[BUILD LOG] Project Booboo Complete! - Lan Rig - Hard Tube WC; Sleeved PSU; Audio Tube Amp; Custom RGB Lighting; Case Mod Front Panel

Intro
So I've been working overseas for a while, so when I got back I decided it was time to get the latest and greatest, my other rig is pretty immobile and we tend to do LAN days so decided a small form factor is the way to go

Core Components
Intel Core i7 5930k
Evga X99 Micro
Evga 980 SC
2 x 4GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400
250GB Samsung Evo
Thermaltake Toughpower 650W Tough*

*Evga SuperNova Nex 750W Fully Sleeved - Got this on sale and let me make it a full Evga build
Corsair 350D Windowed

Cooling Components
EK Supremacy EVO
EK 980
EK D5 Vario w/h 140 res
2x 120.2 EK Coolstream *
2x 120.2 Koolance Thin 30FPI Rads
4x Corsair High Performance High Static
*As you can see I was going for a pure EK build, but the Rads with fans would hit the top of the board, so I switched to some Koolance Rads I had available and will use these in my next build

Fittings
EK Rigid Acrylics, some 90's hidden under the shroud for routing
1x Fill-port **
1x Koolance quick disconnect (G1/4 side) **

Liquid*
Feser Uber Pure and Mayhem Pastel Blueberry Concentrate
*Attempting a Green and Blue Theme since this is my first Nvidia/Intel build, so little bit of color mixing going on

Misc
Koolance 5 way splitter **
3x 5mm LED stop plugs
Bitpower Stop Plug 10k Thermistor
**The 5 way is coming off the pump with the QD not normally in use, combined with the fill port allows for MUCH easier draining and refilling, definitely something i am glad i included

Awesome Fun Stuff
So up until here this is a fun build but nothing super unique so adding in some more fun stuff

Custom LED / UV
Arduino Control
Military Style Toggle Switches
4x 10k Trimpot Sliders
RGB LED Strip (60 LED/m)
RGB and HSI based control for colours, fan speed controlled by temperature feedback via PWM on 12V

Front Panel Mod
1/4 Inch Acrylic
All the Arduino control input will need a panel to hold them so will be putting a custom panel for that and might as well mod the entire front am thinking clear acrylic with black backing and RGB accents, leave a nice gap to see the item below once its all together.

Panel is cut acyrlic and sanded to fog it a bit, Booboo Vinyl sticker

Shroud
Aluminum siding bent, cut and painted, dremel/knife for straight edges, hole saw for reservoir and about 1/2 inch for each passthrough

Audio Tube Amp
Bravo V1 Deluxe
So wanted a good amp for headsets since this is a LAN rig, was originally going to go with a sound card but saw one of these online and thought awesome! unfortunately they don't sell directly in Canada so was only able to get the V1 and even then was pricey, but it is super advanced soviet technology and looks and sounds awesome

Thanks
So have a few people would like to thank and recognize are my housemates Axipher and SafetyMollusc, lots of advise and debates and some extra hands helping to get everything installed

Name
Su11ybear is my gamer-tag in most games so all my builds are named after bears, no real reason other then when i started online gaming it was the first gamertag that worked. Have Yogi which is my current rig (ongoing mod to this one), Bobo which is the NES HTPC, and DropBear which is server (Canadian but was in Oz last year and they loved making this joke), the rigs listed in my sig are out of date and this is my first proper build log so hope you all enjoy it, and if you read all the way through this thanks have a drum solo  

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Originally Posted by Lutfij 
 

Hey Lutfji glad you got a chance to look through it, the clearance issue is with the 8pin power input at the top of the board, since I am using full sized fans the rads were just a little too think (they are PE Rads) I could use one on the front and my smiller one on top but figured it was better to keep the same rads in both spots for looks. I had the koolance rads from a previous build so was able to get it up and running, did a quick test with no O.C. and folding and didnt see coolant temps above 37 degree C so I think I will be alright with these, also the SLI may not be the best option for this build since its supposed to be my LAN rig, so should normally only be doing one monitor anyways, my next/ongoing besides this one lol which is going to be x-fire and that will be my main gaming rig at home for my three monitor setup and it will probably benefit from the thicker rads so i'm going to call this a serendipitous outcome :). That seasonic looks solid and when I start doing full sleeving definitely one to consider, the Tt is working good so far but might need to do a mod to get power for my amp so will see how that goes, I actually had the koolance and feser from before so figured I would use it :) its looking ok right now but I'm disappointed with the UV effect off them, might switch out the coolant for a pastel type coolant as I have been looking at doing a build with that. 

On hte plus side the build is up and running just messing with the accents and some layout/acrylic stuff for the front, hoping for a day with decent weather so i can do some cutting and keep moving, got some photos to upload of were I am at so should be up in the next little bit

Yeah been trying to get the UV reactive to work but doesnt seem to want to make any glow which is bothering me, I know my UV cathode did a little but the LED's just dont seem to be cutting it, oh well I might switch them for some ultrabright White LEDs just to add some light in the loop, and think I will avoid SLI but might through in an extra audio card I have to be a pre-amp for the tube :)

Good point about the links I hadn't considered it, i'll through some in this post and do it moving forward,

http://www.overclock.net/t/1523169/build-log-project-booboo-x99-liquid-cooled-lan-rig#post_23109943

http://www.overclock.net/t/1523169/build-log-project-booboo-x99-liquid-cooled-lan-rig#post_23109945

Oh and thanks for the Sub :)

Sorry for the delayed updates, went and seen the family over the weekend but did some work done since I've been back,

Monday - Got the front panel acrylic roughly cut, so have the main piece cut and made inserts for the switches and sliders, also modded the PSU so I can run the amp off the PSU, just did this on the 120VAC side to avoid any noise off the 12V rail, downside is any time I have the PSU switched on the Amp is on even if the computer isnt, i am ok with this for now but shall see how I like it moving forward, this was most of Monday

Tuesday/Wednesday - just did some breadboard clean up and connection creation, so can plug/unplug the switches and sliders

Thursday - was pure soldering and now have the amp integrated into the front panel and can plug my headphones into the normal panel and its running off the tube amp 

Still to go need to get a vinyl cover for the acrylic, add more lights for the front acrylic and finish mounting things, only have one messy phone pic to upload so not quite up to the normal standards but the amp is pretty

Cheers,

Sully