Removed the top case fan and placed 3 radiators. Top rad required holes to be drilled since the existing holes are centered and the rad is not because of the ports. Rads are EK SE rads, since you need every mm you can get in this build
15mm fans are on the outside to allow for loop parts and pump on the inside. Test fit the cover and it fits, but I'm going to be using a vented cover to allow the fans to provide airflow
Front and lower fans placement. Planning to turn around the bottom plan towards outlet also. Also I think I'll switch to a full thickness Noctua fan there, can't find one in black but that one will be hidden anyway.
Installed EK water block on the EVGA 2080 Super. This is a ridiculously tight fit on the PSU cables for the GPU, and this isn't even off label use. The rad is the same thickness as the fan that was factory installed there.
Test fitting motherboard. There is no way to get a soft tube from the CPU block out to the top of the first rad. This is going to require some case modding
This is how I plan to route tubing from the GPU out to the CPU in. Lots of wasted space in the top of case tbh. I'm gonna try to see if I can mount an inlet fan on the top grill. If not, I'm going to trust that passive inflow from the top as well as the side Air panels will be enough.
20mm holes drilled and filed by hand to fit the three pass throughs.
GPU out to CPU in, CPU out to top rad, top rad to middle rad, middle rad to bottom rad, bottom rad to pump, pump to GPU in. Only the pump missing now.
Top tubing with fill port.
Complicated routing to fit so many radiators in this case. Holes drilled in top grill
Glad I went with soft tubing. There super short runs with would have been impossible with hard tubing
Cables installed and "managed". Nothing to write home about, but not going to bother until I get custom cables later. Under the back panel is a corsair commander pro. Its driving the three fans and is hooked up to an inline water temp sensor. Eventually I'm going to use it for a couple of LED strips to light up the interior.
Now, I'm waiting for the pump. I actually have 3 of them ordered, and I don't have an ETA for any of them :(
The pump is here! Just fits, though not in the orientation I'd planned. Also no room for standard fittings, so I'm using low profile alphacool fittings. They're designed for narrower gauge tubing, so the tubes in and out of the pump are a little narrower than the rest of the build. Should be fine I think
The pump res combo from alphacool. Ddc pump. left fitting is inlet from bottom radiator, right fitting is out to GPU in
360mm rads in the Evolv Shift
I'm trying to do a full custom loop in an evolv shift with 3X120mm rads. Space is very tight, and this case is not meant for a build like this, so parts have to be measured and chosen very carefully, and some case modding will have to be done. Still waiting for my tiny pump-res combo to arrive so that I can see if everything will fit
Color(s): Black
RGB Lighting? No
Theme: Industrial
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: Mini-ITX
Type: General Build
Build Updates
Almost complete loop
Hardware
CPU
$ 225.00
Motherboard
$ 259.00
Memory
$ 196.59
Graphics
$ 1,029.00
Storage
$ 89.95
Case
$ 149.99
Case Fan
$ 69.90
Case Fan
$ 26.95
Cooling
$ 257.40
Accessories
$ 74.29
Estimated total value of this build:
$ 2,481.80
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