R1.0 INDUSTRIAL - QUADFIRE PRO DUO

[potoooooooo]

Couldn't agree more with the mobo decision, I can't wait till i can trade out my EVGA mobo and my CPU for a new combo, i've had nothing but issues. I hate Asus, but i've had nothing but good times with their motherboards.

[JR23]

2 hours ago, 0ld_Chicken said:

oh my... that midplate... that... does things to me... wow!   I'm seriously impressed!  you are human, right?

 

May I ask why you are running the pumps in parallel? (they are in parallel, right?)

 

am not hooman, plz send cheezburger

 

 

Yes they are in parallel, I wanted to get a high flow rate with low pump RPM to keep the Aurora nice and active long term without the noise of having pumps full speed.

 

2 minutes ago, potoooooooo said:

Couldn't agree more with the mobo decision, I can't wait till i can trade out my EVGA mobo and my CPU for a new combo, i've had nothing but issues. I hate Asus, but i've had nothing but good times with their motherboards.

 

I hope it turns out to be as old school ASUS as it looks, I really loved my Maximus V and Rampage IV. I am easily pleased when it comes to motherboards, so long as it works and looks the business, EVGA seem to get it right more than they get it wrong these days. I hope they remain RGB and Dragon free for  a few more generations!

 

JR

[JR23]

 

Baby update today but a milestone nonetheless, i've finished the bottom chamber linking the radiators and fans through the midplate. It seemed like a simple job at first but ended up taking quite a while. The loop was easy, just two 30mm pipes to push in at the same time as everything else.

 

 

The fans were a bit more complicated because neither connector would fit through the hole and they needed to be exactly the right length.

 

 

 

 

But eventually I got there and when all 8 fans spun up simultaneously much success! Hyped to start some big cables and tubes now.

 

JR

[BuckGup]

I like it!

[mark_p8]

This post is superb! I like it! it's like porn, but it's not. WOW!

[JR23]

 

Even before the weekend has started I have lots to update you guys with, each day i've done a little before going to work so not too many pics have been taken but lots of progress. The first orders of business were the 8-pin EPS connectors as they would be right behind the CPU tubes.

 

 

After making each individual wire just the right length, threading them all through the midwall and assembling them into cables the next day I planned out what to do with all of the pump cables as it made sense to deal with the fiddly things first.

 

 

CPU tubes were simple 90° bends, measured, cut and fitted straight off.

 

 

The next cables I wanted to move onto were the PCIe 8 pins, hence I needed to fit the cards and everything that went before them.

 

 

 

It was pleasing to see when I looked down between the cards that the M.2 was still visible.

 

 

Still rocking the nut technique for Parvum alu PCI brackets using screws from the inside to locate the cards and then tightening them from above makes it so much easier to locate two cards and all the tubing simultaneously.

 

 

Very quickly the build is starting to look complete! The reservoir is the only big piece which is absent for now.

 

 

 

 

What can I say, MDPC-X, such consistency, much parallel.

 

 

 

Things are moving along equally as rapidly in the back too with the pumps completed as planned, and the SATA's too, all shade 19.

 

 

 

Yes, a PSU has appeared from nowhere, I was so impatient to open it and try it in the case on the day it released that I may have completely forgotten to take pics of it. But it's amazing!

 

 

 

Now i'm ready to start GPU cables! That may take some time for there are many.

 

JR

[mark_p8]

Sweet. 1 question...are these photo all natural black and white?\

 

Disregard that question, I look again and saw the PCB color

[Space Reptile]

by god this is PORN 

[JR23]

8 hours ago, mark_p8 said:

Sweet. 1 question...are these photo all natural black and white?\

 

Disregard that question, I look again and saw the PCB color

 

They are a bit of a mixture, some are actually bordering on natural black and white, some desaturated and some full colour, but besides the PCB and little black wing chokes there isn't any colour in the build at all.

 

JR

[JR23]

 

Luckily I was so productive last week as a spontaneous 400 mile road trip stole most of my time this weekend! Still I had all of Sunday to make 6x PCIe cables, 2x SATA power, one molex and a 24-pin, which wasn't too impossible but it did mean I didn't really take any photographs of the process. (I will on PARVUM FTW next week, promise)

 

 

The PSU which spawned in last week without introduction is Silverstone's new 1200W Strider Platinum, they have added lots of much appreciated features over the Strider Gold, a semi-passive 140mm air penetrator, a lot lot more 8-pin connectors on the PSU itself and a power switch!

