s1rrah

Stick with soft foods, bro ...

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Now that I have mounted the motherboard tray, it is clear that the entire assembly is to slide in and out of the chassis from the front-side. There were some items that needed some addressing:

• 24-pin ATX cable
• 4/6/8-pin aux cable
• Liquid tubing for the CPU and NB blocks
• Handle for the tray

In the end I decided to attempt to satisfy all these needs with one piece:





In the image below, one can see that the groove for the motherboard is not centered; this is intenional. The recessed t-nut that I am using as a receiver is 1/4" deep, so one side needed to be this thick.





Test-fit with some hardware:





PSU rear panel:

I messed up:



The one on the left is the FUBAR, the one on the right is the newly-made and (so far) error free iteration.... let us hope that it is the last. This is the 2nd or 3rd piece that I have had to go back and make again.

The one on the left was profiled on the wrong side; I needed both the interior surface and the perimeter surface to be profiled on the same side, not opposite sides like the panels for the case.... no biggie... it gave me an opportunity to use the router to make the inside cuts as opposed to the Dremel; the former yields a much cleaner cut than the latter.



Pump Supports:

Here is the inital plan... it may change:




I also spent some time on the front radiator panels this morning, but I will post images of those when it comes time to fit them.

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You make everything complicated in your quest for perfection, nothing is simple, i guess it is what makes your designs unique, works of art.

I think it is what we love you for, so don't ever change

You push the boundaries further with every update to make this not just a kick ass case but a masterpiece, something people would be proud to have on display rather than hiding away like the general public do

We love you Syr, don't ever change

<3

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*AND* ... he's more shredded than a Julian salad ...

<I'm green with it, mang!>

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Nosty ~ ... I dunno what to say...

_/\_


S1r ~ heh!... the last salad reference I got was, "Fruit"... ...lol


So... it's too hot to work right now, so I think that I will do some planning on the cove that will run the vertical line of the rear and side panels. At this point I don't think that I will need them for rigidity, but it would be nice to take some of the angularity off of the inside-corners.

Well, I thought that I would be installing the hardware this coming weekend, but it looks like it may be the week after, or perhaps the one after that, or... gah! I can't schedule for crap.

I still need to cut out ther rear panel, but that hinges upon all the interior pieces that interact with it being done. Additionally I have switched to dual-reservoir, and moved the 2nd reservoir and the pump to the PSU-side of the case; this means a reservoir mounting solution that is accessible from the outside.... I have an idea.


One of the setbacks is that I do not know the difference between "3" and "4".

I got the second water block for the GPU's but I ordered "3870 x2" ... can I get another facepalm for good measure... ...ah, that is better.

(I'm gonna have a real red forehead by the time this project is done).

To add to the debacle, the DD blocks are now out of stock, so perhaps I will get the EK version.

what-evah!

Oh! ... and I did some primering and painting on the few small pieces that needed it.

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TnB= Gir

Syrillian, root beer or cream soda?

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Ah, those troublesome little details...

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A direct "Tropic Thunder" quote.

Funniest movie I've seen in decades.

Go see it if you haven't.

Downey Jr. is in hilariously godlike form.

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Syr, I'll put in a vote for the nickel-plated EK block...I think that would look phenomenal with this build.

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howz about water... no ice.

...tell me about it



No kidding?!?!

Hmmm... I recall Mr Downeys performance in "Less than Zero", but "Tropic of Thunder" is unkown to me.

I'll bear the title in mind.



Thanks for the input.

Yeah. Thinking heavily on the EK

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