black and white Fractal

[josk1]

hi guys,

a friend of mine asked me to build a nice watercooled-PC for about 1500€...
well, this is what i came up with:





the case is ordered yet.
i'll be placing my orders for the rest of the parts soon.
will let you know more as soon as i get them!
feel free to make comments


list of parts:
= got it
= ordered
= not ordered yet

pc hardware:
case: Fractal Design Define R3 artic white
PSU: Silverstone Strider Plus ST60F-P
MB: EVGA P55 FTW
CPU: Intel Core i3 530
GPU: XFX HD4850 512Mo
RAM: OCZ Reaper 2x2Go DDR3-2000 CL9
HDD: Samsung SpinPoint F3 1To
sound card: Asus Xonar D2 PCI
DVD: Optiarc SATA DVD-burner

cooling
Scythe Himuro
3x Enermax Cluster 120mm
Laing DDC + Watercool top
EK Supreme LT
Watercool GPU-X2 4850 LT
EK Multioption 250 basic
white tubing
black coolant
fittings

ligntening

sleeving

[dacosta89]

I love that board! I loved that board. Wait, I love the evga boards

Good luck!

[aerial]

Not best case for water cooling, but radiator this small should fit inside easily.

[josk1]

I love that board! I loved that board. Wait, I love the evga boards

Good luck!

so do i...
my dream board would be a X58-classified full black!

Not best case for water cooling, but radiator this small should fit inside easily.

i know. first i wanted to do it in a 800D, but then i thought: too easy (and too expensive too). so when i saw the FD R3 artic white i liked it already, since it matches the colour scheme even more!
besides the HDD-racks are going to get cut out! the rad will be frontal, just behind the 2 fans!
but STOP, you won't get more!!! that's all i'm sayin' for now

[ScottALot]

I want your friend... none of my buds have money/want to get a new computer that's not a Dell :P

[prava]

Mmmmm is it really worth it to buy a 4850 AND a FC block at this stage?

[Church]

.. my dream board would be a X58-classified full black! ..

Unfortunately all classified ones (including recently announced classified3) are black & red. Full black are lower end FTW3 / SLI3 and older SLI LE x58 motherboards.

[josk1]

I want your friend... none of my buds have money/want to get a new computer that's not a Dell :P

i know what you feel... i'd do more builds if they'd assk me more too !

Mmmmm is it really worth it to buy a 4850 AND a FC block at this stage?

No, you're right. ain't worth buying a new one, BUT i'm not buying a 4850. Actually my friend's no hardcore gamer so a 4850 is plenty engouh. and since i wanted to watercool the GPU (watercooling the CPU only is a non-sens to me) i thought i'd "give" him my "old" 4850 and get myself a new one... (5870 by the way). i checked new GPU first but the cheaper you can get and watercool decently is a 5770 which would cost at least 200€ (WB included) and that's outta reach for our budget!
with this solution we're both happy: he's got a good watercooled GPU, I got a very good watercooled new GPU for less

Unfortunately all classified ones (including recently announced classified3) are black & red. Full black are lower end FTW3 / SLI3 and older SLI LE x58 motherboards.

yep... always thought if i won the lotery i'd go ask Mr. EVGA for a full black (not grey/black) classified.

[guilleguillaume]

I'm really sure I'm going to fell in love with that build since I've seen what are you able to do with white theme rigs ;D

I really like the way you show us the parts from the project, really cool.

Subscribed.

[Church]

josk1: i doubt it will be ever possible. It's very costly to release separate batch different from rest, you'd be better off painting red slots yourself, or get FTW3.

[josk1]

I'm really sure I'm going to fell in love with that build since I've seen what are you able to do with white theme rigs ;D

I really like the way you show us the parts from the project, really cool.

Subscribed.

thanx man, i try to do my best!
always aiming for perfection... will get there someday!!

josk1: i doubt it will be ever possible. It's very costly to release separate batch different from rest, you'd be better off painting red slots yourself, or get FTW3.

i said if i win the lotery , and THAT my friend is highly improbable!!!

[BeepBeep2]

I want your friend... none of my buds have money/want to get a new computer that's not a Dell :P

No kidding.

One of my friends just spent $2400 on an air cooled XPS with a 980X and SLI GTX480's.

I wanted to slap the $h^t out of them.

[josk1]

yep,

just a quick update... i know it's a bad quality picture (HTC)
but hey, you can see what's goin on there, huh?!
got pretty much everything ordered i'm just missing a fan for the PSU (this Silverstone 140mm makes such a noise! ) and the DVD.. but i'll do that soon



Edit: ordered the DVD and the fan

[josk1]

been gathering everything i need lately and started working the case by cutting out spaces needed for a decent cable/tubing management. i'll have a nice paint job at the end, when every hole needed is done!

i also started sleeving the white cable with white sleeves (don't need to prep the usual muli-coroed cables so you don't see the color through... waaaaay easier!)
here's the first result: the 8-pin power cable





the 24's getting ready to be done too:



you noticed the pump:



i'm gona get the bottom a nice finish soon (i've cut the "feet" that look ugly and are useless in my case), and those ugly cables will... disappear!!!

... to be continued ...

[bundymania]

oh you have one of the loudest laing tops there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLsZqarZUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z541Ri87TMw

[Johnny87au]

Nice sleeving, So you sleeve your only 24 pins??? Never seen it done like that before.. u got from murdermod yeah??

[josk1]

oh you have one of the loudest laing tops there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLsZqarZUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z541Ri87TMw

i don't see how the top could make such noise??
but it seams you're right... i've checked a few reviews... damn it i couldn't imagine that i'll see at the end what it does
might gona mod it ?!

Nice sleeving, So you sleeve your only 24 pins??? Never seen it done like that before.. u got from murdermod yeah??

nope, i got the sleeving and the crimping from MDPC-X but the cable come from a local electrical store! (was kinda hard to find, but there's some over the internet too)
(look at farnell... they've got everything... i ordered there too... but i don't know if they'd ship abroad)

Edit: i've ordered 100m of black and 100m of white cable... should be enough

[josk1]

a few novelties...

res-holders:



cutting a few things out:









and the empting-port...



to be continued ...

[josk1]

[josk1]

few updates here...
got a bit more than half the cables sleeved, and got the pump brand new white cables coming out from the bottom (cables must be pretty at least, but better not be seen )

[Johnny87au]

looks good mate, definately gotta sleeve my 24 pin like that..

[josk1]

here's a bit of news for you guys!


















...to be continued...

[ShArKo]

nice!!!!

[bundymania]

Well, it was a pain to remove the black noise absorbing material in the side panels, eh ? I made it some weeks ago with nail color remover and other things

[josk1]

hell no...
sorry to tell you this now, but it only took me a few minutes... with a hairdryer!!! i only had to warm it up a bit, and it went away as easy as regular tape!!!