Evolution of Flying Dutchman into Valkyrie (long term project 3-6 month)

[Joe__Bishop]

Also, while I'm flying high on pain killers, cause wisdom teeth extraction, I'll work on side panel.

 

 

[Joe__Bishop]

2 and half hours later

 

This is only top panel, it is like 2.5 times smaller than side panels...

 

Well will go clean up

Edit, second picture of final product. Total time 5 hours... my arm is killing me

Edited July 11, 2021 by Joe__Bishop

[Bastiaan_NL]

Progress is looking good!

Make sure to clean the PSU, use compressed air or something to get the metal dust out. You don't want to end up burning down your hard work because of saving a few minutes.

 

And good luck with the pain, I know how it feels..

[Joe__Bishop]

Thank you.

 

Yes I purchased air Duster today. Should work. Just need to buy black nail polish later. To cover exposed aluminum

 

Will start assembly today.

[Joe__Bishop]

Here is side panel finished. Only took 4 hours in total, I found a slightly faster way to make holes.

 

Fisr photo over exposed for overall look

Second how it looks closer in life

[Joe__Bishop]

First water block  in with fitting

 

Also gpu almost leveled. It is fine with me

Edited July 13, 2021 by Joe__Bishop

[Joe__Bishop]

Heh Heh, I shmaybe have an issue

 

Soooo you know how I felts like I was almost done with this case,

 

Nooooooope

 

Cables I got were wrong orientation... so bottom line 1 month till I get replacement  from pslatecustoms.com ( I originally bought from other store, awesome cables, but stupid monkey forgot to check orientation)

 Ow well, I'm on last section of loop, all is left is to get psu cables and only software upgrades, rest is done.

 

 

[Bastiaan_NL]

Nice work getting all of that to fit!
I am using a Fractal Design 7XL and I still think it's not big enough (looking for a 1000D) and you manage to fit all that into that shoe box

[Joe__Bishop]

@Bastiaan_NL
You should check

Thank you, I'm looking really forward finishing that up already, kinda want to take it for a drive test. Using couple of new things and want to see how it runs and performs. And honestly getting tired of mess on my desk

[Joe__Bishop]

There was a nice surprise waiting for at mail room and I have tomorrow and day after tomorrow as off

[Joe__Bishop]

More tight fitting is being currently made before I cut last tube. I am hiding all cables and essentially cramming every last mm of space I have.

 

I was able to implement 92mm fan on the bottom back it will be partly chocked but it will drag hot air from bottom rad and pulling a bit of air from front of the case.

 

I am trying to hide ca les from pump, left over heat shink worked great, but all out oit and have stupid yellow cable

 

I also got ears for case for wifi and Bluetooth

 

I need advise what orientation I should put commander, horizontally or vertically

[Supercrumpet]

On 10/07/2021 at 19:19, Joe__Bishop said:

Hell yea.... success

But at what cost

 

 

How is the bottom radiator attached now that there's no frame at the bottom of the case?

[Joe__Bishop]

15 minutes ago, Supercrumpet said:

 

How is the bottom radiator attached now that there's no frame at the bottom of the case?

 

Actually, friction. I did cut hole that is smaller than radiator but big enough for main body(where you mount fans) to go past. And it rests on the feet of the case, small little let overs from case and pressed down by gpu, so it sits solid there. I only needed to sag it by like 2 mm or so since I also found a fitting that is about 1mm shorter than stock watercool blocks,  I think it is ekwb.

[Joe__Bishop]

So this is how tight I love my builds.... there is literally no space left

 

So funny thing happened,  I ran out of tube. I actually might need to use one metal run. Will see after I cut for cpu if end piece will be long enough

 

So 2 hours later...

 

I was able to shut the side radiator meaning everything  is hooked up. I set up loop that I can run in bottom rad only if need be due to way I hooked up quick disconnects.

 

My fingers do hurt and they started going black from all paint transfer.

 

Last leg of the journey.  Just need to connect commander pro and find home for it

Aaaaaaand pray I wired everything  correctly and it will work

I do have flow meter coming but I am not sure if it will fit instead of metal pipe, otherwise, I might get it up and running by weekend

 

 

Also no more ugly looking cables behind motherboard

 

Edited July 22, 2021 by Joe__Bishop

[Bastiaan_NL]

Looking good, though it's way too small for me 

Fingers crossed that everything works! Not easy to install something in there afterwards..

[Avacado]

On 22/07/2021 at 02:25, Joe__Bishop said:

Just need to connect commander pro. 

It pains me to know you are using a commander pro. I burned out 3 of those suckers. Next build please go Octo or Quadro. 

 

Looking great! I hope you made a sacrifice to kevdog. 

Edited July 23, 2021 by Avacado

[Joe__Bishop]

3 hours ago, Avacado said:

It pains me to know you are using a commander pro. I burned out 3 of those suckers. Next build please go Octo or Quadro. 

 

Looking great! I hope you made a sacrifice to kevdog. 

 

Owww, it is a left over from last build. I had too many corsair items so, was a logical purchase. How did you manage to fry them?

[Avacado]

2 hours ago, Joe__Bishop said:

 

Owww, it is a left over from last build. I had too many corsair items so, was a logical purchase. How did you manage to fry them?

Ran 3 fans on a header on 2 of them, the other just shorted out. If I had to do it again, I probably wouldn't run more than 1 per. The Aquacomputer products are vastly superior and you can run 3 fans per header all day. 

Edited July 24, 2021 by Avacado

[Joe__Bishop]

52 minutes ago, Avacado said:

Ran 3 fans on a header on 2 of them, the other just shorted out. If I had to do it again, I probably wouldn't run more than 1 per. The Aquacomputer products are vastly superior and you can run 3 fans per header all day. 

So weird.

Oh I love aquacomputer. I use to have the display hub model.

Ow will see how this will survive. Like I don't care if it burns or not. As long as everything else survives. Haha. I guess it will be in next build

[Joe__Bishop]

The good and the bad news.

 

Well the good news is all is done connected and hooked up... and evenly power button working.

 

The bad, well he he, those offset fittings in the bottom both leaking where they connect to thermal probes. And it only looks like leakage happening when on.

Will try to see if they loosen up or o ring not making connection

 

Ow well almost there just few more days

[Bastiaan_NL]

That sucks
I hope you can get it fixed without too much trouble, good luck!

[Joe__Bishop]

I'll try getto fix first.

Will increase o ring, will slap an extra one.

Because I think probe is just not sitting low enough for its oring to make contact. 

After I'll do extra getto fix. I'll bloody apoxy  shut that connection.  Haha

[Joe__Bishop]

Guess what is fixed

 

Will let it run for a bit before closing it shut again