Anandtech Member Case Gallery!

[Chocu1a]

Just got a 2nd gtx 670.

 

[Masahiro]

WOW @ cable management, very nice!

Haha thanks, I have to give most of the credit to the case though . Don't ask for a photo of the other side tho :whiste:

 

[KaRLiToS]

 

[dragantoe]

I feel kinda silly posting after Karlitos, but I just plasti-dipped my computer and figured I should upload pictures of it here, and sorry about the quality, it was nighttime when I shot

I'll post some inside pics once I get the damn cables sleeved, and maybe reshoot in daylight so the pics don't look like crap

 

[Boondox]

Recent build with specs below.

 

[FredNotFound404]

Well this is a small update, even tho is not related to my rig here it goes....

Added a 20", will get another after xmas, by then my wallet will have stopped crying.

 

[Biggu]

Here are mine, The 900D is my main desktop for daily abuse and gaming
the BitFenix is my build to take to QuakeCon this year. but Ill probably give it to my brother in the mean time to play.

Specs
EVGA X79 DARK (pictures are pre dark)
EVGA GTX680 SC
Corsair Dominator GT 16GB CL9
Intel i7 4930K
Corsair AX1200i
500GB Samsing 830PRO SSD
WD black 1tb X2 in raid
Heatkiller 3.0 CPU
Heatkiller 3.0 GPU block
ut60 Quad up top, ut60 Tripple down low ( Was dual looped but since I built my Mini ITX I moved a pump over to it)

Now the BitFenix Mini ITX
Asrock z87e-ITX
Intel i5-3670k
EVGA GTX670SC
Plannar 256GB Msata (under motherboard)
EVGA NEX750B
Corsair Dominator GT CL9 8GB Kit
Phobos 200m front rad, ST30 upper rad
Acrylic Tubing build



please excuse the mess on it, Still in the process of wire tucking it.

 

[Interitus]

Long time no see, AT

Still kickin' and still putzin' around with the PC, albeit a lil less often these days.

Christmas break meant time to tinker

Still need to soften the white LED in the rear a bit... and hit that window with some Windex, lol. Pretty happy though, really love the white lighting. Really makes colors pop. Looks good next to the matching Steelseries Sensei Fnatic mouse and mousepad

 

[Masahiro]

I love these clean builds, any chance you could upload a pic without the light on?

I know this took a ridiculously long time, and I've had some slight hardware changes since, but I can finally do that for ya! I installed an RF dimmer control so I could make it much dimmer and between that and the flash you can see everything!

 

[dragantoe]

I know this took a ridiculously long time, and I've had some slight hardware changes since, but I can finally do that for ya! I installed an RF dimmer control so I could make it much dimmer and between that and the flash you can see everything!

omg that looks freakin amazing! I just finished an album and don't even want to post some pics after your glorious creation...

 

[dragantoe]

Well these pics aren't as amazing as the ones before me, but I created an album of the mini itx pc I just built for my brother, next to my monstrosity
This is the full album

 

[waxbytes]

A window picture:



An inside view with my older CPU heatsink:



Phantom 630 on desk:

 

[BFGTech]

hello

that's my old pc build (2010-11)

 

[Tweakin]

Here are mine, The 900D is my main desktop for daily abuse and gaming the BitFenix is my build to take to QuakeCon this year. but Ill probably give it to my brother in the mean time to play.

I love your BitFenix Mini ITX...

 

[Tweakin]

Love the colors...curious why you didn't change your EVGA Bridge to green...not that the blue looks bad, it's just that you have a green "theme" working here. Very clean wiring job. Love the NB fans!!!

