PARVUM FTW - Z170 FTW 1080 FTW SLI

[JR23]

 

This is a build for my friend SniplerXLS in the second Parvum Systems R1.0 ATX prototype with a custom watercooling loop for the CPU and GPU, of course also the obligatory bespoke MDPC-X PSU cables and a unique frosted blue, frosted clear and black color scheme for the case. The theme of the build will be continued throughout with predominantly black hardware, blue coolant and all Bitspower silver shining fittings.
 
EVGA GTX1080 FTW x2
EVGA Z170 FTW
Intel Skylake i7-6700K
HyperX Predator 4x8GB
Samsung 950 PRO 512GB
Samsung 850 PRO 256GB x2
Western Digital Black 4TB x2
Silverstone Strider Titanium 800W
Parvum R1.0 ATX Prototype II
 
EK-Supremacy EVO - Acetal + Nickel
EK-FC1080 GTX FTW - Acetal + Nickel x2
EK-FC1080 GTX FTW Backplate - Black x2
EK-XTOP Revo D5 PWM - Acetal (incl. pump)
EK-CoolStream XE 360 (Triple) x3
Bitspower BP-WTP-C47 Multi-Link Adapter x34
Bitspower BP-90R 90° Rotary Extender x10
Bitspower BP-WTP-C39 90° Extender x8
Bitspower BP-WTP-C04 Pass Through x8
Bitspower BP-WTP-C06 Stop Fitting x4
Bitspower BP-WTP-C60 15mm Extender x4
Aqua Computer Aquaero 5 LT
Aqua Computer Aquaero 5 Passive Heatsink
Noctua NF-F12 IndustrialPPC 2000RPM PWM x9
Noctua NA-SAVP1 Chromax - Blue x5
 
Already we have had one day working on the build, unboxing all of the hardware as well as assembling and post testing the main components. Here are some pictures from along the way!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for checking it out, the fittings will be arriving from Taiwan very shortly and we can begin to simultaneously build up the case and the cooling loop in the next update!
 
JR

[Guest]

Damn the pictures though

[CookieMaster]

I'm pretty sure that porn is not allowed on the forums. 

[JR23]

2 minutes ago, CookieMaster said:

I'm pretty sure that porn is not allowed on the forums. 

dw tagged it for porn, should be fine!

 

JR

[samiscool51]

thats the best system i have seen this year

10000000000000000000000/10

i could never afford anything like that, i had to save up for 2-years for my system...

to save up for that would take me over 50 years!

lucky bastard....

[JR23]

4 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

thats the best system i have seen this year

10000000000000000000000/10

i could never afford anything like that, i had to save up for 2-years for my system...

to save up for that would take me over 50 years!

lucky bastard....

Anyone can do it with this simple plan!

 

JR

 

 

[samiscool51]

i love south park!

but this simple plan works better then what you have shown us

[Yahtadi]

Those photos are top notch. Whats your gear?

[JR23]

41 minutes ago, Yahtadi said:

Those photos are top notch. Whats your gear?

Using a 60D with the standard 18-55mm lens, one softbox and lots of ghetto rigging. I'd love more stuff of my own but repetitively spend all my money on hardware

 

JR

[JR23]

 

An abundance of progress was made on FTW over the weekend as more and more pieces come together.

 

 

Fittings aside all of the watercooling parts are from EK, all black acetal.

 

 

 

 

It didn't take long to get everything prepared and blocked, i've had an awful amount of practice over the last few months, so much so I didn't even take any PCB shots of the cards. Definitely unusual behavior for me, I love naked cards but like most 1080's they just seemed embarrassingly sparse.

 

 

Fresh from Taiwan no less than 60 Bitspower silver shining fittings.

 

 

 

There was no time to line up and name each fitting, quite a lot for a relatively simple build but all part of a cunning plan.

 

 

 

Next up was the 9 Noctua iPPC F12's each equipped with blue Chromax to match the build.

 

 

Then the two EK XE 360 rads were mounted to the base panel of the case, fans added and wires trimmed to length.

