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[Build Log] Project "Event Horizon" dark red/black watercooled 900D haswell rig. Acrylic tubing inc.

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Welcome to my first OCN build log, hopefully i can bring you guys something wonderful and worth remembering.

Intro and about "Event Horizon".

I recently decided to upgrade just one graphics card in my old build(still in rig) but after finding a really good deal on an EVGA titan, i decided to get the EVGA hydro copper waterblock to go with it. At first i was going to mod the red led that comes with it to blue to match my old build. While waiting on the titan to arrive i got to thinking, what if i made the build all red instead of modding the block to blue? I was just going to change the color scheme in my old storm trooper case to red and go with that. But then ideas started rolling in my head on how i would do a new build if i ever decided to.
Well...i decided to. The idea of this project/build came to me when i was watching "How The Universe Works", i was interested in the black hole episode i saw and thought it would be cool if i could make a build that was dark with remnants of light sources that felt like they were holding on as much as possible while being pulled through a black hole. An event horizon is described as "the point of no return" to put it simply. In this case, the point of no return for the light that is being drawn in.
I had the general idea in my head about what i wanted to do, but i didnt know how i wanted to do it. At first i was thinking of just redoing my trooper to be a dark red with a soft glow of red leds creeping up from the bottom of the case, but i started thinking about a different focal point in the case to center the light around. I came to the conclusion that instead of just a general glow of lights coming from anywhere, i should use the light to accent some of the core components of the build, such as the processor, gpu, reservoir etc. So im going to try to focus on those key components.

Components in "Event Horizon"
Core Components -

Case - Corsair 900D

Processor - Intel Haswell I7-4770K

Motherboard - Asus Maximus VI Hero

Graphics - EVGA SC GTX Titan

PSU - EVGA Supernova G2 1000W

RAM - G-Skill Sniper 1600mhz

SSD - Samsung 840 Pro 128g

HDD - WD blue 500g

Liquid Cooling Components -

CPU waterblock - XSPC Raystorm

GPU waterblock - EVGA hydro copper titan

Radiators - XSPC EX 360 XSPC EX 480

Reservoir - Bitspower 150 cylinder res

Pump - XSPC D5 with EK pump top

Fittings - Bitspower 1/2 x 3/4 black sparkle compression

Coolant - Mayhems blood red 250ml concentrate

Tubing - Tygon clear 1/2 x 3/4

Fans - Corsair SP120 Quiet Edition x 10

Current Planned Layout -

So far im thinking of laying out the watercooling in the following manner (note this is a stock photo from google of the 900D i got so i could have reference points for waterblocks/radiators, none of the hardware inside is mine.)



Parts Acquired / Parts waiting on -

cpu - delivered
mobo - delivered
gpu - delivered
psu - delivered
case - delivered
ssd/hdd - delivered
ram - delivered

radiators - delivered
fans - delivered
fittings - delivered
tubing - delivered
pump - delivered
reservoir - delivered
waterblocks - delivered

Planned Mods for the 900D -

Aluminum midplate to seperate the basement of the case from the rest.

Custom fan grills, with lighting behind them to make it feel like light is being pulled inwards.

I do plan on doing full acrylic tubing within the coming month on this build, im doing soft tubing for the time being though until i get a good feel for the case and can properly plan out how exactly i want to do the acrylic, ive seen builds that have come out amazingly with careful planning, and ive also seen builds come out looking ghetto rigged due to impatience with the tubing/routing layouts.

I also plan on doing a full custom sleeve job for the build, mostly black with red accents, this will be done in the coming weeks after the build has been assembled.

If you got past the way too long intro, congratulations, hopefully i didnt bore you to death with how i got the idea for this build
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I hope you guys like what you see so far, ill take pics of the components i have on hand now and upload them in a bit.

Ill be updating the build log daily as all the parts should be arriving in the next few days and then i can get to the actual building
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As always, im open to any suggestions, comments and criticism good or bad on this build. So please give any feedback or suggestions you have.
 
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pictures and updates on progress coming within a few hours.

Quick question for anyone with the 900D case, anyone know if there has been mods to make a removable motherboard tray for the case yet? if so, id like to take a few ideas from them, if not, time to start planning ideas for it
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Already had a 360 on hand, so i figured id go ahead and use that in the top for now, until i can get a monsta 480
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gonna use my money i have avail atm on sleeving, acrylic tubing, acrylic fittings and to get some gentle typhoon ap-15s just for testing.

dont worry though, before the end of this build you will see two 480s in it
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Subbed! Always love 900d builds
 
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update inc - lots of pictures taken with phone camera until actual camera is working again.

it begins -


cpu/mobo/gpu and two rads


loop added


liquid added and ready to leak test



someone getting bored of waiting for a leak test


bottom fitting configuration



top fitting configuration




more pics to come, i have the build (mostly) up and running atm.

the gtx titan is DOA so im in an rma process with evga atm, should be done by next week i hope.

also the mayhems blood red dye got screwed up and turned an ugly brown color, have to break down the loop, clean it really good and then redo it.

300 feet of mdpc red and black sleeve should get here in the next couple of days, so i can take out the temporary wire routing and sleeve it and put in the real cable routing.

will be updated as soon as i get more parts
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