Cliffjumper - Black/Red Obsidian 350D

[FrankTheTank]

So I'm tired of my current CM Elite 130 mITX build and my i5 4670K and GTX780 are moving into a bigger home.
Yes it's gonna be a very original black/red Obsidian build

Going to use a Swiftech H220 that I still have laying around for cooling EK-Supremacy - Copper - Plexi with the addition of another 240mm rad to cool my Asus GTX 780. Will be using EK-BAY RES D5 Vario with pump to get it all flowing.

Parts

Hardware Already Owned
Intel i5 4670k
ASUS GTX 780 DC2
16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport VLP
Samsung 840 Evo 250gb
Seagate Barracuda 3TB
Corsair TX750M
Swiftech H220

New Hardware
Corsair Obsidian 350D delivered
ASUS Maximus VII Gene delivered
6x Corsair Air Series SP120 PWM High Performance delivered


Sleeving
Sleeve SMALL - BLACK 10m x2 delivered
Sleeve SMALL - RED 10m x2 delivered
Pre-Cut Heatshrink SMALL - ANTHRACITE x3 delivered
Heatshrink SATA - ANTHRACITE delivered
Sleeve SATA - RED delivered

Watercooling
EK-CoolStream RAD XTX 240 delivered
EK-FC780 GTX Ti DCII - Nickel Original CSQ delivered
EK-FC780 GTX DCII Backplate - Black delivered
Alphacool HF Screw connector G1/4OD 10mm (3/8 ID - 5/8 OD) - Deep Black 17087 x4 delivered
PrimoChill PrimoFlex Advanced LRT 3/8 ID - 5/8 OD - Crystal Clear - 3m delivered
Feser One Cooling Fluid - UV RED x2 delivered
Artic Silver 5 paste delivered

EK-BAY RES D5 Vario delivered
EK-Supremacy - Copper - Plexi delivered

Will update topic regularly when new parts arrive and how things are going along.

 

Latest Post

[Shd0w2]

DON'T JUMP MAN, THERE'S SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR

[flibberdipper]

I shall be waiting for the pics.

[jakkuh_t]

Personally, I would have gone with Mayhem fluid concentrate.

[FrankTheTank]

DON'T JUMP MAN, THERE'S SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR

 

Depend on my orders and if they have much delay or not...can't promise anything!

I shall be waiting for the pics.

 

Thank you for the sub sir! You will now be known as Subsir-o!

 

Personally, I would have gone with Mayhem fluid concentrate.

 

Is that the fluid you add to your water, sort of color dye?

[novasae]

Cool. I'm looking forward to the sleeving. Seems like you copied an invoice from MDPC.

I love MDPC sleeving...

[MercFX]

Lookinig forward to the end result!

Subbed.

[FrankTheTank]

Cool. I'm looking forward to the sleeving. Seems like you copied an invoice from MDPC.

I love MDPC sleeving...

 

That is very correct sir!

[FrankTheTank]

WC-parts ordered. Now the waiting-game starts!

[FrankTheTank]

First order arrived, will take more pictures of it tomorrow, if my mobo arrives

 

 

Also got email that a lot of the watercooling stuff will be delayed :angry:

[jakkuh_t]

Depend on my orders and if they have much delay or not...can't promise anything!

 

Thank you for the sub sir! You will now be known as Subsir-o!

 

 

Is that the fluid you add to your water, sort of color dye?

yeah

[FrankTheTank]

yeah

Ah ok. Well just gonna try this one, got good reviews. Can always switch if it sucks.

[FrankTheTank]

So I've got some parts in today:

 

 

First needed to salvage some old and newer stuff from my older cases, forgot that the CM Elite 130 was a tight fit for my GTX 780:

 

 

Let's try a testfit with the Swiftech H220 and my new Maximus VII Gene:

 

 

Only got one problem as you might have seen with the above picture: I'm missing one of my screws these are hard to come by. If anybody has any idea where I can get this in the Netherlands (or Belgium/Germany), that would be great! It's the 1155 screw for the Swiftech H220.

 

Last question for y'all: Is this normal or should I do something about it, looks like a thunderbolt?

 

 

[MercFX]

That CPU block might have gotten a little toasty at one point in time.

[FrankTheTank]

That CPU block might have gotten a little toasty at one point in time.

 

Had my old X6 1055T OC'ed for a while, so that could have caused it. I suspect it won't give me any problems, we'll see.

[FrankTheTank]

Got some little work done. Ran out of parts for now, so I'll have to wait to get my new parts. Didn't think it through, because I already empties my Swiftech H220 and tosted the coolant away. Since my WC-parts are in backorder, I have no real cooling... DOH <_<

 

Atleast my 4670k is feeling comfy:

 

It's gonna be a tight fit with the Maximus VII Gene coolblock:

 

 

Got lucky with the missing screw from my H220. It seems that the mounting screws from my Corsair H80 fit perfectly (although they're bronze-color, so I need to paint them if I deside to keep using them):

 

[FrankTheTank]

Currently working on a shrout so I don't have to buy a new PSU (already had most of the parts in house). Will post some pics in a few hours.

[MercFX]

Currently working on a shrout so I don't have to buy a new PSU (already had most of the parts in house). Will post some pics in a few hours.

AW YISS

[FrankTheTank]

I'm a cheapskate, so I decided instead of buying a new PSU that would fit my case (currently: TX750m), I would try and make a shrout out of plexiglass/acrylic!

 

It's still Work in Progress, currently I'm painting it, so expect the final update soon.

 

First I made a mock-up out of some thin wood/cartbox I still had lying around don't mind the holes, they were in the wood:

 

 

Gotta love duct tape:

 

 

Let's see how she fits:

 

 

Time to make the real thing:

 

 

 

That's it for now. I test-fitted the whole thing, but forgot to take a picture. I'm going to paint it (currently working on it) and report back to you guys with the final result.

 

For more details on the Shrout, I've made a new topic in Case Modding

I will answer more specific questions there.

 

New parts will arrive tomorrow, but still have to wait untill next week for the watercooling-stuff.

[FrankTheTank]

Got some parts and a finished shroud today folks!

 

Let's start off with some parts that were delivered:

 

Big bertha got installed today, she's a big girl!

 

 

Also got some parts in from MDPC-X:

 

Giggity!

 

O yeah, there was something in the envelop as well! Ordered way too much!

 

 

Those were the orders that came in, only waiting for my watercooling parts

 

And now for the finished shroud! Can't decide if I want to light the whole thing, got two pictures:

 

 

 

I'm happy and unhappy with the final result. The shroud itself is a good fit and looks good, but the lettering is kinda sucky. Gonna redo the whole thing when the build is finished. Somebody already said that angled letters don't seem to fit and I kinda agree on that. But I've learned a lot making this for a first time and I think I'll do a better job when the whole build is finished. Don't know if I'm going to install some light so the text lights up, but I've got some time before this build is done.

[rambi36]

Looking good there mate! That shroud is sexy!

[FrankTheTank]

Looking good their mate! That shroud is sexy!

 

Thanks!

[FrankTheTank]

I don't think the text looks that bad .

Where did you order you sleeving parts from?

MDPC-X. Only forgot to order tooling . So I ordered that last night. Hope it will be here tomorrow.

[FrankTheTank]

So I've done some sleeving this weekend. Only got a picture taken with my for now:

 

 

Still waiting on my GFX-card waterblock. Also need to order some extension-cables.

Two of my fan-cables are too short to get them connected to the PWM-splitter. Also need a 6- and 8-pin cable for my GFX-card, because I'm too lazy to rewire them so they look correct. Going to sleeve them though.

[Jimstah87]

Love the Gene!