That's how the case should look like. But with better bends and tidy cables. Also the side panel on the back side is still not done. ;)
Status Quo. I ditched the tubes for the GPU. They were too ugly for my liking...
Let's get started. Here's how the case looks in it's original form. :)
To get the radiators in I mounted those L-Profiles on the bottom plate. Took a lot of measuring.
The sweet thing about this was, that the radiators still fit in the case when I put the profiles on the edge. As if the case was made for 180mm rads. :)
Here's how it looks with only the dual rad mounted.
Both rads inside. The midplate still fits over them.
And the guide for the MB-Tray is sitting nicely on top of the midplate. Turned out exactly how I planned.
Next stop: Front of the case.
What can I say? It just works. ;)
Not perfect, but that too needs to wait.
The second set of profiles for the radiators.
With drilled holes and mounted fans.
Reseating and adjusting the position of the rads.
I didn't count how many times i took them out and put them back in. A lot of times...
Here's the connection between the MB-Tray guide and the midplate.
The neat thing about that connection is, that you can't see it from this side.
An adapter plate to connect the midplate with the two radiators.
There already are holes in the midplate I wanted to use. So I pressed nuts in this adapterplate. That way I can fixate the thing with screws from above.
The washer was just a guide for the nut when i hammered it in a bit.
Then I pressed the nuts all the way in with my vice.
Worked very well on my first try. :)
This plate is for connecting both radiators on the top.
Also the adapter-plate will be screwed on this thing.
Here's how it looks in the case.
It get's a bit complicated, but up until now everything worked out fine. Version 2 is shown here, I made a few mistakes with the first one.
Now i can put screws through the midplate to connect it with the radiators. That gives the case a lot more stability.
Already taking it apart again?
Forgot this cutout where the nuts for the little L-Profile of the MB-guide are. Otherwise they would collide with the adapter.
Up next: The pump needs a home. I didn't want it to be visible, so I searched for a good spot.
Also I needed a way to mount it without damaging anything so I don't void the warranty.
There are these two holes I was able to use...
...to put some threaded M3 rod through...
...and put on a new bottom plate for it. :)
Here's the spot for the pump. Took me a while to find it. But it fits pretty thightly between the rads.
Here are the L-Profiles for mounting the pump.
Those will be connected to both fans at the front.
I put rubber rings in between so the vibrations of the pump don't spread out.
Even more rubber rings and the seat for the pump is finished.
Spoiler: It works very well, I can't hear the pump when it's running with 50% power.
But it's a thight fit. There are only 2mm left between the pump and the front of the case.
Up next. The cover plates for all the openings in the case.
Took me a while...
...especially the round bit was tricky.
But they fit nicely. Now they only need to be covered with black foil.
Like this. Sadly the black isn't identical with the powder coating of the case.
Another thing: A blind for the Triple-radiator. I started filing it out by hand...
...and eventually switched to a jigsaw which i mounted upside down. I put a short bit of a file in and went on with quadruple speed. Don't try that at home kids. ;)
My little brother visited me for a week and wanted to help me out. So we built a sleeving tool. Works pretty good. :)
To get rid of the mess with the fan-cables i detatched the switches...
...and made a bridge for 12V directly on the pcb. So I was left with half of the cables.
Also this fan-power distributor was created. Again my brother helped me out. :)
That's looking much better than before. Trust me, you don't want to see "before". ;)
Final test before putting it into the case. Everything good to go. :)
Probably my favourite picture. I like this solution very much.
Almost finished the blind for the triple rad.
Just needed a few coats of black color.
Everything still fits into the case. :)
I think it looks much better this way. ;)
The filter found a home too. Wasn't as tricky as the placement of the pump.
There is a 120mm fan next to the IO-Shield. That one got a blind too.
I shouldn't have made the cutouts going over the hole...
Got my red/carbon sleeve. I like it. :)
The dual-rad also got a blind.
Sadly i made a mistake with the cutout for the ports.
You can't see it since the rad is on the backside of the case. But it still doesn't let me sleep... :D
Got my order from Mizu-Cooling and with it came all the fittings from Barrow. That's a thight fit, I'm glad that I measured correctly. :)
Took me a while to find the optimal routing.
