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Hey, I recently finished my TJ07 Mod and was asked if I could write an english "worklog" since I've only kept track of it in a german forum. So here it is, I hope you guys like it. ------------------------- Intro: About three years ago I modded a TJ11 and after a while I found myself craving for something new and different. It was my first real mod, so I made a lot of mistakes which couldn't easily be fixed. Also I wanted a case which is a bit more compact. So I decided to go for the only logical option - a TJ07. I always wanted to have one but never had an opportunity, until now. Here's how my TJ11 turned out. I really liked it a lot, but the way I've built the whole thing made it really hard to maintain the loop. Also the 180mm ALC radiators were a bad choice because they simply are impossible to clean. Three years later I found an used TJ07 in a forum. It was an instant buy. Overall it's in a pretty good shape, apart from all the drill holes in the floor. But since I already had planned to do some invasive work I didn't want to eff up a "new" one. Here's a size comparison between both of them. I myself had real troubles to lift and move the TJ11, so the TJ07 is a welcome downgrade. The Plan: Since I always had to flush/clean the loop in the TJ11 every few months I really wanted a new system which is a lot easier to maintain. I already had bought a couple of Koolance QD2 QDC fittings which I used to remove/clean the CPU/GPU coolers without needing to drain the rest of the loop and wanted to keep this "feature". Also, since the TJ07 doesn't allow for as much internal radiator area as the TJ11 does, I planned to only put a 480 in there and bought a MoRa for the heavy lifting. After a lot of time in CAD this is what I ended up with. Pretty much every important part was completely laid out this way. The case is split into three compartments: The bottom for PSU/Pumps and the radiator. The main area where the hardware is housed and the front part where I installed the QDC backplane, Aquaero, etc. On the backside of the case is a new PSU mount plate which also holds the QDC fittings for the MoRa. Part 1: Collecting Hardware and Material I already had begun with the CAD work before I bought the TJ07, and once I knew that I really wanted to go for this mod I started to buy everything I needed. Here are more or less the main components for the internals of this build. At the time it somehow wasn't easy to get hold of the HWL 480 GTS and the QD2 Fittings. Since I had to import them from the US it took them over a month to arrive. Here on this table is everything else I needed to get started. I bought quite a lot of exactly cut aluminium profiles and plates, in the end I used all of it. Whilst I begun with the first parts I ordered the rest of the stuff which was needed. Here's a list of all the HW I used: 3900X + Heatkiller IV 5700XT + Heatkiller IV 4x8GB DDR4 + EK Monarch Crosshair VI Hero Samsung SSD 970 Evo 500GB Samsung SSD 850 Evo 1TB Seasonic Prime TX-650 Watercool Heatkiller Tube 200 2x Aquastream Ultimate Hardwarelabs GTS 480 + 4x Arctic P12 PWM Watercool MoRa 3 Pro + 4x Silverstone AP183 8x Koolance QD2 AC Aquaero 6LT AC Farbwerk AC Highflow Flowmeter AC Filter Part 2: Getting started with the alu-work The first piece was the new front panel. At first I wanted to weld it to the frame, but decided against that because I figured that it would be neat if I could still remove it later on. The next step was this cover for the bottom of the case. There are quite a lot of holes in there which I wanted to hide. Nothing special. The original midplate stays, but is reinforced because it bends a lot due to all the openings. I needed something solid to hold all the panels which I put in the case. It was a bit time consuming to get a snug fit with the cutouts. For the diagonal plate which divides the upper part of the case into two compartments I had to take off a bit of the 5,25" bay mount. Once I had the midplate ready I was able to make exact measurements and get all needed parts to fit pretty quickly. And that's how it looked like with all important parts, except the cover for the bottom of course. Part 3: The MB Tray The midplate was modified and the case now was inverted, so I needed a new slide for the MB-Tray. Here I took the original rails and glued them to two pieces of a square alu profile. It was pretty difficult to measure the correct distance