Gadgetory

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're 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 Taryn and I collaborate to design the new case that we'll be sending to proto case for fabrication oh and if custom cases don't appeal to you that 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 ah that's going to be awesome too the mastercase 5 by Coolermaster gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower 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 rackmount 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 900 d like what evidently happened to George so then it was time to take those measurements to our 3d modelling 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 Terran 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 four UK so that takes care of the height that's for standard rackmount height units tall because while a 3u would accommodate full height expansion cards like graphics cards it would make using all 120 millimeter 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 n ff12 fans that we have Noctua making in our ltte color scheme so there were a couple noteworthy things that were really cool about this project for us but first was that we discovered just 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 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 is really great for working on PC projects like this I also discovered why most case designers probably learned a 3d model themselves I swear Taryn spent about a billion years fixing the coherency of the model or some stupid crap when I must have told them a dozen times Taryn we're just submitting this to someone else to fix up and ultimately manufacture they're gonna deal with the picky details but here's like notes abort until fine speaking of guidance I guess this is a good opportunity to show you guys why I did need Taryn to help me so this is the mock-up that I originally submitted to proto cakes when I was pitching them the concept of an enthusiast grade water cooled for you case they were like hmm 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 mock-up did help us through the creation of the proper 3d model so we determined after some fooling around with different fan models that we need to use 120 millimeter fans in the front because while 140 millimeter fans would fit there wouldn't be enough clearance for the tanks at the ends of the radiator if we wanted the middle fans 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 than handing it to someone else to 3d model I showed Taryn how I wanted the second Bank of fans and second radiator to mount behind the first one between these two and a potential final single 120 millimeter that gives me now a total of seven 120 millimeter radiator spot saw 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 set up 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 spacing 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 a7 slot motherboard to give the system more expandability Taran 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 hard line tubing a really clean look there the cable management holes were created in the radiator mounting plate for the front red and fence we added SSD mounting on the side of the chassis because even though I'll be using a 1.2 terabyte 750 series PCI Express SSD from Intel and an as for my main storage 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 a pin and 24 pin motherboard connector z' 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 we're 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 proto case along with technical drawings of key components like radiators who is 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