Massive Case - UV Galore - 19 Fans + Water

This is by far the most extravagant air cooled UV case I've built.

FINISHED PRODUCT:









There is not a single wire that's visible, only the cables that were meant to be shown off are visible.

I took alot of time in making sure it wasn't too bright, this can happen easy when you start trying to get stuff to glow using blue LED's and Cathodes. I made sure that all 7 Darkside UV strips were hidden out of sight so only the ambient light emitted from them created the glow of the UV reactive fans and cables. I'm happy with the outcome, pictures below to add slightly more exposure to how it looks in real life which is slightly dimmer.

The rear Blue 140mm Enermax T.B. Appolish fans were are terribly bright at max voltage, but when brought down to 50% they dimmed to an acceptable brightness level. I might swap them out for black framed UV green fans like the ones on the bottom panel, what do you guys think, should I keep them or swap them out?

My SLI setup has never ran so cool before, I took alot of time on working with what airflow would work best... heat rises right? so I initially went with the top fans as exhaust, then for ****s and giggle I switched them over to intake and WOW huge difference in temps, having the fans intake directly onto the GPU/CPU is the way to go, I'm running extreme overclocks and my temps have never been this low, my old case my middle GPU would hit 80c, now 70c is it's max and my i7 is @ almost 5ghz would often reach 60c, now it's peak is 50c!

All fans are running at a near silent very low RPM. I found some great fan hubs by SMAKN, they aren't well known, but I can vouch for them, they are freaking amazing and the built in switch for LOW/HIGH is amazing!
Amazon.com: SMAKN® PC FAN HUB temperature-controlled supports 8 Ports 12V 3pin Fan Cable: Computers & Accessories
Amazon.com: SMAKN® PC FAN HUB temperature-controlled supports 8 Ports 12V 3pin Fan Cable: Computers & Accessories


It's actually very quite as to what many might think with so many fans.

8x120mm on top as intake
2x140mm on rear as exhaust
2x120mm push/pull on heatsink
2x140mm on bottom as exhaust
1x200mm and 1x140mm on front as intake

I took alot of time in choosing these fans and modified most of them by cutting out the bright LED's in them, for example the 200mm(front) and 2 140mm green UV fans(bottom) had atrocious bright green LED's, it totally killed the UV effect of the UV fins. I cut those out ASAP. The top 120mm AC ryan fans actually use blacklight UV LED's so those are acceptable.


Let me know what you think and if you have any questions.

Thanks!


****please excuse the messy sleeved cables, combs have not arrived yet***

Great job.

Mind sharing how you made those fans duel color like that? I mean the light does not seem to bleed from the frame to the blades, how the hell did you do that?

the blades and housings are two different colors.

they are glowing because they are reactive to the UV light.

It looks great! Solid work my friend!

Thanks Guys!

Just installed a Asus STRIX 980 Ti and have it running @ 1600mhz, 78.9% ASIC score, RUNS amazing and really outperforms my old SLI 670 @ 1337mhz setup, but I'm disappointed, the card is louder then I thought it would be.... going to return it. Even with it running at 1400mhz the fan will start spinning at 55% while in game, it's the loudest thing in my case.

Going to go with the MSI 980 Ti Hybrid and will install the radiator on the top inside of the case towards the front doing a push/pull confiig. The hot air will shoot down into the 4x140mm exhaust fans.





Couple of updated pics:

• Cable Comb for the 24pin
• Installed a total of 4x140mm on the bottom.
• Installed a matching 140mm on the front intake.

Everything is illuminated w/ (3) strategically placed hidden UV strips. The top fans use UV LED's so they don't create to much ambient light, I consider them dim. The rear fans are BLUE led which I'm still skeptical on, might switch the LED's off on them, but i've got them running at 50% power so they are really dim and don't bleed that much light into the case.

The total effect is awesome, the case looks completely black inside, but everything is glowing. When I get the 980 Ti Hybrid, I'll try to get some UV green sleeving for the tubes going to the radiator.

My i7 @ 5ghz has never ran so cool before and my PC has never been more quite. All fans running at 50% or lower.

18 fans, 3 UV strips, 2 fan controllers and not a single cable visible This case is amazing for cable management!

Do you have any photos of what it looks like under normal light?

RazorWind said:

Do you have any photos of what it looks like under normal light?

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Interested as well

Here ya go, let me if you guys have any questions or any more requests.

Bowser Junior says wassup...

I read through a couple times, but didn't see the brand of fans mentioned other than the rear ones with the LED's. What brand are all of your fans? The only UV reactive ones I can really find are GeLid ones.

Edit: I see the ones are AC Ryan fans, must have read over it, picked some up myself, can't wait to get em for my case. But what is the brand for the bottom ones?

AliceCooper said:

I read through a couple times, but didn't see the brand of fans mentioned other than the rear ones with the LED's. What brand are all of your fans? The only UV reactive ones I can really find are GeLid ones.

Edit: I see the ones are AC Ryan fans, must have read over it, picked some up myself, can't wait to get em for my case. But what is the brand for the bottom ones?