I needed so the MB Tray's back is in center of the case again. I had to cheat a bit with washers between the alu plate and the MB rails. (^^) But everything else went pretty well. I left a bit of wiggle room so I can adjust everything afterwards. The original part of the tray was slightly bent, so it took a while to adjust it. Here on the picture it still was a bit at an angle. Up next the whole tray section was put in the case and I screwed everything together. "Done" Part 4: The radiator mount I worked on all parts simultaneously, so you already saw this part. Here I already put screws in to fix the radiator mount to the case. I used an L-angle alu profile to mount it to the midplate. Then I made a template for the correct position of the radiator screw holes and went to the drill press. And here's the finished cutout. That took me pretty long to make. In the meanwhile I also worked on the diagonal separation and the PSU-Panel/MB-IO Panel. It started to take shape which was pretty motivating to keep going. Part 5: The QDC backplane To be able to quickly remove/install my hardware I needed to put all of the QDC fittings in the case. Since I didn't want the QDC fittings to be visible, I had to make a mechanism which allows me to actuate them when they are mounted behind the diagonal separation. So the first step was to put the female pieces into a solid piece of alu U-profile. Then I made these actuators with which I can push the sleeve of the female piece back. Here I already put all the necessary holes in the plate. The actuators sit on the backside of it... ...then the U-profile with the fittings is put over it and everything gets screwed together. "Done" I again had to make the holes/cutouts for the reservoir and filter simultaneously to avoid that anything collides afterwards. I was really happy when I made this picture. Drawing stuff in CAD is one thing, but getting it to work in real life is a different story. (^^) Part 6: The NT Panel I wanted to keep the option that I can operate the whole loop with the internal radiator alone. If, for whatever reason the MoRa isn't connected. So I had to put a valve between the QDC for the MoRa so I can bridge the ports. After a while I found a nicer handle for the valve and decided to put the flowmeter also on there so its hidden. Then I had to install the connectors for the external fans. The toggle switch lets me choose between running the internal and external fans. This picture was made a good while later. Here I already connected everything and also put a second switch in the panel for the lightbox(es). Part 7: The front-panel push button I wanted a clean front, or at least a front which is as clean as it can be. So the hole for the power button had to be used for something. And since the actual powerbutton is placed in the IO-Panel I figured that I want a mechanism which lets me push out the front-panel. It's held by magnets, so this was a neat way to get it out again. Here are all the parts I needed to make for that. These "arms" will push against the panel. Here it's fully assembled. And that how it looks like on the inside of the case. Now I have a button which pushes the front panel out like this. Part 8: Installing the pumps An overview of the parts I originally intended to use for mounting both aquastream pumps. In the beginning I wanted to put them on the bottom of the case but then decided to leave them hanging down from the midplate. So afterwards I ditched one of the alu-plates but was still able to use the other parts. The bottom alu-plate was then removed again and I put the rubber-spacers on the upper plate. Now they are installed this way, that allows me to be more flexible with the cables which I need to route from the PSU to the diagonal separation. Part 9: The cables I put 24 Pin Molex sockets in the separation plate from which I then will connect my hardware. This way I can route all the cables a bit nicer. On the other side its a bit close to the tray. But everything fits and nothing collides, also the reservoir helps a bit to hide this part. Time to put the cables in. Afterwards I took out a good portion because this way its a bit too bulky and I can always add needed connections afterwards. I then made these cable-channels to keep everything together. Its a mess, took really long to deal with all of this. Also I had to start with the first bits and pieces of the hardtubing connections so I could get everything to the right