why on earth would you hang your computer on the wall
well i could say it helps with cable management or that it helps with cooling
or that you know what forget it there's only one good reason because it looks
dank off now your garden variety wall
pewter is rectangle shaped but here at LTT we are all about pushing the limits
of college dropout engineering so our resident slav proposed that we make ours
in the shape of the WAN Show logo with hardline tubing spelling out LTT however
since he's barely touched power tools let alone built a fully custom wall case
before we well essentially we needed an adult so
we cast mods level 80. which didn't work
obviously so we packed up our [ __ ] and drove down to their shop in seattle
instead
since the machine's frame would be built in vs mods's top secret facility in
washington state before final assembly we needed to ensure that all the
dimensions were relayed correctly we started with a two scale 3d model of the
machine using sketchup and the built-in objects library they took our model
added a few suggestions made an offhand comment about amateurs then rebuilt it
from the ground up to account for their cnc machine's capabilities once that
stage was complete we loaded our pre-tested hardware into the company suv
and sent ivan and pella down south at the border crossing i'm sorry you're
doing what with all this expensive looking electronic crap well the guard
ended up disappearing for what felt like forever and then came back saying he
watched some of our videos as proof that we were who we said we were
hopefully he subscribed and we were on our way then while in the
middle of zero cell reception nowhere our shifter
broke forcing us to abandon the van at a local shop ivan got hit on by a
middle-aged passerby on the side of the road and our trailer got carted away by
an overzealous u-haul employee glass half-full though these delays only cost
us a day and nothing actually fell out
of the rental truck that one time time to build
first things first we had to get the most important stuff done and peel the
RAM then we laid out the key components to
check if the real world would align perfectly or if some of our holes would
need to be wood threaded 632 insert screws coupled
with standard standoffs were used to mount our motherboard onto the frame
with radiator inlets elongated with female to female extenders to reach
through the board our graphics card slot dimensions were a little off so rod
engaged the safety squints and extended it with a router next we removed four of
the backplate screws from our hybrid cooled ASUS poseidon gtx 1080 ti
replaced them with two millimeter threaded standoffs and used the highly
advanced color the tips with white pen technique to mark our drill holes before
mounting then we used a total of 1.3 meters
of thermaltake pci express extenders to connect our graphics card now it's a
scientific fact that you cannot achieve maximum performance without
mucho RGB so to that end we yet again turn to
thermaltake for both their RGB water cooling fittings and ring plus fans even
going as far as to replace our stock
power supply fan with an RGB one Corsair
power supply plus thermaltake fans equals Corsair take thermal ser
whatever it is it didn't survive the procedure so ivan had to mod our backup
one and chisel out the through hole by hand
looks like he's had some practice with that movement
then when he was done to keep whole and biggening to a minimum every single fan
and RGB fitting got d-pinned using two
pairs of tweezers of all things because someone didn't have a proper d pinning
tool rod so with the slab occupied rod fired up
his parts pro 4896 cnc router apparatus
and cut out the back panel for the frame this piece is important for both
mounting to the wall and providing structural rigidity to the front once
d-pinning was done through holes were drilled to route the cables and pump and
res fittings through and then the whole shebang had to be
re-pinned on the other side
shockingly though all the fans and fittings lit up on the first go
of course the machine had to be shamelessly branded so we added a cnc'd
semi-transparent hexagon that would later be lit with side-firing leds then
came a challenge rod can freehand bend hardline tubing
like a boss but with our goal of having the bends for the t's run parallel the
decision was made to design and cnc out
custom jigs while these were being manufactured ivan finished wiring up the
backside and then ran soft tubing along the back to all the ports to minimize
the use of elbows to improve water flow
unfortunately our first attempt didn't quite line up it took the cad guy some
time to figure out the issue and because of the delays during the inbound trip
our time at the shop ran out while we
were discovering that pulling the silicone inserts out of our 3d bent
tubes was going to be a two-man job so
the machine was picked up and loaded into the van as is to be finished in our
shop our tubing and paint both needed some improvement but hey we had a whole
day and a half left until it would need to make its debut at ltx what could go
wrong guys well i'm glad you asked the backstop on
the poseidon could have been not tightened fully and
spring a leak flooding the card power supply
and the paint job and speaking of the paint job the dust
in our warehouse could settle on the frame within hours making matters much
worse but an isopropyl bath and some touch-ups later and the machine
ultimately made it to the event where it was gloriously displayed above the dick
but application area mission accomplished
mostly guys this isn't funny
got guys so here it is in all its glory
we settled eventually on an Intel core i7 7700k on an ASUS maximus 9 code with
64 gigs of Corsair dominator platinum
special edition memory to accompany our ASUS rog poseidon gtx 1080 ti
cooling was courtesy of ek water blocks those guys do damn fine work and thermal
take there were certainly some hiccups but hopefully it was all in the name of
your entertainment and we're proud of the result so much so that we're
actually planning to keep it on display in our vr gaming room here at the office
which was actually why we chose the 7700k
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