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RonHGeneral reacted to georgeghazi in "Project Iceberg" The Ultimate Water Cooled Gaming Wall
I've been building and repairing PC's as a hobby for 12 years now but for the last few years I've had this idea of wanting to wall mount and water cool all my game consoles and PC. I liked the idea of having everything in one place. I need to start off by saying that i'm completely aware there is no significant benefit to water cooling game consoles, please understand that its purely an aesthetic thing for me. I love the look of anything water cooled so lets face it, at this point water cooling a potato would look pretty good to me. I was living alone with a mortgage so this dream was financially out of reach for me, moving back home recently removed that obstacle and finally allowed me to realize my dream. All up the main bulk of the project took me a few weeks to complete but 100% completion took a couple of months, for some reason its the final little things that seem to drag and take up a lot of time. The project consists of an XBOX 360, PS3, PS4 and Intel/NVIDIA PC (i5-4670k/GTX 970). Thats all cooled by a Quad, Dual and single radiator with 2 D5 pumps pushing the coolant. I'm pretty happy with the end result though if one day I happen make a new 2.0 version of it there are a few things I would change. either way I hope you enjoy.
It starts with a 2mm sheet of aluminium
Test fitting begins
Screwing in motherboard standoffs
Marking out the PCI-E cable slots
Cutting the slots
Testing & Mounting
xbox 360 mounted.
PS3 Mounted
Retrofitting an XSPC CPU waterblock on the PS4
Marking the XBOX 360 DVD Drive for cutting to expose dvd
Mounting the PS4 Blu-Ray Drive
Progress shot
PS3 Control Board Mounted
Desoldering and extending xbox 360 RF Module PCB
Cutting & mounting xbox 360 RF module pcb
Cutting xbox 360 dvd drive hole
Radiators mounted, xbox dvd drive mounted.
New Parts Have Arrived!!!
Starting the Backlit Company Logos
Undercoat Applied
Perspex cut for logos
Painting the perspex
Painted the Logos
White topcoat painted
Logos mounted, board mounting begins. xbox mounted, ps4 started.
PS4 power supply and blu-ray drive mounted, PS3 Mounted
GTX 970 mounted
Asus sabertooth mark S mounted
More close up photos...
Progress shot
Fittings & Tubing installed.
Tested the logos I made and realized there wasn't enough light shining through the paint. A few minutes of research later I found the Translucent perspex i needed to achieve
the glowing look I wanted, purchased.
Couldn't remove the vinyl logos I made off the perspex without damaging them so i got new ones professionally made with a much better result.
stuck them on the new perspex I cut and wallahh!
Wall mounts mounted and LED strip lights installed
Testing time...
Some glowing shots...
At this point I couldnt find any more 7/16 clear tubing so I changed from barbed to 1/2 inch compression fittings and got new 1/2 inch tubing.
Its complete
More photos....
Ran a switch for the cooling system (pumps, fans, led strips)
And this is where i finish....It was a long and fruitful journey..
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RonHGeneral reacted to MunneY in "Project Iceberg" The Ultimate Water Cooled Gaming Wall
Hey just a tip you could try if the greeen PCB's are bothering you. You could do like the LN2 overclockers do and use some Liquid Electrical Tape on everythign but the socket and the memory to make it all black.... I'm 99% sure that everything else would be perfectly fine since its not really going to be needing cooling!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010OF8ZM/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0010OF8ZM&linkCode=as2&tag=them0971-20&linkId=5JQQQ2HT5N6QELJH
Just do it like this...
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RonHGeneral reacted to nicklmg in Platform Launch and MASSIVE GIVEAWAY
IMPORTANT NOTE: I will be the only forum member messaging the winners of this giveaway. If you receive a message from any other member telling you that you won something, it is NOT legit, and you should NOT respond to that message.
Today marks an exciting day - we are officially launching our new page over at http://vessel.com/linustechtips!
Of course, some of you may be wondering what exactly Vessel is... So before Linus took off to Asia, he created this video:
We also have an FAQ thread where you can ask questions about or make suggestions for the service at http://bit.ly/linusfeedback
As Linus mentions in that video, you can sign up for a full year of Vessel, absolutely FREE for the first 72 hours after launch! (March 24, 2015 @ 12:01am PST - March 26, 2015 @ 11:59pm PST)
We also have an official Vessel FAQ and Feedback thread, which you can view here. Linus and the rest of our team will be monitoring that thread, reading every post made over there, so ask any questions you may have and we will answer them to the best of our ability!
Now, on to the exciting stuff for you folks... THE GIVEAWAY!
What could I win?
One of each of the following (WINNERS HAVE BEEN SELECTED. EACH WINNER HAS 72 HOURS TO RESPOND BEFORE PRIZES ARE RE-DRAWN): @Shaaaddoooww Galax GeForce GTX 980 Hall of Fame @Tomislav Matic LG 34UC97, 21:9 Curved Monitor @Moistmoose ASUS G750JZ Gaming Laptop with GTX 880M @safwanroslan AKG K7XX Massdrop Edition Headphones @secrethacker125 Nvidia Shield Portable @JackStaton Luke's "Scrapyard Wars" PC @TdawgG Linus' "Scrapyard Wars" PC If this thread reaches these total post counts, the following will ALSO be added to the giveaway: 25,000 posts: @raymen1 Kingston V310 960GB SSD 50,000 posts: The Hardline Watercooled PC build (featured in the Vessel early access video) 100,000 posts: Linus' PERSONAL PC
How do I enter?
Comment below and list:
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Links to your two favorite videos on our Vessel page that you watched and liked
You can gain bonus entries by sharing the link to both this giveaway and our Vessel referral link, http://vessel.com/linustech
Add a:
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So please, watch, like, comment, subscribe, follow, do all of the online video things! And get multiple chances to win some awesome gear!