Arctic Water

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Another month and another build,this time for an OC3D member,Omega Stalker.
This build is based around the massive CosmosII from Coolermaster,a very well appointed beast of a case!

The theme running thru this is a white/black/copper colour scheme with some icy touches...











These are coming out for 2 240 Koolance rads...









Looks about right for 2 large bays....





Magoo approves this post!



And the mandatory Cosmos 'bird of prey' pose.

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Leta make a start on the cooling..

Omega got a great deal on some Koolance rads and decided he wants to go with those,these 240 rads have a neat party trick!





Prep and primered.



These will be white. Thanks Koolance for making my life easier.

Now,you cant leave the 360 on its own,it need some love too!







Just waiting for Paints 4 u to get the white paint then i can do the rads,finish them off and turn my attention to the outside of the case.

Large window cutouts to do,lots of interior paneling out and more tasty things....

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I know you all like teh Magoo so here is a shot of his early gangster look...




Today i get on with the paint triage and the dis-assembly.
Not hard to do but you must be careful,the tab plastics are thin and wont take abuse..

Lets start by getting those doors off,nicely made and with the best hinges i have seen on a case.



Clear out the endless drive bays from the now rad bay.



Magoo surveys the sfeces for potential morsels...



Greedy boy....

Top panel.



Separated for painting..

The usual sharp edges from the fold tabs made me a few choice expletives a few times



And the now exposed 360 rad mounts.



Surgery performed and parts stacked up for prep.

Magoo is making pointed reminders about dinner in the background....



Oooge fan!



So now its paint prep time,the more effort i put in now,the better the result!

I wont bore you with all the prep photo's when im done,you must of seen that kind of thing endlessly now....

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OmegaStalker sent down the pump top he is using,a dual loop EK D5 top.
















As you can see,this one is crop circle free....and better for it...

 

What is this? 2mm Copper? Shiny copper? Luuuurvely copper....







This is going to be for the front panel and pump tops,plus any detailing that i want to pick out..

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Take one plain looking EK dual top..



Add copper and a whole lot of manual metal working...





This piece needs to be hit with a bench buffer before it goes on,i have seen one at a good price so that will be my next purchase for the 'lab'
There will be a matching piece for the pump side too,should look good when its done.

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Its been a bit busy recently but today I made a start on the back plate for the pumps.
Its roughed out,I need to take some fine files to it to finish it off.



Round the corners and finalize the shape then off to the buffer!

 

Copper and Delrin Allsort coming next....

Small progress....

Knocked the copper back with 1600 W/D ready for some bench polishing (when the bloody thing arrives)





Holding off the final profiling of the corners until i have some pumps in.

Brightens up an otherwise ordinary pump top....wishing for a drill press too i think,would of made the hole drilling much easier than the trusty 18v cordless...

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Some progress.

Fans and rads painted and soon to be fitted,got some 240 rad stands coming so i can clear out the bottom bay.
I could of got a pair of 360 rads in the space under there!



Top 360 in,this will have a mesh cover over the rad face or may make a rad guard out of copper sheet....Time took get hammer out!





Top panel painted.

 

Lower bay has been cleared of all the excess junk so i can get to work.





In the bay.





The PSU end of the shroud will be detailed with a plexi window to show off the PSU

You can see the midplate is in,the pump mount is cut and ready to fit and the first of the rad mounts in the lower bay is done.
I will be getting the rad mount on the other side finished and the shroud for the drive bays done.

Once all the metal work has been done then i will move on to finishing the paint work.

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A little teaser....

 

First irritant of the day...

Coolermaster make a PSU mounting bracket for this case,shame it doesnt seem to fit without removing the PSU fan grill....







Interesting.....someone wasnt thinking.

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Sorry about the delay,cant find my flash card for my DSLR so its cam pics for this little update.

Midplate in and painted



And the pump top is mounted,the copper top is missing as it needs polishing.





Front shot showing the copper accents on the drop down panel.





The res are off to Tom at Chilled PC for the front ports to be drilled and tapped.
I was going to attempt this myself but Tom is great at what he does and charges a very reasonable rate,I would be mad not to get him to do it!

Next stop,getting the hardware in for its shake down before hitting it with teh paint gun.

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Sorry its been a bit quiet from me but i have had some heavy work commitments,thankfully im back to normal service!!

Which means i have had time to get Omega Stalkers build moving again!

So,I cut some 2 mm hole mesh and sprayed it copper for the PSU area of the bottom bay.



And got the res back from Pulse modding with shiny new 1/4 ports on the front.
I can heartily recommend these guys for a pro service and I will be using him again,I can see why Specialtech use him for their TJ07 modwork.



