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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
Level 7
Seeing as we're all a bit bored waiting for the case to come home, here's some more hardware:

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

kz9
Level 7
Awesome so far!

Stren you are everywhere 😛

CjGemini wrote:
Stren you are everywhere 😛


Lol so it seems are you 🙂
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

Nice work comrade, although i was never a fan of "RAMs in the water" game....
Building Empires.....

Gore wrote:
Danm

Can I be your friend?

Danm


Sure haha, this friendship may come without benefits though lol

Clopyright wrote:
Nice work comrade, although i was never a fan of "RAMs in the water" game....


Yeah me neither, but I thought I'd give it ago this time




Soo like I mentioned before I really didn't like the green/copper look clashing with the black/red R4E theme:



So I started to paint the GPU with liquid tape - first coat:



So here's how it looks now after two coats on both sides:



You can see some of the texture here, liquid tape is hard to work with - either annoyingly thick, or very thin and see through:



From this angle the texture isn't as bad:



However it would look a lot better with a backplate, I'm thinking something like this, smoked acrylic with an etch and a couple of LEDs to light it from the side:



What do you guys think? Feel free to photoshop up your own suggestions 🙂
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
Tease mode activated

A box arrived



You said flap :rolleyes:



The largest usb flash drives known to man and some awesome sauce:



Sometimes the front view is better than the back:



Opening a door:



Socket 2011 is bigger than I thought:



Inside the box is two more boxes:



- Curiously only a 2x CFX cable, but yet 2/3/4x SLI cables
- The sata 6gbps cables are black with partly white connectors as opposed to full black for the rest of the cables.
- The OC key that plugs inline with your monitor doesn't support high res monitors - bit of a fail there Asus. Shouldn't affect me as I can use the USB cable from my other rig anyway
- It would be nice if the back of the backplate was also black rather than the shiny tin foil like other boards



And the last tease for the night:

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
Had some time for another photo session seeing as the cpu doesn't get here for a few days:

Took the board out:





Took the ram out, seems to be the fastest I've seen at 1.5V with 4GB sticks.



Installed the ram, note that the polarity is reversed on each side, which makes sense if they flipped the pinout on the chip.



The paint job on the fins wasn't that even - some sticks definitely got more coverage:



Time to take off the heatsink in preperation for the EK full cover block:



Only the VRM area had thermal pads on the back and front of the heatsink:



Looks like Asus have moved away from that horrible yellow TIM they had on the R3E:



The VRM area with heatsink removed:

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
Chip arrived, motherboard and ram blocks don't come until tomorrow though.

SSD is actually for my wife's rig. I don't have an ssd on my gaming rig. I only use it for games so I wouldn't see that much benefit from a boot drive. I use my workstation for web browsing etc as it's on all the time. I'd need a 512gb drive or so to cover my games, so I'm waiting for prices to come down more



Batch on the 3930K is 3152B448, we'll see how it clocks soon 🙂
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

Nice build , man that case is Huge , I want one :cool: