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Mike Petereyns
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BTX Ray-Tracer

With the launch of the Lian-Li pc-011 Dynamic case I got asked to MOD one for Computex 2018 in Taiwan... so I dit.
Like always I go mental and try new crazy idea's... One of the things I wanted to try is if the case would be able to be dismantlement completely and rebuild but in BTX style, for those who don't know what BTX or reverse ATX means.. well in a nutshell the motherboard is upside down and the open side of the case is on the Left side of the case. This is still often used in cases like DELL and other brands but most manufactures do it ATX only anymore... to bad I think because BTX has the GPU blowers open side up and are located above the CPU and MOSFET so the massive heat of a SLI setup doesn't interfere with these components + it looks different and i like different :-).
Another idea I had was to use NO active radiator just my stainless steel space tubing (I am still the only one that use these) as a passive cooling combined with 2 passive heat sinks. Combined with 4*120mm Bora fans there is a massive upwards airflow so all the heat sinks and tubing where cooled ambient temp... and guess what? It worked quite well : -) ... after 1 hour af gaming the temps didn't got higher then 60C so that wasn't that bad at all. It even dropped 5 degree when i ramped up the fans full speed.
To gave the entire MOD a bit of a Nvidia style I custom painted the entire case in the original Nvidia green and made a custom reservoir with the Nvidia logo cnc milled into (ones again made bij Alex Banks... my man! ) I also used for the first time a small 3D printed tubing that was needed to print because the complexity of shape it was to hard to bend in PTEG and it worked as well!

I think the outcome was quit nice and had a very industrial look like... and of course the majority of people didn't see what was happening all there, they even thought i just turned the case upside down lol Emoji... luckily there was Der8auer he immediately saw it and liked it. Good enough for me...

MP-customized
Color(s): Green Silver
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Brand
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build

Hardware

CPU
$ 140.00
Intel - Core i5-8600K
Socket: LGA 1151
Cores: 6
Integrated Graphics: Yes
Motherboard
$ 316.99
ASUS - ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming
Chipset: Z390
CPU Socket: LGA 1151
Size: ATX
Memory
TeamGroup - Delta RGB
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 32 GB
Graphics
$ 6,164.05
ASUS - ROG Strix
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: GTX 1050
Storage
$ 272.00
ADATA - XPG Gammix S11
Form Factor: PCIe x4
Interface: PCIe x4
Capacity: 480 GB
Storage
TeamGroup - T-Force Delta (White/RGB)
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 250 GB
PSU
$ 159.76
be quiet! - Dark Power Pro 11
Wattage: 850
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: 80+ Platinum
Case
$ 159.99
Lian Li - O11DX Dynamic (Black)
Type: Mid-Tower
Side Panel: Tempered Glass
Case Fan
Lian Li - Bora (Silver/RGB)
Size: 120 mm
CableMod
CableMod - Sleeved Cables
Mode: Custom
Sleeve: PRO ModFlex
Color: Green
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