Cooler Master Cosmos II MbK

[kier]

Cooler Master Cosmos II MbK

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Hi my modding friends,

A new year begins, so a good start in terms of a new modding season
With a brand new case .... which is released right now, the Cosmos II
The new flagship of Cooler Master.

The hardware which comes in it is not known yet for sure, but it is certain that an x79 mobo and a number GTX580 GPUs comes in
And offcourse watercooled.

The color combination is going to be black, gray and white

The package was brought a month ago, the deliveryman cursed me
What a case and what a weight, unbelievable. My wife was pissed and called me some names I didn't heard before
So I needed to make space in my workshop to properly view the case.

The package:

First unpacking which quite a operation turned out to be

And here it is the great Cosmos II

Lots of case with a lot of space, really a true pleasure to mod this one

Cooler Master Raymen, Ruud and Marco and of course anyone who makes this possible ... Thanks!

And then moved it straight to my workshop to view and show interior
First some specifications:

-Exterior Material: Aluminum, mesh, synthetics

-Interior: Steel alloy, plastic, rubber

-Dimensions: 344 (W) x 704 (H) x 664 (D) mm / 13.5 x 27.7 x 26.1 inches

-Weight: 22 lb kg/48.5

-Maximum compatibility CPU cooler height: 190 mm/7.48 in.

-GPU-Length: 385 inches mm/15.15

-Type-M/B: Micro-ATX, Micro ATX, E-ATX, Extended ATX, SSI CEB, SSI EEB

Once dragged in my workshop and opened it immediately, I noticed how much 3.5 Drive Bay are in it
less than 13 pieces in total (2 from X dock, Mid cage for 5 HDDs, bottom cage for 6 hard drives)

The middle bay has room for 5 HDDs

In the lower HDD bay there's room for 6 hard drives which is hidden behind a beautiful fan bracket with
2 x 120 mm fan, 1200 RPM, 17 dBA

And here there is room for 6 HDD's

The PSU has shifted back for some extra space inside

And is raised a little

At the front there is space for two HDDs through the X-dock and there are three 5.25-inch drive bays available

Below this compartment, behind the mesh part there is one 200 mm LED fan, 700 RPM, 19 dBA (converted from 120 / 140 mm)
And below that there is still room for a 120mm fan for the airflow trough the lower HDD's bracket

The back has room for a 10+1 Expansion Slots

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And a 140 mm fan, 1200 RPM, 19 dBA comes with it to the rear

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At the top is a lot of space under the mesh

This cover is very easy to remove with a screw, and below is enough space for 3 fans and wiring

There also would fit a 360 rad but for that there are some adjustments needed.
And it comes with a black 120 mm fan, 1200 RPM, 17 dBA

Also on the top there is a sliding panel. Below that there is a control panel with 7 functions
More about this in the next update

At the front there is the I / O panel with 2 xUSB 3.0, 4 x USB 2.0, 1 x e-SATA and audio in / out

And there is very good tought about the cable management

With enough holes

I could go on an d on about the case but..... now it's modding time

I removed the top mesh and made ​​a number of strips.

Which are directed obliquely backwards, this is still a rugged design and has yet to be finished

Cut out the fan controller carefully

Here is coming a slot loader DVD or Bluray.

For measuring I used this one .

And made a slot for it

Where before was the sliding panel I cut and bent a piece of aluminum

Which is placed like this

And made the slot for the slot loader drive

I hope this is a good start of the new year for you ... for me it is

More to come!!!

 

[omegatotal]

watching this, looking good already!

 

[Mortis_Nuntis]

Saw this was made by Kier, and knew my socks were about to be blown off! The TJ-11 was awesome, cant wait to see this!

 

[kier]

Just to compare the size of this beast

And next to some other cases

 

[kier]

Update!!!

Today I removed al the plastic and there's not much left

These fanholes might become handy

Also removed the HDD bays and some other stuff, now there is a lot of space left for two 240 Rads. It,s possible to put 360 rads in there but I want lots of space for the cables and tubing
The front is also cleaned

I have a nice idea for the lower compartment. For this I sawn a piece of 1mm aluminium

Bent it

With a slide angel

Covering up the whole compartment. Other side is becoming just the same

For the fanholes I had a nice idea. I really like the shape from original fanholes, so this I,m going to make in the lower panel

After some sawing and filing

Second one also done

Removed the tape

And placed the rad and fans. This cover is going to be black (I think)

Just one more to make

 

[psy81]

Very nice! Love that case. Hidden DVD drive is sick. Would love to see the final build.

 

[kier]

Update!!!

Just a small update before I go on a little vacation

I also liked the shape from the air intakes behind the mesh in the front,

so I copied that to a piece of 5mm white acrylic

And placed it. I think i'm going to place another black layer on top of it

Also made a 5mm white acrylic midplate

Maybe illuminated

That's it for now!!! coming back soon

 

[baldrik]

Lookin' good.

 

[kier]

Update: The front

These last few days i've continued with the appearance of the case. I want the front to turn black / white. So I have sawn a piece 3mm black acrylic, the same pattern as the white plate. Only now with the recesses 5mm smaller.

White plate on it

I like the looks of it. Also have now some great air in/ outlets, finishing of this part later

I previously mentioned that the controller is coming in the upper 5.25 compartment togheter with the I/O stuff, all of this in the black and white theme

So marked a 5mm white acrylic piece

To keep everything in place there is coming a piece of black acrylic behind it with recesses for the controller and I/O stuff

Witch is placed like this

To get a nice contrast around the controller, I've cut and filed a edge of 3mm black acrylic

And also made two black strips cut for the I/O stuff

And placed in the Cosmos

For the lower I/O section cut rectangles and circles for the USB and audio

And after some carefully filing

Top I / O section also done, and put everything in it for the looks

Above the Cosmos controller is still a big white surface, this seems to me a nice place to put a display.
For this the perfect display: The Aquaero 5 XT. So ordered and received

Hmm that's a unpleasant surprise, the controller with touch buttons isn't black anymore (like the older version) but Aqua Computer has replaced / filled this with stainless steel buttons.