 

[Doreguul]

this is my first attempt at a water cooled custom pc.

here are the specs:

Corsair Air 540 case
Gigabyte Sniper M5 board
intel i5 - 4670k ( delidded & running at 4.5GHz )
32 GB of Patriot Viper 3 DDR3 1866mhz running at 2000mhz 1.5V
Intel 530 240gb SSD
Western Digital Velociraptor 500gb
Bitfenix Recon Fan Controller
Vantec Hotswap SATA Bay
EVGA 780 GTX Classified Hydro Copper
Seasonic Gold 850watt PSU

Custom Water Cooling Loop with:

Swifttech MCP-35x pump
Koolance 380i cpu block
combination of enzotech / monsoon / bitspower fittings
1/2" ID by 3/4" OD Bright Green UV Tubing
Aquacomputer Aquabox Pro 5.25" Reservoir
Acool NexXxos UT45 280mm Radiator
Acool NexXxos ST30 280mm Radiator
2 x Cougar 140mm Hydro Fans
2 x Corsair 140mm Air Fans
1 x Slim 140mm Fan

Here are the pics:

Painted the frame

Cutting the new drive bay

Bay has been cut

Bent the false floor

Green LEDs for Hulk's eyes

Front without floor

Almost there

On and glowing (I need to change out the red LED)

Done

Overclocked Screenshot (I have since turned it down to 1.26V @ 4.5GHz)

 

[wonadd]

My wife has that same case and I would love to know how you did that. Can you take some pics of the places you cut the holes and what tool you used?? I need to do this, the cables are jammed everywhere!

 

[Doreguul]

My wife has that same case and I would love to know how you did that. Can you take some pics of the places you cut the holes and what tool you used?? I need to do this, the cables are jammed everywhere!

just used a dremel with a cutting disk. if i had a jigsaw with a metal cutting blade it woulda worked much better. i have a gap around the outside of my bottom drive bays, but i have a small piece of trim i am going to fill it with. I have to replace the vantec hotswap bay as the fan just died on it after a day of using it. guess that's what i get for $30

 

[4960X]

@Doreguul, that looks sick. I wish I had your cutting skills.

 

[faxon]

thought I'd show off what the HAF Stacker is capable of here with some photos from my new rebuild. Gonna reloop the top box tomorrow so the radiators are on the top. was getting issues with an air bubble forming in the cpu block and not bleeding out because it's the highest point in the rig and thats where the air wants to get stuck, so gotta drain the whole thing, take it apart, and re run it once it's lined up right. some of the angles were too tight for the tubing anyway and it was looking like it was gonna kink so probably for the best lol. the thing is a beast tho. its 3'9" and weighs more than an average woman already. As is the main box is just for show. It's a miner and will soon have waterblock R9 cards but the top ITX box is where the power is with a 7950 and my 2600k. I wanted to run just 1 card to game and have fun on so that when i want to enjoy myself im not stopping 3 cards just to watch netflix. more income that way. that res is a 2nd gen FrozenQ as well (custom built) which is why it looks a little funky vs his new designs. Both loops are running on D5s, the top one has 2 black ice extreme GT2 rads (240x120x60mm) and will eventually get a 290x + Waterblock to go with that quad, and the bottom loop is using my old MCR320 QP to cool just a celeron right now, but once I start adding video cards I'm getting an alphacool Nexxxos monsta to add as well to keep the cards running nice and cool. gonna change the fans on the front of the top unit to red LED yates (right now all the rad fans are yate medium speed) for appearances, and maybe do some custom duct work if I can make it work well with the lower rig's mining cards.

http://imgur.com/a/l8u4O

 

[schwett]

this is a very basic build compared to most of what's going on here, but i like the results.

i had an hp pre-built system that i wasn't entirely happy with, so i got some new components and migrated some old.