Here's the final version. Wasn't easy to get everything in.
The top power switch was replaced with a fillport. It slips in as if it was intended for that.
I made this ring which holds the nut of the fillport so I can take it out again. Otherwise the front of the case can't be put onto the case anymore.
It starts to get thight in there... Not much place left.
I wanted to put the flowmeter here. But later on I ditched it completely...
I finally got to make this plate which is glued to the acryl cover next to the MB-Tray.
That's how the reservoirs should be mounted. They get a bit heavy when filled with fluid, only the acrylic plate wouldn't have been stable enough to hold them.
I also got these holders for the tops of the reservoirs.
I didn't trust the little screw to hold anything, so i modified the part a bit. Now it doesn't wobble around anymore.
I put the panel in and connected it with the case.
Front view with the bottom holders of the reservoirs.
And finally the completely fixated reservoirs. Took me a while to get them in there.
Time to get some hardware on the MB-Tray.
Maybe I should invest in a better camera instead of putting all my money into the PC. :D
Here's the final layout for the distribution on top of the midplate.
Here after drilling the holes and putting the passthroughs with the fittings in.
And here's the midplate in the fully assembled case. Looking good so far. :)
Just the same pic at an angle. ;)
Completely forgot about the acrylic inlays i made. I put LEDs beneath them so a bit of light comes through. :)
Heres a view on the complete backside.
And now the hardtubing begins. That took me very long... :D
My first attempt with the runs to the reservoirs.
In the end the long tube bothered me so much...
...that i built this template.
Much better. :)
That was pretty much the hardest part of the loop.
It's even kind of horizontal. But now I don't have much tubes left.
That's why the ones for the CPU and GPU turned out so ugly. Those are both my first try... Can't wait to redo them.
[TJ11] Monolith
Hey there! :)
First of all, everything you see is Work-In-Progress. I propably should have put a "WIP" in the name now that I think of it. :D
So, what's this thing about you may ask. Let me tell you how I came up to this point... ;)
I remember when I saw the Silverstone Temjin 11 being shown to the world for the first time like it was yesterday. I was instantly fascinated by this beautiful case but just couldn't afford it. So I bit in my lip and went ahead with a FT02, which too is a very cool case and got me hooked on it's odd formfactor. Back in 2011 I also got my first "real" PC with a 2500k and a GTX570. This system lasted me up to the point when AMD released Ryzen, so I had a good while to save up some money. :)
After the 570 I eventually went for a 780 and after this one I got my 980Ti nearly two years ago. The FT02 was still going strong and I often played with the thought of modding it. You need to know that I always had Air-Cooling and was just waiting for my chance to switch over to liquid cooling. I even had layed out pretty detailed plans on how to set the FT02 under water and also found a lot of great mods which inspired me to do so.
But then something magical happened. During my big break in '17 I came home from my summer job and found a guy who was selling a TJ11 whilst browsing the internet randomly. It was an instant buy, he sold it for less than half the market price because he did some work on it but that didn't bother me. At this point I knew that I needed to start my dream build, so over the next following year I saved as much money as I could and bought pretty much everything needed for this mod. Radiators, reservoirs, the pump, etc...
When my summer holidays in 2018 finally started I went into my garage and nearly three months later everything you see in these pictures was made. Sadly I wasn't able to finalize this build as I ran out of time and money. So I hope, that I can finish it up in my next summer holidays. :)
Ah, I still didn't tell you what exactly happened, listen up:
As I stated I always had aircooling. Especially the GPU wasn't very silent, so I really had a wish for a system that didn't sound like a jet taking off whilst gaming.
With that in mind, I went a bit overkill and thought to myself: If I start doing something, then it better should be oversized and time-consuming.
So I modded the case to fit 180mm radiators. To be able installing them (Dual + Tripple) in the bottom compartment of the case, I had to raise the midplate by ~4cm. That was pretty much the trickiest thing to do with the case itself, apart from connecting the radiators with the midplate. :)
After that I found a neat way to install the pump and made the panels to close the openings in the frame. The last step was to put the passthroughs in the midplate and install the reservoirs. Then I only had to do all the hard-tubing. Done!
