Project: PrometheusCU

[yuri21]

Kay, someone brief this ignorant female: why would you use copper plates for the outter shell of a casing?

 

[XcoldstarX]

I believe his theme is mainly black and copper, hence the copper plates to highlight the theme.

 

[Langer]

Copper just looks so damn sexy... it had to be done. Plus I've sever seen a copper case before.

I'm currently taking with evil-98 about the clamps... perhaps even custom PrometheusCU clamps.

Updates coming monday. =)
My order from Performance-PCs arrived today, but I was out and missed the UPS man - so it's coming monday instead.
Also NCIX has shipped my SSDs, but 3 of 4 were out of stock - so I only get 1 for now.

Thanks for tuning in. =)

 

[Langer]

Unfortunately:

NCIX wont be getting the others until the end of the week at the soonest... and I'm pissed off.

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However the one drive has arrived, and so has my Massive Performance-PCs order


The parcels arrived today and I'm ecstatic... but I only got one pic taken before my camera died on me.

In the photo:
1x 64GB G.Skill SSD
4 x Connectx™ SATA 90deg Connector Female - End Cap
4 x Connectx™ SATA 90deg Connector Female - Pass-through Cap
5 x Connectx™ 4-Pin Floppy Connector Female
8 x Connectx™ 6-Pin PCI Express Connector Female
8 x Connectx™ 8-pin PCI Express Connector Female
5 x Connectx™ 3-Pin Fan Connector Male
2 x Connectx™ 24-pin ATX Connector Female
7 x USB 2 X 5 Header Connector Female
Power Pins:
80 x USB Header Female Pins
200 x Connectx™ ATX Female Pins
100 x Connectx™ Molex 4pin Female Pins
100 x Connectx™ Molex 4pin Male Pins
60 x Connectx™ Floppy 4pin Female Pins
Data Cables:
4 x E-SATA II Cable w/ Metal Latch - 6'
4 x SATA II Cable w/ Metal Latch - Straight to 90deg - 18"
2 x A.C. Ryan Dual Internal SATA to eSATA PCI Bracket
Cooling:
36" x PrimoFlex Pro LRT Clear Tubing - 1/2"ID X 3/4"OD
36" x PrimoFlex Pro LRT Clear Tubing - 3/8"ID X 1/2"OD
16 x Clamps for 1/2" Tubing
10 x Clamps for 3/8" Tubing
2 x Bitspower G1/4" Stop Fitting
6 x Bitspower Premium G1/4" Fitting Spacer
1 x Bitspower Rotary "Q" - Dark Nickel Plated
Misc:
10 x Cord Clips 3/8" x 3/8"
24" x Heatshrink 3:1 - 1"ID
50 x Black Aluminum Pop Rivets 1/8" X 1/4"

Missing from action - PPCs forgot to box one item, but I can't blame them considering this order had over 200 items:
10 x Connectx™ 3-Pin Fan Connector Female

More pics coming once I get some more batteries tomorrow.

 

[Langer]

I found some batteries... I had a stash apparently (a stash of batteries, that is).
(Does anyone else here hide things on themselves and forget where?)

Many pics...

First up, G.Skill 64GB SSD - there are THREE more of these babies coming to me as soon as NCIX gets it's **** together.

Molex Connectors galore. I plan on using my own wiring throughout so I need custom plugs - I'm not looking forward to wiring this Beast TBH.
Internal 2x5pin USB header plugs:

3pin fan plugs:

 

[Langer]

6pin Molex plugs:

8pin Molex plugs:

24pin ATX Molex plugs:

A Bitspower "Q" fitting... that still isnt the right variety, I'll have to head over to Parker Fluidline to get what I want (I may have to make it myself):

Some cable clips, that will hold the GFX power lines parallel to the motherboard tray:

 

[Langer]

The clear tubing that will be used as "windows":

Four 6' black eSATA cables for my external drives:

A couple more bitspower fill stops:

Some 4pin floppy plugs:

The hose clamps that I ordered before discovering Evil-98's clamps:

50 black rivits, because my local SB Simpson had none:

 

[Langer]

4 Sata Molex connectors, punch down style - 2kinds - terminated end, and open end:

Two AC Ryan "backies" or whatever they called them. Sata > eSATA backplane adaptor:

4 Sata2 cables with 90degree ends:

Some 1" heatshrink, because I forgot to get some from CableOrganizer.com (probably for the best, because I don't need another 200' spool of the stuff)

 

[Langer]

And PINS! "Who knows how many... maybe a million... maybe more - nobody knows really" (slightly adapted Jeremy Clarkson circa Supercar Showdown... that tubo scene was funny):

Performance PC's did forget to pack my 10x female molex plugs, but can you blame them... there was over 200 items in that box afterall.