 

 

 

Combine all that new stuff with the amazing finish, unrivaled 1:1 pinout, Enhance OEM for the 1000/1200 Platinum and it's hard to imagine what else could possibly be done. But somehow Silverstone managed to go that tiny bit further and move all the annoying little white stickers which have to be there onto the side rather than the fan face, gg.

 

 

Surprisingly I had already built and partly sleeved an R1.0 with two Pro Duo's, that time I made each set of cables into a 24-pin it was very impressive but the way they all twisted over to get through the midwall just didn't seem natural.

 

 

So with mine I decided to treat them as individual 8-pins and keep them stacked horizontally through the midwall rather than end to end, they don't appear quite as disciplined but still a great flow and it did make the back side considerably easier which weirdly I find more important.

 

 

The 24-pin on the other hand I kept really tight to the board, just like the EPS and it's great too.

 

 

 

Well that is every cable finished, only one piece is left, the reservoir! Here it is fitted into the top 'accent' of the case.

 

 

Wats dis then?

 

 

JR

[Sniper Xls]

Jeez JR! Looking so good as always! 

[JR23]

 

It has been forever and as such I bring extremely mixed news, R1.0 INDUSTRIAL was for a few days up and running, the loop was excellent, all of the hardware lived and it even managed a pretty extraordinary initial benchmark.

 

Firestrike Score 30266 with AMD Radeon Pro Duo(4x) and Intel Core i7-5960X

 

But... as the lack of final photographs suggests all was not perfect. The 1200 Platinum failed to provide stable power, so I had it replaced and the second unit was exactly the same. After a lot of testing exactly why it didn't work out is still a bit of a mystery, the peak load was only ~1050W but I think ultimately the instant spike from 300 to 1000W when all 4 cores came onto load was just too much and the extremely sensitive WS board shut it down when the +12v drooped. I used the PSU in my Tri-780 X79 rig for a few days and that had no issues at a similar peak load.

 

I then tried a 1500 Gold Silverstone in the R1.0 and everything ran beautifully for hours so I had to take several steps back with the build and swap out the PSU

 

 

Knowing I needed to go bigger than 1200 didn't leave too many options, either the 1500 Gold Silverstone or 1600 Superflower/EVGA, as the 1500 only has 4x PCIe power connectors across two rails splitting 24 GPU cables seemed a greater evil than dealing with Superflower's awkward 24-pin.

 

 

So the unit not adorned with butterflies and an octagonal fan grill won!

 

 

 

 

At 40mm longer than the Silvertone's accommodating this beast would be a challenge and also it's immense weight required a cunning plan.

 

 

Didn't need that sticker anyway.

 

 

Right, all the gubbins, no idea what this stuff does, just that getting fine bits of metal all over it is less than ideal.

 

 

The top and inside end came away easily leaving the  PCB screwed to the base, I didn't want to unsolder the plug hence wrapped the internals up in a bag while drilling the base.

 

 

 

With a 3.1mm hole drilled a Parvum cube was attached using a button head M3x6 screw ensuring it didn't intrude onto the PCB.

 

 

After marking the same hole location onto the top casing that was drilled to clear the head of the screw and slotted out with a dremel allowing it to neatly slot back into place.

 

 

 

It might now look like an odd cube resting on a PSU, however I already have a location for this drilled into the case.

 

 

So my elaborate and cunning plan is complete, and yes, I could of just put a cube under the power supply for it to rest on, but I want it to levitate!

 

Well, i've got a hell of a lot of sleeving to do, again, let's hope it's done in time for the snowy 4k ultra grass on Christmas day.

 

JR

[iFreilicht]

Those really are bad news, does that mean you have to re-do every single cable that was connected to the PSU? Or is the pin-out at least somewhat compatible? What about just re-pinning the connectors?

