F4DE by C4B12

[JohnnyGrey]

I love this build, but I have one question. Why bother with a 460?

[C4B12]

A small, sweet and good-looking Case/mod )=D

 

Thank you. That was my idea.

 

Errrrg, I love it so much! SFF PC's are just my favorite!

 

Oh mine too! I love SFF and mini-itx boards and cases.

 

I love this build, but I have one question. Why bother with a 460?

 

Thank you! What do you mean about the 460? Old card? Well I got it for almost nothing at Ebay and it still performs pretty well. The only games I play is Starcraft 2 and Dota 2, and thats not a problem.

[TicTac]

Soo small nice job !

[Andrew0472]

very clean build, i love it!!

[nerdglider]

so much perfection in such a small case, well done

[C4B12]

Soo small nice job !

 

very clean build, i love it!!

 

so much perfection in such a small case, well done

 

Thank you all! Im happy for all your nice comments. Come to Dreamhack and see it live!

 

Or visit my homepage for more of my projects - www.minimalisticpc.com

 

[Giancarlo124]

This is great looking.

[C4B12]

This is great looking.

 

Thank you!

[C4B12]

Hello everyone!

Im back and Im going to remake this build. What Im going to do is upgrade the hardware aswell as the watercooling gear. I will also go for the solid chrome copper tubing idea I had at the beginning.

The new hardware will be:
MB: MSI Z87I
CPU:Intel I5 4670K
GPU: Zotac GTX 760
RAM: 2x4gb Corsair Dominator Platinum
SSD: Samsung 840 120gb
PSU: Be-Quiet! Dark Power Pro P10 550W
CASE: Cubitek Mini Cube

I also want to take this opportunity to announce a new sponsor:

EKWB is sponsoring me with new watercooling gear for this build! Thank you!



More updates will come soon!

With kind regards
Johan Nyman
Minimalistic PC's

[nkucz]

amazing.

[C4B12]

Im still waiting for all the watercooling gear from EKWB so I havent started modding yet, I need the radiator to start measure out things. I could give you some pictures of the new hardware I got though.

I got Be-Quiets silencing kit, cause Im going to make two sets of sidepanels, one with windows and one without and with silence mats on it instead.



The MSI Z87I looks really good, black caps is awesome!



This GTX 760 from Zotac is really cool to, really short cooler and it still fit a waterblock if needed.



I also want to say thank you to Caseking.de for giving me awesome prices on this hardware!



I hope I could start give you real updates soon!

With kind regards
Johan Nyman
Minimalistic PC's

[StormtrooperStu]

Very tidy sir.

[C4B12]

Hello everyone!

I finished Cold Winter a few weeks ago so now I can focus on this build again. I have received everything from EKWB and I started working on the mod today.

I will use a 240mm XT radiator from EK now and those are 47mm thick instead of 30mm as the old one from Alphacool I had. It was already hard to fit everything with that radiator so how could I fit a thicker one?

Well I started to look around for slim fans. I knew Scythe made 10mm thick fans but I havent had good memory of those so I kept looking, finally found Prolimatech's Ultra Sleek Vortex 12 which are 15mm thick, perfect!

I ordered some of those and they really are nice, performs like regular 25mm thick fans. But it wasnt enough there either, what I did today was to cut down the frame of the fan to be able to "integrate" the fans with the radiator. I let the images explain.









As you see there is a clear difference between these fans integrated in the radiator and regular 25mm thick fans. This actually takes less space than the 30mm radiator and regular fans.

Many might think that this will totally ruin the performance of the fans. Well I removed the fan frame, but it was replaced by the frame of the radiator. I also tried it out and it still blows a lot of air through the rad, so dont worry!

Another thing I will do is to run the custom loop with chromed solid copper pipes, I had that idea from the beginning but not the knowledge, I still dont have the knowledge. But maybe some bigger "cojones".

I started experiment some with the pipes today.







What do you think?

I will keep working on this project as much as I can, I want to finish it because this will be my new main PC to use. Right now Im repainting the inside of the case and Im also waiting for a aluminium frame that will go around the window.

With kind regards
Johan Nyman
Minimalistic PC's

[adriel604]

beautiful!

[C4B12]

beautiful!

 

You are beautiful!

Im almost finished with the repaint of the case, just the last layer of matt clearcoat left. This time I will be putting the case together with M3 screws instead of rivets, cause I like to have my cases modular if I have to take it apart again.

Im also going to change the casefeet on this case. The original ones is the regular plastic ones that many cases use, I will change them to some that are made out of aluminium by Fannblade. I love small details like this, just the thing that I know that the feet are handmade by a person on the other side of the world just for me makes the build more special for me.

And they sure look nice too!

Thats all for me today. Im waiting for two fans and a can of clearcoat, when the painting is done I will be assembling the case and start installing the hardware and keep experimenting with the copper pipes.

If you want more updates from me you can check out my facebook-page where I post things every day!

With kind regards

Johan Nyman

Minimalistic PC's

[Father Fuzzy]

good call on the casefeet

 

Fannblade makes the best feet around

 

great work on the rad fans :wub:

[C4B12]

good call on the casefeet

 

Fannblade makes the best feet around

 

great work on the rad fans :wub:

 

He sure do!

 

Thank you Father!

[old reece frost]

This is smexy :3

[C4B12]

Ive been very busy with a new job I landed so havent been modding much lately. Although, Im going on a vacation for one month in USA and I want to finish this project before that so I have some pictures of a almost ready casemod, want to see?







I added some copper pipes to the build! On these pictures its not finished, just testing it out. But what do you think?







I also added a windowframe to the sidepanel, made by E22, also thanks to HCP for the sketch. I think the windowframe fits perfectly together with the fangrill, what do you think?

Im working on finalizing the loop and installing everything else. As soon as thats done and the loop is filled I will start working on the final photos and post them for you here.

With kind regards
Johan Nyman
Minimalistic PC's

[C4B12]

Hello everyone!

This project is finally finished, for the second time, as always with my projects. But now I feel really satisfied with the result. I will not talk anymore, except give a big thank you to my sponsors!



Want to see the final pictures? Here you go.

























Thank you for all your comments and everything! I will be back as soon as I can with another project!

With kind regards,
Johan Nyman
Minimalistic PC's