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Custom Water Cooled Desk - 56k warning. Lotsa Pictures! *Now with Table of Contents*

PBaines

Seriously seriously impressed!!!! Epic unique build and it will look fantastic when it is done, not to mention powerful 

 

Think of all the bragging rights and internet points you now have!

 

Ps liking the animal humour mixed in

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wow dude u need to get a patent rights and Copyright will done 

 

 

If I were to mass make desks like these I would, but since it's just a once off I guess it would be good to see other desk builds where someone has incorporated ideas from this or others to make one!

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really nice build, wish i had the time and patience to do something like that!

 
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I really liked your build, can't wait for the next update!

for a while I wanted to build my own case from scratch and I thought about build a desk like you did but I delayed it until my exams will be over, now that I've saw your build I was wondering about a few things.

how you plan to drill the motherboard in? and how you mounted the back I/O shield? is it permanent?

about the frame on the top-is it two pieces of wood glued together or just one piece of wood? I looked all the photos and I still didn't understand it.

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I really liked your build, can't wait for the next update!

for a while I wanted to build my own case from scratch and I thought about build a desk like you did but I delayed it until my exams will be over, now that I've saw your build I was wondering about a few things.

how you plan to drill the motherboard in? and how you mounted the back I/O shield? is it permanent?

about the frame on the top-is it two pieces of wood glued together or just one piece of wood? I looked all the photos and I still didn't understand it.

 

The motherboard will basically be screwed to the desk, with a thick hard rubber in between, the IO shield fits into the hole that I made, and it is mounted just like any other case!

Not to sure what you mean about that one, the bottom of the bay unit is all one big slap, the four sides of the bay unit are all separate pieces (4) and are biscuit-ed together :)

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I am absolutely amazed by how awesome and clean this build looks... The amount of work you have put into this is ... wow.  I would take my hat off to you if I had one, true craftmanship...

 

Looking forward to another update - I am sure you will get featured in the next livestream... damn I am jealous of how good that looks.

 

I am sure you could sell a table like that for a few thousand bucks - especially if you did a custom one like this for a customer with money...

 

Cheers man, you're awesome!  :blink:

So many things I could write here... things like this.

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The motherboard will basically be screwed to the desk, with a thick hard rubber in between, the IO shield fits into the hole that I made, and it is mounted just like any other case!

Not to sure what you mean about that one, the bottom of the bay unit is all one big slap, the four sides of the bay unit are all separate pieces (4) and are biscuit-ed together :)

thank you for the answer!

now it's time to learn sketchup and do some awesome stuff!  :)

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thank you for the answer!

now it's time to learn sketchup and do some awesome stuff!  :)

 

 

The render that I did with sketchup was suuuuper simple to do. Should take you less than a day to learn your way around it!

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Didn't know if you noticed, but the last post kinda got screwed up :)

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Finally, 1/2 of my PPCS order! (2/2 is the BP fittings)

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So in this we have:
x2 Heatkiller GTX680 Blocks
x1 Heatkiller 1155 CPU Block
x1 XSPC UP7 Motherboard Block
x1 Legion Fan controller 
x2 Vandal Switches (For power/ reset) 
x1 Vandal Switch plate for the switches to sit in
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After getting over my excitement, starting sorting out the attachment brackets to hold the back ledge on
Got the drill out with a small drill bit, 2.5mm I think it was to predrill the screw holes
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... That one screw that had to be a flat head...
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***** Some how forgot to take a picture of the final result! Will get that uploaded in the next update *****
 
So it was time to now move the desk to my room, and assemble the top unit to the draws and legs. TO do this there are two dry dowel fittings just to align everything for screwing, unfortunately I drilled too far and one dowel popped through.. No worries though. This is the top left inside of the draw unit, behind draws so will not be visible! Besides, all it is there to do is make things easier when coming to assembling and disassembling.
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To screw the bottom and side rail to the underside of the top unit, I flipped the everything upside down and drilled a hole on an angle.
Starting with the first incision to make a hole so we can essentially turn the drill 160 degrees without it slipping down the woodIMG_6196.jpg
 
getting more on an angle
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And finally going straight down at this angleIMG_6198.jpg
 