new bits:
case: rosewill mx2-s (agonized about this, but was not happy with the fussy designs of most of the high quality cases out there)
power supply: seasonic 560X
cooler: corsair h90 AIO
extra fans: two 80mm enermax
video card: evga gtx770 sc 2gb
mobo: asus rampage IV gene (LGA2011) mATX
optical: panasonic uj-265 blu-ray burner

bits i migrated from the hp:
cpu: intel i7-3930k
ram: 4x4gb, don't recall the type
ssd: OWC 240GB accelsior PCIe card
hd: two seagate ST3000 barracuda 3TB
os: windows xp pro
keyboard: logitech k750 solar powered wireless
mouse: logitech m570 wireless trackball
monitors: two dell U2413 24" wall mounted panels
audio: B&W mm-1

the transfer was very smooth. pretty much everything fit exactly as it should, with the only exception being the need to mount the H90 on the interior side of an exhaust fan rather than an intake fan. to mitigate the warm air feeding into the radiator i added the two 80mm fans. thermal results are pretty good. my only quibble is that it's slightly noisier than i'd like, which i'm working on.

i can't believe how far these components and cases have come since the last time i did a build - more than 5 years ago - it's like night and day. everything fits together, cable management is easy and clean, standards are adhered to! i'm particularly impressed with the asus motherboard, the rosewill/jonsbo case, and the seasonic modular power supply.

these pictures are crappy, and i need to tidy up the cables behind my desk, obviously.

everything assembled. worked perfectly on the first power up

i later added two intake fans over the vents at left

here's the other side of the motherboard tray where all the cables are routed. i might tidy this up a bit now that i see how it all laid out.

all done, except for some cable management behind the desk

thermal results are pretty good considering the design priorities of the case.

peak with full utilization of all cores and the gpu at 100% (prime95 and simultaneous nvidia demos) is about 75C.

http://www.431.org/misc/rosewillmx2s-corsairh90.jpg

without the two extra rear intake fans it was about 8C higher once the GPU kicked in, and 6C higher without.

 

[Doreguul]

very clean Schwett. i like it

 

[Grooveriding]

Re-did my loop and moved cases recently. My original plan was to have used a Caselabs STH10 I'd bought, but I ended up selling it after seeing just how gargantuan it really was. Way too much case for my purposes. I ended up moving from an 800D into a 900D instead, still quite a bit more space, a little too much even. The back of the case is layered with some white 3M Di-Noc carbon fiber wrap.

Specs are as in my sig. Watercooling parts are EK blocks on the GPUs, Bitspower block on the CPU, 2x480 rads in the top and bottom and a 240 rad in the front. Had to mod the 900D slightly to accommodate the 240 in the front. D5 pump can be seen there in the res/pump combo.

Kind of looks nasty tube wise in photos. There is a UV dye in the Mayhem's Pastel ice white coolant I use. That stains the clear tubing yellow and it's visible in natural light. When it's later in the evening and the UV effect is more prominent, it's not as noticeable.

Still not a pristine result, but my best result yet of my past two water builds.

 

[burninatortech4]

My first build!

CPU: AMD Athlon 760k @ 4.5 ghz
Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XN-WIFI (Rev 3.0) @ 2200 mhz NB
RAM: 2 x 4gb AMD Radeon Memory 2133mhz
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro Series SSD 256gb
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon R7 260x (Rev. 2.0) @ 3% overclock
Cooler: Corsair H80i
Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Black
PSU: Silverstone 140mm Depth 650W
Monitor: Benq 24in 1ms Gaming Monitor

I was able to get the h80i only 'half in'. (Should have gone with the h55). The other fan I, awkwardly, strapped to the top to blow down in the general direction of the VRM :O

Overall it's a nice little system. Taking it to grad school with me. Couldn't be happier.

 

[Sysad]

My new build, Haven't overclocked the CPU yet however it idles at 26 degrees C and all cores under load goes sup to 34 degrees C.....quite impressed with this cooler.

Corsair Hydro Liquid CPU Cooler H100i
AMD Radeon 16GB DDR3 1600
AMD FX-8320
Crucial M500 240GB Internal Solid State Drive
EVGA GeForce GTX660 x2
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z Motherboard
ASUS PCE-N15 Wireless N PCIe Adaptor
EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W Gold Power Supply
ASUS 24x DVD Writer
Corsair Carbide 300R with Window