IMFACEROLL GAMING LIQUID COOLED PC WITHIN A CABINET! (SPONSORED BUILD)

[imfaceroll]

 

Hey everyone, today was time to disassemble the cabinet parts that we don't need and begin modding. 

 

 

In the picture above, I have removed the glass door. On the left of the cabinet you can see that there is also a wooden part to the door. I do not want this there because it will eventually be blocking our awesome components. So my plan is to make a new glass door for the build.

 

For the glass door above I am debating whether i should remove the current glass from the wooden part and replace it with a longer piece to cover the full frontage of the cabinet, or whether to ditch that door all together and go full glass (which I am leaning towards). This is not a major issue at the moment and can wait until a future date.

 

 

In order for my components to fit perfectly, I had to drill another hole for the shelving to sit on. The power supply was around 1cm to big.

 

 

As you can see above, the cabinet had a wall and some black rails in the main section. The wall has been removed to make room for the components to fit.

 

With all of the prep work complete, it was time to start some cut outs. This was done by drilling a hole in each corner of the cut out and using a jigsaw. As you can see it still needs sanding, but you get the idea. The motherboard will sit in this position. (See below)

 

 

 

 

 

The motherboard tray fits perfectly. The inside of the main section of the cabinet will be lined in a diamond plated sheet metal. The metal is currently very shiny but I plan to paint the whole thing a matte black which will reduce any glare/reflection which some may find distracting. I love the feel and texture of the diamond plated sheets and I believe it will tie in very nicely to this build.

 

Below I have measured up the dimensions of the cabinet and I plan on using a jigsaw with a metal cutting blade to complete the cutting process. (I am limited with tools).

 

 

And this is the result below. I still need to file down the edges of the metal but you get the idea.

 

 

 

Test fitting the motherboard tray.

 

 

 

Thank you for following my build, progress should be up within a few days. Please leave a comment below =)

 

[HashtagMilk]

Looks great, looking forward to the final result.

[Jeroendedoem]

Looks great, looking forward to the final result.

Can't say this better.

[Shroomster]

@imfaceroll

I love the build, but is disagree on the sheet metal. I guess I will have to use my imagination to change the material to ACRYLIC, because acrylic is boss. No, but seriosly the build is good. Only one gripe from me and I am a kind of bitchy person about thing like this.

EDIT: Just looked through the pics more precisely and noticed the damn fan on the MB tray. I sincerely hope that sucker gets removed. Small fans belong to the 2000s, not 2010s. Mmhhhhmmkay.

[imfaceroll]

@imfaceroll

I love the build, but is disagree on the sheet metal. I guess I will have to use my imagination to change the material to ACRYLIC, because acrylic is boss. No, but seriosly the build is good. Only one gripe from me and I am a kind of bitchy person about thing like this.

EDIT: Just looked through the pics more precisely and noticed the damn fan on the MB tray. I sincerely hope that sucker gets removed. Small fans belong to the 2000s, not 2010s. Mmhhhhmmkay.

haha yea man, that fan it definatly out of here thanks for the feed back =) i am painting all of the sheet metal matte black to reduce the glare and reflection aswell =) yea acrylic would also look nice, i like the pattern on the sheet metal aswell. We will have to see what the final result looks like with it all painted =)

[imfaceroll]

 

Hey everyone, this week I have made quite some progress. More cut outs have been done and I have also created a fan controller and switch holder. Here are the progress images.

 

This week I had to complete some of the more finer cut outs. I decided to go out and purchase a dremel as I recommend any modder should have. It makes life so much easier.

 

 

I also spent some time cutting out some acrylic pieces which would sit under my HDD's and SSD's to create a nice red glow around the edges. The acrylic still needs to be wet sanded.

 

 

 

I received my air brush kit in the mail this week and I am debating whether or not I should use it with the build, more updates on that in the future.

 

 

 

With the build I plan on using the bitfenix spectre pro PWM LED fans for show and on the inside of the cabinet I am putting some Noctua PWM on the radiators. This is due to the fact that bitfenix fans are terrible radiator fans and I hate the look of the Noctua fans.

 

Because there are a few PWM fans I would like to control their speeds with fan controllers for near silent operation. I have created a small fan controller box out of MDF which will also hold my power/reset switches and my LED light switches.

 

Below you can see each cut out I made to create the box holder, these were cut out with a jigsaw.

 

 

 

Test fitting the fan controllers and switches on the face plate of the box.

 

 

I have limited access to tools so I use what ever is laying around to get the job done. Two pieces of wood will hold it together while the glue drys.

 

 

 

While it was drying it was time to move onto the cabinet. This box will be holding the fan controllers and switches so I needed to create a cut out in the top of the cabinet to allow for wires and fan cables to route through.

 

 

 

 

Next step of the build was to create a door at the back of the cabinet so that I had access to cables just in case one came loose or I needed to configure something. The MDF also provides some stability support for the cabinet in general. 

 

The new backing is 3mm MDF and I have routed it in 3mm so it is flush with the edges.

 

 

With the dremel I cut out a square door. I attached some hinges and a latch to make sure it stays closed.

 

 

 

 

My last update for the week was to create a slot in the back of the cabinet on the second level so that cables from the power supply could route down from the second level, down in between the door I made and the sheet metal.

 

 

 

Thank you for following my build. Updates are usually done weekly. Please leave a comment and let me know what you like or what you think I could do to improve the build. Thank you everyone for your support.

 

[PapaGangster]

WOW can't wait to see this build finished. It inspires me to do something like that but don't have the money.

