WD Tyrant [Gear Up with EVGA]

[Willy Dijo]

"WD Tyrant"
 




 

Description 

This case is designed to make a M-ITX sized system using ATX components, the overall case dimensions being 385mm Tall x 416mm Long x 206mm Wide. The cases construction is mainly 3mm thick plate and angle aluminium, with acrylic windows and basement divides. This case houses an ATX motherboard, <325mm long GPU, ATX PSU, 1x 3.5" drive, 1x SSD, 240mm AIO CPU cooler, 120mm exhaust fan and 2x 140mm Intake fans.

Part List

• i5 6600K
• Z170 EVGA Classified K
• GTX 980ti EVGA Classified
• 16GB EVGA Superclocked 2666 DDR4
• 1000W EVGA SuperNOVA G1 PSU
• Corsair H100i GTX
• 3x Thermaltake RIING 120
• 2x Thermaltake RIING 140
• Western Digital Red 3TB
• Intel 535 120GB SSD

 
 

 

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I've finished drawing out all the measurements for the case, it took longer than it should have because I added 10mm of width to make sure there were no clearance issues with the USB headers and PCI slots.
 
Then i got to sawing all the various sized 1m long angle aluminium.

 



 
All the lengths filed to their size and ready for scribing. 
 

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Since last update I've been tapping M5 threads. The case still needs a few parts filed before they will fit.



 
Next up is filing the designs into the angle aluminium.

[Narnash]

There is nothing better than good, solid and thick aluminum/aluminium for a case. (if you have the space and don't want steel for the magnet utility)

 

I'm subbed

[Aytex]

Very minimalistic, I love it  

[Willy Dijo]

Since last update I have sawed and filed designs into all the right angle aluminium.

The lengths were sawed close to the scribe lines, then rough filed, then fine filed, then sanded smooth.

I like how clean this fan grill area turned out, too bad it wont be seen.


The H100i's tubing looks real nice but they are a bit of a hassle to work with.

Next up is making the 3mm aluminium front and back plates.
 

[BeardRex]

Finally some non-cliche colour scheme Love it!

[Wolther]

2 minutes ago, BeardRex said:

Finally some non-cliche colour scheme Love it!

Agree, the colors do look nice

[ccRicers]

The design looks real nice. I love custom aluminum cases.

[Willy Dijo]

On 25/11/2016 at 4:10 AM, BeardRex said:

Finally some non-cliche colour scheme Love it!

Thanks, orange is my favourite.

On 25/11/2016 at 7:00 AM, ccRicers said:

The design looks real nice. I love custom aluminum cases.

Thanks, its a great material to work with too.

[Willy Dijo]

Work has been done on the front plate.

I marked out the design the same way as i did with the XOI build by tracing over an iPad,and I

realised after I could have printed out the logo instead, It worked out either way.

 

Next up is making the rear panel.

 

[Str8f4c3]

Looks great Willy!

[Wolther]

Damnnnn that's a sexy logo 

[Willy Dijo]

On 30/11/2016 at 3:02 PM, Str8f4c3 said:

Looks great Willy!

 

On 30/11/2016 at 3:07 PM, Wolther said:

Damnnnn that's a sexy logo 

 

Thanks guys!

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Since last update I have been working on the rear panel and filing more of the case.

Each hole was 7mm apart and later drilled to 1/4 inch.

Next up is making the acrylic side panels and basement divide.

 

[Willy Dijo]

I've been working on sleeving my sleeved cable extensions.

Then the parts arrived, It felt like Christmas again.

 

The best part about these components is that they have neutral colours and will work great with the orange without needing to paint.

The case is not at all far from complete, and there will be another update shortly.

 

Fun fact, a 900D side panel makes for a good photo backdrop.

[Willy Dijo]

I just finished making the GPU mount and acrylic panels for the case.

This is a guide that came in handy with stopping the drill bit walking from the marking.

I found a easy way of doing these kinds of cuts, First scribe a line along the longest part, then use a coping saw to cut the shorter lengths

then snap and file, this saved a lot of time especially when cutting the air intakes.

Drilled a spot for the power button, its at the rear above the motherboard IO.

Nearing complete, next up is paint.

 

[Willy Dijo]

Since last update I have been painting the cases aluminium. I had quite a setback in that I used "Paint + Primer" paint and after I finished the paint then started to assemble the case I found the paint did not stick to the aluminium, and I had to scrape, thinners and sand all the paint off and start again.

Ford Octane Orange is the orange I'm using and also flat black.

I've still got a bit of paintwork to touch up, then its build photos.

[Willy Dijo]

Thank you to everyone that followed and commented on the build, it made the process all the better!

 

The build is now complete, and I have just finished assembling the system. Cable management in this build turned out to be quite a challenge but worth it in the end, I also like that the PSU is half the length of the case.

 

Here is a HD Imgur album link for the above pictures http://imgur.com/a/QBVi1

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[Yahtadi]

Freaking fantastic!