In the automotive world, a sleeper is typically a slow car, like say a Toyota Cressida,
that has been modified to be insanely fast.
And there's another key element.
The best sleepers, like this one from Mighty Car Mods, feature no external modification.
So potential challengers would have no way of knowing that it's capable of chopping them to shreds,
eating aforementioned shreds, then pooping them out.
So, inspired by this concept, we grabbed the nastiest, oldest, your-great-uncle-is-still-using-it-for-some-reason case
that we could find and vowed to make it Smash Games once more.
Meet Hubert.
Plain name, plain looks, plain performance.
You know, that kind of plain.
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So first, we needed a case.
And our good friends over at FreeGeek hooked us up with this.
An Antec SX840, which back in the day was pretty dope.
But after almost 15 years of filth collection,
well, let's just say it was perfect.
Opening it up, though, the insides actually could have been a lot worse, all things considered.
I wonder if this thing has even been opened since shortly after it passed QC back in 2003.
I really hate that that's a long time ago now.
Anyway, next order of business was a plan to pack it full of as much power and water cooling as we could.
And because Alex can't resist an opportunity to fire up that copy of SolidWorks that they gave us for just such occasions,
we created a model of the case and started virtually test fitting our components.
Radiator in the bottom with vent holes?
Hmm. Well, that could fit, but then we'd be stuck with a single graphics card.
Unacceptable.
So we settled then on a thick triple radiator in the front.
This might seem slightly overkill,
but these new Core i9 processors run hot as hell when overclocked and we wanted to be able to push this baby as
far as possible.
Time to head down to the workshop.
We pulled the drives, then spent about the next half an hour
drilling out rivets with our trusty bottle of rapid tap.
Ah, that's better.
I mean, who needs ancient mechanical drives when you can have more room for cooling?
Time for a test fit then before we make any irreversible modifications.
Our pump reservoir position was the trickiest to figure out.
At first we wanted it to go in the bottom,
but because of the PCIe slot positioning on our ASUS Prime X299 Deluxe, we couldn't make that work.
There is some room up top, but that would make filling the system more difficult without putting in a fill port in the top and ruining our
beautiful sleeper aesthetic.
So finally, we came up with an idea.
Maybe we could mount it to the fans.
I mean, sure, that's not the greatest for airflow, and it means that we'll have to be darn careful while drilling into them,
but it might be just crazy enough to work.
How to mount the radiator though?
Holes in the front of the case would be the most obvious solution.
But stealing the top radiator mount from a Mastercase Pro 5 would save us some time,
so we flattened it out a bit and...
Ah shoot.
It's still about a half an inch too thick.
Not a problem though.
It's angle grinder man to the rescue.
So with the cuts tidied up, it did still interfere slightly with the motherboard tray rivet,
so out those came with the drill,
and these holes here should serve us well for mounting the radiator.
Of course though, our troubles kept coming.
Weren't finished and we were still having some difficulty getting it in due to these pesky tabs
Thankfully almost every problem in life can be solved with abrasives much better to line up the screw holes
We poked the drill through the existing holes and gave it a little spin just to remove some of the paint
So we knew where to drill next we center punched where the screws would be and drilled on through
We then poor man's tapped the mount with some thumb screws and a lot of love
And holy crap
This might actually work
Now since the reservoir can't go anywhere else we had to make some modifications to this poor fan
So we started small then worked our way up to the thick objects. That's always the best way
Okay, then awesome the reservoirs mounted, but clearly we'll need more airflow angle grinder to the rescue again
And as though like magic, that's more like it
So with hopefully all of our modifications to the case finished
It was time to finish it off with a nice coat of black paint
so at this point we were ready to slap all the parts in plan out our water cooling loop and
Call it a day, but then
Shortly after the cameras turned off for the night
Getting jiggy with it came on the radio and we realized the soft tubing weed planned
wasn't big Willy style
So we flipped the script and flip the rad
Extended the res and devised a plan for a loop sexy and hard enough for even the biggest Willy's
Mmm, so instructions for hardline then measure cut fill heat
bend
check
insert
secure rinse
And repeat until done boom custom hardline water cooling
Easy as that
After several hours of cable management man old cases suck for that. We were ready for the final touch-ups
So we disassembled the loop installed the storage RAM
80-millimeter og case fans which only got cleaned on the inside to maintain our sleepers perfect external filth and then
Reassembled the loop and filled it up
so then at this point
We put back together the outside of the case
front panel goes on a
on with double side taped CD and floppy drives the side panels go back on and
would you look at that it's still awful and dirty on the outside leaving anyone
without a very keen eye to dismiss it as old crap but open it up and holy frig is
it beautiful and with the horses to back it up with an Intel Core i9 7900 X 10
core 64 gigs of RAM RGB of course dual GeForce GTX 1080s a Samsung 940 pro SSD
in a fully custom water cooling loop we are looking at a machine that can run
with pretty much anything out there today while staying both cool and quiet
that is if you disable the rear fans because they're really really loud ow so
bask in the glory now of Hubert and stay tuned for Dale because the
sleeping
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