2016/02/17 07:01:42
vitaminx
Really went crazy so far with this build hope you guys like it .
broke case down removed all the rivets

 
Some custom cutting of the mobo tray to make things fit better 

 
The case riveted back together and back from powder coating 


 
The mobo tray wrapped in a 3m carbon fiber 

 
The custom made fan stickers with 2 x 360mm XSPC rads.  Corsair 120mm fans.

 
Me making the custom acrylic PSU cover 

 
 
 
The two D5 pumps mounted to the cover with Monsoon housings 

 
The cover finished with decals 

 
Me making the reservoir acrylic piece.  Frozen Q res

 
The case back from Hydro dipping



 
 
Thats as far as I've gotten so far.  Just a teaser shot of the hardware going into it ;P
The case back from Hydro dipping

2016/02/17 09:01:22
EVGATech_AndrewA
Great build! I like the snake skin on the outside casing.
2016/02/17 09:39:20
zophar
The hydro dipping looks pretty cool, although I'm not to sure of the carbon fiber vinyl on the motherboard tray. Looking forward to the finished product.
2016/02/17 20:06:18
XrayMan
 
Looking good so far.
2016/02/18 01:48:07
Vlada011
That's ASUS reference GTX980Ti or some other version?
2016/09/24 15:36:21
vitaminx
Laser etched side panel back 


 
The custom cut acrylic piece back and led lighting done for it.  Also the res installed and light working.
 


 
Ignore the mobo its RGB and I can turn it white.
2016/09/24 15:39:35
vitaminx
still down to blocks for the video cards and I also have to wire in the fans to the bus bar for the top radiator.  After that, it's just wiring in the LED for the CPU water block and installing the CPU water block.  Oh the fun times with the rigid tubing too.
 
2016/10/15 16:59:21
vitaminx

 
Blocks on.  Some pipping done but I ran out of the UV glue ....  Also I'm going to see if can get a custom vinyl for the top GPU back plate. 
 
 I do realize I'm not running a Krait mobo anymore but the original krait died because the GPUs bent the PCIe's down ward lol and I started getting weird artifacting in SLI.  I loved the Gaming pro carbon so I ran that board instead but just kept going with the krait theme.  Also an added benefit was the mobo carbon matches the case wrap nicely and seems to accent each other, which was totally accidental and not planned.
2016/10/19 08:27:21
vitaminx


 
Custom painted the front screen cover.
2016/10/29 14:41:43
vitaminx

 
All the tubes are bent and in...  I also made sure all my monsoon fittings were using the upgraded poly carbonate lock rings, I guess the acrylic ones were cracking and leaking on users.  I also finished the wiring.
 
Update** 24 hour leak check spotted a small drip from the #2 pump housing.  I was unable to get it to stop by trying to tighten it a little so I had to drain the system and remove the pump.  I checked the oring and mating surface, both of which looked good.  Took me 2 trys at reseating the housing but on the second try it stopped and hasn't dripped yet.  If it continues to drip, then I am going to contact monsoon about getting a new o-ring.
 
Also I wanted to mention that I did plan on running a dual loop setup but ran out of room for the other res and decided to make a single, that is the only reason I have two pumps in this setup.  I dialed them down to speed setting one because anything higher than 2 makes my res looking like a washing machine.
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