e) fittings on my radiators. I need to get some flat black spraypaint to spray it and then I can mount it in there and connect all the tubes between the pumps, reservoirs, and radiators. I'll do that in a couple days though because I have work but there will be more updates very soon. Oh and I have the stuff to do my sleeving as well which will be a pain in the ass but worth it. Thoughts?

[BNDMOD]

Nice to see this..
I need to see more, please keep going!!!

[bianco]

awesome work elusid. that res and pump wall looks amazing.
btw, how thick is the wall (aluminum i assume)? thanks

[Elusid]

Thanks Yeah it's just an idea that I've been messing around with in my head for a while. It first started really with my wooden case I made a while ago where I was going to do 3 400mm EKs but I never really got around to it. I like the whole triple loop/three reservoir look so I'm glad I could make it work in this case. I really want to finish putting that wall together but I can't do it till I get paint! AH! So I need to whore my self out to buy a can of matte black. I guess I could start on sleeving the wires from the PSU and get the fan control set up in the mean time.

Oh funny story about the wall it self. I cut it from some cheap metal shelving units that were at my school but it's steel and my guess would be 1/16" thick... maybe thinner... anyway I work the next two days but after that I should have more time to work on this. In the mean time any suggestions or comments would be great.

Oh and btw if anyone is looking at making 2.5" HDD racks and wants to get fans for the 70MM ones are PERFECT! The two that I got are EXACTLY the height of the HDDs and two of them fit just right side to side in a 5.25" bay. Ugh that reminds me I need to cut out the side of the bay to fit the (up to) 11 sets of SATA data/power cables from the HDDs... and figure out how to mount it... and where to get my front cover cut and how to mount THAT. Wow there's still a lot to do on this rig and that's just with the parts that I have right now. Anyway keep watching.

[MomijiTMO]

Awesome res/pump plate.

[Elusid]

Thanks =) Hopefully I'll get a chance to work on it tomorrow. I don't have anything else planned so I should have almost the whole day. wooooo

[sinticfury]

This is actually amazing, If only the 1200 were say about 6" longer I would mod it. Its our HTPC and its barely off. Need more airflow and such.

[Elusid]

Why thank you =) Yeah I wish there was about another 3" between the end of the mobo and where the drive bay starts because right now I can't even fit my reservoirs between the end of the vid card and the wall which is why I placed them higher up.

EDIT: Just ordered my CPU and half my RAM so I can at least get it up and running =) I'll hopefully make more money this week too so I can get my CPU block and possibly the rest of my ram and heatsinks for them.

[Rise]

are you going to mod the pumps at all? i really like the setup but every time i look at a d4/d5 i can't help but think about how ugly of a pump they are (I say this as a d4 user )

any thoughts on prettying them up? and really, fantastic work!

[Elusid]

I haven't really thought about it other than removing the stickers and sleeving the cables. It might look cool if I painted the screw on ring thing white to sort of go with the black/white theme. Idk do you have any thoughts? I don't really want to buy anything for them unless they sell some rings that don't have those massive grooves in them, it would also make the pump smaller which would be nice.

EDIT: oh and I just walked to the hardware store and back and bought two cans of flat black so now I need to take apart that wall and paint it =) I'm honestly just doing everything I can to avoid sleeving my cables. I tried to do one and it's a pain in the ass and will take hours haha.

[genERIC]

Wowzers, looking good!

[Rise]

I haven't really thought about it other than removing the stickers and sleeving the cables. It might look cool if I painted the screw on ring thing white to sort of go with the black/white theme. Idk do you have any thoughts? I don't really want to buy anything for them unless they sell some rings that don't have those massive grooves in them, it would also make the pump smaller which would be nice.

EDIT: oh and I just walked to the hardware store and back and bought two cans of flat black so now I need to take apart that wall and paint it =) I'm honestly just doing everything I can to avoid sleeving my cables. I tried to do one and it's a pain in the ass and will take hours haha.

i did this with my top:



the cast barbs are cut off and drilled & tapped for a G1/4 fitting. other than that... i've seen a "bling" kit but I don't actually like it very much. painting the casing is a good idea too, I may do that with mine since the blue makes it look ghetto

[Elusid]

Yeah I thought about tapping the ends but that's just too much work and I don't need to do it with mine. I've looked at the bling kit and it doesn't change the only part of the pump you can really see with my case so it's not worth it... and it's fugly anyway. I just put my first layer of black paint on the wall by the way and I also sleeved 4 out of my bazillion cables. I'll take pics when I get that wall installed.

[Pedalmonkey]

MOVE FASTER!! maybe i'll come over and help u sleeve some of those cables if im bored enough.

[Elusid]

Alright here we go, another update.

So the wall is painted black, installed, and I'm starting to hook up the tubing in the front area.




I cut off the RPM sensor, sleeved the wires, and fed them through the wall.


Now I just need to install the other radiator and do the same thing to the other side.


Radiators and pump all tubed in front, view of the inside to get an idea how it looks and the routing.


HDD bay still fits fine.










The next step to this process... mother


Mobo installed. I also just went ahead and flipped the MCR220 back around so the barbs face into the case. I'll just move my GPU down to the next slot.


Testing the look with the lights










Well the next step is to solder the 24pin main mobo connector to the back of the mobo... That 3rd reservoir sits so close to the plug that there is no way in hell I'll be able to plug it in so if I want to keep everything looking how it is now (and I do) I need to bust out the soldering iron. No biggy though, I've done several solder projects and the solder points on the back are freaking massive so it'll be cake. However that's another day I think...

[Pedalmonkey]

DOPE!! u think u put small enough tubing on big enough barbs??

[jiggyghallam]

Lol at the wireing its a mother to sort out isn't it :p

Custom modding ideas you got there, did you spray the HDD cage black aswell?

[sinticfury]

LOL the size of your fittings are like x2 of the tubing. I like your color scheme and I am still subbed xD

[Elusid]

Haha yeah it was a to get them on. I had to boil it in water and then stretch it open with a pair of pliers. It's actually the same ID as the tubing I had on my 1/2" barbs before (3/8") it's just the tubing is about 1/3 as thick as my clear stuff I used to have so it looks like it bulges a lot more. Meh, it looks fine to me and it keeps me from needing to use any kind of clamps which was the idea.

I'm still not done with the HDD cadge really. I need to drill mounting holes for it and then I'll paint it black. I start work again tomorrow for the next month so hopefully I'll be able to get my HDDs here sort of soon.