CaseLabs MAGNUM M8K

Today the start of a new build with a super case: the CaseLabs Magnum M8 Labs

Sponsored by...... CaseLabs, Lamptron, Highflow, Coolermaster and EKWB











First my thanks goes out to Jim (CaseLabs) for providing this beautiful case
Received this beautiful gift on my birthday





Offcourse unwrapping it right away







Once out of the box











One of the finest cases I've ever seen, quality is superb







And with an XL window on the right side





And also on the left side



After admiring the outside for some time, the inside



With 3 HDD cages



Attached with screws and rubbers



Pins to hold everything in place



With two vertical accessory mounts







Once everything is removed there is a lot of space for a nice WC setup





Other side also perfect quality



Place at the bottom for a 360 radiator



Passages for tubes and / or wiring





8 Slots is enough



And enough space for various purposes



Also with a Horizontal Accessory Mount



And included 2x Lamptron switches which also perfectly finished



Already sleeved



The windows also very nice and simple mounted



Nothing pasted or with bent strips, but with nuts



So always easy to exchange if necessary. After damage or any other acrylic color replacing. Clamping mechanism is also well thought







This is also applied to the front and top panel, which is also removable





Space for 3x 120mm fans



But that's not all. There was another package





Quickly unwrapping it again



And it is the extended pedestal, for all your radiators and other stuff







At the back holes for 2x 140mm fan





So much space inside, but I choose for a bracket for 2x 360 radiator



The front also has a removable panel. Always nice to mod



So the extended pedastal. Lots of extra space, a real nice addition



Once installed everything, I was shocked



Really big









Some more pictures of the beautiful extra addition











So a new build with a superb case from:

Pure sex.. nuf said!

Before we even get to modding, an overview of all the accessories

One Standard HDD Cage is coming with the case





Ordered two more



As I mentioned earlier comes with rubber bands for installing at the front with screws



With gaskets and mounting bolts for the HDDs







The SSD Mounting Kit



Two Vertical Accessory Mount





And the Horizontal Accessory Mount





These will be very useful



A PSU Support Bracket For heavy powersupplies



A lot of Flex-Bay Device Mount



Two x 360 Radiator Side Mount For in the pedestal



And a Bottom Accessory Mount





To replace the standard bottom covers, consists of three sizes (picture is the longest)
A few HDD Opening Cover Plates Replacement cover plates for the HDD openings on the PSU side



A Large Attachment Plate for various purposes such as installing reservoirs or miscellaneous







And finally, all the spare parts comes with the case







Of course I also had time to do some modding. A little teaser

sweet case to trick out

Hole.

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Shit.

That's a big, beautiful case.

I have owned a mountain mods U2 UFO horizon for three years. Based on the pics I have seen in the work logs the craftsmanship, customization and build quality of the case labs cases appears to be far superior. Happy modding and building!

I was looking hard at the Mountain Mods stuff. Then I stumbled across Caselabs. Yeah, complete direction change. The fact that you can remove the front, top, and both side panels toolless makes for easy custom painting of the outside.

wow an amazing case

Cubism lives!

Thank you my modding friends

ugapug said:

I was looking hard at the Mountain Mods stuff. Then I stumbled across Caselabs. Yeah, complete direction change. The fact that you can remove the front, top, and both side panels toolless makes for easy custom painting of the outside.

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Yes, These removable covers are really great for modding purposes

Shown in the next update



Update!!!

Ok, my friends Its modding time
Beneath the top cover there are holes for 120mm fans, which I dont need.
These will disappear, because I want a good view from all sides

So taped and marked



Always an exciting moment...the first cut-out





I also slightly modified the recesses in the bottom of the case. There were also holes for 120mm fans (3x) on both sides



Between the pedestal and the case I have inserted an acrylic plate, which makes the separation between the two



Later i am gonna use fill ports for the tubes and/ or acrylic pipes





In the top cover I also made openings ​​with the same size as the recesses underneath







Piece of acrylic for the top window







For the front I also did some cutting, but first marking





The same dimensions as the 5.25 bays





Piece of acrylic behind



Going to use the exciting fanholes because of the 360 rad behind it later







To keep the color combination (black / silver) I have cut a piece of aluminum with the fanholes. And a hole for the switch. This is further extended to the right with displays, and more switches in the middle.



What's going to look like this



More to come

My back hurts just thinking about how heavy that thing could end up when finished

The story continues......With some nice hardware and more

The hardware is a nice Gigabyte mobo: The Z68X-UD4-B3



And a great CPU: The i7-2600K



I've changed my mind regarding the front. For this I made the aluminum front again



The opening above is for 2 HDD coolers. Always fun to see how the flow is





Made it black





In order to be able to make this happen, there where some adjustments necessary





After some dremel cutting and filing









So I've slightly modified the existing hdd cages and placed it







And this is how the front looks for now. There also are coming two Lamptrons touch controllers in it





I also want to thank Cooler Master for providing theTurbine Master Mach 1.8 fans
And...a beautiful M2 Silent pro 1500W
He's big....really big



Nice sticker, not unimportant lol



After placing the PSU I've been playing with the space. And to fill this space I've cut a piece of aluminum and bent it.



