Project ORANGEHot Rod
Welcome folks! It's been a few years since I've done a build log on OCN. My last project was Fire & Ice (looks like the pics have been lost into the digital abyss). It was a fantastic learning experience and I enjoyed it tremendously. I've built several rigs since then for various people, some with small mods, some just put together like legos, but I've got the itch to do another water cooled build.
Along comes CaseLabs new line The Bullet Case Line - OCN Link The case is designed for air cooling or the use of an AIO, but where is the fun in that? You can fit a custom water loop in anything right? Challenge Accepted!
Work in progress pics:
The Plan:
Case
Updates
Update 1 - The first few parts arrive
Update 2 - Building the Monsoon MMRS Reservoir
Update 3 - The case arrives
Update 4 - Making a home for the Aquaero 6
Update 5 - AQ6 & fans installed
Update 6 - Another box of loop parts arrive
~Bear
Welcome folks! It's been a few years since I've done a build log on OCN. My last project was Fire & Ice (looks like the pics have been lost into the digital abyss). It was a fantastic learning experience and I enjoyed it tremendously. I've built several rigs since then for various people, some with small mods, some just put together like legos, but I've got the itch to do another water cooled build.
Along comes CaseLabs new line The Bullet Case Line - OCN Link The case is designed for air cooling or the use of an AIO, but where is the fun in that? You can fit a custom water loop in anything right? Challenge Accepted!
Work in progress pics:
The Plan:
- Stuff a full size ATX board and GPU with a full custom water loop inside a portable LAN case built for air cooling
- Sleeved cable extensions in Orange and Black para-cord
- Cut the top skin to allow two top mounted radiators and reservoirs to tower out of the top of the case - think like a blower out of a hot rod engine!
- Water loop will cool the CPU, Memory,, and eventually the GPU
- Window etching - Not quite sure what will end up here. Thinking my gamer handle, and maybe my clan website or logo for 907gamers.com
Case
- CaseLabs BH7 - Tangerine / Black
- Accessories mounting plate
- Light bars
- Extra radiator mounting bracket
- Mobo - Sabertooth 990FX rev 2.0
- Proc - AMD FX 8350
- GPU - Nvidia 780
- Ram - Gskill Ripsaw 16 GB DDR3 (4 x 4 GB)
- PSU - Corsair AX1500
- Orange LED for main case lights. I may do white or red mobo backlighting also.
- Radiator - x2 Black Ice Nemesis 240GTX Dual-Core Xtreme
- Fans - x6 Cougar Vortex 120mm X 25mm & x2 NoiseBlocker BlackSilent Pro 80mm X 25mm
- Memory Block - EK Monarch block and modules - Acetal / Nickel
- CPU block - EK Supremacy EVO - Nickel
- Reservoir - x2 Monsoon MMRS 200mm - Frosted White Warp core pattern, chrome tension rods, cathode plug, and pump housing
- Pump - EK D5 PWM
- Fittings - Monsoon Chain Gun compression fittings and angle fittings - black / chrome / orange
- Tubing - 1/2" ID x 3/4" OD Clear
- Coolant - Distilled water w/ Mayhems Pastel Orange
- Fan Controller - Aquaero 6 Pro
- Flow meter - Aquacomputer 'High Flow' flow sensor
Updates
Update 1 - The first few parts arrive
Update 2 - Building the Monsoon MMRS Reservoir
Update 3 - The case arrives
Update 4 - Making a home for the Aquaero 6
Update 5 - AQ6 & fans installed
Update 6 - Another box of loop parts arrive
~Bear