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[the bad saint]

love it ! why don't  u paint the bottom sheet metal in a metallic blue?

[enRodjavel]

damn sweet build, love the Industrial Look u got going on there. makes me wana get my old Lian-lis down from the attic and go bonkers on em =D

 

and the metal finish on the GPUS and the sheet work are so boss 

[FloGer]

Really nice build! I just have one thought about the cooling of the CPUs:

 

- As you have both CPU coolers blowing air in the same direction, the second heat-sink is getting the hot air from the first one, and thus the second CPU is going to run a bit hotter than the first one. (No idea of how much hotter - you can get the numbers)

 

My suggestion would be that you put the fans on both heatsinks in a way that they blow the air in opposite directions, so that they blow each one in the direction of the other one. You will probably have to rethink the general airflow in the case, but I beleive that this would/could help you in lowering the temps of your CPUs.

 

PS: I suggest both fans pushing air towards each other and not pulling, but this is mostly based on intuition ^^

[hamsor]

looks very nice and clean and WOW this is a tiny mid.tower case! :D

[heineygoat]

I want da bitty.

[ikem]

Really nice build! I just have one thought about the cooling of the CPUs:

 

- As you have both CPU coolers blowing air in the same direction, the second heat-sink is getting the hot air from the first one, and thus the second CPU is going to run a bit hotter than the first one. (No idea of how much hotter - you can get the numbers)

 

My suggestion would be that you put the fans on both heatsinks in a way that they blow the air in opposite directions, so that they blow each one in the direction of the other one. You will probably have to rethink the general airflow in the case, but I beleive that this would/could help you in lowering the temps of your CPUs.

 

PS: I suggest both fans pushing air towards each other and not pulling, but this is mostly based on intuition ^^

 

they really dont run that hot. 40C @ 100 load while folding. so a redesign isnt worth it. 

 

Thanks for the comments guys. 

[ikem]

Hmmm... I'll throw a little water on this fire.

 

 

 

 

 

[AndyCapets]

Oh gawd this is too good, great job man!

[enRodjavel]

bahhh loved the Industrial look with the two big Coolers, but that WC is looking gooood

[ikem]

took the dive. GPU blocks ordered. (EK Supremacy VGA since the 7870 hawks dont have blocks made for them)

 

Should be here this week.

[ikem]

polishing has started!

 

 

[AxelPeeters]

Awesome build , love your polishing job

[AndyCapets]

These things look a lot better when they're polished!

[ikem]

These things look a lot better when they're polished!

 

 

yea i cannot wait to get the mayhems in there!

[ikem]

ooo no leaks! just waiting for the sleeving to get here.

 

[ikem]

ok so this bothered me sooooooo much.. but it is fixed now

 

Before:

 

 

After:

 

 

[AndyCapets]

Oh wow yeah, the link is waay better, loving this build more and more...

[ikem]

well after a little progress this weekend, my Lutro0 order didn't arrive so I couldn't finish the wiring.

 

i think everything is coming together. any recommendations? I am probably going to rename the build on completion too.

 

Routed some of the cables under and tucked them up nicely.

 

 

Started on the PCI-e power cables. 

 

 

After I cut the chunk off the top, I had to make sure it was polished to the same degree as the other faces.

 

 

 

yes, it is flowing correctly... just looks weird since it is RATX. 

 

 

 

 

Some Heatshrinkless sleeving done. Just have anouther 8 pin, 24 pin, and 2 6 pin pci-e to go.

 

 

 

[HrBorggreen]

You know i want to build one. And then i am gonna put it in a glas box to be looked at,,,,, because that right there is beautiful (: 

[ikem]

it's alive!

 

more to come.

 

[Exotath]

Looks amazing! I would love to do a 2P build.

[AndyCapets]

Dayum...

[gliliumho]

DAT CABLE MANAGEMENT

[ikem]

some pics I took over new years day.

 

[ikem]