Cut a piece of 5mm black acrylic



This will be the bottom





On this I will place two reservoirs, not the 150mm but 250mm









Left here and there some space for some ideas





And at the back I've made a fanhole for a nice small 80mm fan



More to come

I love Case Labs builds. What are your thoughts as to the quality of the sleeving they use for those switches? Is it something that can be left or in your opinion is it likely that most people will cut it off and use something else?

I think the sleeved switches are great, I will use this for all the four Lamptron switches later
It's all just great quality

Sponsor update:

Lamptron is also helping me with this build, So special thanks to Maurizio
Received the first touch controllers. I asked for aluminum version (which is convenient for future builds) but for this build I'm adjusting these.

















Specificaties:
Dimension：148.5mm X 42.5mm X 64.5mm (5.25inch bay)
Screen Dimension：118mm X 31.5mm
Power Output：Up to 30W per channel
Control Channels：6

Included cables:
6x Temp sensors



6x Sleeved fan cables





And a manual, jumper and molex cable



A very nice sleeve kit...The Modding tool kit





A great set for the disassembly your 4 and 8 pin EPS (12V), ATX Connectors, PCI-E connectors and more!!!











Perfect kit



I also received some switches including 3x 19mm white dot momentary





And 2x 19mm white dot latching





Maybe a bit lazy but also ordered
5x connection cables



Nicely finished and sleeved





Couldn't resist to intall the switches





And with acrylic in front of it. Still need to cut the holes and raise the switches a little bit



And just one final pic to show the quality of the beautiful finished aluminum faceplate

very nice it is coming along nicely

Sponsor update

I also want to welcome a great sponsor for this build .... Highflow
Given the great choice of products, I have choosen some nice stuff.



Always nice to a Highflow package, Thank you Freddy!!!

First two beautifull reservoirs. The EK-Multioption RES X2 - 250 Advanced





Some Tygon R3603 - HighFlow - 1/2 ID - 3/4 OD - Clear tube





And nine great NorthQ 120MM 3711RL Silent Tornado fans





Also a small 80MM NorthQ 3709RL Silent Tornado



Playing with the fans





I'm very satisfied with the fans, They will look perfect in this build



And last 2x Acryl Paneel - UV Rood / Transparant - 500x500mm





Once everything unpacked, it's modding time. Cut a piece of red acrylic and cut a hole in it for a tube



In the black acrylic I have cut 2 holes with the size of the reservoirs cut to keep them in place





And cut a little piece for a fillport



Two fillports for the hdd cooler with a little touch of red



Playing with the tubes and of course placed the fans









Also placed the reservoirs with some BP links (these will be black)



After a bit of measuring and other small things, made the aluminum plate black



And placed everything back









Again connected the tubes







And two pics how one side stands now .... on to the next

So after some thinking and some urging of fellow modders I decided to do everything straight. It's more work ... but I'm in no hurry







Also a nice idea I have seen in another build is the tilted mobo. Made the back plate again with 2mm aluminum, and marked the shape of the backtray



Sawing, drilling and Filing



Placed the original mobo tray, pasted black vinyl again to get it black. Maybe a bit lazy but this is so easy, quick, scratch resistant, inexpensive and just the right color.

The tilted mobo



















Missing something ... red I think. therefore entirely dismantled the backplate and cut a red plate







And everything reassembled, this time with countersunk m3 bolts. Rivets are unfortunately too short now





Nice touch... inside is red now



And placed it. Now with some daylight pics





Placed NorthQ fans in front instead of the Turbine masters



And received some nice red hardware



An made an additional air outlet​​. Will place mesh later.



Furthermore beeing busy with the acrylic pipe, to get this as straight as possible. Just like the other side, cut a piece of aluminum with fanhole



Made it black and cut and placed a piece of red acrylic. Placed a loose tube for size and see if it's straight





And fits nicely along the mobo tray



And the weekend is over ... unfortunately. More Next week

mobo tray looks awesome. well done.

Wow, that's beautiful. I like the genuine idea of angled MB tray even though spatially, it may not be practical. I also really like the shape of those fans. I went for GT fans because my fans won't probably be intake.

dudewth said:

mobo tray looks awesome. well done.

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Thank you

raminux said:

Wow, that's beautiful. I like the genuine idea of angled MB tray even though spatially, it may not be practical. I also really like the shape of those fans. I went for GT fans because my fans won't probably be intake.

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thanks, and it's not practical...but who cares going for the looks

DAMN! nice work

beautiful... absolutely beautiful...

the angle'd motherboard tray looks freakin awesome

EKWB Sponsor update!!!

