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Project Thief - CaseLabs TX10-D Full WC 990x/3930K/5 GPUs/6 Rads/5 Pumps

stren
Level 7
Alright LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, TROLLS, HATERS AND PEASANTS!

Project Thief is COMPLETE. Cue Drums..... Cue trumpet fanfare....



Project thief is based around the enormous, nay monstrous, CaseLabs TX10-D case, and if that wasn't enough, there's a pedestal to make it even bigger.

The build features two full size gaming computers in one case along with custom wood panelling and powder coating. The name thief comes from the this build stealing an awful lot of my disposable income. The Thief symbology is integrated through the use of Skyrim Thief's guild symbols as well as two different themes representing the duality of the thief's life. The "light" side of the case represents the Thief's role by day as an ordinary hard working member of society and features my workstation. The "dark" side of the case represent's the Thief's role by night and features my gaming rig. The ability to fit so many radiators and fans means that the fans can be turned down to be almost silent while still being able to perform at the top of their game.

The idea was really to build a no hold's barred setup with the best of the best that was not only hardcore but easy to maintain. One computer would be my linux based workstation that I use for my day to day work. The other would be my windows based entertainment/gaming battlestation.

Light side:
- Rampage IV Extreme + 4930K + 32GB Corsair Dominator GT 2133 + 2x 7990s + 1TB SSD
- Fully watercooled with 2 loops: cpu, memory, motherboard, gpus

Dark side:
- EVGA X79 Dark + 4820K + 16GB Corsair Dominator GT 2133 + 4xR9-290s + 1TB SSD
- Fully watercooled with 2 loops: cpu, memory, motherboard, gpus

Final Pics here






And so the build log begins

The project name is not finalized so suggestions are welcome - I thought of thief because it dual wields and it steals all my money!

I am working on a huge monster build that will showcase CaseLabs newest case - the monster TX10. This monster case can fit two SR-2 (HPTX) systems with full water cooling. As shown it could fit multiple Mo-Ra 140x9 raditors, or 6 140.4 radiators. It can even fit front mounted 140.5 radiators.

The main feature will be two giant custom waterfall reservoirs that will occupy the front bays.

Here is the current hardware that I have to go in:



Unboxing Videos and Pics

I picked up the case directly from Jim - so the packing was reduced in order to fit in my car. If you buy one of these it will come in two boxes as it's packed a lot more securely.




Lots of Parts



Building the case

As Jim knew the case was going to be powder coated by FTWPC he saved FTW the hassle of sandblasting it by skipping the CaseLabs normal black/white powder coat. Because of this the case is not only in it's raw bare aluminum state, but it also is less assembled than normal in order to save on time taking everything apart.


The Pedestal frame consist of top, bottom, front and back that are screwed together with countersunk screws
Project Thief Build Log - Dual water cooling 3930/990x GTX580 Tri SLI monster rig build in progress
Workstation i7-3930x@4.9GHz/Rampge IV Extreme/2x8800GT/AX1200/32GB 2133CL9/2xX25E/C300 128Gb
Gaming - i7-990x@4.6GHz/Rampage III Extreme/ GTX580 3GB Tri SLI/Xonar Essence STX/AX1200/12GB 2000CL8
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stren wrote:
Thank you! I'm looking forward to it too haha. What do you mean by seeing black and red?


It's an art project he's working on. Linked in his sig.
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…

xeromist wrote:
It's an art project he's working on. Linked in his sig.


D'oh - checking it out now 🙂
Project Thief Build Log - Dual water cooling 3930/990x GTX580 Tri SLI monster rig build in progress
Workstation i7-3930x@4.9GHz/Rampge IV Extreme/2x8800GT/AX1200/32GB 2133CL9/2xX25E/C300 128Gb
Gaming - i7-990x@4.6GHz/Rampage III Extreme/ GTX580 3GB Tri SLI/Xonar Essence STX/AX1200/12GB 2000CL8

DaemonCantor
Level 13
Great Case I need one!

stren
Level 7
My testpack of monsoon fittings arrived today, these are the 3/8 ID 5/8 OD





With primochill tube:



Project Thief Build Log - Dual water cooling 3930/990x GTX580 Tri SLI monster rig build in progress
Workstation i7-3930x@4.9GHz/Rampge IV Extreme/2x8800GT/AX1200/32GB 2133CL9/2xX25E/C300 128Gb
Gaming - i7-990x@4.6GHz/Rampage III Extreme/ GTX580 3GB Tri SLI/Xonar Essence STX/AX1200/12GB 2000CL8

Retired
Not applicable
Great thread, superb work...

