Maximus V Formula and Extreme Owners Club

[Area 66]

Speaking of Performance-PCS, I took these pics last week they finished sleeving some fans for me, only a ten minute drive so I took some pics for you guys.

I will be always broken if I was leaving at 10 minutes of them, good service too, they prepare and ship my order on the 26th


Interlopper, your case cost more than the rest of the hardware, are you planing to install some real Water cooling in it ?

[Interloper]

I will be always broken if I was leaving at 10 minutes of them, good service too, they prepare and ship my order on the 26th


Interlopper, your case cost more than the rest of the hardware, are you planing to install some real Water cooling in it ?

Yes at some point down the road I will probably put in a custom loop. I had one in my last rig. I just didn't feel like messing with it right now.

[Area 66]

It's an amazing case Interloper.... and you make a nice clean job inside too

[Interloper]

I know Performance PCS has some amazing water gear and yes about a 10 minute drive for me, when I get into water (one day) its going to be nice to have them so close, changing out fittings and fluids and rads.

Just got word, the M8 shipped, thanks CaseLabs. I almost got the SM8 tower, but after having 3 full tower chassis and one mid-tower, really wanted a different more interesting configuration this time. Two compartments, no waiting.

Interloper man, thank you so much for the awesome photographs, I love em, getting me all fired up about the new chassis. Still cannot believe its on the way. I went ahead and got the front USB 3.0 ports, only because my current chassis did not come with motherboard cable headers so I've never had USB 3.0 on the front of the chassis. Your current pics look even better than the unboxings that powdercoat is beautiful man.

Thank you... your rig is spotless man, not a speck of dust, must be using one of those electric blowers a few pages back.

Thanks Bruce I appreciate it man. I almost went with the SM8 also, but I wanted the extra room for cable management and custom liquid cooling in the future. Opted not to get the front USB because I didn't want more cables to deal with and I have easy access to the back one's.

Unfortunately its kind of a losing battle with the dust so it doesn't stay spotless long. I do need to get one of those blowers though. Its been on my amazon wishlist for a while.

It's an amazing case Interloper.... and you make a nice clean job inside too

Thanks dude. I put quite a bit of time into wire management when I build a new rig. Tries my patience after a while but it make's it look really nice in the end.

[billyray520]

From your photos Interloper, I may have to go with a Push config. for the H100i to have enough hose length without any tension. Your H80i is set to Push-Pull. Glad I got the new blower, since Push juxtapositions the fans between radiator and chassis, making them close to impossible to clean

Couldn't you put a little filter on the outside of the case in front of the fan which is positioned between the radiator and the case? Now that you brought that up, I'm going to give that some thought myself.

[Interloper]

From your photos Interloper, I may have to go with a Push config. for the H100i to have enough hose length without any tension. Your H80i is set to Push-Pull. Glad I got the new blower, since Push juxtapositions the fans between radiator and chassis, making them close to impossible to clean

It's actually just an H60 with a single fan in push config. The new H80i and H100i were not out yet and I didn't want to wait.

[Interloper]

Yeah that should work. You should probably have an extra set of hand there to help though. Would be a bummer to mark up that sexy case or damage some hardware.

[TenBlade]

We interrupt this broadcast to go live to TenBlade´s man cave...

The womb is ready to create life Finally my long anticipated Cooler Master Storm Styrker arrived.




The back grill and the angles make me think of the back end of a Lamborghini Countach, but it´s not going to be "The Lambo build".



Just couldn´t wait to breathe a little bit of life into my baby, so I fitted the back bone, just for kicks (pun intended ).



Next up will be the H100i, I´ll have to get that from Germany, I think. I´ll try my quad fan mod, and see where I can fit it. I might have to hack saw off some of the handle bar going right into where the front most fan would be (not visible under the top cover), I´d have the radiator and one set of fans internally, and the other two on the outside. But that´s all just in my head now. Could perhaps also fit the fan-radiator sandwich at the bottom front. But then I´d have to get the babe off the ground, or it´ll be the most expensive vacuum cleaner this house has ever seen

Now, CM may have gotten into trouble if they´d called this case Snow Trooper, but I doubt that ol´ George would go for my throat were I to call my build "Snow Trooper". It looks like it belongs on an ice planet, could also call it my "Hoth System"...yes, think we have a winner here. I´ll make it official, when I finally get all my pieces together and make a build log.

The case has such nice fan control buttons, but what you´ve got there from Lamptron, MeanBruce, would surely fit nicely into the black front with those red numbers. It also comes with a utility drawer at the bottom, and at the top there´s a slot where you can jam an SSD into, as an external drive. I fail to see the practicality of that appliance, but still think it´s cool

Now, back to you, MeanBruce

[TenBlade]

Gonna need this app to keep track of your thermals bro.

Ha! Nice one! But I´m not going near any sub-zero cooling!

[Tyrus Ashkar]

Very cool app. I want it ^^

Oh !!! I forget something : Happy New Year !!!!!