Hello everybody, I just re cased and changed the cooling on my system. It used to be in a Thermaltake core X5, but I got bored of the monolithic black box gathering dust on the desk.
I have always liked the look of open cases, but most that I have seen seem too lightly built for the cooling system I wanted to run. Enter the Dimastech easy xl, and all 20 pounds of its Italian steel glory.
The system is an Asus Z170 deluxe with the plastic shrouds and stickers removed. (covering heat sinks seems wrong to me)
I7 6700k at 4.7GHz, 1.28v. delidded with liquid metal
MSI seahawk 1070 EK at around 2100 MHz with stock voltage
16GB corsair vengeance 3200MHz
powered by a EVGA T2 750w
Watercool Heatkiller IV pro in black nickle
EK full cover GPU block (included with the card)
EK-XTOP Revo Dual D5
Feser 420 x 60 radiator
Watercool Mo-Ra 360 LT
Monsoon MMRS 300mm reservoir
There were too many holes in the top plate of the case, and a standard ATX board in the back corner looked like a postage stamp, so I cut a new deck plate and MB tray from 0.090 Aluminum sheet to solve those issues. Other than that, most of the build was just fabricating mounting brackets and adding a couple stiffeners to keep the case from bending under the weight of the big rad.