length. Part 10: The lightbox(es) + Led stripe This is the backside of the big lightbox I put on the midplate. I really like soldering, but with over 500 LEDs it got a bit exhausting. Sadly I forgot to take a picture of the step between. I filed off the heads of the leds and then glued an acrylic plate on top of them. The frame with the alu L-profiles helps a bit with keeping the light to disperse too much. Making the small one took pretty long too. Here I just put another acrylic piece on top with a 3mm spacer. The air gap really does a great job with dispersing the light further. One of the HK Tube mount rails has a recess for a led stripe. But its only 8mm wide while the standard RGB-stribes come with 10mm width. So I had to make my own stripe. I tested it but forgot to take a picture. At the moment I don't use it because it doesn't look as nice as I had hoped. Maybe with an opaque fluid the effect will be nicer, currently I'm relying on destilled water and G30 which doesn't come in handy for such a way of lighting the reservoir. Part 11: The top-cutout I wanted the top cutout to follow the diagonal separation. So I had to cut out a good bit which stressed me out more than I want to admit. I really feared that I would mess up the round bits. But it went even better than I had hoped. Then I put 140mm fans in so I have at least a tiny bit of airflow. The acrylic piece was just a try, I think I'll look out to get this lasercut. Drilling out this many holes is incredibly timeconsuming, also it's nearly impossible to get them lined up nicely. Part 12: The side-panels For the sidepanels I found this perforated alu sheet of which I think that it looks pretty nice. In the beginning I wanted to fixate the acrylic windows with doublesided tape but then realised that they would collide with my soft/hard-tubes. So I then had to make another mount for them On the backside I'm using the existing screwholes for fixating the sidepanels. If you look closely you can see that I messed up the cutouts in the PSU-panel, so I had to make another one... (^^) Here you can see the alu-stripes I made for the windows. I'd rather have gone for a completely clean look without any visible screws, but the sides are made of 2mm alu and need a bit more stability. Here the new PSU-panel. Also the IO-panel already holds the reset- and power-button. And the big lightbox is installed. I tried to put a chamfer on the acrylic windows so they sit flush in the sidepanels. With the straight edges that worked really well. But I didn't manage to get the round bits done. Always messed up this round corner, so I think that I'll treat myself with glass windows. Less work for me and they don't scratch that easily. Part 13: The Aquaero mount Here's the mount for my AE, the FW and a Hubby7 which will be put in the front compartment of the case. On the backside I connected the cables with a luster terminal so I can take it apart more easily or tap into the 12V rail if I ever need to. "Done" Part 14: The radiator fan hub In order to avoid a lot of tangled fan cables I made a hub. If you go for this, don't forget that you're supposed to only connect one fan with the RPM pin. Learned that the hard way. (^^) The L-profile screws into threads I cut into the other L-profile so I don't have any visible holes on the other side. Much better than before. The bottom compartment of the case is pretty crammed, so less cables make it easier to put everything together. I realised that the plug for the flowmeter colided with the PSU, so I had to connect it this way. Pretty close, but everything fits. Part 15: The SSD mount and IO Panel The SSD needs to be easily removeable. Also I want to avoid SATA cables as good as I can since they always look horrible. So I made a mount which partially is hidden beneath the motherboard. The odd height of the spacers in the TJ07 finally comes to a good use. I bought an external Debug-LED (Elmor's Port 80 Debug Module) which I'm also putting in the IO-Panel beneath the power-switches. Really helps with memory OC if you can easily follow along with the Q-codes. Here it's already installed. The switches also got a cover because they don't look so nice with their blue endcap. I would have prefered an horizontal alignement, but then it would have look pretty odd on the inside. Sadly the module doesn't work properly, at least up until now I couldn't figure out how to get it working correctly. It always stops after mem-initialization.

