Parvum Systems Project Magnus

[nicvdv]

Excuse my google translate but: It was minor but only because there is no fun watercooling in there yet maybe
More to come soon!

My apoligies. Was typing it so fast I didn't noticed it was in english. But keep on the nice work. I following this completly.

 

[parvumsystems]

how about spray painting the case of the icy dock black as well to fit the theme ?

I may actually do just that. However we will see, I want to introduce grey and some aluminum so maybe the silver will be ok!

Took the case home to get to work on the braiding and cable management. Bell's approves!

 

[stefan787]

hahaha mr.kitty is helping you! Looks great, just awesome

 

[MrGiorgio]

It looks very stylish. :112:

 

[NAVYVIPER]

really nice case
the cat just found a name for this case wildcat

 

[vincenttor]

Great work, btw , the milling machine does it use a vacuum table , wondering because of the pvc tubing next to the machine ?

 

[parvumsystems]

hahaha mr.kitty is helping you! Looks great, just awesome

Haha he sure is! Actually he tried to get inside the case

It looks very stylish. :112:

Thank you!

really nice case
the cat just found a name for this case wildcat

Maybe we can use that as the cases nickname

Great work, btw , the milling machine does it use a vacuum table , wondering because of the pvc tubing next to the machine ?

Thank you very much! It sure does yeah. It has a 7.5 KW vacuum table.

 

[vincent]

tath is reely mooi sorrie for mij bad englis

 

[parvumsystems]

Rads and fans

Sponsors/Support:

This time will actually be a mini update haha. Mainly to show you a few bits from the sponsors/support and what not.

First up is the fans. Phobya have supplied the build with 17 of these little gems. Really liked them when I was first shown them and now the black version comes out.. it was meant to be!
Thanks Pascal.

Time to start making custom length cables. The current plan is for most of the rear and cable management to be visible so it was a must. Plus due to size alone most of the cables wouldn't have even been long enough:

And the part I hate the most. Solder time....

With his new length cable and some Shade 19 MDPC braid:

Next up some of the goodies from XSPC; super stoked on these fittings. We used them first in the ITX build. Love the shape and overall size. Feel nice and chunky and very suitable for this build. Black chrome finish on these:

We move onto the radiators of choice. Decided to use the white rads as the fans are black and will break up the colour enough between the fans and the inside of the case.
These are currently my favorite radiator and aesthetically nothing touches them for me. Really want to use the smaller 120mm versions in an ITX project!

A big thanks goes out to Paul for helping set this up. Really enjoying the current XSPC range. They seem to be really on point with their latest and coming range of products.

To finish for the day.. as I said it is a short update we simply had a little test look at two of the rads inside Magnus:

Until next time

 

[Sw333t]

tath is reely mooi sorrie for mij bad englis

Translate: That is really good looking. Sorry for my bad English.

 

[reclamations]

it looking good man, especially those radiators I find them really nice

 

[parvumsystems]

Thank you both very much! Updates coming very soon!!

 

[parvumsystems]

Waterblocks & Hardware

Sponsors/Support:

Sorry for the delay y'all!

To update you on some things at the warehouse first. We have been busy.. more busy then ever. We have still been trying when possible to custom mod some Parvum cases, these have been ticking over nicely. In between that we have been working on a bunch of stuff for Nvidia. We did a series of cases for an American prebuild company that will be being used at LAN and show events by Nvidia themselves. We have also done a few custom battlebox cases.

Next in line will be a massive restock of the mATX case. We then plan to get the ITX case out to retailers. We are looking at the end of November for these.
Finally we have a new guy at Parvum, Stephen is his name! Please flame away if you are an EVEN rather than a PHEN ;D! You may well see his hands in this project... maybe.

SO TO THE UPDATE!!
Sorry this really is a filler update. Show you all some hardware going in so we can then at least get down to the more fun stuff... custom res', straight tubing.. the usual!

