Project Thief - CaseLabs TX10-D Dual Workstation/Gaming Build - Gulftown and SB-E

[stren]

Alright I have a question about sleeving, I'm getting grey, titanium grey, black and red from mdpc and wondering the best pattern to do, what do you think?

[stren]

No preference ROG?

Here's a quick update - time to start drilling!



Adding some fill ports:



2 done:



All done:



Not as messy now:



Time to get the workstation up and running so I can get back to work (once I've cleaned up of course). I'll be using the Koolance dual bay dual D5 reservoir for now. It's a real pain to use because it doesn't bleed well, however if you add on some tube from the fill ports on the res up to the fill ports on the case you can keep the water level above the reservoir and it really helps.



Now we've freed up a 360 rad for the workstation gpu/motherboard/ram loop, we can put the loop together:



I'm using AP15's temporarily until I'm done painting the low speed yates. Also that one barb is temporary too:



The wiring is temporary too. So for loop testing, I disconnected the QDC's pulled the motherboard tray out of the case and the 360 out seperately, then I reconnected and filled the loop and left it to bleed/leak test on the counter for a few hours.

[stren]

Alright time for another update. Here's the loop testing for the workstation. Bear in mind this is not the final loop - it will be tidier with nicer fittings, for now I need to get my workstation up and running, I can pretty it up later.



Some of the tube is the pink tube that I had mentioned before, that will be replaced. Bleeding of the annoying koolance reservoir was made easier by the dedicated fill ports and by the QDC's. The D5's struggle to push that much air out of the system, so it was much easier to bleed the cpu section and the radiator seperately and then connect them up as a whole:



Now that it had passed leak testing it was time to take it to the office:



It was now heavy (and bulky) and I didn't trust the BP crystal links not to loosen up if I didn't take it down the step smoothly, so I found a piece of plywood in the shed to help:



First boot! Yay! It wasn't just the kitchen that was covered in parts, so was the office, it's a real mess as I still had my old workstation running while I tweaked the clocks on this one.



I temporarily put the power supply in the top chamber while I did the overclocking tweaking:



Did a quick bench to see the limit of the chip, I couldn't get past 5.22GHz on water. I tried up to 1.66V, but nothing past 1.56 really helped. 5.22 means it's a pretty average 3930K, certainly no golden chip I tried to settle for a 24/7 clock of 4.95, but I didn't like the volts, so settled down for 4.9 instead, I'll see if I can tweak the memory faster than 2133 CL9 later, here's a SS of the 5.22:



Next I installed the power supplies properly, here you can see the optional PSU support bracket for long power supplies. It's probably not necessary, but why not? It comes with some rubber tape to damp any vibrations:



Here's the first PSU installed:

[Menthol]

I bet the wife is glad it's out of the kitchen, she must be a special lady to live with that.

[Xtreme-Performance]

Why is it Project Thief? You aint stealing parts from other PC? lol like civic... (sorry for the quirky charistma... btw..)

[stren]

I bet the wife is glad it's out of the kitchen, she must be a special lady to live with that.

No kidding - but I just made another mess in there today!

Why is it Project Thief? You aint stealing parts from other PC? lol like civic... (sorry for the quirky charistma... btw..)

Lol thief because it steals from my wallet, and savings and anything where there was money

[stren]

Took a break to put together an ivy rig for a co-worker:

A board!



blah blah blah marketing - where's the window that the extreme boards have?



Now there's a board



I liked the door hanger - unfortunately this is for an overclocked workstation so not too useful here:



A large box for some memory (32giggles):



Matching:



Oh and a cpu:



Best put that in the socket then:



We should remove that plastic cover too:

[stren]

Putting in that H100:



Yeah I know no custom water loop, but this is going to someone who can't be trusted with such things

miniThief is getting there:



miniThief- now with 100% more PSU:



Don't forget a GPU (9800GT ftw!)



Close up:



ISO:

[stren]

So back to the *real* project. Now that my workstation was up and running, I could take the old one down:



OMG dust! This is three months worth:



Still yucky:





Got out the duster and started taking it apart:



Nearly done



Now I've gone and made the kitchen messy again:

[Lilkka]

i cannot wait to see the finished build, I don't see how you can have such a large PC case and such.. i get tired of even seening one on my desk let alone looking at something that could walk with you next to your full body length hah..


Keep up the good work!