Project: SR-2 STACKER

[theseeker]

Beautiful as usual!

[coolmiester]

Cheers all, i appreciate that thanks

Got the side panels cut down to size for the rad box and then went about fitting four flush mount vents using the mesh out of Bitspower rad grills and used the actual grill as the template to hand cut the four openings pretty much as i did a while back on a Corsair 800D mod which gives that kinnda simple but effective kind of look and should look good with the red LED fans behind.

Just got to do the other side now and then two in each side of the main case but i think i'll concentrate on getting the rad box finished before moving onto the main chassis

[Alexandr0s]

Looks great Coolmiester !

[coolmiester]

Looks great Coolmiester !

Cheers Alex

Well i just turned the standard 6 drive bays into 4 to allow the two radiators to mount below in a separate little rad box.

Sounds easy..........well it was really but i had to be double sure of all measurements while cutting down the original drive cage and also while folding the new rad box as 1mm out and it would throw the entire chassis out but luckily my measuring skills didn't let me down and everything lines up perfect and square

I'm trying to get everything finished so i can go about stripping it all down and getting it to powder coat by Friday.

[arkadur]

nice & clean cut!
keep it up!

[miahallen]

Oh good....I was starting to get worried that you were only going to have the rad box up top :-/

[Psyco]

I may have to copy the flush bitspower grill idea that looks amazing, what did you use to cut the holes?

[Liderc]

OoooOooo I love those red fans. Might have to get a few. The top fan grill cut outs look perfect, really great job.

[Wega52]

Incredibly nice build! Great attention to details and nice symmetric. Love it

[coolmiester]

Still a canny way to go but i just thought i’d show you this nice neat little hose routing from top to bottom of the chassis which turned out pretty good and a few other random shots of where things are at the end of the day

Got all the chassis back from powder coaters at lunch time today in totally flawless Carbon Black to match the Carbon Bitspower fittings and set about getting it built back up which is the bit i like best seeing it all come together.

Anyway, my life is currently on hold until i get this complete as it starts its journey to Germany for CeBit on the 22nd so best get my skates on

[ScottALot]

Soooo sick man! So clean, too. Lets see, what could you improve...

Paint the I/O shield
More radiators

[dreamaxx]

That looks really brilliant, great work

[Saltire]

Stunning !

[theseeker]

Outstanding!

[y0gi]

Mate, its looking sick! I love everything you've done. Everything!

Go nuts, man, GO!!!!!!

[coolmiester]

Thanks guys, i'm getting there slowly but surely

Got the top hand made bezel fitted to the top chassis with the power / reset and LEDs all mounted and grill installed.

Best part of the day though was hose routing both the motherboard / RAM loop and the CPU loop - both turned out really well considering the amount of hose involved so only the GPU loop to do which is pretty straight forward but still waiting on cards to turn up but apart from that, i seem to be making good progress

[ScottALot]

High-res of this picture?

[theseeker]

I am red with envy!

[coolmiester]

High-res of this picture?

Its a biggy


[Edit] turned that into a LINK Scott as it was messing with my alignment

[ScottALot]

Okay you can remove the picture now, I have it downloaded, thanks! New background

[bot@xs]

i can only 2nd all the compliments and praise you received already.
this is truly some very nice workmanship, very impressive.

[coolmiester]

Cheers guys


I got to give my friends at EVGA a massive shout for getting me some graphics cards out at such short notice

They are the EVGA GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper FTW which fill up the SR-2 board real nice.

I'm just not sure if the Coolermaster 1200 PSU will be able to handle all four cards and as the chassis needs to be starting it journey to CeBit this weekend i simply won't have time to test so not sure what to do for the best.

I think the best thing to do is install them all and sort it out when it gets back home as it won’t be running anything on the booth, just sitting there looking pretty.

Looks very nice though

[arkadur]

nice cards, but you should go with dual PSU i think.

your 1200 W will now handle all those cards.

i use 2 HX1000 in my build,

you're planing on 4way or 3way + physix?

[coolmiester]

Sorry, i couldn't resist but don't they look nice with Carbon Bitspower connectors

[theseeker]

Nice CM!