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★★★ Project: Icebreaker ★★★

bundymania

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Hey guys,

today, it's once not time for another review, but for a worklog! :)

It all started with my Corsair Obsidian case, that started to look too big and too black for me after some time, so I wanted to start something new! :)

As there aren't too many white cases, that look pretty good, I finally decided for a Fractal Design Define R3 in the color Arctic White. :)

In this worklog, I want to inform you about planned and finished mods and also hope for constructive posts.

The current plans included - of course - watercooling for CPU, VGA card and mainboard, maybe also the RAM for optical reasons. The color scheme will include white, light blue (water) and maybe purple (2nd loop!?).
Of course, spontaneous changes could happen in response to new ideas or good proposals that I prefer.

As I already had a few engravings in the past and I really liked them, this is likely to happen again in this log.

Also, I'll of course cover the basics: lighting, sleeved cables and whatever might come to my freaky mind! :D

An airbrushed design would probably also be great, but just as (and too) expensive on a large surface, if I don't find a cheaper alternative.

The other side panel will maybe get a window in the style of an iceberg or just a plain, simple window.


Let's get to the planned

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Case: Fractal Design Define R3 - Arctic White

Define R3, Arctic White - Fractal Design




Mainboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE
CPU: Intel Core i7 920
Watercooling: Mips set with white tops, Fullcover Block + Mosfet cooling
CPU waterblock: Watercool Heatkiller LT Special Edition with white top
VGA card: probably a Sapphire 5850 with a matching waterblock
RAM: 6GB Kit by Corsair, or Mushkin
PSU: Be Quiet Straight Power PCGH Edition in white
opt. drive: Samsung DVD LW
SSD: Kingston V100 128GB

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Storage: 1TB HDD

other watercooling components: 5/8" tubing + barbed fittings, Laing DDC-1T pump, XSPC Laing acryl top,
and one or two reservoirs.



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- 09/20/10: begin of this worklog! :)


Update 09/21/10:

ice crystals on a HK 3.0 LT - maybe useful somewhere else as a nice effect :)




First tests with engraving:





Misc. hardware and moddingparts from several shops:




Update 09/25/10:

Side Panel shipped to a guy which is able to make the windowcut for me with a Waterjet :)



(Yep, the very old phone is rare and may would get a high collectors price @ebay :) )

Colors (half transparent) from Molotow arrived:




Update 09/30/10:

Windowcut in Sidepanel is ready - thanks goes to Ace.KIA@forumdeluxx.de



Special Version from the wanted RAM Waterblock with white Top arrived - Thx to Mips-Computer.de & Sixtron




Update 10/08/10:

- more Parts arrived from new Sponsors EK Waterblocks, Magicool and Bitspower !
- little Paintjob Test



Update 10/14/10:

- Koolance Waterblock changed to EK Block, because imo it fits better with the white top in the Ice/Winter Theme :)
- Slotbrackets painted white
- Black Screws from the Slotbrackets changed to clear/iced looking screws
- one of the Rads painted white
- Fanmount dissasembled from the Casebottom
- BeQuiet PSU was changed to Enermax Liberty 620W - white painted and cables sleeved white
- Sketch for Plexiglass engraving done by Beer design

Update 10/19/10:

- White paint for the Screws, Backplate and Bracket from the 5850 Card & Waterblock


Update 10/28/10:


Laser Engraving is ready, thanks goes to Stempel-Hauser GmbH: Casemodding LianLi

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and thanks for the Sketch to Beer design


Update 10/31/10:

Some color tests

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Update 14.11.2010:

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Update 11/18/10:

Different Tops for the CPU Waterblock / Rad & CoolCover Mounting Screws Paintjob

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Paintjob ;)

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Update 11/20/10:

CPU Waterblock now with Plexy Top, Mounting-& Logo Plate painted white and a light test:

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Update 02.12:10:

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Lüfter mit coolem Ice Effekt:

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Radi und Schrauben lackiert:

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Update 11 February 2011:

Kleiner Boxenstop ;) anderer Ramkühler + Cool Cover Set hat Platz genommen

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Weisse Leds im CPU- und Ramkühler vorstellen und weisse Schrauben sowie evtl. Wässerchen ebenfalls in weiss bzw. trüb :)

Screws and EK Logo painted white :)

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Now with lighting - i like it ! :up:

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For supporting me with this project, I'd like to thank www.aquacomputer.de , www.aquatuning.de ,www.highflow.nl , www.frozencpu.com , www.sidewindercomputers.de , www.a-c-shop.de ,MAGICOOL , www.kingston.com , Home | EkWaterBlocks , Bitspower International Co., Ltd. , Tecnofront , MIPS Computer , www.martmamod.de , Beer design , Noiseblocker , XSPC and the user "delicious_cake" for helping me with the translation of this :)
 
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This is one hell of a concept :D
Very nice rig you got there in the making.
I cant even decide wich color I like best, purple or blue, they both look so nice.
Think the blue one matches the icy look better though :hmm
 
Yeah, or Card on the Rocks...something like this ! :D BTW: I´m testing different materials atm to include "snow" as another nice effect in that mod., maybe in the Reservoir with a little filter, to hold the particles in it..that´s one of my ideas....but...as you can imagine..it´s not easy to find a material, which is good for that. Stay tuned :)
 
Super geil!!!!... :038:

Really something that stands out from the rest of the modding at the moment, thumbs up for you man :023:

Maybe for the tubing you could create some transparant frosted look tubing with some light blue water going trough it.

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Don't know how to, but maybe someone will come up with an idea, rough it up with sandpaper maybe??? or some agressive cleaning fluid flushed trough the hose before using it???
 
That´s not a problem to make Tubing look like that - i can use clearflex, that tubing looks like that after a short period when in contact with water and addictive :)

I´m using it atm in my server

I was thinking of light blue water too, there is Nanoxia Iceblue Premix available:

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I think, when i´m using clear/transparent water, i have more and better options with different colors for the leds (case lights)
 
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