Cu AIR

JonBoy Slim · March 24, 2015

I am currently building an open air chassis for my gaming PC made from 15mm copper pipe & connectors...

I call it the "Cu AIR".... "Cu" is copper on the periodic table and "AIR" because it is an open air design.

System specs are;

MSI Z97M Gaming motherboard

Pentium G3258 (corrected)

Corsair H80i

2x Corsair SP 120mm PWM Quiet Edition fans

2x Corsair AF 120mm Quiet Edition fans

16 Gb Corsair Vengence @1600Mhz Memory

1 Corsair Force LS 60Gb SSD

1 Corsair Force LS 240Gb SSD

1 WD Caviar Blue 1Tb HDD

Corsair CXM500 PSU

Corsair red braided cable kit

MSI R9 270X Gaming 4Gb OC edition Video card

Here are some pics of the chassis build so far;

CatzRuleZWorld · March 24, 2015

Cool idea! It looks like you could make it quite a bit smaller though...

I wonder what it would be like where you make a custom loop with the same size pipes and utilize the frame as part of the pipe! know what I mean?

Notree · March 24, 2015

Thats pretty sick man. Just need a better cpu and gpu Following .Looking forward to the end product

JonBoy Slim · March 26, 2015

These are my first steps into the modding world and I jumped in feet first and designed a complete custom chassis I was a little surprised by the size of the chassis but i kinda like it... I have spent my whole PC building career building budget systems in cramped sub £50 cases. As you might imagine having lots of open space is awesome.

As far as the water cooling goes, it wasn't an option I could afford, hence the budget CPU.... A friend got me the GPU, and as I had planned to use the Pentium I figured a higher end GPU would only bottleneck. Besides the performance gain off set against the cost of a better (at the time) GPU just wasn't worth the extra money.

have some more pics up soon, but in the mean time here are a few of the components....