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9. What's the best part of your rig?
The custom water cooler system. It gave me a lot of work to build, but when it was ready and i pressed the power button… tears almost flowed from my eyes.
10. Any dislikes, things you should not have bought?
No, i research a lot before buying some piece of hardware. I discovered the casemod world because i wanted to customize the case and the system in my way, personalized and unique.
11. Did you modify anything ? cases/video cards/other? Did you do it yourself? Walk us through it.
All mods in this case has been made to allow this custom watercooler system to be installed. I started when i bought this case. My initial intention was just to be able to install a closed watercooler system for the CPU. But then i started to study the water cooler world and found that i could do much more, needs only patience, passion and some ability to modify the case. I started the casemod doing some markings on the case and on the side panels to drill the holes for the rads and fans by. Then I sent it to be painted with automotive paint, in a local car mechanical.
Another thing that I also did was to cut the holes in the front mesh panel to fit the temperature sensors, and then i inverted
the case orientation by 90º to the right. Finally, i did the side acrylic panel with the cutouts in the factory of a friend of mine. It took me almost two months since the first scratch until the machine was 100% ready. At the beginning i thought it would be impossible to put 500mm radiator space on a m-itx case, but then I started to test it with thinner fans, which eventually lead to install the water cooler system the way it is today.
12. Your 3DMark scores
With this actual overclock, on 3DMark 2013 i could anchieve 11889 points on firestrike, and 6079 points on firestrike extreme.
13. Do you have any future updates planned ?
Yeah, actually I’m planning to build in a rig that a friend is developing, and my head started to think in a all-acrylic case, watercooled friendly.
14. Does your rig or mod have a name ?
For sure, it’s name is Akvo, which means Water in Esperanto.
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