 

 

 

 

To ensure overkill on the cooling front a third XE 360 was decked out with 3 F12's. triple triple FTW.

 

 

 

The rotaries and C47's all fitted ready, the loose rad fits vertically at the front of the case with the ports at the bottom. Then a 90° formed acrylic tube on either side will join the outer ports of the horizontal rads to the front rad.

 

 

 

Next 4 of the 5 storage drives were prepared and fitted directly to the midwall of the case, two WD blacks and two Samsung 850's.

 

 

 

 

The reservoir brackets, motherboard and aquaero were also added completing the midwall assembly.

 

 

The subtle views of the drives look spectacular through the frosted midwall although the green PCB's may warrant some further attention, for now i'm loving the effect.

 

 

Through a hybrid of CAD and measuring the assembled parts a layout for the loop and midplate was drawn up, marked onto the piece and checked against the hardware. With everything double checked it was off to the workshop to try out my latest acrylic torture device.

 

 

Without a CNC mill/laser cutting 20mm holes in acrylic is always a fun task but I found just the right tool browsing RS, unlike most crude hole saws this was one solid piece with a central guide drill and it made for a very controlled cut teamed with a 490RPM pillar drill.

 

 

After drilling some smaller holes for the D5 REVO it was time to commence stage 2!

 

 

For this lots of fittings were required, but very worth it, first I cut the tubes (ofc measured from CAD) and then assembled each one with a C47 multi link adapter and a simple 90° extender at each end.

 

 

The it was easy to loosely assemble a pass through fitting in the 20mm hole, screw that into the 90°, tighten down the locking ring and put a C47 in the top side ready to go up to the res/pump/cpu/gpu.

 

 

I may have then just taken many photo's to make up for the fact these phenomenal little runs will be near on impossible to see in the finished build.

 

 

 

 

 

And finally looking down from above...

 

 

...and from underneath again <3

 

 

 

Can't wait to get on with the rest of the loop! Just need to make some special fan extensions for the lower radiators and it will be time to piece together all of these big pieces.

 

JR

[Hackentosher]

God damn, this is some @p0Pe level shit. 

[19_blackie_73]

nice job, especially on the photography side of things. How do you do these extraordinary shots? Looks just like a 3D render TBH

[JR23]

 

With each individual piece of the case assembled from last week the next logical step was to start putting them together into one huge lump, however before that there was a few little jobs to do in some places that would become very hard to access. The most critical task was to make extensions for all of the fans.

 

But before we get to that a little context, this project as being built as a big brother to my friends X2.0 which I put together earlier in the year. Being air cooled it's not so ambitious however they will both share exactly the same case materials, sleeving colours and Chromax equipped industrialPPC's.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now back to the current action! A substantial package of supplies arrived for this and two other builds i'm working on.

 

 

 

 

In the previous update I used ATX crimps for the fan wires ready for 4-pin EPS style connectors.

 

 

So for each bank of fans I made a female 4-pin EPS to 3-pin fan cable, the Aquaero 5 being used only supports one PWM channel which will be used for the pump hence only 3-pin extensions were needed.

 

 

 

All plugged in ready, the main reason for using these connectors besides being neater with individual heavy gauge wire was that they can't be unplugged accidentally.

 

 

 

One extra tube was needed from the CPU back to the 3 radiators once cut I assembled all of the fittings onto the midplate.

 

 

Then placing the midplate and floor together it was simple to screw the 15mm extenders into the two radiators using the rotaries.

 

 

After that I turned it all the right way around and added the front panels and midwall simultaneously with all of the hardware attached, threaded the cables through and quickly it took shape!
 

 

Everything fitted together exactly right, the final tube and rotary extender were just the right length to reach the radiator ports and the height was just right too. Not that I dimensioned the entire case around making this one set of hardware fit perfectly....

 

 

The other tubes linking pass through's together all stayed in place throughout and sit neatly above the fans.

