[The Duality] [Dual System, Godavari & Skylake in a Frozen-Q Apex mATX]

[duality92]

Only fools don't change their minds! Changed the power splitter orientation along with salvaging more Case Labs trays! 

I love this ruler, every modder seriously needs one!

[duality92]

And done! Only the mounting holes for the whole thing to the front panel and a better spacer for between the PSU and Power Splitter mounting plate!

[duality92]

 

So I'm back from a week of vacation visiting my family

 

While home, I was talking to my father about my current mod and he said he found a few years ago, 4 lengths of aluminium square tubing that if I could use them, I could have them. Ends up, I brought around 448"++ of square tubing (Yes, that's almost 40 feet) of thick square tubing. I had to cut them in around 32"+ lenghts to be able to bring them in the car. These should help me quite a bit in my build!

 

I might be able to make more progress this week, I've spent quite a bit drawing out the front panels cuts this afternoon, so that's what you should be seeing next

 

[MoonlightSylv]

2 minutes ago, duality92 said:

So I'm back from a week of vacation visiting my family

While home, I was talking to my father about my current mod and he said he found a few years ago, 4 lengths of aluminium square tubing that if I could use them, I could have them. Ends up, I brought around 448"++ of square tubing (Yes, that's almost 40 feet) of thick square tubing. I had to cut them in around 32"+ lenghts to be able to bring them in the car. These should help me quite a bit in my build!

I might be able to make more progress this week, I've spent quite a bit drawing out the front panels cuts this afternoon, so that's what you should be seeing next

This whole dual system idea is crazy! (in a good way) I can't wait to see the final product!

[duality92]

14 hours ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

This whole dual system idea is crazy! (in a good way) I can't wait to see the final product!

 

I still have a lot of work to do.

 

The biggest hurdle I think will be keeping the whole case solid with hardware mounted. This square bar will be helping me out quite a bit!

[duality92]

So, this is a huge tease of what's to come, I still have TONS to do, but the layout is visible. So will be everything. This will be the cable management of a life time but I've got a very good idea on how to manage it

[ManOfGold93]

Very cool! Are you going to watercool? itd make a very interesting dual watercooling system (might run out of Rad space though)

[duality92]

4 hours ago, ManOfGold93 said:

Very cool! Are you going to watercool? itd make a very interesting dual watercooling system (might run out of Rad space though)

for now, the answer is no. The CPU coolers are sponsored and both keep very cool even overclocked. The GPUs however I'm unsure so far, it would make a killer dual loop setup.

[duality92]

So, I with the square tubing aluminium, I made myself 12 of these, anyone care to guess what they're for?

[duality92]

New sponsor! Welcome to bequiet! who will be supplying me with 4 of their 80mm Pure Wings 2 fans! These fans are gorgeous!

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[duality92]

Another new sponsor! This time it's Gigabyte with Two ITX motherboards! One for each system!

The motherboards

The Kaveri FM2+, ITX, GA-F2A88XN-WIFI along with the Skylake 1151, ITX, GA-Z170N-Gaming 5

[Yahtadi]

Investing myself on this

[duality92]

7 hours ago, Yahtadi said:

Investing myself on this

Glad yo have you aboard

 

Hey guys! Sorry for the lack of update the last week! I will be however, be on vacation next week so I hope I can make a great big update for you guys!

[duality92]

I got these much faster than I had expected!

Thanks so much Gigabyte ([@]GBT-MatthewH[/@]) for the help! Without you this wouldn't be as good! Without further ado, here they are! The Kaveri FM2+, ITX, GA-F2A88XN-WIFI along with the Skylake 1151, ITX, GA-Z170N-Gaming 5!

[MoonlightSylv]

1 minute ago, duality92 said:

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Those look nice!

[duality92]

On 27/07/2016 at 7:27 PM, ShadowTechXTS said:

Those look nice!

They're really good looking indeed!

[duality92]

So I want to welcome Diginate.com to the party. They do all sorts of custom decals! Check them out!

Also got the BeQuiet! 80mm fans! They're beauts!

[rjfaber91]

49 minutes ago, duality92 said:

Also got the BeQuiet! 80mm fans! They're beauts!

Ooh, they look lovely! I've got one of the 140mm versions myself, but the design doesn't look half as attractive on a larger fan. Then again, we can probably all agree that tiny fans are cuter than puppies and kittens combined...  

[duality92]

So, I had a bit of free time this morning, I had the chance to cut both rear panel SSD/2.5" HDD trays! I used my trusty dremel with a small end mill These are done 100% by hand.

[ManOfGold93]

Those acrylic mounts look great! I just wonder how youre going to be able to run cords in that space (kinda hard to see clearance)

[JJBTEXAS]

Awesome build!  Do you plan on doing anything creative with the WiFi antennas?  

[r3d3mpt10n]

On 6/28/2016 at 1:21 PM, derick90 said:

Really wish i had the balls to mod my case, but 1) not creative enough 2) Though I've cut aluminum/steel before, I'm afraid i would screw it up lol, so props to ya!

This right there haha. I'm in the same boat

[duality92]

5 hours ago, JJBTEXAS said:

Awesome build!  Do you plan on doing anything creative with the WiFi antennas?  

Nope, they'll stay as they are.

[duality92]

Played around all afternoon with the cables, the red ones you see are the phanteks extensions, they are a bit thicker than the CableMod ones so they're hard to put in, but once they're in, they don't move, it's a bit of a trade off. I like it, but my thumb hates it. This is just a quick and dirty testing and preliminary cable management. I will need to get my Phanteks Power Splitter and PWM hubs back! Also two more fans to install eventually when the time comes! 

[jon.spartan]

Beautiful! The results will be breathtaking I'm sure.