this personal rig update is going to be a little different for starters I'm
filming right now obviously and yet my personal rig is about 20 minutes away by
car at my house on my desk so how can we
update it well good question we are going to be doing something that we've
never done before we will be building a
case from scratch so come along with us
for the ride of your life as Taran and and I collaborate to design the new case
that we'll be sending to protoc case for
fabrication oh and if custom cases don't
appeal to you then you can drop a like on this video if you want to see another
video that I'm planning where I'll be building a sick rig with no case at all
that's going to be awesome
too the master case 5 by Cooler Master gives you the freedom to truly make your
midtower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check
out the link in the video description to learn more so our adventure started in
the server room not because we couldn't look up the dimensions of a standard
rack mount chassis on the internet oh yeah for those of you who missed part
one we'll be building my personal rig in a rack mount case this time but because
to control the scope of the project I
wanted to pick out a size that I figured I could move around fairly easily then
work backwards to see what kind of Hardware I could fit inside versus just
kind of coming up with the dream Hardware spec list and then ending up
with the Corsair 900d like what evidently happened to George so then it
was time to take those measurements to our 3D modeling program of choice
SketchUp and yes yes I know SketchUp is
not the best modeling software on the face of the Earth but you know what it's
what Teran knows how to use and this is a video about designing a case not a
video about learning a brand new 3D modeling software or whatever so we
built out the outer walls making sure that our case would conform to the
standard width of a rack mounted case and to my length Target to keep the
overall size reasonable we're going with a 4u case so that takes care of the
height that's four standard rack mount height units tall because while a 3u
would accommodate full height expansion cards like graphics cards it would make
using all 120 mm fans in the design
untenable and while the Acoustics of the system technically don't really matter
with this project because I'll be moving the finished system outside of my office
into a closet I'd still prefer to use them even if only so that I can use the
custom n12 fans that we have noct to making in our LT color scheme so there
were a couple noteworthy things that were really cool about this project for
us the first was that we discovered just how How deep the library of PC component
models is in the online database and while some of them are not to scale for
some reason um others are both shockingly accurate and perfectly to
scale allowing a custom rig maker to really test out his or her design before
doing any of the really expensive prototyping steps it's really great for
working on PC projects like this I also
discovered why most case designers probably learned to 3D model themselves
I swear Taran spent about a billion years fixing the coherency of the model
or some stupid crap when I must have told him a dozen times Taran we're just
submitting this to someone else to fix up and ultimately manufacture they're
going to deal with the picky details but he was like no it's
important so fine speaking of guidance I guess this is a good opportunity to show
you guys why I did need Taran to help me
so this is the mockup that I origin submitted two protoc case when I was
pitching them the concept of an Enthusiast grade water cooled for you
case they were like H okay yes I see
where you're going with this but could we get something a little
more uh detailed but but but for all its faults
that original mockup did help us through the creation of the proper 3D model so
we determined after some fooling around with different fan models that we'd need
to use 120 mm fans in the front because while 140 mm fans would fit there
wouldn't be enough clearance for the tanks at the ends of the radiator if we
wanted the middle fan centered in the front of the case something my OCD
simply required to happen and then using
the tried and true method of folding it out of paper then handing it to someone
else to 3D model I showed Taran how I wanted the Second Bank of fans and
second radiator to mount behind the first one uh between these two and the
potential final single 120 mm that gives me now a total of seven 120 mm radiator
spots uh plenty of cooling for the hardware I'll be putting inside the next
stage was figuring out how the rest of our components were going to fit in the
space that we had now the original plan yes I know it's terrible had a dual tube
Reservoir setup with two pumps one for each which is more for redundancy in the
event of a pump failure than anything else after inserting a motherboard and
power supply we realized that in order to have our hard pipe tubing setup look
good I mean yes we could have made it work the original way but to make it
look good we had to scale it back to a
single pump and Reservoir not what I was aiming for but a first world problem for
sure so no real no big deal with all that in place all that was really left
was the little picky detail work which ended up actually taking about as long
as the test fitting uh space ing of the motherboard and power supply had to be
tweaked to ensure that a dual slot card could be installed in the bottom PCI
slot on a 7 slot motherboard to give the system more expandability uh Teran
remodeled our D5 pump to have the same EK top that I'll be using in the build
then adjusted the mounting foam for the pump to ensure that it would line up
perfectly with the outlet on the reservoir giving our Hardline tubing a
really clean look there the cable management holes were created in the
radiator mounting plate for the front rad and fence uh we added SSD mounting
on the side of the chassis because even though I'll be using a 1.2 TB 750 series
PCI Express SSD from Intel um and a as
for my main storage I mean who knows someone else may want to replicate this
project but use a normal SSD so we might as well build in that functionality and
then finally while this was basically
eyeballed Cable Management space was left to run the 8 Pin and 24 pin
motherboard connectors and PCI Express power cleanly along the bottom of the
chassis next to the motherboard and this is basically it what you're looking at
here my next case which will be hidden away in my closet where I actually don't
have to look at it but it will be able to be looked at it'll look pretty good
still and it'll deliver the same performance and functionality that it
would even if it was right next to me so
now it's time to submit this puppy to protocase along with technical drawings
of key components like radiators um who
is then going to mock it up and hopefully if all goes according to plan
fold up some steel screw it together powder coat that sucker and send it back
to me when you guys will get the next update I Can't Hardly
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