Silver Glint

[Tonberry]

Disclaimer:
English is not my native language, so please tolerate my grammar and any strange or negative context which I might not mean to put it at all, simply because I don't English very well.

General Information and Inspiration of the build:
This is my very first time liquid cooling build. Even I never touch an AIO, I went stright to custom loop. I was mainly using air cooled system as I was denying to go liquid after all these years because of my paranoia to involve liquid in between electronics. Finally I got the courage to jump in, and when my courage took down my paranoia, I dedicated to give everything I got with the knowledge I gained from the internet.

I must say that this build was initially inspired by Metallic Acid works on the exterior appearance. He built so many PCs with brushed panels, and all of those builds left me speechless, while this build of mine is a brushed normal Evolv Shift TG with ZMT loop and some other mods on the chasis. Besides that, some other SFF builds also influenced this build.
Why I use ZMT, it was because I want to get the flexibility and ease of access when the time to upgrade hardwares has come.
The GPU was taken from my air cooled system by the way.

 

I'm not a big fan of RGB but I don't mind to have it. In this build the RGB are only at CPU block logo, GPU block Radeon logo, Ram module, and reservoir, but I guess, I won't turn on the RGB on the reservoir.

This build took me from the start since October 2019 due to my job schedule which makes me to leave home for several weeks before I come back and work on this build, even then it hasn't finished yet. It still needs some little work to be 100% complete.

This build is the most difficult for me by far. Modded the case for the first time, custom loop for the first time, and the case characteristics itself does add difficulties, but all those experience are so worth it.

Initially I was planing to use EK DDC X-Top pump without using reservoir and I thought that to fill the loop without reservoir will be a PITA for a beginner like me, while using a reservoir will be a PITA at configuring the placement of the pump and reservoir knowing that I will use a long GPU. I was grateful that this build took me a long time in the process that allowed me to flex along that time frame. Gentlemen, a random EK-Quantum Kinetic FLT 120 appeard in my local market in the middle of this journey, EKWB released this awesome stuff, and this combo made the difference from my initial plan. This awesome pump-res combo gave me new and fresh idea to reconfigure the build.

 

My setup is a ship wreck so I'm not going to post it, just the build.

This build is a solid challange and a creativity catalist for me personally who never mod a case and never do liquid on a PC. I dare to say that I'm a totally beginner in both of these area, so I'm very open to any critique about it


TLDR, here the actual build that I put my best effort on it,

 

SLIVER GLINT

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 I Aorus Pro WiFi

 

Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3600 MHz

 

Storage: Intel 660P Series, 500 GB & 1 TB

 

Graphics: Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT

 

PSU: Corsair SF600 Platinum

 

Case: Phanteks Evolv Shift TG

 

Fans: Noctua NF-F12 (2x), NF-A14, NF-A12x15

 

Cooling: EKWB ZMT Tubing, Velocity Strike RGB, Vector RX 5700 +XT Special Edition, and Fittings.

 

 

Brushed front panel. It came from fully black Evolv Shift. Bare aluminium with few layers of glossy clear coating.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ZMT tubings

 

 

 

 

 

Guess what..

 

 

The EK-Quantum Kinetic FLT 120 DDC!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I must admit that I struggled so hard on the cable management.
I was about to make fully custom sleeved cables, but I hold my back to see if I can stuffed all those wide spread combed cables on such narrow spaces. But let's see..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I sealed all the openings around the front radiator fan, and the one on the bottom also got the same treatment to enhance the air intake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fan & aRGB hub still loose, not fix yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one needs to prove its functionality on this configuration. I'm still 50/50 on this.

 

 

Dry leak testing. This tool work like a charm!

 

 

[Fasauceome]

quite gorgeous, can I hire you?

[Tonberry]

44 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

quite gorgeous, can I hire you?

What? No. LOL. Why would you hire me?

 

Anyway, thankyou sir!

 

You are also gorgeous

[Stacherscomic3]

That case is something straight out of my dreams  

Beautiful build!

[Tonberry]

6 minutes ago, Stacherscomic3 said:

That case is something straight out of my dreams  

Beautiful build!

Thanyou Sir so much!

Pardon my poor photos, the lighting and everything.

 

Me too, still have a dream to make it come true.

[DailyProcrastinator]

Good job! Looks really good!

[Tonberry]

On 1/31/2020 at 1:08 AM, JM21 said:

Good job! Looks really good!

Thanks. It was a blast.

[spoof1]

This is a wonderful build!

 

I have a few questions:

1. Do you have any photos of the mods you made to the case to fit EK-Quantum Kinetic FLT 120 in?
   • Specifically, EKs website says the distro is 30mm thick (ignoring the plugs which obviously you cut holes in the back panel for). However, when I measure my own shift the the maximum space behind the back panel is 28mm in the recess. The distro is 120mm wide and will not fit in the recess, so will stick out by a few more mm.  How are you managing to put the panel back on?
   • How much of the case did you cut out to make room for the DDC? How are you attaching the distortions to the case?
2. What did you use to cut the holes in the back panel for the plugs?

Cheers