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Here is the hard drive and cable shroud assembly installed.
And a closer look at the same thing.
I decided on the SilverStone Tundra Series, TD02-E all in one liquid CPU cooler seen here installed. Note the fans are blowing into the case where the exhaust is out the rear and top. This cooler was short enough to fit in the space available where some of the more popular AIO coolers are just too tall for this case. This one has simple mounting of the pump and the fans are running PWM from the CPU Fan header and the pump is connected to the PCI fan header.
And here is the GPU (ASUS Passive GT 9600, an old favorite) in the second PCIe X16 v2.0 slot, with the High Point Rocket 640L in the PCIe X4 slot with both drives attached (this supplies SATA III capability), and near the top of the photo is the two port ORICO PFU3-2P USB3.0 card with ATX power.
More work needed on the cable dress with the next re-assembly pass.
I decided to go with a stock form factor options BitFenix Silver/Black Mesh front panel from Amazon as this panel was zero work and provides fairly un-restricted air flow for the cooler.
I moved the power and reset switches along with the LEDs to the top front as seen here. I may come back and put a overlay label on this panel to dress it up.
The front panel audio out is also connected to the HD AUDIO port. I need to sort out the driver support as it did not work when tested yesterday.
The left side panel is made up from the original right side panel, with a window cut out and an acrylic window installed to it.
And another view of the system.
The right side panel is made from the original left side panel with little mods to the inner lower rail to clear the PSU mounting.
The system is currently running buttoned up and slightly over clocked where it is reporting 3.72GHz with a 17442 GB 3 score. Running the Prime95 Torture test concurrently with the GeekBench Stress Test, I can get all 12 threads running 100% and with this load, the system peaks at 70C to 73C.
I would also like to point out that the system runs with three fans (two on the AIO CPU cooler and one in the PSU) where most systems of this size and compute power have several more fans.
Note the black ABS strips top and bottom are in place of the BitFenix loop handles. Also the feet are ABS 3/8 inch tall by 2 inch squares. This reduces the overall height of the system enough to please me.
I think that this it for a while. I may pull the whole thing a part this next week and start the paint process. I am thinking of painting all of the case parts white with the front panel being the on exception.
Good modding,
neil