Project: Corsair ObsidiGreen 700D

**nickbaldwin86** · 03-23-2011, 03:53 PM

Project: Corsair ObsidiGreen 700D

Featured over @ HardOCP:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2011/01/...l_case_mod_day

3dMark06: - 28242
http://3dmark.com/3dm06/15419333
Vantage: - P31431
http://3dmark.com/3dmv/2918144
Vantage: (w/ 8800GS) - P36163
http://3dmark.com/3dmv/2918181
3dMark11 - P9110
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/324702

W/ TRI-FIRE

3dMark11 - P11550
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1394334

Will do the other benches later when I get the last card on water

Teaser:

A few spex:

System:
i7 920 @ 4.2Ghz 1.35v Cooled by Danger Den TDX
EVGA E758 X58 Cooled by Bitspower blocks
Corsair 6GB DDR3 1600 XMS3
XFX HD5850s with MSI BIOS @ 1060/1260 Cooled by Bitspower blocks
Kingston 128GB SSD
Corsair CC700D
Corsair AX1200
HP-zR30w ⊕ G5 & Razer BlackWidow mechanical ⊕ W7 Pro

Water cooling:
SR-1 420
SR-1 280
XSPC 750 pump/res
Black Primochill 7/16" tubing over 1/2 barbs
UV and white cathodes
Green LEDs

Thanks for looking

**matt220** · 03-23-2011, 06:01 PM

Im curious how you lit up the acrylic in the bottom

**nickbaldwin86** · 03-23-2011, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by matt220

Im curious how you lit up the acrylic in the bottom

I drilled holes into it and hot glued LEDs in the holes

(The holes are inside the fan hole)

**fatherTime27** · 03-23-2011, 06:44 PM

That is a lot of 90* fittings! Looks really nice though I don't understand all the hype over the 800D I personally would prefer a 700. Nice build

Also what water blocks are on you gpu's? Not compatibly with a standard sli bridge?

**nickbaldwin86** · 03-24-2011, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by fatherTime27

That is a lot of 90* fittings! Looks really nice though I don't understand all the hype over the 800D I personally would prefer a 700. Nice build

Also what water blocks are on you gpu's? Not compatibly with a standard sli bridge?

Thanks

I personally don't like nor have use for a 800D, I got this case for $140 shipped BRAND NEW and could have got the 800D for that price too, I saw no reason for the added stuff it has. I run 1 SSD and 1 HDD and have server for storage, so the hot swap bays are a joke imo, I would love to see anyone that really uses them.

The blocks are Bitspower full card blocks with the Bitspower sli/Cfx fittings

SLi bridge? ATI cards = Crossfire. those are the bridges that came with the cards.

**jmn2519** · 03-25-2011, 06:06 AM

Nick, can you talk about how you did the custom fan and grill in the side panel? It looks sweet and probably solves a lot of this case's air starvation problems.

**nickbaldwin86** · 03-25-2011, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by jmn2519

Nick, can you talk about how you did the custom fan and grill in the side panel? It looks sweet and probably solves a lot of this case's air starvation problems.

what would you like to know about it?

It is a 120mm ziggy fan (1000RPM) (the others are all 140mm ziggy 1000RPM fans). I was hoping it would help pull air from the two fans on the 2x140 rad in the middle, so I set the fan as exhaust.

It was pretty simple I just cut a hole in the door and mounted the fan... I have never been a fan of door fans before because I hate every time I pull the door off I have to unplug a fan, but it needed to be done.

The grille is a 120mm overkill grill from http://www.mnpctech.com/120mm_Overkill_Fan_Grills.html

**Johnny87au** · 03-25-2011, 09:17 PM

Nice looking case! Only thing i dislike is the dual bay res dont really like the long tubing going from gpu's hehe

**nickbaldwin86** · 04-07-2011, 12:18 PM

New pictures, Enjoy!

**Johnny87au** · 04-08-2011, 04:18 AM

looks great mate, i'd suggest removing the ram cooler though kinda doesnt fit in hehe, Also mind linking the exact barbs and extender it looks like you used to connect your gpu's..

**nickbaldwin86** · 04-08-2011, 05:45 AM

Thanks, ya I am almost caring less and less about that cooler on my mem, it also should be doing anything because I don't OC that mem

SLI connectors are:
Depending on your gap
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...59_346_393_621

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=24758

**nickbaldwin86** · 04-29-2011, 09:22 AM

Transformed the white led Xigmatek fans to green led
Added R4 120 to the door
Added handles

**UrbanSmooth** · 05-01-2011, 08:59 AM

Nice, the internals look like the inside of an alien spaceship.

**nickbaldwin86** · 05-10-2011, 04:42 PM

like my case on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

**nickbaldwin86** · 05-24-2011, 02:15 PM

**nickbaldwin86** · 05-31-2011, 06:35 PM

**nickbaldwin86** · 06-02-2011, 05:12 PM

Update:

Dropped of the case here today:
http://www.americanmetalcleaning.com/

**nickbaldwin86** · 06-17-2011, 08:17 PM

W/ TRI-FIRE

3dMark11 - P11550
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1394334

Will do the other benches later when I get the last card on water

**nickbaldwin86** · 06-20-2011, 09:43 PM

**nickbaldwin86** · 06-22-2011, 07:29 PM

Got a teaser from the guy that is powder coating my case today:

**nickbaldwin86** · 07-05-2011, 09:04 PM

**Church** · 07-06-2011, 04:50 AM

Hmm, i like how green paint turned out, but somehow mnpc silverish crosshair fangrill seems out of place on this case. What do you think of painting it black to keep it inline with green-black innards color scheme and black radgrills on top & back of case? Hmm, or instead of black - green? Hart to tell.

**nickbaldwin86** · 07-06-2011, 09:24 PM

**nickbaldwin86** · 08-14-2011, 09:22 AM

**fr0wn3r** · 08-15-2011, 06:28 AM

Very nice and interesting choice of green! Unusual and genuine.

What thickness of acrylic did u use and what size of LEDs to get them hotglued to it, if I may ask? Have something similar in mind.

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