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Project Arctic Aurora - Custom Desk PC LOTS OF PICTURES - Massive Update 5/19/18

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12 hours ago, Kobolobob said:

Looks super neat man, wish i was as handy xD

Thanks! I was thinking about may selling the kits to put it together or the whole thing. Thoughts?

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6 hours ago, Agent Maine said:

Thanks! I was thinking about may selling the kits to put it together or the whole thing. Thoughts?

Sure, if you think you can pull it off, i think having it in kits would be easier to ship them around than to preassemble everything

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21 hours ago, Kobolobob said:

Sure, if you think you can pull it off, i think having it in kits would be easier to ship them around than to preassemble everything

I am not sure what I would sell them for or How I would ship them ;D.

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Update #10

 

I got the Final Coats of paint applied today for the base and the top has been getting hardware tested and fitted before paint.

Thoughts so far?

 

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Update #11 

 

MAJOR UPDATE!

I finally got the top of the desk final and put the first coat of paint on it!. I finally see the end!!

 

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Update #12 Almost done painting :o

 

 

I almost ready to assemble the desk. I have all the hardware ready and waiting for the paint to dry. I started to sleeve some of my pump cables and waiting on the other parts to start really hammering on them. I have something really special in store with the paint on the top - in total with clear it will be around 8 layers of paint :D

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Some very nice work working skills on display and some sexy auto's too!     Will the top glass over hang to the outer front edges?

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Nice camrao, love that car.

Loving the detailed updates, keep em coming.

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7 hours ago, Defyant said:

Some very nice work working skills on display and some sexy auto's too!     Will the top glass over hang to the outer front edges?

Thanks :) The glass has been made so it perfectly matches the desks frame - it toll overhang the knee notch that I made. So the keyboard and  mouse are not obstructing the view of the system 

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Thanks - I try to post decent updates - a nother major one is coming today ;)

 

Also that Camaro is my new baby :) it's the Hot Wheels 50th anniversary :)

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5 hours ago, SaebMsarwa said:

Nice camrao, love that car.

Loving the detailed updates, keep em coming.

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Well, well. You got a very interesting neighbourhood. They enjoy the openair modding show. lol. Anyways, waiting for your  final picture of paintings... 

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22 minutes ago, Aktechmod said:

Well, well. You got a very interesting neighbourhood. They enjoy the openair modding show. lol. Anyways, waiting for your  final picture of paintings... 

Those are coming in the next couple of hours ;D  - Most people stop and ask what I am building lol  

 

The Next update will be easily 15+ pictures

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Update #13  Paint is Finished!!!

 

I got the paint done and will be installing gear tomorrow.

 

I thought I would do something a little special with the paint.

 

 

 

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Stress Testing the GPUs before they get there water blocks. - 1440p Furmark running at 1800mhz (gpu boost) non overclocked at 73c at a stable 125fps. I tested each card one by one to make sure I got similar results - each car ran for 1 hour before being swapped.

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Wow! what a supercool project! My wallet hurts to watch the amount of fans haha! :)  I would really like to see the finish result! :D

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Update # 14!  HARDWARE!!!!!!!

 

Today was the first day I worked on installing hardware and started to route cables for fans and everything. I got the video cards mounted in the blocks and cpu mounted :D

 

I Hope you enjoy some of these pictures - Better Camera Coming soon

 

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$650 worth of fans and control and fan extensions


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Day 1 is over - Tomorrow I need to get the pumps mounted and wired then start bending some tubing!!!!

 

Also waiting on my lighting modules from Corsair should be here this week O.o

 

How are the Photos so Far? Should I get myself a DSLR?

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, ReXiX said:

Wow! what a supercool project! My wallet hurts to watch the amount of fans haha! :)  I would really like to see the finish result! :D

I Just posted an Update with hardware being installed and good nerd porn ;D - The fans hurt about 650$ with all fans and commander pros modules and everything

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Amazing. PIctures had a hard time loading here but the ones that came though look neat.

Living Room: HTPC (M1 Mac Mini 8/256) HiFi (Furman Elite-15 PFi > Cambridge 851N > Emotiva A300 > Focal Chora 826) Display (65-inch LG Oled, 22-inch Dell)

Office: Workstation (AMD 3900X, RX5700XT, 32GB) Headphones (Cambridge DacMagic+ > Schiit Lyr 3 > DT 990. 2 Sonos One in Stereo) Display (32-inch Gigabyte)

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10 hours ago, Agent Maine said:

I Just posted an Update with hardware being installed and good nerd porn ;D - The fans hurt about 650$ with all fans and commander pros modules and everything

Looks great! :D RGB fans from the outside view i guess ? =) How bananas will you go with the RGB LED? ;)

 

I am feeling to cheap to buy a $20 rgb fan and you spend like 650 on just fans haha :D

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6 hours ago, ReXiX said:

Looks great! :D RGB fans from the outside view i guess ? =) How bananas will you go with the RGB LED? ;)

 

I am feeling to cheap to buy a $20 rgb fan and you spend like 650 on just fans haha :D

When you have that many rads you kinda have too lol. I don't want to go total RGB - I want them running more like a light show with my color theme ;D

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Update #15 

All the Water Cooling!

 

I finally got the CPU Water Cooling loop done and filled! - currently working on the GPU loop and then have to get all my cables installed ;D 

 

Note : This is my first time ever doing hard line :D

 

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That's a great work for the first timer man! The combination of the colors are nearly perfect. Was that coolant cryofuel? By the way, nice and clean plumbing...

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On 5/17/2018 at 8:56 AM, Aktechmod said:

That's a great work for the first timer man! The combination of the colors are nearly perfect. Was that coolant cryofuel? By the way, nice and clean plumbing...

Yes it is. Its EK CryoFuel Navy Blue PreMix - just about 2 gallons worth of fluid in total. Thanks The Gpus look much better pictures being posted

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Update # 16 It's Alive!!!

 

 

Massive Update - 

 

I got both loops built and leaked tested both of them for couple of days. I have had trouble bleeding these loops since I did not plan very well and would do things differently in the future.  I did finally get my pc booted and amazingly it detected everything on the first try. I have posted some basic numbers right now with no loads as I am still tinkering with the fan profiles and the pumps speed.  I hope you enjoy some of these pictures.

 

Note - A lot more to come - still need to cable manage, install cable mod cables, install glass, install monitors and finally the final touches. 

 

What are your thoughts so far?

 

 

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Note - Pump was at 45% and no radiator fans were spinning at time of taking

 

Ambient - 23c

 

Threadripper 1950x - Idle w/ No fans - 28c

 

GTX 1080Ti - Idle w/ No Fans - 26c on both cards

 

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It's Alive!!!!!!

 

 

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