Project : Glass Cannon

[dknourek]

You are a good guy and glad I got the opportunity to help with the renderings. It was fun
-dave

[Seboo]

Hey guys, time for an unexpected update.

I said I didn't have enough experience to do renders of my case design, but one fellow artist on the forum wanted to give me a hand with the renders. He said he reached me out as he liked the design and thought it would be fun to render some images for me.

Fun you said?

Those images translate my design into reality, as I see it in my head. It gives a good preview of what the Glass Cannon will look like.

Those 7 images are just icing on the cake for the preparation of the case, so give your eyes a treat.
Special thanks to Dave Knourek (dknourek on the forum) for his help and time. This forum is full of good people.













Next update: Machining.
Stay tuned!

[Mulletsoldier]

Definitely following. Good luck!

[Seboo]

I may bite off more than I can chew with this project, but I want to give it a try. My mindset for a competition is go hard or go home! And even if I fail on some points, I know I'll learn a lot in the process and I'll be able to push the thing further on the next project. I know a lot about CAD, but not that much about CAM and machining stuff. It's going to be one hell of an adventure and I'll try to put as much information on the build log.

The acrylic is comming home tomorrow, 4'x4' of 1/2'' and 1/4''. Then, the fun part will start! Stay tuned!

[Bartacus]

Ambitious! Bring it on.

Had the same thought! Balls: this man has them.

[EZ's PC's]

Woah!

[DazMode]

Ambitious! Bring it on.

Impressive!

[bungwirez]

Ambitious! Bring it on.

[section31]

Nice looking case. Someone combining ideas from Parvum, Singularity Computer Spectre and the Inwin Transforming Case.

[Seboo]

I don't have the exact information right now. Actually, the machining will be done with the help of a contender from last year competition. He lives near me and was kind enough to offer me his time and equipment to make my project.

I'll keep you posted with the machines used. The machining should start early October.

[qbvbsite]

Looking good man, can't wait to see some of the parts get created. What machine are you running these on?

[Seboo]

Good evening guys,

Here's some screenshots of my work on Solidworks, in preparation for the machining. I would have liked to get some renders on Keyshot, but I'm not experienced enough to give a nice render of clear acrylic with liquid flowing through it. So I'm stuck with giving you screenshots of Solidworks. Next year, I promise!

I have no idea if it's gonna work, but I'll have to make it work one way or another. Nothing is final, I may need to change some acrylic parts due to machining or work more on the aesthetics of some other parts (i.e. the stand). I'll post a lot of views with partial integration of the parts, so it may be clearer for everybody. So let's see what I've got for now:

The inside view without hardware:



The core of the case will be an hollow half-cube. Only 3 faces:
The bottom one will be the motherboard tray;
The left one will be the reservoirs/pumps' plate (2x 140mL reservoir + 2 pumps on the backside);
The right one will be the radiators' plate (2x280mm radiators).

The idea of the acrylic plates is to reduce the amount of tubing inside the case, making its look cleaner. The liquid will flow thru the channels carved in the acrylic, sealed with a 2mm rubber o'ring and screws 40mm apart.



With the motherboard assembly, 2 GPU, the RAM and motherboard waterblocks.
The dimensions of the acrylics plates are 14''x14''x3/4''. It will be kinda large, but I'm OK with it.



Here's the distribution plates between the reservoirs, the waterblocks and the radiator plate. The left reservoir will be passively flow through the motherboard plate, then cool the GPUs. On the other hand, the right reservoir will cool the monoblock and the RAM, and then will passively flow through the GPU distribution plate. I will have 2 separate loop with that setup.



The top view of the motherboard and the distribution plates.



And the side view. The plates are 1/2'' thick for the flow plate, and 1/4'' for the sealing plate. Then, add some 12mm glass tubing, cables and all the screws, and you get a core that will look like this:



On the backside of the plates, I'll screw in the radiators and seal them onto the plate:



And you can see on the right side of the picture the 2 pumps and pump tops.





And on that view, you can see where I will route the cables. I still need to figure out some details for the cables, but I hope it will look something like this.

And finally, that core will sit on a triangular stand. I haven't work on it yet, so it's ugly for now. I will find a way to make it look good.



The stand will hide the overflow of cables and the PSU. Probably made of brushed stainless steel.
Many details will be covered later on, but there you have it boys, the Glass Cannon. Fragile, but mighty.

[Hooded]

Nice bit of kit.
Looking forward to the build porn

[Kaidis86]

Saw your entry from last year and damn it was nice! Looking forward to seeing what kind of magic you've got up your sleeves this year! Good luck and mod on!

[Tpbmods]

Some serious machining his time around. Interesting concept.