Project: "Mod Men" Series HTPC

[MonsterMawd]

Hey everybody, this will explain why I've been missing from Toms. I've been working on this scratch build PC project for the "Mod Men" series on YouTube. It will be water cooled ITX H55 Home Theater / Gaming PC. The “Mod Men” Show is the first original web series made exclusively about PC Modding. It follows the industry’s first Professional PC Mod Shop, Mnpctech.

SYSTEM SPECS:
Motherboard = ZOTAC H55 ITX 1156
CPU = Intel Core i7-870 Lynnfield 2.93GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core
GPU = ZOTAC 470 GTX
SSD: Mushkin Callisto 64GB
PSU: Silverstone 600W

COOLING SPECS:
CPU = Custom Copper water block (designed by cheaps, randy's swirl design)
(Acrylic water block tops fabricated and designed by cheaps)
GPU Cooling = EK-FC470 GTX water block (would have made our own, if time allowed)
Radiator: Hardware Labs 360 GT Stealth
Reservoir = Custom made with manual pressure regulator! (designed & fabricated by cheaps)
Pump = MCP350
Tygon 3603 3/8" ID (1/2" OD) Clear Tubing
EK PSC fittings, except for water block top (EK hi-flo)

CONSTRUCTION:
Tower: 2" thick cast clear acrylic (cnc milled)
Tower Sides: 1/8" thick Blue & UV Green transparent cast acrylic (cnc milled)
Base for PSU: 2" thick cast clear acrylic (cnc milled)
Optical drive shell: 2" thick cast clear acrylic (cnc milled)
Optical drive cover" 3/16" thick billet aluminum with fins
Front Plates: 1/4" thick Blue transparent cast acrylic and 3/16" thick billet (cnc milled)
Rear PSU Mounting: 1" billet aluminum
MB stand-offs: billet aluminum
Power switch: 22mm Bulgin Blue Ring Momentary

The keyboard and Mouse will have Di-Noc carbon fiber film applied

http://www.mnpctech.com/CarbonFiber_Gunmetal_Titanium.html

Episode #1
[flash=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/v/jEAZ2oscQIs?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash]

Episode #2
[flash=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/v/1jzddMFTFTc?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash]

Episode #3
[flash=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/v/ZRx8aSbpNko?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash]

Episode #4
[flash=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/v/iNIQEr6-4rE?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash]

Episode #5
[flash=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/v/d55Qsxcogb8?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash]

Here is cheap's first concept drawings for the "Mod Men" PC after a few chats. Tim Burton / BIJOU Theater / The Jetsons was appropriate description of the PC design. If you want a more specific description, perform search under "Googie"

Base for PSU: 2" thick cast clear acrylic (cnc milled)

Front Plates: 1/4" thick Blue transparent cast acrylic

Assembly of the 2" thick clear acrylic base and main tower. The aluminum piece is the mounting plate for the Power Supply

 

[mosox]

Very nice, was that expensive?

 

[MonsterMawd]

materials were just over $700. We supplied the labor

 

[MonsterMawd]

Here is the 1/4" thick Blue transparent acrylic while test fitting everything.

 

[MonsterMawd]

here is photos of the custom acrylic reservoir made by cheapskate, this will be mounted on the back of the tower.

 

[MonsterMawd]

Here is the custom cpu waterblock top, made by cheapskate

 

[MonsterMawd]

Frank Lloyd Wright meets The Jetsons..

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[mosox]

Great rig, congratulations. And different RAM will change the aspect.

 

[MonsterMawd]

Great rig, congratulations. And different RAM will change the aspect.

Thank you! I love how the Ram offsets the color theme

 

[MonsterMawd]

I had the material on hand already, the hardware was donated, so not bad... the 470 works just fine for HTPC

 

[Guest]

One Word----NICE!

 

[MonsterMawd]

Thank you 4 checking it out and commenting!

 

[Lutfij]

bloody **** - your at it again...monstermawd - bro your killing it...i mean REALLY killin' it!!!

the 470 works just fine for HTPC

no it doesn't...it'll do more than that - that cards enough to swallow crysis 2 whole!!!

 

[MonsterMawd]

lol, youre right guys...

 

[Lutfij]

Oh~in the above post of mine - the first line was to show what an awesome job you did...the whole post wasn't aimed at letting you know its an overkill build ...but ya know what? its just fits the bill for a 1080p gaming/htpc.

hats off for the design,
Cheers mate!

 

[MonsterMawd]

Indeed lutfij. and Zotac was kind enough to give it to us. The design was done by cheapskate, I've posted videos that follow the build in earlier post here. Thanks for your comments!

 

[MonsterMawd]

PC temps before and after being Overclocked to a stable 3.6 GHz. This is best OC I'm finding other people achieve out of Zotac's H55 as well. No surprise, it's a HTPC board and not intended for Overclocking.

Motherboard = ZOTAC H55 ITX 1156
CPU = Intel Core i7-870 Lynnfield 2.93GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core
GPU = ZOTAC 470 GTX
SSD: Mushkin Callisto 64GB
PSU: Silverstone 600W

COOLING SPECS:
CPU = Custom Copper water block
GPU Cooling = EK-FC470 GTX water block

2.93 GHz Core i7 870 Lynnfield CPU at stock and Idle

Overclocked to 3.6 and running Prime95 (core i7 860/870 has a 100c max)

 

[4Ryan6]

Really nice work!

 

[MonsterMawd]

Thank you 4ryan6

 

[MonsterMawd]

Mod Men PC made cover of CPU Magazine You can read entire digital issue, http://www.computerpoweruser.com/Images/SmartComputing/DigitalIssues/CP____1106__/pageflip.html

 

[MonsterMawd]

Thank you malmental!