Hand-cut sheet metal ready for trimming and drilling.
Assembled accessory tower.
Test fit of the motherboard in the base.
15" dual-pass transmission coolers commonly used in 4x4 applications.
Test-fit of coolers in the glass tubes given to me by a chemist friend. They were the PERFECT size.
Rubber o-rings to keep the aluminum coolers from rattling in the glass tubes.
Final assembly of cooling towers.
Laying out placement of tower bits.
Cutting and bracing the accessory tower openings.
Cutting the openings for the fan control, TEC control, TEC cooling fan, heat duct, water ports, etc.
NZXT Fan control unit.
Cooling electronics laid out, including the disassembled above fan control unit.
The first draft hardware. After final build, the mobo, ram, cpu and drive were upgraded to an i7-5960, nvme ssd, etc.
Cooling loop fittings and 400watt TEC cooler.
Laying out of parts to do final build.
Test bends and fit of the copper loop. This was a parallel loop, so it was abandoned.
This was the final fitting of the copper loop before I simplified the loop a bit and going with PETG. I was targeting industrial, and it was just going too far down the steampunk path for what I wanted out of this build.
Leak test. I find blue shop towels show water better than most. Also worth noting is that switch under the TEC fan, slightly hidden by the CPU cooling tubes, which lets me flip the pump to a separate 12v power supply so I can do any loop maintenance without having to have any power to the system.
TEC Temp control test.
Fan control test.
First full power on after lights, etc. There is one piece of flexible tubing, in place where the second GTX 980ti is going.
Note the bypass outlets on the side. It allows me to purge, exchange or add fluid without having to breach the loop. On quick-release fitting has a fitting on it for a test drain.
Custom rear panel IO. 3d printing is fun.
Hot-swap SATA bay. Did I mention 3d printing was fun?
The interior from the rear. The TEC is covered in insulation with the controller the grey block right next to it. The drives are on the upper right, the blue card is the fan controller. I'm sure you can figure out the rest.
The dual 980ti Strix cards with EK waterblocks. I moved the LED from the stock cooler to the bottom of the waterblocks to keep the controllable lighting effects intact.
Industrio in it's final Opteron form before the i7 Upgrade
CPU Upgrade to the i7 5960, Corsair 32GB RAM, and 950 Pro NVME drive. Note the pump switch, so I can purge, drain, or fill the loop without powering on the system.
Industrio
I wanted kind of an industrial "mad scientist" build, but couldn't find what I wanted. I figured I'd try to build my own chassis, and this is what I came up with.
Color(s): Silver
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Technology
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: E-ATX
Type: General Build
Hardware
CPU
$ 160.99
Motherboard
PSU
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