oliverw92

NO WAY! You make those?

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DesertRat

Means it looks REALLY good. jizz in my pants good.

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oliverw92

Ahhhh :P Lol thanks i get it now!

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mtbhrd

The wireless module looks like a detonator for a bomb.. haha

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oliverw92

Haha i thought that when i opened it! Nifty design though, very pleased how they designed it.

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Thosesneakyfrench

Something I'm perplexed about, is why you chose not to go with a low profile video card for this project. They're tough to find, but low profile cards exist as powerful as the 9800gt.

+Rep for the concept though

oliverw92

If you read back a bit, you will see we had a debate about this. all the low profile cards are long and need auxiliary power. None of them are short enough. I also do not gain much height loss from it, since i still need to fit the rad in and give a decent way of routing the tubes, water isn't wireless :P

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Thosesneakyfrench

Hmm, that's a good point. Still, this is an awesome idea and can't wait to see the final product!

oliverw92

Update #6 - 30/08/09

Some guys on Bit-Tech discovered that my PSU would definately not be enough. Someone then showed me a 1u Seasonic PSU so i have managed to fit that in!

The final sketchup model is finished! I spent ages on this. It is EXACTLY how it will be, everything is perfectly to scale. By doing it like this i have actually solved loads of problems i would have come across later when i had got items laser cut etc.



Front



Right side



Top with 120mm rad and fillport



Without the outer shell and cubes



Back view without shell



Back



Left hand side with GPU. Will actually be nVidia but never mind...



Profile shot of the right hand side.



The loop! Yes i am now cooling the 9300 chipset. One of the problems i discovered by doing the accurate sketchup is that the apogee drive would hit the heatsink on the chipset. So duniek at OCN is making be a custom block that looks very similar to the one above (i.e. barb positioning is the same). Yes there is some VERY tight tubing to be done. But hey! I'm up for a challenge!



The back of the loop. 45 degree fittings will save this project! Most of the models in the sketchup are downloaded, however i made the apogee drive and several other parts. It is precisely to scale from the swiftech site. Very pleased with it!



Bottom compartment. The cd drive rests on an acrylic plate that is glued to the HDD bay. There is a 60mm fan at the back blowing across the hdds. This will be mounted to the base using a bracket, rather than mounted to the grill.



HDD Bay



Empty shell. The whole thign is held together with 10mm acrylic cubes. There will be purple LEDs mounted in them which will shine out of the corners displayed by the rounded corners of the aluminium frame.



Moneyshot



So what do you think guys? I managed to get the 250W psu in, which i am very pleased about. I need to order things like the PSU, switch, CD drive and hdd before i can start milling out the aluminium.

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KarmaKiller

Man this is gonna be epic... Subb'd

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