Received this week a great package from EKWB. Again my thanks to Gregor and everyone from EKWB that makes this possible. All beautiful products for CaseLabs build



The EK-Supremacy - Nickel















The EK-FC680 GTX Backplate - Black CSQ

















EK-FC680 GTX - Acetal + Nickel CSQ

























EK-Multioption RES X2 - 250 Advanced











2x EK-CoolStream RAD XT (360)















2x EK-CoolStream RAD XT (240)











A EK-DDC Dual TOP V.2 G1/4 - Black Acetal













Some beautiful EK-PSC Fitting 13mm - G1/4 Black





And some EK-PSC Adapter 90° G1/4 Black





And EK-PSC Adapter 45° G1/4 Black

Jesus, even with the lower res pictures, you can still see all the crap milling marks on those blocks. At this point, I'd just be way to scared of the plating and the crap milling to put anything EK in my units.

Hope it works out for you.

Sweet mod. I still don't understand why you would want a case that big though lol

Jorona said:

Jesus, even with the lower res pictures, you can still see all the crap milling marks on those blocks. At this point, I'd just be way to scared of the plating and the crap milling to put anything EK in my units.

Hope it works out for you.

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The looks are good, that's what counts

smiley22432 said:

Sweet mod. I still don't understand why you would want a case that big though lol

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The bigger the better

This is the nicest build/PC I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did anyone else have the theme from 2001 playing in their head while scrolling through the gallery?
I have a feeling the finished product is gonna be proof positive that modding is a legitimate artform.

superb work so far, can't wait to see the final product

OMG!!! This is as good as some of the cases on OCAU! eg. L3p's desk and EpicPCCases' Thermaltower build

largest advertisement I have seen in some time

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jojo69 said:

largest advertisement I have seen in some time

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If someone gave me $500+ in water cooling gear, I think I'd give them a pretty big shout-out too. Although I'm still not sold on this whole circle design EK has come up with...

Keep up the good work Kier; I look forward to checking your build logs every Sunday morning.

yeah...sorry. I should subscribe to the "if you can't say anything nice" principle but I got burnt in the EK plating fiasco and it still smarts pretty bad.

Build looks cool and all

Wow what a case! So big!

And nice awesome parts!

Thanks my modding friends. Hopefully this update will change your mind a little bit about the new EKWB design

Update!!!











It has been a while, but here a big big update
First a thank you note for Sicomputers. The GPUs (GTX680) were not available, but thanks to the good and fast service from Sicomputers I got 2 beautiful cards.
And as promised an honorable mention with banner



2 beautiful GTX cards



First tested on air



Time to give the cards a transformation
EK-FC680 GTX - Acetal + Nickel CSQ













And the great EK-FC680 GTX Backplate - Black CSQ



Also placed the EK-Supremacy - Nickel



One GPU placed



For now with multi link, but will not use these in this build.



Really like the backplate.



Placed 2e GPU



Allready installed the radiators with theNorthQ fans



With the EK-CoolStream 360 RAD XT







And then I received a great package from....van Freddy.... Highflow





With (hope so) the latest products that I need for this build.

Offcourse with some Fillports





And 15mm extenders







90 degrees adapters







Smaller extenders





Because I've made the angle in the mobo tray, the 45 degrees rotery's will not fit. Therefore I've ordered some 30 degrees rotery's







and offcourse my favorite adapter, the multi link adapter







I still have some other ideas for the Case labs case, but for this I'll need some more acrylic. Therefore 3mm transparent



And UV red acrylic





Freddy/ Highflow thank you again for the quick service and good products and ... have a great holiday.

Now the explanation why this order has taken place. I'll will make this setup with the solid tubes



From the CPU, 2 pipes going up. Because there's an angle in the mobo I can not use the 45 degree fitting to connect on a fillport



That's why I'm using the 30 degrees rotery





Ordered the extenders to lower the in- and outlet.





To create a corner with the acrylic tubes I use the 15mm extender, 2x multi link and the 90 graden adapter









Now only a multi link, later there will be added a fillport



More multi links



And connected everything



Chapter red acrylic

Previously I had a 5mm thick transparent plate between the case and the pedestal. But I want the red lines run entirely in this build, therefore changed the middle part.

The red acryl.



Cut it.



After this cut the 3 mm transparent transparant acryl "]acrylic[/URL]



Placed like this.



Removed the plastic.











The plate is transparent to get a free sight what happens in the pedestal.



I was not very happy with the front, just didn't like it. Therefore I've sawn a new piece of red acrylic



With the sizes of the detachable front.



Used some spacers.



Also sawn a new plate with the fanholes and the holes for the Lamptron switches



With illuminated edges







The 2 spaces above the HDD coolers are for the Lamptron controllers



The last thing i've did is sleeving the Coolermaster 1500w Silent pro M2



Finished





24 pins



CPU cables



And some GPU cables



Connected everything to see how it looks.







That's it for now...Grtz.

Looks great! I have a question about the watercooling setup, are you concerned at all about all the flow restrictions so many 90 degree bends are going to add? I know you're focusing on looks a lot, but there are 5 90 degree bends on the GPU blocks alone. That's going to add some serious restriction eventually, are you going to be running 2 pumps on that loop?