And all screws have been successfully screwed in holding everything in place! Though I will be adding an L bracket holding the front leg and the bottom of the lid, just for security as a thick L bracket is 10x stronger than any amount of screws
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Speaking of screws, I sourced out the screws that I will be using for the rad's, lotsa these!IMG_6208.jpg
 
Two boxes arrived at my house from which contained my speakers and fans I will be using. Which may I add was very well packaged!
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I went with the Microlab Solo 6C's because of their wooden carcase, and I have heard many positive reviews about these. I now just have to find a place for them..
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On to the next box! Containing 5 Twin packets of the SP120 silent edition Corsair fans, and also a Twin pack of the AF120 silent edition fans also. I went with these because of the Static Pressure they create, and also how silent they are. I will only be running my desk in a PULL on the first rad and PUSH on the second. I do not think I need to have push/pull on both rads, as I want to make this thing as silent as possible. With 2 480 Monsta rads, even with a pull on one and a push on the other. It will still all be overkill in terms of cooling potential with the rads as 2 680's, a CPU and Motherboard wouldn't come close to reaching peak performance of the rads. Also the rads look nice at them from the grill. IMG_6217.jpg
 
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On the following day I received a shipment from PPCS, which contained 2 Heatkiller 680 back plates which I forgot to order in the previous one.. and 90% of my fittings (70 in total in this order) and slipped through customs without paying an Import Tax which I am more than happy about! 
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I all ready ripped them all open and started planning out the loop, so left some of the fittings I had joined together as that will be how they are set
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Now that everything was finally settling down and the desk is all setup. It was time to finally put a few blocks on components. This update will be for my UP7 with its motherboard block and cpu block too.
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Putting the thermal pads, and also two small drops of Arctic Silver 5 that I have been using for a long time IMG_6243.jpg
 
And all screwed on! Might look at doing something about the XSPC logo on the block, would rather it be all black for preference
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Next up, the Heatkiller CPU block. Boy it looks epic..
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Pea size amount of thermal pasteIMG_6251.jpg
 
Once I put it on I cut a piece of my crystal link tubing to length and connected the two blocks together. The CPU block, UP7 Block and the Dominator RAM really work well together!IMG_6257.jpg
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Yeah, I added a few photo's to the original post, and it all went into HTML code when I reposted..

 

All fixed now :)

 

(There is an update at the end of page 3)

 

Yeah it happened to me a few times too, weird... That does look very sexy though :) (the mobo with blocks, not html code)

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Amazing work sir! Absolutely love it :D . Great attention to detail. Like the slots for the fans on the inside and the grills on the outside 

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can't wait to see the finished product.

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This is an amazing and exciting build keep up the great work.

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Absolutely amazing!  Is this a school major work?  Band 6 for sure!

 

BTW the proper name is "Biscuit Joiner" and by using it you are creating a widening joint.  :) 

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Absolutely amazing!  Is this a school major work?  Band 6 for sure!

 

BTW the proper name is "Biscuit Joiner" and by using it you are creating a widening joint.   :)

 

I started this in my last year of high school, about half of the way through. This year I got a full time job and found it difficult to get the time to do this project!

So it was a school project, but now just a hobby instead :)

 

Ahh right! Learn something new everyday, thank you!

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this is gonna be insane when its finished.

I'm just a soul who is up to no good.

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holy shit, amazing!

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 | SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB M.2 | Power Supply: Corsair HX850i 850W Platinum Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Tempered Glass |
 
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That is some amazing wood work, great job

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I started this in my last year of high school, about half of the way through. This year I got a full time job and found it difficult to get the time to do this project!

So it was a school project, but now just a hobby instead :)

 

Ahh right! Learn something new everyday, thank you!

 

Oh right that's awesome, I am in my last year of school in and in woodwork making a wooden HTPC case and in Design making an arcade cabinet :) 

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You sir have talent

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