And finally (for today anyway) caustic soda punches EK anodizing in the face...



White or copper,not decided yet.......

Now im not working stupid hours, i can invest more time into this build and finish this bad boy!!

 

And the first backplate is done...

Copper and white,cant lose!

[Titanicium]

I see you followed my tip

But since this was originally posted on another forum I would at least change some of the text like "I know you all like teh Magoo so here is a shot of his early gangster look..." since we haven't seen any of your previous posts

 

Anyway nice build and keep it coming

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So now i know that this board is a good one,we can start with the paint...



Alphacool block with a painted mount.





Im not normally one for fancy TIM but i just had to try the current best..



Board in its new home!







Little trims as i didnt want to see bare joins or edges.





So all need to really do inside is the panel covering the drives and other little details but its coming along now.

Externally,The res cover needs to be drilled out and the doors need doing,cant wait to tackle them!

Unfortunately both the XFX 7970's were DOA and as they were second hand the seller wants nothing to do with it....

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3mm thick copper front plate roughed out for filing...
Magoo has given it the once over,he runs a tight ship on quality control.

 

 

Today i did the first cut on the buffer.

SAFETY FIRST!



Stating with a sisal wheel and brown cutting compound.



Load her up....



And let her rip!



Looks good right?

This is the first cut,I will have to repeat this process as will become clear....



On to the cotton mop with blue compound.



Getting there....



Peek a boo! That copper spray is an amazing match!



Now that does look good!!





You can see that the copper still has imperfections so its coming out again and being redone

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The cavalry has arrived!

Omega Stalker found the money for 2 new 7970's

Sad face [off]







The pump is going to be plumbed in between the cards to clean it up a little,shiny copper in there will be a looker,you can see why i didnt bother painting the HS,you wont actually see it.



The cards sag quite badly so new brackets will have to be made up,no drama there.

One of the pair  of blocks and plates.





The plate looks mint next to that board,I think I will spend some time blocking up tonight! (I love that bit....)

 

Hullo Mrs Water,are the twins home?

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Started the fun bit of tubing this up,I have not made it easy for myself at all but its all coming together.





Shame the weather has been so feces recently,cant get outside to do the messy grinding/painting jobs....

 

Nice feces generator!

 

 

 

 

My bloody camera isnt coming up via USB so its the quite shocking cam phone.....

Needs the lines tweaking but the loop is almost done!!!





You cannot believe how much of a ba$74£d this was to get in....


Plenty tube yes?

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Well...good news!

I just won Bittechs MOTM!

This is great news to me and Omega Stalker (the customer) is stoked!!

Thanks to all those that voted for me,I really appreciate it.

Thanks also to the Bittech/Custom PC team,The Specialtech guys and Coolmiester at XSPC.

Enough of the Oscars gushing and back to the build.
So,I was looking at the lighting now and decided (mainly as im feces at balancing lighting) to go for an Enermax Vegas for the exhaust,the colours are neutral so Omega can chose what light colour he likes on the fan easily,polus the swirly effect should give a nice water ripple look on all the shiny tubings.

It didnt get left stock either....

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Drive bay panel in.

Only the  window door and the top cover to do,re do in the case of the top cover ( I dropped it this morning and scratched it. : (  )







Copper has dulled a bit from my fingerprint acid when i was tweaking it......TO THE BRASSO!

 

 

 

May redo the panel as it doesnt look right to me,.it looks too bulky....

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Nearly there with this one,just the window to do in the door,sadly my hand is broken so no power toolings for me for a few weeks.

 

Update to follow!

[Jeroen1322]

Dude that looks so nice, great job can't wait to see more!

 

I smell a new Build Of The Week

[WorldDominator]

OMG BEAUTIFUL

[Langdon]

Looks awesome! Can't wait to see the end result.

[NohbdyKnows]

Dude.........That...........Is........Beautiful............what fittings do you use for copper pipes?

 

EDIT: And how do you bend the piping w/o kinking?

[TheSLSAMG]

Amazing, I have hated the Cosmos II only because it has no window.

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Looks awesome! Can't wait to see the end result.

 

Just waiting for my hand to fix then i can POWAAAAAH tool again!

 

Dude.........That...........Is........Beautiful............what fittings do you use for copper pipes?

 

EDIT: And how do you bend the piping w/o kinking?

 

Guide is in the Hardlines workshop in the WC forum

 

Amazing, I have hated the Cosmos II only because it has no window.

 

Between you and me,i still hate the Cosmos II,waaaay to much plastic.

This was for a customer so it wasnt my choice.

[Titanicium]

Love it so much

 

But since you don't like the Cosmos 2 what is your favorite entusiast case?

 

Just wondering for future builds