*PHEW* that's a lot of stuff... and I GET TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER, jealous? I wouldn't be.. Hahaha.

That's all for today, I've been busy this evening fixing my Old Man's Laptop - and HP really really isn't bit on quick disassembly.

Thanks for reading, tune in this evening for some progress.

 

[ahid13]

oh my.. thats one big package!

 

[Langer]

I started wiring my GTX280's tonight.
First I soldered the pins into place, because I didn't want to wait for the crimper to arrive.
I also sleeved the ribbon cable style wires with my Nylon Multifilament sleeving.


Believe it or not but these power lines will pretty much be the ONLY VISIBLE POWER LINES when the build is done.


The tubing is not complete , and all the heatshrinking is temporary, also the hose clamps will be swapped out.

Here is step 1 in the wiring puzzle:
I crossed the wires like this so make bending them around the GFX card easier.

I've also installed the clear tubes that will act as windows:

 

[XcoldstarX]

Why don't you try sleeving the pci-e power cables individually like murdermod?

 

[Langer]

they are ribbon cables, they are all attached

 

[XcoldstarX]

You can always seperate them. I am using a HX620 and I sleeved my pci-e cables murdermod style after pulling apart all the cables.

 

[Langer]

I dont particularly like that look, and I paid over $2,000 to have my very own PrometheusCU edition wires manufactured special just for this build.

"PVC coated 24 copper filament stranded 18AWG 24 conductor stainless steel shielded ribbon cable wit a 0" pitch" made just for this project - from ITW Pancon. minimum run 1250ft - cost - FRIGHTENINGLY IMMENSE!

What that means is I got a ribbon cable made, like an IDE calbe but made from 18 gage wire, with 24 individual wires.
Each wire has 24 copper filaments spun together inside, has braided stainless steel shielding, and is coated with standard black PVC.
Pitch refers to the spacing between the wires, these wires have no spacing at all.

For my purposes I've peeled the 24conductor ribbon into 4 and 3 conductor strands.







Thanks anyway though.

 

[XcoldstarX]

I see. I am looking forward to your ribbon 24pin cable though. Really wanna see how you are gonna solder it to the motherboard.

 

[Langer]

Rico from Watercool told me today that my PrometheusCU edition Heatkiller rev3.0 was shipped and is on it's way to me.
I also had Rico send me some pics of his shop...

First up, here's the link to the watercool website:
*click for link*


the Watercool workshop - Rico's left the captions up to me because he says his English isn't very good.

Outside the shop:

What looks to be a couple of 5-axis CNC mills - some very impressive equipment for the machinist among us. You can see a bunch of what look to be GTX280 waterblocks in the bins:

This looks like some delrin Heatkiller 3.0 tops.

A bigass bending break, a piece of equipment that I REALLY REALLY want.

 

[Langer]

A hydraulic drop saw, cutting what looks to be delrin slabs for waterblock tops:

A CNC lathe... another bit I'd kill to own:

A MASSIVE CNC metal stamping punch making waterblock details, and mounts:

To be recycled scrap metal and shavings:

 

[Langer]

Some of you asked for some interior shots of the Heatkiller 3.0 CoolingMasters.com did a quickie review of the block and took pics of the inside:

 

[Langer]

I 'finished' the GFX power lines.

I added the quotes, along with some slack in the lines, because I'm going to solder the wires to the cards... to clean it up a bit.

The heatshrink is also temporary

The tools I used:

Here's my 'needle nose crimp job':

Add solder:

Result:

Here are the wires in place, the heatshrink needs to be finalized, but I cut all the wires on an angle so they feed in the correct direction out of the PSU without straining.

I'm also going to relocate the little black cable clips on the motherboard tray - to be neater.

Thanks for reading. Tune in soon - NEXT I tackle the soldered ATX and 12v lines! =)