[MadG4mer]

23 hours ago, iFreilicht said:

Those really are bad news, does that mean you have to re-do every single cable that was connected to the PSU? Or is the pin-out at least somewhat compatible? What about just re-pinning the connectors?

Repinning the PSU-end cables shouldnt be that hard as you only need to repin the MB-cable.

[JR23]

On 12/12/2016 at 9:02 AM, iFreilicht said:

Those really are bad news, does that mean you have to re-do every single cable that was connected to the PSU? Or is the pin-out at least somewhat compatible? What about just re-pinning the connectors?

 

Yeah, just about all of them will need to be made again, not only because the pinout is different on the 24-pin (8-pins are the same), but the PSU is a different length and the connectors are in different places and orientations so nothing neatly reaches where it should anymore. I may be able to use some of the wires again or just keep them for another project.

 

JR

[fredih]

Geez these pictures look so good! What lighting did you use?

[Yahtadi]

Final builds please

[JR23]

 

Well, it's been nearly a year now and I still haven't just quite done those cables, there were a few things I wasn't quite happy with, other more pressing projects came along (like that Ultimate GeForce PC thing) and no progress was made. I stole the HyperX Predator for ALUMIA and left R1.0 INDUSTRIAL in a bad way. But Corsair stepped in, graciously combining my Bit-Tech prizes and gave me reason enough to resume action! So maybe, just maybe it will be complete for this Christmas, now the disheartening feels of sleeving every cable for the second time have been forgotten.

 

 

 

 

I had some serious studio upgrades, new 3x8m vinyl backdrop all hung on brackets and rollers ready for more colours to be added. Covered my table with a sheet of acrylic so the vinyl stays super flat instead of being pressed into particle board texture. New lights too with a boom arm instead of a ghetto stack of boxes. Pretty legit all in all which is saving me a huge amount of time on the editing front, the background hasn't been artificially smoothed like before just dialed in and individual dusts spot healed out.

 

 

 

 

 

Here he comes, a 480GB MP500 rated at 3000mb/s read and 2400mb/s write!

 

 

 

Shortly after the NVMe arrives in his new habitat a wild EK M.2 Heatsink appears...

 

 

 

Because the MP500 is kinda fat with a chip on the reverse side thermal pads didn't fit exactly as anticipated by EK, with a 1mm pad to fill out the the exposed PCB area it clipped over with just the right amount of tension, any more would be broken NAND territory.

 

 

But still looking super tidy and helping out thermals, not that a life of benching Firestrike and occasionally running GTA V was going to upset the M.2 that much.

 

 

 

 

So plans for R1.0 INDUSTRIAL now are to strip everything down, clean all wet components, fit the M.2, swap the 6TB WD Blacks for 1TB WD Blacks and then build everything up completing the cables along the way!

 

JR

[IAmOctonaut]

dude this thing looks awesome!

[mark_p8]

I love these photos.

[BeardRex]

This is badass

[JR23]

Heading out to LAN later today and the R1.0 is coming too! Massive and beautiful update of many sleeves inbound when I have time to compile and edit. Just a little tease from bleeding...

 

 

JR

[Space Reptile]

15 hours ago, JR23 said:

Heading out to LAN later today and the R1.0 is coming too! Massive and beautiful update of many sleeves inbound when I have time to compile and edit. Just a little tease from bleeding...

goddamn you are a magician 

[Nicnac]

god its beautiful.

[JR23]

 

Right, let’s get this done before 2018!!! I made some crazy progress before Christmas and with FTW and i1.0-II out of the way it's time to get it posted. The first stage of attack, take every single thing apart!

 

 

The system had been used for a few months (with huge stock GPU power cables trailing around the case) and then just sat for the best part of year full of it's Aurora silver + X1 black mixture. And actually despite common internet 'wisdom' nothing was clogged in the slightest, all fins clean, just a reservoir full of sediment and the usual traces of dye everywhere.

 

 

With the very top of the loop drained the reservoir lifted off so I could take out the PSU and it's special support cube. Definitely don't want that getting wet.

 

 

Then back end of the case removed to get at the cards.

 

 

 

Subsequently repeated with the front end, very glad I opted to stash a 4-pin to 4-pin ATX style connector between the rads!