Hi! I am thinking of buying a tj07 and i do not want the version with the cpu cutout. Is it only the usb 3.0 version that have it or do some of the earlier versions have it too?

Hello and welcome to project gSquared! This is my second build, and my first custom liquid cooled one! I started this project back in August, and I only recently finished it. Before that, I had planned and saved money for over a year. This build involves very heavy modding to a Silverstone TJ07, which I scored on Ebay for 80 bucks! The color scheme is black and green, and I have decided to go for a clean and straight overall theme, with mainly parallel bends to the hardline tubing. So without further ado, let’s get to the build log! Specs: Processor: Intel i7-4790k Motherboard: Gigabyte G1 Sniper 5 Z87 Ram: 4 x 8 GB G.Skill Value series Video Cards: 2x Nvidia GeForce GTX 780’s with 6gb of VRAM each Storage: 2x Samsung 850 Evo SSD’s in RAID 0 PSU: Corsair RM1000i Case: Silverstone TJ07 Peripherals: Mice: Logitech MX Master and Logitech G602 Keyboard: Logitech G710+ (Can you tell I like Logitech? Mousepad: Perixx DX-2000 XXL Extended Mousepad Monitor: Philips BDM4065UC 40” 4K 60hz VA Monitor Cooling Components: CPU: EK Supremacy Evo Acetal and Nickel Motherboard: EK-FB GA G1.Sniper 5 Full Board Block Ram: EK-Monarch Heat spreaders Video Cards: EK Gtx 780 Full cover Blocks, Acetal and Nickel with black back plate Pumps: 2x EK Xtop D5 Vario Pumps Radiators: 2x Black Ice Nemesis 480mm GTS Fans: 8x NoiseBlocker BlackSilent Pro PL-2 120mm Fans Reservoirs: 2x FrozenQ Liquid Fusion 250mm Reservoirs, all black Helix Fittings: Monsoon Free Center Hardline Fittings, Black, Monsoon Free Center Soft Tube Fittings, Chrome, Monsoon 90 Degree Adapters, Ek-Passthrough Fittings Tube: Monsoon 3/8 x 1/2 Clear PETG Tubing Fluid: Mayhems X1 UV Green Miscellaneous: Sleeving: Mainframe Customs/ E22 Teleios Black Combs: Mainframe Customs LC Stealth Combs Lighting: 2x Darkside Connect 12” White LED Strips Just a Quick Rationale for a few things: - Ram: I chose these kits because they don’t have a heat spreader, which leads to less hassle when installing the EK Monarch Adapters, which I used as an air heat spreader because they look amazing! - Motherboard: I used the sniper because I had it from my previous build, and it’s green! Water-cooling Loop: Dual loops, One for CPU/Motherboard and one for the Graphics Cards, each with a 480 rad in Push configuration, with a d5 per loop. All pipes go straight into midplate for CPU loop, and up and behind the Motherboard tray for the GPU’s Mods: Cut midplate to accommodate 480 Radiator in the front Cut drive cages to width of Radiator to open up the case with space for dual reservoirs Create Covers to clean up the drive cages Create a midplate cover to clean up the interior Reverse ATX mod Create a “Backplate” to go across the entire backside of the case, cleans up Motherboard tray and allows reservoir mounting Have dual panoramic windows machined into the side and top (Which were then inlayed with glass) to show off this beast Modify Motherboard tray mounting rail to accommodate for GPU piping Sleeve all cables at custom lengths Full gloss black powder coat Let’s start with a photo of my previous build: Stock Components: Shot of the core components all blocked up: Some of the aluminum work: Drive Cage Covers Stock Midplate, Modified to fit 480 at the front. Midplate Cover Both together Other liquid Cooling Components: All dem Fittings! Peripherals: Photos of Sleeving: My Setup when sleeving. #Takeoverthedinnertable Stock Cables Please note that the cables in this photo are quite a bit brighter than in real life. This was my first time sleeving, and I had a blast! It was a bit tedious, but I enjoyed it. My initial Test Fits: With Hardware: With hardware and aluminum work and sleeving: Aaand the Final Test fit before I sent the Case off for windows and Modding: Case back from the machining for windows. The guys who did this absolutely killed it, and I can’t thank them enough. This photo was taken after the case was powder coated, and I had started (What I had thought was going to be) the final assembly. However, that was not the case. The built rig before filling. (And without the bottom 480. I did have to re-bend some of the pipes (Notably the Motherboard pipes), because the tight bends close to the fittings were causing some leaks. Here is the build before After the GPU loop was filled, and I found out I had a dead pump on the CPU loop. I had to wait for that, and I ended up disassembling everything AGAIN and sleeving all the cables again to go blackout, because the green sleeving was not the some shade of green as the fluid. This yielded a much better result. After that, the rig was completed, but I just wanted to show what the state of my living room was for 5 and a half months. J Alright, alright. Here are the final photos. This was my first time in the studio, and I would love to know how I did! Here some photos of the rig in my office and of the setup. Dat Darkshot Tho! A couple of stop-ups that I don’t have photos for: (These are mainly what caused the build to be so long) - The Coldzero back plate that allows for a reverse ATX mod only comes in matte black, so I had to clear coat it. I ended up screwing up really bad on the initial plate, so I had to order another one. - A few panels got scratched during powder coating, so they had to get redone. - As previously mentioned, I had a dead pump, and the RMA got lost at the destination, so I ended up buying one to get on with build, although I did eventually get the RMA - I screwed up on the full back plate that I had cut out of aluminum, which had to get recut. - The previously mentioned leaks caused a little pain. Overall, I had a lot of fun with this project, and for my first major mod, I think it turned out really well, considering I’m 15. Thanks for looking, and I welcome any questions or criticisms! Peace! Dawson