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The ones on the bottom are and now rear are Apevia 140mm, They come with Green LED's, but I cut those out. Looks like they are out of stock of the 140's tho, they do have the 120's, but the blades are different, they are a clear UV green and don't react as well as the 140's frosted UV green, I just installed (2) more of these on the rear, I think it looks much better then the blue LED 140's I had in the back...
http://www.performance-pcs.com/apevia-140mm-4pin-3pin-green-led-case-fan-w-grill.html

I just installed a smoked cast acrylic side panel, the clarity is amazing on this thing. I used (4) N42 neodymium earth magnets on each corner to keep the panel in place, these magnets are crazy powerful!

I love the way that it looks, when the PC is off it looks like black glass, but as soon as it's powered on it creates a nice soft glow. I'm going to be creating a external toggle switch hidden under my case to turn the UV strips on/off, so this way I can black out the case while it's running if I wanted to.

I modified the the front of the case so it doesn't bleed out any additional light.
All you see is the beefy 200mm UV fan on the bottom. It looks much cleaner now.

New MSI 980 Ti Hybrid SeaHawk w/ custom UV green Sleeving...


Also replaced that crazy blue mouse pad, with a much cleaner Reflex Extended.
This pad is super thick and has a great speed to it...


I also installed (4) large matte black sofa feet under the case to lift it off the ground 4 inches.
The case looks even more aggressive now and sits at a better level next to my monitor.
Almost looks like the starwars sandcrawler lol...


Fan controller is hidden under the case, you don't directly see the blue LED's just the ambient light from them...

Really like the UV looks of your build. I bought 7 AC Ryan fans like the ones you have up top (blue case/green blades) in the 120mm size. How do you like them? I got them for $6 a piece so I couldn't pass up the deal considering how much air they push. I got mine from Performance PC's, unfortunately, I bought all of them lol .

Thanks man, appreciate it.

Man they are probably some of the best fans I've owned. I've been using them since 2006 it's a shame though that they are no longer produced and dammit! it looks like you did purchase the last 7 of them Good thing I bought a couple spares. Although the 2 on my heatsink are still running strong since 2006 lol. If you have enough UV lights in your case, you can unplug the LED's from teh fans, they have (2) leads and one is just for LEDs. You are going to enjoy them...

They push a ton of air and can also be tamed down to run very quite w/ a fan controller. They use awesome UV reactive materials and are one of the few fans out there that use UV led's, I wish more manufactures would create UV LED fans, but they think blinding LED's are more desired now a days, possibly UV is a fading trend. I still prefer it over LED any day.

Post a pic here of them when you get them.

Will do, my case is very plain, only the 4 blue LED's on my mobo are lighting it, i got rid of my green cathodes, shoulda kept em for something else. But yeah, there were exactly 7 left so I bought em all hehe . I realized they're very hard to come by so I snatched them up because I've always wanted to do a blue/green UV build, but could never find the fans, I am assuming because they've been discontinued forever. And that is another thing, there are UV reactive fans, but none of them actually have UV LED's. I am happy you like them so much, I am only going to be using a couple, the rest will be spares. Glad they are still running strong 10 years later .

Here's a better pic of the new feet and smoked cast acrylic side panel...

Usually not a UV guy but love the build, especially those fans, it's a neat look. Would've personally gone for as many big fans as possible 180 or 240mm but slow 120s is pretty quiet too. Nice work, cool turtle and neat audio setup

What do you guys like better, white or blue?

Testing out the RGB strips...

Sweet UV action.. Nice to see a badass glowy build.

Thnx man, ya not many UV builds out there.

Testing out some Gelid Blue fans in push/pull...






What do you think looks better on the heatsink the Blue or Green GELID fans?

Here's few more pics in normal room lighting...


Using Flash...

Stopped by the local plastics shop and saw they had a piece of scrap 2069 transparent blue cast acrylic that would fit my case, tossed on some earth magnets and slapped it on. I really like the clarity this has, it lowered the overall brightness just a little bit and increases the UV of the blue fans on top.

I also moved the smoked panel to the rear wall side panel, creates a cool reflection, but some of the white wall fades through it making it look dark grey. I'm thinking of getting a custom piece of acrylic with a mirror on one side and the other side being a smoked transparent color, it's called a
two way mirror.





Flash on...


See the reflection from the smoked rear panel...

I miss UV builds. That thing looks so sweet!

Thnx man, Ya I didn't realize how old UV style is, seems like everyone nowadays just uses white/blue/red or just no LEDs at all... I was really big into UV back in 2006, guess I never out grew it, I'm 33yrs old now lol.

UV builds will never go out of style imo. Looks slick!

Are your AC Ryan fans up top more of a dark blue in person? Mine don't have that neat Caribbean blue unless my darkside UV LED's are pointed at them or near them. They seem to have a "blue UV" LED in them because they shine a dark blue when lit up. I might try taking the LED's out of my spare and putting in some different UV ones to see if that changes anything.

Side note, I posted my current build with UV , I get my GeLid green blade fans today to install, can't wait .

Just to answer your old question about the ambient lights, the blue makes the coils on the wc pop more - I like the white also but the blue a smidgen more.

Has anyone found the output of the Darkside UV LED's? Their contact us is broken and I cannot find the specs anywhere. I was kind of expecting a full spec sheet and maybe a warning label since they are UV lol.

Now I'm jelaous, this is super cool *_*

This case reminds me the old school color scheme WC loops =D.