Thought I'd start things off by showing you an ITX rig we did for a close friend. Managed to cut build and fill in one day. *There goes our only day off*...
Really stoked on it. Custom modded the case to fit an extra 120mm rad PSU side so this little guy has 2 x 120mm rads cooling the CPU:

So to MAGNUS! We start with a cheeky 4770k! Thank you Jim and thank you Intel for the support, without it... well, we would be CPUless... haha:

Next what will cool the chip... this build we have gone fully XSPC. This is due to wanting to go down a slightly new route on our builds and having a close friend at XSPC. It's nice to support them, one small company to another:

Next a little teaser of whats to come... HUGE block to mill something nice and custom:

Some of you may have noticed this feature from the render, but almost 500mm of hard line tubing will be inlaid into each side at the front of the case. Will be a great feature with the fluid:

So more hardware show-off... thanks again to Jim over at Kingston. He's gone all out on this build as you will see a little bit later. But first.. some RAM, 32GB in fact!

More XSPC as we block up:

Up next is another lovely item from Asus.. Sorry I did say this was a hardware update.
Thanks Gareth, I know GPU situation was a headache for this build!

Really nice packaging and the stock cooler!! :O, it's a shame we have to remove the thing. Asus have done a really great job with this cooler:

It would be rude not to show you the board with blocks and a cheeky GPU test fit:

That's all for today. Sorry it took a while to get it to you and then it was ultimately just some hardware.. but like I said.. now the hardware is in place we can figure out the fun stuff!

Thanks for reading! Show some love!

 

[parvumsystems]

Fashionably late Halloween ;D

 

[nicvdv]

Dem it look very nice and idd cool halloween color

 

[parvumsystems]

Acrylic tubing time

Sponsors/Support:

More delays.. nothing unusual here. This time we lost three-phase power for 6 days. Really messing up work and any chance of project updates.

But that said... now we have something to show you. Exciting tubing at that!

First we want to quickly show you something we are pretty happy with. It was done for a friend so won't be used in this build but a nice little piece. Spec was from a pencil drawing. Single piece construction using heat to bend and designed to hold 4 SSDs:

mmmmmm SSD p0rn....!

Onto MAGNUS!

First up we remove the mosfet block from the board:

Replacing with an awesome little XSPC block:

One thing that did lose out on was due to the reverse(upsidedown) layout.. the little badge cannot be used. Not really a big deal as the build is very monotone but still wanted to do a little something....

Removed the orginal red detailing from the Asus heatsinc:

ANd in place on the XSPC waterblock:

Next up we made a small jig from a bunch of acrylic layers. It's purpose was to add the extra 30mm of space that will be taken up in the bottom of the case so I could start to plan the loop. As with all of our builds we are forever stuck in a 'catch-22'; one thing is always stopping us do the next so this was the only way to move forward:

Putting the jig to use:

Then use the jig to mark the bottom panel. Again all will because much clearer in future updates:

And more:

Next up... well... THANK YOU ASUS! We have more GPUs!
Sitting pretty with stock coolers for now:

Unfortunatly for now we are having problems sorting suitable waterblocks. However knowing they will be XSPC in style the way to move forward was to grab one of Shaun's 780's already with XSPC block:

So for anyone who hasn't worked with acrylic.. we cut ours just using a basic coping saw in a vice. Simply paired with any fittings suitable for this tubing. Bitspower and EK do these. Also spotted some other fitting systems being used but don't like the looks of these. We also hate any bending of hard line tubing. After all.. floppy tubing does the bends. If you are trying to make a super tight bend without kinking it... that's great... BUT we think there is always a better option. Thats our advise anyway. Acrylic U bends are something that make the eyes bleed.

MOAR TUBES:

That is it for today friends and fans

With this progress it really means we can get going on the build so expect more frequent updates ASAP! NOOB stop moaning now! ;D

 

[stefan787]

Love ti, 3 gtx 780, Nice!

 

[reclamations]

nice love to see what the idea with the tubes is. it looks strange in a good way

 

[dsp]

WOW ...thats clean .......very nice !!!

 

[nicvdv]

ok that's dem clean love the tubing !!!!