Hi..... Dont know how to start so I'll just ask straight away... Is there a case similar to the Silverstone TJ07 and TJ11 or Murderbox MK2/II, I really like unibody cases Thanks May Linus Bless U

I have recently purchased a silverstone tj07 but it is the newer version with the back plate cut out, I have not received it yet but does anyone know besides the back plate, are there any changes to the way it's built, is it still only screws and no rivets or any other changes

Hello, and thanks for visiting my topic:) So I bought a Silverstone Temjin TJ07b-w USB3.0 case a little while a go, and I'm going to make a watercooled Z87 system in it. Here are some of my plans: 1. 360mm front radiator (this will be the main focus on this mod log) 2. Cable management holes 3. Cleaning up ugly holes that silverstone makes in my case 4. Paint everything black (not sure what texture) 5. Maybe removing top 2x120mm fan grill and putting a clear plexi window there 6. Put some 3,5" drives somewhere 7. Cool stuff you guys suggest!

Hey guys! Im looking for a used or extremely cheap silverstone case. I would really love to come across a TJ07 for under $150 others that i am interested in are a TJ10, FT02, FT03, RV02, or any other large factor silverstone case. Please send me links or contact me if you have one and are interested in selling! Thanks LTT community!

MetallicAcid's TJ07 (working title) Södertälje Specialsnickeri AB Sweden Welcome to my third project!! In this project, I have planned this project to include the Silverstone Temjin TJ07S, a timeless classic of premium case. I have had an ongoing community driven planning phase over a couple of months, where I have received feedback from the public, and tried to turn that feedback into a 3D render. I have really enjoyed the entire process, and learnt many new techniques along the way. I know that this particular case has been modded probably 1,000,001 times now, so creating a TJ07 that stands out from an already well saturated crowd is already hard enough to do. To make this build even better than my previous projects is an even bigger challenge. Update 2014/03/06 Hello everybody! I know this has been a long time coming :P It is with great excitement that I announce that the project has now officially been started! I am building this project for Demis, a friend of mine. He had fallen in love with the project, and the ideas which I had visualized with the aid of SketchUp and Skindigo - 3D modelling and rendering software. There had been discussions between Demis and I regarding the colour and overall theme of this build, and in the end we both thought that a blacked out stealth build, with subtle gold highlights, with an overall monolithic feel with a simple exterior and neat interior was the best option for this project. The colour scheme comes from the X79 ASUS motherboard. I would like to now show you a visual representation of how this project will probably look like: This project may take some time to complete. This is a good thing in my opinion as it means that I can plan every detail to perfection, and execute those plans into reality with ease and minimal stress. This will be a watercooled project, but in stages. Stage 1 for the watercooling will include just the CPU, with the GPU being air cooled. Stage 2 of the watercooling will include a 2nd GPU with both being watercooled. So you can expect a Rev.1 and Rev.2 of this project over the coming months. Here comes a list of things that I plan to do with this mod: Fabricate Custom made midplate Custom made reservoir wall Acrylic window for top of case Acrylic windows for side panels Modify Extend window for top of case Window opening on side panels Pass-through holes in midplate for hard tubing New power button Sleeve PSU Prepare for painting TJ07 case Custom made midplate Custom made reservoir wall Paint TJ07 case Custom made midplate Custom made reservoir wall GPU shrouds Install Cold Zero parts Water cooling parts PC components I hope you have enjoyed the news. We are both super excited about this project, and want to see it to perfection. I hope you stick around for future updates! With best regards, Justin "MetallicAcid" Ohlsen Update links: Update 1 - Parts ordered and modding begins. Update 2 - Midplate Progress Update 3 - Angled plate Update 4 - Cold Zero Update 5 - Motherboard fitting Update 6 - Top window cut out Update 7 - GPU shrouds Update 8 - Side window complete and Icemodz sponsor Update 9 - Acrylic windows milled Update 10 - Silverstone sponsor and unboxing Strider ST1200G Update 11 - Installed front panel, glued into place and installed vandal switch Update 12 - EK Delivery Update 13 - Soldering guide and molex complete Update 14 - PSU cables sleeved Update 15 - Inet joins as sponsor Update 16 - EK lends a hand Update 17 - Hardware update Update 18 - Another hardware update Update 19 - Case is back from powder coaters Update 20 - Sponsor update/fans installed/EKWB monoblock installed Update 21 - Sponsor update Update 22 - EKWB GPU blocks and reservoir installation Update 23 - Piping up the loop Update 24 - Final photos/Project finished

Hallo I just wanted to know what you guys would and what kind of look but I'm not sure what to do I want to do it on a TJ07, 800D or the TJ11. I want the TJ11 to look like this http://shop.futureus.com/maximum-pc/maximumpc-september-2012.html but I don't know what I want the 800D or TJ07 to look like can you leave me some suggestions. :P :lol: :D ;)

Alas my old PC is no longer fit for use and it is time to upgrade and build my first computer. This new rig is going to be mainly used for gaming, programming and a bit of photo editing. Specs: Intel i5-4670K Noctua NH-D14 Asus Sabertooth Z87 MSI GTX 680 Twin Frozr OC Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2x4GB) 1866Mhz (+ potential mix&match with random dimms) Samsung 840 Evo 120GB SSD (boot) Samsung 830 64GB (cache) 1TB seagate barracuda 72000rpm (cached) Seasonic G-series 550w 80+ Gold PSU (upgrade?) Silverstone TJ07 My goal for this is to make a nice looking rig with a bit of metal work here and there, air cooling for the meantime but might upgrade to a custom water-cooled loop later in the year. This is going to be a month or two long project so don't expect any finished pics till sometime next month. Index: First delivery Second delivery Stuff to come, bad news and questions Modding update: Now in 4K! (hopefully) New room and modding update! Aluminium everywhere!

i am currently looking at buying a TJ07 and putting it under water and i know a 480mm rad will fit in the bottom but at the top is it only a 240mm without mods as i am going to put a 480 in the bottom the question im asking is will a 360mm rad fit in the top if not will i be able to have a 360 and a 480mm rads in the bottom with a normal psu in there as well

I just wanted to know whether a Tj07 would be able to fit a 480 in the bottom. If so, is it without modding or with modding, and what type of modding would need to be done? Thanks.