[imfaceroll]

WOW can't wait to see this build finished. It inspires me to do something like that but don't have the money.

thanks man, i always love to see positive responses to my build so thank you very much =)

[imfaceroll]

This is my first PC cabinet progress video, everything up to date. Please check it out. My cam recorder died half way through so i had to use my phone but please ignore that and enjoy =)

 

[Ralphington]

Nice vid! the start was a bit 'in your face' but the rest was good and informative, keep up the great work!

[imfaceroll]

Nice vid! the start was a bit 'in your face' but the rest was good and informative, keep up the great work!

thanks mate =)

[imfaceroll]

 

Hey everyone, sorry it has been a while since I last posted. We finally received our last package in the mail so we have made some nice progress. This should be my last update before we paint the build so please enjoy.

 

In the photo below I have roughly drawn my msi dragon in place so that I could make sure my led lights fit nicely behind it. The 3 cut outs will each hold a pulsating red bitspower RAM mod LED. I still need to sand them back.

 

 

Below is a fluorescent red acrylic cut out of the msi dragon. The one on the right is snapped and is just going to be used as a test fitter. This dragon will sit over the holes we cut out and the LED lights will illuminate it when they pulse.

 

 

What I have done below is cut out the msi dragon from some 3mm thick sheet metal. This metal dragon is slightly smaller than the red acrylic dragon. The metal will sit on top of the acrylic so that only the edges are pulsating a nice red colour. The dragon will be painted black.

 

 

 

 

We also have some custom msi fan grills which have been created from 3mm sheet metal, I am very happy with the final result. These grills will be painted black.

 

 

 

 

These fan grills however do not fill the whole gap in the shelve where the radiators sit so I have created a quick boarder to fill in the gap.

 

 

 

So back to the cabinet. On the top of the cabinet you can see I have created another casing. This will house another reservoir on the top of the desk. I will be placing a clear piece of acrylic as a window over it. Because it is the highest point of the loop it would also make a nice place to place a fill port.

 

 

 

A few weeks back I shared with you my idea of creating the raised platform to route my cables under for neat cable management. Here is what it looks like.

 

 

 

And as you can see, I have cut some slots in all of my metal sheeting for all of the cables to route through. We should have some pretty neat cable management =)

 

 

 

 

Hopefully by this time next week we will have the cabinet painted and then i can start putting components inside and get some acrylic tubes into the build. 1 thing I will still need to do is drill some holes through the top and shelves of the cabinet so that I can route my tubing through. I will also have another cabinet progress video released very soon but for now you can watch the first progress video to get up to speed with the build. Thanks

 

 

[ind3x]

I'm really excited to see the final product. There's so many small details you've put into this thing and it's absolutely amazing!

[Hikaru12]

This build truly is an inspiration because I've been wanting to build a server chassis like this for a long time. I might borrow a similar design for a server build I do for the future. Can't wait to see how this turns out!

[Johanmyst]

This looks awesome! I really hope though you fix that one crack in the wood at the top of the cabinet, if that's still there when it's completed I think it'd take down the epicness of it, but otherwise it looks amazing in my opinion.

[imfaceroll]

This looks awesome! I really hope though you fix that one crack in the wood at the top of the cabinet, if that's still there when it's completed I think it'd take down the epicness of it, but otherwise it looks amazing in my opinion.

haha dont worry about that mate, Any cracks were bogged up with putty before i painted it =)

[imfaceroll]

 

Hey everyone, I finally got around to painting the cabinet a nice matte black colour. My MSI dragon has also been stuck onto the side of the cabinet and it looks great.

 

All that is left to do is:

 

1. Install components

2. Drill two 13mm holes for my tubing to route through up to the top shelf

3. Screw in my radiator mounts and PSU mount

4. Attach custom 5.25' box to cabinet and make plexi window for res cover

5. Bend the acrylic tubing 

6. Connect wires

7. Fill the loop/leak test

8. Overclock

9. GET SOME GAMING HAPPENING

 

Here is where the cabinet is at.

 

I have installed my water blocks kindly supplied by EK Water Blocks.

 

 

 

 

As a few of you may know, my desk PC was painted in my dads spray booth at work. This time It was painted in our garage with the air spray gun. The paint job turned out amazing. 

 

Here is the prep work:

 

 

 

The images below were taken with my phone son I apologise for the bad quality. These were taken just after the paint work was finished.

 

 

 

 

The paint finally dried and i was able to install the MSI dragon. I Glued the metal and the red acrylic dragon together then glued the dragon to the side of the cabinet.

 

Here is how the paint work and dragon turned out, It looks amazing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the cabinet up to date. Next update i hope to have all of the components installed and hopefully some of the acrylic tubing installed.

Thank you for showing some interest in the build and let me know what you think =)

 

[Johanmyst]

Looks sweet. The double layered dragon logo looks really good on that. I hope when the build is finished it won't look too "black-paint-overload"-ish but I'm sure it'll look awesome

[ind3x]

That dragon is soooooooooooooooooooooooo sweet. Man that's a good job well done!

[imfaceroll]

That dragon is soooooooooooooooooooooooo sweet. Man that's a good job well done!

thanks mate =)

[imfaceroll]

As promised, here is the second progress video of the cabinet PC build. The third video will be out very soon and it looks amazing so check it out =)

 

[MarQue98]

are you sure you want to paint that dragon black? personally i really like that metal look, gives a really nice accent. Black would make it not so pop, which i think it totally deserves to do ^^

Just my opinion, you do whatever you want with it

[Ralphington]

That dragon is amazing, and i love the metal finish, i know that it's your decision in the end but please consider, it just looks so cool!

[Kryhm]

You're not alone on that one...

 

I did, Best decision i ever made!

[imfaceroll]

are you sure you want to paint that dragon black? personally i really like that metal look, gives a really nice accent. Black would make it not so pop, which i think it totally deserves to do ^^

Just my opinion, you do whatever you want with it

it has stayed as the metal finish =) thanks