Ha, not that fast. I you take a closer look you will see, that there still are a few things I could waste my precious time on. ;)
But as I said, that needs to wait until I have time to do so. :)
A little preview on the next steps:
With all that being said, I hope you enjoy what you see and consider giving me a feedback. I'm always open for new cool ideas and criticism.
Thanks for reading and watching. :)
Links:
My german build log.
Imgur Album #1
Imgur Album #2
First of all, everything you see is Work-In-Progress. I propably should have put a "WIP" in the name now that I think of it. :D
So, what's this thing about you may ask. Let me tell you how I came up to this point... ;)
I remember when I saw the Silverstone Temjin 11 being shown to the world for the first time like it was yesterday. I was instantly fascinated by this beautiful case but just couldn't afford it. So I bit in my lip and went ahead with a FT02, which too is a very cool case and got me hooked on it's odd formfactor. Back in 2011 I also got my first "real" PC with a 2500k and a GTX570. This system lasted me up to the point when AMD released Ryzen, so I had a good while to save up some money. :)
After the 570 I eventually went for a 780 and after this one I got my 980Ti nearly two years ago. The FT02 was still going strong and I often played with the thought of modding it. You need to know that I always had Air-Cooling and was just waiting for my chance to switch over to liquid cooling. I even had layed out pretty detailed plans on how to set the FT02 under water and also found a lot of great mods which inspired me to do so.
But then something magical happened. During my big break in '17 I came home from my summer job and found a guy who was selling a TJ11 whilst browsing the internet randomly. It was an instant buy, he sold it for less than half the market price because he did some work on it but that didn't bother me. At this point I knew that I needed to start my dream build, so over the next following year I saved as much money as I could and bought pretty much everything needed for this mod. Radiators, reservoirs, the pump, etc...
When my summer holidays in 2018 finally started I went into my garage and nearly three months later everything you see in these pictures was made. Sadly I wasn't able to finalize this build as I ran out of time and money. So I hope, that I can finish it up in my next summer holidays. :)
Ah, I still didn't tell you what exactly happened, listen up:
As I stated I always had aircooling. Especially the GPU wasn't very silent, so I really had a wish for a system that didn't sound like a jet taking off whilst gaming.
With that in mind, I went a bit overkill and thought to myself: If I start doing something, then it better should be oversized and time-consuming.
So I modded the case to fit 180mm radiators. To be able installing them (Dual + Tripple) in the bottom compartment of the case, I had to raise the midplate by ~4cm. That was pretty much the trickiest thing to do with the case itself, apart from connecting the radiators with the midplate. :)
After that I found a neat way to install the pump and made the panels to close the openings in the frame. The last step was to put the passthroughs in the midplate and install the reservoirs. Then I only had to do all the hard-tubing. Done!
Ha, not that fast. I you take a closer look you will see, that there still are a few things I could waste my precious time on. ;)
But as I said, that needs to wait until I have time to do so. :)
A little preview on the next steps:
- *Maybe make a distribution plate.
*Definitely a slight...
*Put new tubes in the thing.
*Tidy up the cables and waste a lot of paracord.
*Find someone who is willing and able to mill a new window in my side panel.
*Trying to find new ideas and look out for another TJ11. ;)
With all that being said, I hope you enjoy what you see and consider giving me a feedback. I'm always open for new cool ideas and criticism.
Thanks for reading and watching. :)
Links:
My german build log.
Imgur Album #1
Imgur Album #2
Color(s): Black Red
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: none
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build
Contests
This build participated in 1 contest.
| Rank | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| #828 | The builds.gg 10K Challenge | ended |
Hardware
CPU
$ 195.00
Motherboard
$ 198.60
Memory
$ 239.00
Case
$ 1,238.98
Cooling
$ 130.30
Cooling
$ 112.80
Accessories
$ 149.65
Accessories
$ 49.70
Keyboard
$ 120.00
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