Parvum Systems Project Magnus

[radmiraal]

looks amazing !

 

[parvumsystems]

Looking good keep on modding

Thanks dude, I will! I did say this year we will focus more efforts elsewhere... but already know what project we want to do next haha.

looks amazing !

Thanks my friend!

 

[parvumsystems]

Sorry for the lack of an update. We have been busy working like mad and spent the weekend at LSUCS LAN 44. For more info check out the website here:
http://lan.lsucs.org.uk/

We attended this event to showcase our cases but also to help raise funds for the special effect charity:
http://www.specialeffect.org.uk/

We auctioned a Parvum ITX with all money going to the charity. It has been a great little event. A couple of photos of the LAN:

For all who want to see Magnus, we will be updating the thread start of the coming week!

Hope you all had good weekends?

 

[BlueWingedTiger]

Amazing man! can't wait for more!

 

[parvumsystems]

Rear of case complete!

Sponsors/Support:

HI ALL!

First up then some cables to connect for the raid card. 8 sata cables in fact! MOARRR cables

Connecting the raid card water block to the top GPU block:

Next rather large task was to start connecting all the crazy pass through's in the bottom of the case:

Now for something we have been planning since the start. SSD heaven. In the form of 8 as you may have already seen Hyper X SSDs. These things are amazing. Physically/aesthetically the best SSDs I've ever seen and used and from what I gather the performance will match any other drives out there. Black with orange drives? Not here thanks!

A cheeky shot of the icydock! This will be really useful and fills that spot great:

Last for the update we managed to get the back of the case finished. 95% complete at least. All cables and wiring for the build finished. All fans routed to the required fan controllers, all other cables filtered up the frosted cable cover. Nice LED strip installed behind the cables to make some nice shadows. Again to match the front 4 more Hyper X SSDs. This is a massive focal point for the build. We really wanted to show these drives off:

That's all for today. Honestly though this update was huge for the build. Not TONS of eye candy but just completing the lower loop and ALL the wiring was a HUGE task.

Until next time.... do you like the back of the case and what are you all watching on TV?

 

[nicvdv]

What a dem nice case. It is really beautifull.
Watching momently nothing on tv Was sitting on highflow

 

[parvumsystems]

What a dem nice case. It is really beautifull.
Watching momently nothing on tv Was sitting on highflow

Thanks mate! Ahh then I don't blame you. Spend a lot of free time reading forums! For TV I am actually watching True Detective and its amazing!

 

[parvumsystems]

More Magnus

Sponsors/Support:

Going well all. Sorry updates have slowed a little, more tweaking stages at the moment.

First up was to finish the cable management, pop all these wires into the allocated holes:

Next install some MORE SSDs! Had to modify this sides top section to allow for the fittings to actually fit. Just one of them things....

Rear return tubes and all cables no complete:

We actually then went ahead and filled the loop with clear coolant. Just to double check each loop and ensure the system is running with no problems. We did not test any of the hardware from sponsors on air first (silly I know). However fortunately no issues at hand. Bios no problem and everything detected. Got some F/W stuff to sort out with the raid card as having a few issues there so will spend the next week or so bleeding the nightmare loop and running some tests with the system.

Its by no means finished cosmetically as we have quite a few external panels to cut but the wiring and loop side of the build is finished. A few teaser shots before we spoil the grand coolant colour photos and any video etc:

We will see you all VERY soon with EYE CANDY!!!!

 

[nicvdv]

Looks nice. It is fucked up you have problems with the Raid card hopely you find it fast

 

[parvumsystems]

Hi all,

Just to keep you up to date. We are waiting on LSI at this stage. Had some firmware problems. Until we hear back from them the build is on hold.

We are flying to Germany for CeBit tonight to land back Thursday. If anyone wants to say hello we will be at the event Tuesday and Wednesday.

Updates soon we promise

 

[parvumsystems]

Loop filled teaser!

Sponsors/Support:

Hi all. Very happy at the Parvum HQ.

The beast that is Magnus is alive. All hardware working, huge raid speeds and almost fully bled of air! In fact all cutting is now 99% complete. We have a few tiny touches like a SLI bridge cover to make but otherwise its ready!

This comes with good timing, we wanted a good month clear to arrange final photos at the studio and shoot an awesome video. This month being until Insomnia i51 at the Ricoh Arena! Magnus will be on the Asus stall during the day running a Gsync Demo. But also with us in the gaming hall in the evening. Seats: JH-A16 - JH-A20 so please come check it out if you are there!

So onto the update. Before we show any coolant I'd like to introduce what I believe is the final sponsor on the build and with no better way to finish; than with Western Digital.

From the start if you have been following you will know there is a tidy Icydock just chilling in the rear of the system. This of course would never be complete with out some storage drives.

WD stepped up here big time to supply us with 3 x 2TB Black drives for Magnus. I must say they are just mad quality and fit the build undoubtedly!

So perhaps onto what you want to see.... giving you SOME, but not all. We are heading to the photo studio to shoot final photos before doing an on location final video of the system.

We just wanted to at least show you some awesome sneaky preview shots of the now its filled. The whole build was really based around the two tone, we wanted to have the black and white alternate and at times even pass through each other.

To finish the look we opted for colour changing RGB LEDs, but set to white light, the light they create is not exactly pure white but a mixture of colour that in this case, the frosted acrylic will disperse to give an almost pearlescent look. Much happier with this than solid white as it really gives the bottom chamber more depth.

I wont say any more and let you see some eye candy!

Hope you all enjoy Any questions please ask!

Any comments do say! Really want to get some response, feedback, compliments, questions so please GOGOGO

 

[Thierry]

Great end result :023:

Just keep the builds coming

 

[Dr1ftK1ng]

Damn it looks sooooo nice!!!

KUTGW!!

 

[parvumsystems]

Great end result :023:

Just keep the builds coming

Damn it looks sooooo nice!!!

KUTGW!!

Thank you both! Final photos, video and benchies to follow!

 

[webdesigner]

Very nice build, i like everything about it.

Keep on the good work guys

 

[parvumsystems]

SLI Bridge. What to do?

So our friends over at Nvidia sent us an awesome little gift. In fact one of the only 3 Nvidia have in the UK. Since we have the 780's it was only the correct thing to do and use the LED feature. However the decision is how and what to do with this? It fits in PERFECT with the build... just is the green too out of place? I imagine the LED is probably actually white, with the green rubber giving the green tone. I mean we want to support team green as much as possible on this one but will it kill the monotone?

Please let me know what you think and if you have any ideas?

 

[MrGiorgio]

Although it's a very sexy object, I think it would kill the minimalistic looks.
The build shouts "less is more". The nuts and the two tone color would spoil that party.

That's just my 2 cents ......

 

[Thierry]

I say make the green white and use that thing....

 

[Dr1ftK1ng]

I agree with what MrGiorgio said. The shapes of the bridge dont match the shapes of the case. I would make it more simple and straight.

 

[parvumsystems]

Although it's a very sexy object, I think it would kill the minimalistic looks.
The build shouts "less is more". The nuts and the two tone color would spoil that party.

That's just my 2 cents ......

I say make the green white and use that thing....

I agree with what MrGiorgio said. The shapes of the bridge dont match the shapes of the case. I would make it more simple and straight.

Thanks for the input guys. Believe it or not it didn't actually fit... derp. Went for test fit and its about 10-15mm longer than a normal bridge due to the tech. After knowing we cant use it I must say I agree. It would fit much better in an armored case or something. We are going to perhaps run a give away so someone else can use it.

Thanks again! Final photos soon!