"Project Iceberg" The Ultimate Water Cooled Gaming Wall

[georgeghazi]

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..

[kinkywink]

like where this is going definitely want to see the finished product!

[alby800]

Wow, this looks like it is going to be great

 

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[MrBucket101]

please be hardline, please be hardline, PLEEEEEAAAAASSSSEE BEEEE HARDLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Samsterstorm]

Badass!

[Lolzious]

Woah.

I've seen this sort of stuff before, but not with game consoles o_o

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[X_Rated_Box]

woah:0 noice idea

[roberrrtz]

Awesomeness inbound

[Awkward Turtle]

What a boss project! Make Australia proud mate

[Stefan1024]

I love it!!!

[Phorlorn]

Gotta catch 'em all!

Awesome.

[Neemil]

Holy ChristmasNuts.

[guitarhero23]

post it in here

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/360050-featured-build-logs-competition-003-submission-thread/

[JewishBacon]

very nice, REALLY like it, but @georgeghazi why on earth did you waste carbon fiber like that? 

[SlayerPIN]

Awesome. 

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[georgeghazi]

very nice, REALLY like it, but @georgeghazi why on earth did you waste carbon fiber like that? 

 

Because its cheap vinyl wrap and not real carbon fibre? and thats all the shop had available

[georgeghazi]

please be hardline, please be hardline, PLEEEEEAAAAASSSSEE BEEEE HARDLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

couldnt afford hardline atm. but the first update I make on it will be just that

[georgeghazi]

What a boss project! Make Australia proud mate

 

LOL i'll try my best mate

[X_Rated_Box]

-snip-

WOAH shiiiit now that you watercooled the consoles can you oc them? just thought of that

[george357]

Very badass idea and build, love those fittings! 

[JewishBacon]

Because its cheap vinyl wrap and not real carbon fibre? and thats all the shop had available

well it had me fooled, and Ive worked with prepreg carbon like that! Its a great setup you got? 

[georgeghazi]

well it had me fooled, and Ive worked with prepreg carbon like that! Its a great setup you got? 

Thanks

[georgeghazi]

WOAH shiiiit now that you watercooled the consoles can you oc them? just thought of that

you probably could but I wouldnt have the slightest idea how lol

[georgeghazi]

post it in here

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/360050-featured-build-logs-competition-003-submission-thread/

 

Done

[X_Rated_Box]

you probably could but I wouldnt have the slightest idea how lol

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/688084-Overclocking-a-Xbox-360

just read this so its pretty hard, but possible;)