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So now for the fun part! In the loops we have
mayhems red & white. The best fluids we've used. In honesty we don't do any fancy temperature or flow tests... as long as our hardware is at a suitable temp and it looks good that's all that matters here. All about aesthetics!
As for
Mayhems if you haven't had a look at the fluids you really should!!
One colour for each mini res:
We fill both loops at once here. All mobo power intact and no paper towl or anything to protect us from possible leaks.. we have far to much faith in what can be very tempermental
fittings & acrylic tubing
. Here are some photos I managed to get as we booted the system a few times:
So we did go ahead and finish filling the loop but you can see a few other little bits before I show you thats.
We made a start on the top layer. This is made up for a 5mm red then a 5mm white. Here is the red:
We then cut the top from the white. The rog logo requires some very tight cuts. The Hole at the rear has a nice 120° edge cut and the entire panel had been cut out with a 45° cutter:
A cheeky shot of the back with the red rear chamber installed. Remember there will be a second white layer to cover the majority of this:
We then finished the side panel. Very similar to the standard S1.0. but just revaling more of the internals. The 'republic of gamers' text was inlayed with forsted red.
Very fiddly to get the tolerance to actually work and get these letters installed without any cracking! Here are a few shots of the loop filled with side panel in place:
With the white roof layer installed. We may actually inlay the ROG logo here with grey and red but its extremly tricky and we wanted to see how the cut through would look first:
We will leave you with some nice shots of the case now both loops have been filled. This is really what the case was about. Redicleous amount of hardware and cooling:
- Socket 2011 i7
- 16GB RAM
- 2 x 7870
- 2 x 240mm rads (60mm & 35mm)
- 2 x DCC pumps
- 2 x SSD's
- 5 Waterblocks
- Over 40 fittings!!
This all in a somewhat 'neat' mATX LAN rig. It really wasn't until this point we really got to see our our hardwork shine on this one. Will we ever straight tube cool a rig this small again? hmmm unsure.....
Once again
thank you all for reading. We hope these photos made reading and following so far worth while. We would say the build is about 90% complete now to be honest. We have since added a second layer just to strenghten the entire thing. Its MAD heavy and have a bunch of final touches. To have a few bits to finish. The PSU side cover which will inclose the fan controller etc. The top ROG inlay and case feet.
Please understand these are not the final photos so if you do wish to share them wait for the best! We are heading to the studio Tuesday to get some super nice final shots together for you with a great friend of ours Tom Barnes. If you are into photography you should check out his work
here. He couldn't shoot things any further away from computers but he can sure as hell make a fine job of them as well.
Untill then! Have a good one!