 

 

Just lots more tubing and sleeving to go! Also I promise I will scrape together enough pennies to buy a new backdrop roll and take pics of the entire thing for the next update. I'm working with a little tiny square with raggedy edges all the way around atm, so close ups it is.

 

JR

[BeardRex]

Nice looking build so far

[JR23]

 

No writing this time because i'm desperate to go and have my first proper session on Farm Simulator 2017, besides this one is pretty self-explanatory! I've bent, cut and fitted every single tube completing the loop ready for leak testing. Also along the way sleeved the pump and fitted everything which needs to be fitted.

 

 

  

 

     

 

 

200 or so metres of MDPC-X arrived in the week so perhaps i'll start some cables tomorrow and hit you guys up with another update.

 

JR

[charlieT]

I've Recently retired my dual loop 900D System an down graded to a 750D whilst i decide what case i wanna use for my next big build, in the next build i am moving to dual

e5-xeons and dual 1080's (or titans haven't decided if i really need the extra vRam yet) do you think that a gpu loop and separate cpu loop would be any less efficient as i have always enjoyed doing them as separate loops ?

[C1Rob]

Wow insanely clean! Awesome job! Waiting for the next update

[JR23]

 

Back again, farms was good and even with the extra hour I was still playing at 4am but I did manage to wake up early enough to get some progress in today. Just.

 

 

 

I decided to do all of the GPU cables first just to get a sizable portion out of the way, 32 straight wires, 8 of each colour, Grand Blue, Platinum Grey, Shade 19 and Black.

 

 

 

Now to get them in and start training!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well still lots more cables to go and a bit more training once they are all in place but all going well so far.

 

JR

[DutchTexan]

On 10/18/2016 at 6:49 PM, JR23 said:

 

 
JR

You must be going for the win

[LordGalahad]

Photos so good they seem to be fake....

[iiNNeX]

awesome build man

[Sniper Xls]

On 10/31/2016 at 8:31 AM, LordGalahad said:

Photos so good they seem to be fake....

Can confirm they are far from fake!  I am in fact standing behind him in some of these photos

[Guest]

Holy moly.

 

Photos. Superb. Build. Superb. 

 

Almost a shame to hide that tubing on the backside, looks really cool IMO. 

[JR23]

 

Seems to be standard procedure for me that final pics come over a year after actually finishing the build, still these things take time! Quick update of the specs, mostly the same aside Aquaero 5 > 6 and a Noctua NF-A14 fitted inside the PSU to keep it super quiet.

 

EVGA GTX1080 FTW

EVGA Z170 FTW

Intel Skylake i7-6700k

HyperX Predator 4x8GB

Samsung 950 PRO 256GB

Samsung 850 PRO 512GB x2

Western Digital Black 4TB x2

Silverstone Strider Platinum 1200W

Parvum R1.0 ATX Prototype II

 

EK-Supremacy EVO - Acetal + Nickel

EK-FC1080 GTX FTW - Acetal + Nickel x2

EK-FC1080 GTX FTW Backplate - Black x2

EK-XTOP Revo D5 PWM - Acetal (incl. pump)

EK-CoolStream XE 360 (Triple) x3

Bitspower BP-WTP-C47 Multi-Link Adapter x34

Bitspower BP-90R 90° Rotary Extender x10

Bitspower BP-WTP-C39 90° Extender x8

Bitspower BP-WTP-C04 Pass Through x8

Bitspower BP-WTP-C06 Stop Fitting x4

Bitspower BP-WTP-C60 15mm Extender x4

Aqua Computer Aquaero 6 LT

Aqua Computer Aquaero 6 Passive Heatsink

Noctua NF-F12 IndustrialPPC 2000RPM PWM x9

Noctua NF-A14 IndustrialPPC 2000RPM PWM 24v

Noctua NA-SAVP1 Chromax - Blue x5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next week final pics for R1.0 INDUSTRIAL and PARVUM K! lol, actually not joking. New photo studio toys making shoots of complete builds far more enjoyable so time to revisit everything!

 

JR

[JR23]

 

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JR