In the automotive world a sleeper is typically a slow car like say a Toyota, Cressida
That has been modified to be insanely fast
And there's another key element the best sleepers like this one from mighty car mods feature
no external modification
So potential challengers would have no way of knowing that it's capable of chopping them to shreds
eating aforementioned shreds then pooping them out, so
inspired by this concept we grab the nastiest
oldest your great-uncle is still using it for some reason case that we could find and
Vowed to make it smash gains once more meet
Hubert, play name plain looks
plane performance
You know that kind of plane?
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So first we needed a case and our good friends over at Free Geek hooked us up with this, an Ntech
Sx 840
which back in the day was pretty dope but after almost 15 years of filth collection, well
Let's just say it was
Perfect opening it up though the insides actually could have been a lot worse all things considered
I wonder if this thing has even been opened since shortly after it passed QC back in 2003
I really hate that that's a long time ago now
anyway
Next order of business was a plan to pack it
full of as much power and water cooling as we could and because Alex can't resist an opportunity to fire up that copy of
Solidworks that they gave us for just such occasions
We created a model of the case and started
Virtually test-fitting our components radiator in the bottom with vent holes
Hmm. Well that could fit, but then we'd be stuck with a single graphics card
Unacceptable so we settled then on a thick triple radiator in the front this might seem slightly overkill
But these new core i9 processors
run hot as hell when overclocked and we wanted to be able to push up this baby as far as possible
Time to head down to the workshop
we pulled the drives then spent about the next half an hour drilling out rivets with our trusty bottle of rapid tap
Ah, that's better
I mean who needs ancient mechanical drives when you can have more room for cooling
time for a test fit then before we make any
Irreversible modifications. Our pump reservoir position was the trickiest to figure out
At first we wanted it to go in the bottom
But because of the PCIe slot positioning on our Asus Prime X2-99 Deluxe we couldn't make that work
There is some room up top
but that would make filling the system more difficult without putting in a fill port in the top and ruining our
Beautiful sleeper aesthetic, so finally we came up with an idea
Maybe we could mount it to the fan
I mean sure, that's not the greatest for airflow and it means that
we'll have to be darn careful while drilling into them
But it might be just crazy enough to work.
How to mount the radiator though?
Holes in the front of the case would be the most obvious solution
but stealing the top radiator mount from a master case pro 5 would save us some time,
so we flattened it out a bit and
Oh, shoot. Still about a half an inch too thick not a problem though. It's angle grinder man to the rescue
so with the cuts tidied up it did still interfere slightly with the Motherboard Tray rivet, so
Out those came with the drill and these holes here
should serve us well for mounting the radiator.
Of course though our troubles weren't finished and we were still having some difficulty.
Getting it in due to these pesky tabs thankfully almost every problem in life can be solved with abrasives
Much better. To line up the screw holes,
We poked the drill through the existing holes and gave it a little spin just to remove some of the paint
so we knew where to drill.
Next we center punched where the screws would be and drilled on through
we then poor-man's tapped them out with some thumb screws and a lot of love and
Holy Crap! This might actually work
Now since the reservoir can't go anywhere else we had to make some modifications to this poor fan
So we started small then worked our way up to the thicker objects. That's always the best way
Okay, then awesome the reservoirs mounted
But clearly we'll need more airflow. Angle grinder to the rescue again and as though like Magic
That's more like it so with hopefully all of our modifications to the case finished
It was time to finish it off with a nice coat of black tape
So at this point, we were ready to slap all the parts in, plan out our water cooling loop and
Call it a day, but then
Shortly after the cameras turned off for the night
Getting jiggy with it came on the radio and we realized the soft tubing we'd planned
Wasn't big willy style. So we flip the script and flip the red
Extended the rest and devised the plan for a loop sexy and hard enough for even the biggest willies
So instructions for hard line then measure
cut
fill
heat
Bend
check
insert
secure
Rinse and repeat until done.
Custom hard line water cooling easy as that
After several hours of cable management, man old cases suck for that
We were ready for the final touch-ups
So we disassembled the loop installed the storage, ram, 80 millimeter
OG Case fans which only got cleaned on the inside to maintain our sleepers perfect external fill
and then reassembled the loop and filled it up
So, then at this point. We put back together the outside of the case
front panel goes on with double side tape,
CD and floppy drives the side panels go back on and would you look at that?
It's still
awful and dirty on the outside
Leaving anyone without a very keen eye to dismiss it as old crap
But open it up
And holy freak. Is it beautiful and with the horses to back it up.
With an intel core i9-7900X 10 cores, 64 gigs of ram
RGB of course. Dual Geforce GTX 1080.
Samsung 940 Pro SSD in a fully custom water cooling loop
We are looking at a machine that can run with pretty much anything out there today,
while staying both cool and quiet
That is if, you disable the rear fans...
Cause they're really really loud.
So bask in the glory now of Hubert and stay tuned for dale
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