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  1. mkeras
    Build Complete! (minus rear back panel and front glass) I am quite pleased with how this one turned out. I really enjoy not having the mess of cables visible.
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    Finished wood sides and top, and intalled the mobo and gpu. If I did it again I would leave more space for all the connections to the mobo because getting them all plugged in was a hassle and stressful due to the amount of bending/ force I had to use on some of them. The hardline tubing was a bit hard to install as well, I'm crossing my fingers that once I get the system filled and everything is done that the system won't leak and will post. The only pieces that still need to be built are the rear panel cover and the monitor arm.
  3. mkeras
    Lol I have 4 fans, 2 are EK Vardar and 2 are fractal design!
  4. mkeras
    Cut the wood sides and top, and recut the broken ceramic piece. Wood all fits fairly well together, although something about the internal frame seems to be off square, as well as a couple of the holes of the wood don't match up well. The experience of cutting the wood with the water jet was a bit trickier than I originally imagined. My first fan grill design went across the grain and the pieces were too thin so they swoll with the water and noodled. After I changed the design of the grills and rotated them 90 degrees to go with the grain they worked out well. The other issue is that the dirty water of the machine tends to leave stains on the wood, but hopefully I won't have to do any recuts with enough sanding. Now that the overall shape is complete I just have to make the panel to cover the back, figure out how best to put glass in front of the PC, build the monitor arm, and of course complete the actual hardware build. I have figured out a rough idea for the monitor arm, and have decided that it will be made out of 3" stainless tubing, which will allow the cables to pass through internally as desired as well is give the arm a super sleek look.
  5. mkeras
    Managed to finish the rest of the ceramic tile plating that it will have. Also installed the radiotors/fans, as well as cut the bottom plate for the case. Unfortunatly I over tightened one of the tile pieces or something and it cracked. The other issue is the bottom plate holes didn't line up perfectly, so i have to drill them out slightly tommorrow. The look is starting to come together.
  6. mkeras
    Thanks for the feedback, I do have to agree the hard tubing run isn't Ideal and I should change it in the future once my wallet recovers from this build. My original plan was to actually have both tubes go through the mounting plate, leaving both gpu connections hidden behind, but I decided to change it at the last minute to have more visible tubing. Took off the mobo, GPU, and pump to continue building the case without worring about damaging the parts. I have just finished drawing, cutting and bulding the second section of the case. In this section the radiotors will be mounted, as well as where all the cables will be hidden. I also added a mount so that I can have the option of putting the monitor arm on or off. Now that the overall skeleton of the case is complete, I can focus on the external covers, and monitor arm. The outside covering will be made out of mostly wood, with a bit more ceramic tile as well. Also, the dimensions of this thing are getting pretty huge; 28" tall * 18.25" wide * 8.5" deep - ~1 inch can be added to each of those dimension for the thickness of the external covers!
  7. mkeras
    Thanks!
  8. mkeras
    Second custom case I am building. The first one I did last year did not end up as aesthetically pleasing or as clean looking as I would have liked as I did not have a clear vision of what I wanted to make. This time I went with a full size ATX motherboard and the size of it second to aesthetics. The specs of this one are: AMD Ryzen 2700x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti EK Waterblocks on both CPU and GPU 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200MHZ Ram Evga Supernova 850 G2 Power supply 2x Ek 280 Radiotors and fans EK pump/resovoir combo Soft Tubing, Hard Tubing, fittings Materials I am building with are: Ceremic floor tiles Laminated Pine board Stainless steel So far I have completed the main frame and have mocked up everything and so far so good, despite small setbacks such as breaking an O ring of one of the fittings and little parts not quite lining up perfectly. Completed the bending of the hard tubing as well, which, while decent enough, probably would have come out better if done by a pro. I have yet to finish outer sides and radiator mounts, as well as potentially build a built in monitor arm, if I am able to come up with something that works. Video of some of the machining and building of the frame, I apologize for the editing.
  9. mkeras
    Finally finished... Looks really industrial grade and weighs like 40lbs... I'll have to keep trying to tweak it little by little to get it to a nice clean consumer grade look
  10. mkeras
    Have to make some design changes before completing to case and tile, but it's starting to come together
  11. mkeras
    EK Water cooling parts arrived today, I have 2 280 radiators so it should be silent hopefully even at max load. Installed the water-block onto the GPU without trouble, jayztwocents how to video was pretty helpful.
  12. mkeras
    Parts have slowly been trickling in... still waiting for water cooling kit and power button after several millennia, arrived are extra 280 radiator and fans, rgb strip, new, longer pcie extender, one fitting for radiator. Marble tile has top secret purpose...
  13. mkeras
    Hello LTT forums, this is my first post for my first ever PC build, not great at being wordy, getting down to business: I am building a high end mini Itx enthusiast PC, not sure what it will be used for yet, just kind of enjoying spending my life's savings building this cool little machine. The whole point of this build is to make a powerful water cooled overclock-able system in the smallest and/or coolest and/or most unique form factor that I can make. I will be using a combination of stainless brush finished steel and borosilicate (pyrex) glass. I have a few different design options in mind, but still have no written/drawn designs yet as I don't yet have my water cooling loop, and want to visually see how everything fits together, plus procrastination. If anyone has any input, tips, design theme ideas, or any suggestions, I would be most obliged. Thanks for reading, mkeras The 'interesting' parts. Since I took the picture a couple days ago I have changed the 16gb 2400Mhz vengeance lpx RAM to G-Skill 32gb 3200Mhz RAM. CPU air cooler was just to test the system before water cooling it. Made the test bench myself out of UHMW plastic using water jet machine and undersizing the holes slightly to be able to put screws in without having to tap them, turned out fairly well for the amount of effort put into it %85 complete part list, still have to decide on some minor parts such as extra radiator and fans, fittings, etc. https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/D9mwQV
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