Hi LTT comunity, I'm a 17 year old student that's a little too obsessed with oil pc's. After the unfortunate discontinuation of puget systems own own oil pc kit I've decided to build my own, I'm doing this crazy build as part of a UK qualification by Edexcel/Pearson called the "Extended Project Qualification" (basically do what ever you want and write about it/ build something). The whole system is made of 10mm laser cut cast acrylic and uses liquid submersion cooling in a mITX form factor so it fits on my desk. Also all dimension are in mm (the correct units )
"typical forum stuff" list is here:
1x mITX motherboard (i've decided on the Z97E-ITX/ac http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97E-ITXac/)
1x dual slot graphics card (undecided and not relevant as I only play CS:GO )
1x i5-4690k
some RAM
1x ATX psu (Superflower Leadex Gold 750W because I allready have one and it looks cool http://www.super-flower.com.tw/products_detail.php?class=2&sn=17&ID=101〈)
1x noctual NH-D9L cpu cooler (this combined with oils superior cooling properties should allow for some overclocking http://noctua.at/en/nh-d9l.html?___from_store=fr)
1x 240gb SANDISK SSD PLUS (oil resistant https://www.sandisk.co.uk/home/ssd/ssd-plus)
"less typical oily stuff"
1x pump (XSPC / Laing DDC-1T Pro 3.1 (10W) http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/p/XSPC--Laing-DDC-1T-Pro-31-10W_45558.html)
1x pump top (XSPC Laing DDC Acrylic Pump Top V2 (Multiport) http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/p/XSPC-Laing-DDC-Acrylic-Pump-Top-V2-Multiport_48668.html)
some 13mm/10mm fittings and tubing
1x 240mm radiator with ports at either end for intake at one side of the case and output at the other side (Black Ice Nemesis Radiator GTS 240 XFlow - Black http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/p/Black-Ice-Nemesis-Radiator-GTS-240-XFlow-Black_44942.html)
10l + of white mineral oil/paraffin (depending if your a british or american http://www.neatwholesale.co.uk/raw-materials/natural-ingredients/white-mineral-oil-bp?gclid=CjwKEAiAw4e1BRDfi7vghaWU9jESJACzo9jucYWZa9Bzuh9GPmphtxly5cMs8i6COzCo83dU3VwQlBoC75Hw_wcB)
some generic steel handles for the lid/inner case
The PC consisted of a inner and outer case that are detached but locked together by a indentation in outer cases lid, this is fairly common to puget systems original larger kits but you cant reinvent the wheel too many times (full credit to puget here). The inner case is filled with the oil while the outer case can be removed from the oil for PC maintenance/upgrading/troubleshooting. The inner and outer case is made of 10mm thick clear cast acrylic, it will be jointed with Tensol 12 acrylic cement (that will hopefully "fuse" the acrylic together for a oil tight seal), the pump is mounted on its own little ledge to maximise space efficiency, standard motherboard standoffs and standard screws will be use for mounting the various components and finally the handles are general steel handles.
I'm asking for any design based feedback or advise in general I'm also very aware that oil pc's make no sense and are for stupid people with more money than sense who also want pc bragging rights (this describes me). For all of you CAD wizards I'm using solidworks 2015, I'm heavily self taught so could and CAD advise be in plain English please!
I'm fairly close to needing to build it soonish due to the nature of completing this as part of a qualification. If you have any questions please ask!
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