Thanks! Seeing as my boss gave me the week off (why not a raise?) for having to work like crazy the last month I decided to test out some of the components that came in on my workstation. for the last few months it's been running the H100 cooler, now it's time to switch it to partial watercooling.

In the end the workstation will have two loops:
1 - CPU (raystorm) - mora 140.9 - dual D5 varios
2- GPU (8800gt) - GPU (9800gt) - motherboard - DDC-1 - RX360

The GPU's only do 2D, so there's very little heat on loop2. Both loops will eventually run with low speed yates and I'm hoping it should be close to silent while giving excellent overclocking performance on the cpu.

As I don't have 4 D5's yet (still one short) I'll be temporarily running this loop with a DDC. I picked up one of the NOS ones from bmaverick, they're not that powerful but this won't be driving a critical loop. I picked up an xspc acrylic top (later I'll run some dye for the money shots):





However the XSPC screws don't fit the old DDC's so I had to drill out the holes a bit larger



Done:



Then with the EK 250 res fitted. I used a bitspower shining silver male to male rotary fitting to attach them:



Also remember that talk about the acyrylic vs delrin 8800gt blocks, well I ordered the acrylics and they arrived the other day:



They do look sexier!





Taking apart the 8800gt:

Project Thief Build Log - Dual water cooling 3930/990x GTX580 Tri SLI monster rig build in progress
Workstation i7-3930x@4.9GHz/Rampge IV Extreme/2x8800GT/AX1200/32GB 2133CL9/2xX25E/C300 128Gb
Gaming - i7-990x@4.6GHz/Rampage III Extreme/ GTX580 3GB Tri SLI/Xonar Essence STX/AX1200/12GB 2000CL8

stren
Level 7
Then I realized I didn't have any non-conductive TIM left, so I put it to the side and put the 9800gt in for now. Built up the temporary cpu loop in the torture rack





Kind of a funky radiator setup - the torture rack only supports 240 rads, so I ran 2 fans in push and 2 fans in pull. I have 12 more gentle typhoons coming from the ocn group buy:



Then more stuff came:



Fan adapters for the gtx 560, plus rubber fan isolators. Not sure if they'll do much but they were cheap if I bought the adapters, so I picked some up:

Project Thief Build Log - Dual water cooling 3930/990x GTX580 Tri SLI monster rig build in progress
Workstation i7-3930x@4.9GHz/Rampge IV Extreme/2x8800GT/AX1200/32GB 2133CL9/2xX25E/C300 128Gb
Gaming - i7-990x@4.6GHz/Rampage III Extreme/ GTX580 3GB Tri SLI/Xonar Essence STX/AX1200/12GB 2000CL8

stren
Level 7
So I'd been suffering wrist pain after pulling 20 hour days working on CAD stuff. This isn't unusual when I'm forced to use a bad mouse or a bad setup, but my trusty G5 on a bare desk wasn't cutting it. I decided to try a "gaming" mousepad and thought I'd check out a razer deathadder while I was doing it. After a few weeks of it I actually prefer the feel of it despite the construction feeling less sturdy and having less features than my trusty G5. The G5 now gets relegated to the gaming rig as I game less than I work 😞





Also parts for my lightsabre came in 😉

Project Thief Build Log - Dual water cooling 3930/990x GTX580 Tri SLI monster rig build in progress
Workstation i7-3930x@4.9GHz/Rampge IV Extreme/2x8800GT/AX1200/32GB 2133CL9/2xX25E/C300 128Gb
Gaming - i7-990x@4.6GHz/Rampage III Extreme/ GTX580 3GB Tri SLI/Xonar Essence STX/AX1200/12GB 2000CL8

kb0sdq
Level 10
Very cool, I also have the death adder I use it for wow. Anyhow I have the right hand version. I like how you can go into the mouse and program the buttons and make macros for the mouse.
Happy ROG_n
Doug

kb0sdq wrote:
Very cool, I also have the death adder I use it for wow. Anyhow I have the right hand version. I like how you can go into the mouse and program the buttons and make macros for the mouse.
Happy ROG_n
Doug


Nice- I haven't tried any of the fancy stuff yet, just straight up out of the box though it's working better for me than my G5 after a lot of tweaking.
Project Thief Build Log - Dual water cooling 3930/990x GTX580 Tri SLI monster rig build in progress
Workstation i7-3930x@4.9GHz/Rampge IV Extreme/2x8800GT/AX1200/32GB 2133CL9/2xX25E/C300 128Gb
Gaming - i7-990x@4.6GHz/Rampage III Extreme/ GTX580 3GB Tri SLI/Xonar Essence STX/AX1200/12GB 2000CL8