Babrbarossa
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Well, I've finally finished my latest build- too bad that it took so long that the hardware is almost outdated :doh:. I ran into several problems with lost parcels thanks to UPS primarily, and more recently was stumped by a dead video card which took me quite a while to pinpoint as it was the last thing I checked while troubleshooting. I dreaded having to tear the cooling loop apart again to swap it out.
In this rig I have two radiators- one mcr220 in the top inside, and a HWL BIXT 360mm in the bottom in the standard TJ07 side facing position. The mcr 220 was too thick to mount squarely in the exisitng mesh in the top, so I had to mod the mesh insert quite a bit to position the rad as far as I could toward the front and window without ventilation being blocked by the top of the case. As it is, it still comes very close to the motehrboard components.
view of the case with the door.
front view- nice high quality powder coating.
The box is easily twice the size of the case- lots of padding - great for shipping.
Comparison with the stacker 830- I was quite surprised to see that the TJ07 is larger than the stacker. it might not look like it in the picture, but take the wheels off and it's an inch shorter.
The gear- it turns out that it was a good thing I had three GTX 260s around. One was DOA.
bottom HDD fans- these are screwed on and easily removed for bottom rad mounting.
HDD cases to be removed for bottom rad mount.
I reinstalled one of the hdd cases sideways in top compartment- looks very neat but only holds three.
Future location of top radiator- this was a challenge.
This is step one of the mod I did to the top mesh that held the two top fans. I was dissappointed to find that half of the screws that held this mesh to the top of the case were stripped. The literally fell out when I touched them with the crewdriver- I needed some liquid metal to retap them.
bend step two
redrill for rad
reinstalled top mesh- ready for rad mount.
cheater solution! The back of the radiator is screwed to the mesh and pretty secure, but the front was a challenge since I didn't want to drill holes in my case and I'm not much of a fabricator so I didn't want to build a rail. The single starnd wire was effective and nearly invisible.
final product- see the only visible part of teh wire attached to the mesh. The good thing about this mod is that it's reversable if I ever wanted to go back to stock setup (as if)
the GPUs- I finally figured out that one of these was dead- after having to completely tear apart my rig after building it the first time.
minor mods for cable mgmnt- I also drilled and edged holes behind the 24 pin, the Sata ports and the CPU power to route cables through the motherboard tray.
sacrifical printer cable for edging drilled holes. I used the sleeving.
filling- I use deionized water, a little iodine, a little water wetter, and some DD uvblue clear dye. I got a brass fillport for the top- maybe should have been black, but I like it. Pretty stressful drilling holes in this case!
almost there
side top with lights on. There is quite a bend in the tube leading out of the bottom GPU- I forsaw this about two months ago while ordering and ordered two elbow fittings- when the order came, they were not in it and I was refunded because they were no longer in stock. I re-ordered some about three weeks ago, but for the third time this year UPS lost the parcel. I blame it on sameday who does their shipping in this area- they don't bother scanning the items when they arrive and they languish in their warehouse.
I haven't spent any time yet tweaking the GPUs but the CPU is running 24/7 at 4.0 GHz.
Well, I've finally finished my latest build- too bad that it took so long that the hardware is almost outdated :doh:. I ran into several problems with lost parcels thanks to UPS primarily, and more recently was stumped by a dead video card which took me quite a while to pinpoint as it was the last thing I checked while troubleshooting. I dreaded having to tear the cooling loop apart again to swap it out.
In this rig I have two radiators- one mcr220 in the top inside, and a HWL BIXT 360mm in the bottom in the standard TJ07 side facing position. The mcr 220 was too thick to mount squarely in the exisitng mesh in the top, so I had to mod the mesh insert quite a bit to position the rad as far as I could toward the front and window without ventilation being blocked by the top of the case. As it is, it still comes very close to the motehrboard components.
view of the case with the door.
front view- nice high quality powder coating.
The box is easily twice the size of the case- lots of padding - great for shipping.
Comparison with the stacker 830- I was quite surprised to see that the TJ07 is larger than the stacker. it might not look like it in the picture, but take the wheels off and it's an inch shorter.
The gear- it turns out that it was a good thing I had three GTX 260s around. One was DOA.
bottom HDD fans- these are screwed on and easily removed for bottom rad mounting.
HDD cases to be removed for bottom rad mount.
I reinstalled one of the hdd cases sideways in top compartment- looks very neat but only holds three.
Future location of top radiator- this was a challenge.
This is step one of the mod I did to the top mesh that held the two top fans. I was dissappointed to find that half of the screws that held this mesh to the top of the case were stripped. The literally fell out when I touched them with the crewdriver- I needed some liquid metal to retap them.
bend step two
redrill for rad
reinstalled top mesh- ready for rad mount.
cheater solution! The back of the radiator is screwed to the mesh and pretty secure, but the front was a challenge since I didn't want to drill holes in my case and I'm not much of a fabricator so I didn't want to build a rail. The single starnd wire was effective and nearly invisible.
final product- see the only visible part of teh wire attached to the mesh. The good thing about this mod is that it's reversable if I ever wanted to go back to stock setup (as if)
the GPUs- I finally figured out that one of these was dead- after having to completely tear apart my rig after building it the first time.
minor mods for cable mgmnt- I also drilled and edged holes behind the 24 pin, the Sata ports and the CPU power to route cables through the motherboard tray.
sacrifical printer cable for edging drilled holes. I used the sleeving.
filling- I use deionized water, a little iodine, a little water wetter, and some DD uvblue clear dye. I got a brass fillport for the top- maybe should have been black, but I like it. Pretty stressful drilling holes in this case!
almost there
side top with lights on. There is quite a bend in the tube leading out of the bottom GPU- I forsaw this about two months ago while ordering and ordered two elbow fittings- when the order came, they were not in it and I was refunded because they were no longer in stock. I re-ordered some about three weeks ago, but for the third time this year UPS lost the parcel. I blame it on sameday who does their shipping in this area- they don't bother scanning the items when they arrive and they languish in their warehouse.
I haven't spent any time yet tweaking the GPUs but the CPU is running 24/7 at 4.0 GHz.
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