 

 

After that the top lifted off the base, board came off, pumps off etc etc. I won't show all that stuff as it's been done in the thread once before and I also need to rebuild it.

 

 

So lets skip ahead to the good bit where everything is clean and ready to go...

 

 

While editing the above photos I fell in love with the gold hue to the CPU block, except it was regular nickel just with some oil leached out of the o-ring.

 

 

So I ordered a real gold plated Supremacy, and immediately took it apart to swap in the neat little 2011 mounting bracket. All gold hardware was too much.

 

 

But this was just right...

 

 

 

...perfect fit for the WS.

 

 

 

Fast throwback to the 10th.

 

 

Now I just needed all the other blocks up to the same standard, cleaning the plexi was easy, nickel less so.

 

 

Just some aurora m80s

 

 

 

All refitted, greased and torqued down.

 

 

<3 AMD POWER!

 

 

 

Time to commence rebuild, the EPS stayed in, 24-pin discarded as it just wasn't quite consistent enough.

 

 

All the D5 work remained, except they now utilize a spare VGA connector on the 3rd row instead of individual peripheral connectors on the Silverstone.

 

 

The WD Blacks switched from 2x6TB to 2x1TB, reason being I lived without them for a whole year and most likely will never use the HDD's at all in this build, so losing 10TB is no big deal. £500 of swag saved for another build.

 

 

Board is back in black.

 

 

 

Powerful vibes even before the GPU's hit. Pixels kneel before your God.

 

 

 

With one push and one clip the bottom rads are back in the game.

 

 

 

 

Extra 280, check.

 

 

Now it's time to the ridiculous task i'd been putting off for so long. I feel like I need to explain. The original Silverstone was 1:1, the 24-pin was at the bottom near the hole in the midwall and the PCI were all up top. The EVGA on the other hand, weird pinout, completely swapped layout so every single thing had to overlap.... AND THEN.... just as if all those obstacles were somehow easy to overcome this 1600W is 20mm longer, which when there was about 40mm to play with kinda made a difference.

 

 

Neatness wasn't optional here, it was completely mandatory if everything was going to fit inside the case hence I took a new approach to the problem.

 

 

First up instead of cutting wires to a rough length everything was excessively long to start out then layered out of the PSU in the most efficient order.

 

 

But to keep the pinout correct I had a cunning strategy.

 

 

I took an old 24-pin connector and drilled out each hole to a close fit on the 3.1mm OD wire, then I could poke it from the correct pin on the PSU to the corresponding pin at the 24 end.

 

 

So then all that remained was to trim each wire to the appropriate length, pretty easy when they were all held in the correct position and I could push/pull them through as needed on either side.

 

 

PSU out it was just time to sleeve.

 

 

Wire by wire I removed the PSU end, inserted the white wire to mark its exact route, then crimped the 24 end. Sleeved in Shade-19 and replaced back into its original position.

 

 

Several hours or maybe days later (I don't really recall early December) all 24 were done.

 

 

Such an improvement from my original EVGA set and moreover greatly reduced bulk in the back.

 

 

Time for the angery power bois!

 

 

They cleaned up purtty good too.

 

 

 

Best to get the toobs in early.

 

 

 

All the 8-pins would be a little more relaxed relative to the 24-pin, with a uniform layout not unlike the Silverstone each wire was a consistent increment longer than the previous. So once I got 4 wires to sit neat it went pretty speedy.

 

 

One 8 down, completing the set was just a case of continuing the progression, working up and across.

 

 

 

The entire set complete for the primary card. All layered over each other and stacked in, the next set was a repeat to the front row of VGA connectors. CPU1 squeezed between and then CPU2 tight over the top of everything.

 

 

 

 

And there we have them all, absolutely colossal ratio of power to size.

 

 

 

 

Screw what you guys think, I’m absolutely overwhelmed with the form of the cables as it stands now, in fact I think they may even be prettier than the first set.

 

The SATA's aren't connected yet, I’m going to check that out tomorrow, but I’m really not fussed about ever using them. So unless the additional cables are going to make an improvement to the overall look I may leave them out. Aesthetic drives are fine with me, at least they won't make any noise lol. Buuut if they fit in just right, could be even more epic.

 

JR