Itself is looking very nice with the new buttons... but not for this build. So first i'm going to try to get an "older" version. Until I know more I will stop working out the display.

That's it my modding friends

 

[kier]

Update

Just a small update about the cover at the right bottom.
First idea was to make this cover with a angle just like the other side, but a change of plans.
This is now becoming a straight cover, but with 2 HDD attached to it. The place for the HDD's was a bit limited because I removed the HDD cages and almost all the space is occupied by the water cooling products

So this is a nice solution. There will also be a SSD, but this is placed on the side of the 5.25 bay

For the cover I sawn a piece aluminum and marked it

Bent it

Cut out the Fanholes again

And drilled the holes for the HDDs. Of course I will make some adjustments for noise reduction

All placed like this

Also made the recess for the cables

 

[WarningFromSpace]

Good work so far! Really like it.

 

[FrEaKy]

Great googily-moogily

/me watches more!

 

[Carbon_Le]

looking good.

 

[kier]

Just a small addition

I've covered the two plates with black vinyl, which gives the same black color as the rest of the case

And placed them

Pics with the white front

 

[Celcius]

Nice work

 

[kier]

Update!!!

I would like to welcome a great sponsor for this build, the shop that has everything .... IT-Service.be



IT- service/ Eddy Thanks for the nice discounts.

For this build I purchased a nice new mobo: The Asus SABERTOOTH X79

Really a great motherboard, here some pics:

Some standard stuff

And the motherboard

Placed right away in the cosmos

So the Sabertooth, really is a beautiful mobo

I also bought some beautiful rams to fill up the sabertooth, 3 x the Corsair 4 GB DDR3-1600 Kit

I will place EK ram coolers on these.
En last but not least, the white Xigmatek XOF-F1251 fans, which fit perfectly with this build

Placed on top

360 rad fits

In the last update I had shown you the white midplate, Ive adjusted it a bit for 2 pumps

Which will be placed like this

Received approval from my great friend

And also cut a white acrylic plate for the mobo tray

Beneath and beside the motherboard I have a lot of space, this will be filled up
I would like the same line as the EK tops, and I want a nice light distribution in terms of the illuminated midplate. For this I am going to raise the midplate about 4 cm, for this I have sawn and bent an aluminum strip cut

Behind it I placed 2 CFL lights, and we have an illuminated midplate

For an even better light distribution I will do some adjustments, but more on this later.
I've made a bracket for the rad

I still need to make the top bracket but this I will do later

Enough room for the fittings

And here the radiator with fans

Applied a layer vinyl coating to the strip

Looking good I think

Grtzzz

 

[kier]

Sponsor Update !!!



Hi fellow modders.
It took a while since the last update, but today I have received a lot of watercooling products

What would it be... a lot of boxes

To begin EK-PSC Fitting 10mm - G1/4 Black

Also the EK-PSC Adapter 45° G1/4 Black

and some beautiful EK-PSC Adapter 90° G1/4 Black

A great CPU block: the EK-Supreme HF - EN

and two EK-RAM Dominator X4

For the 2x ZOTAC GTX580 gpu's iv'e got 2x a EK-FC580 GTX+ - EN

Also with two EK-FC580 GTX Backplate - Black

2 great tops with res: the EK-DDC X-RES 140 - Acetal

To cool everything I ordered 2x EK-CoolStream RAD XT (240)

For the top of the Cosmos I''m gonna place a EK-CoolStream RAD XT (360)

And for the sabertooth board iv'e picked the EK-MOSFET ASUS X79

Another great sponsor for this build is...... ZOTAC



For this build I may use 2 x the ZOTAC GTX580 1536M 348BIT DDR5

Some specs:

Specs:

Chipset :

-Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA®
-GPU GeForce® GTX 580
-Core clock 772 MHz
-Stream Processors 512
-Shader Clock 1544 MHz

Memory :

-Memory Clock 4008 MHz
-Memory Size 1536MB
-Memory Interface 384-bit
-Memory Type GDDR5

Chris, Craig and Carsten Thank you again for these great cards
It's ashame that I need to undress the cards, but it needs to be done

And placed the EK-FC580 blocks

Placed the backplates

Ok, now more about installing the blocks

The mosfet block:

Next the Supreme HF.

After that the RAM coolers

Placed the 2 ZOTAC GTX580 GPU's

Looks good Placed everything in the Cosmos II

And installed some fittings

Now everything is in place it's time to mod again...to be continued

 

[Asgard_Thor]

holy shit

 

[jamsomito]

holy shit

^ this.

 

[toddfx]

Wow awesome. Barely even recognizable as a motherboard under there!

 

[kier]

Yeh I know.....sorry Asus

 

[kier]

Update!!!


Had some fun these days with cutting and sawing in the Cosmos:
Hole for a straight Fill-Port and also a slot for the fitting of the pump.

Holes for the gpu, s in-and outlet

A hole for the wiring of the gpu, s

And adjusted the slot for the sata

Did the same thing for the 24 pins powercables.

I also made ​​a hole in the side of the 5.25 bay

And made 2 fill-ports.

And at the bottom of the 5.25, I have made a large hole for the in and outlets of the reservoirs, etc..

All this I have covered with U-channel edge from Mnpctech.

Furthermore, did some nice things with the pump / reservoirs. All with fixed tubes

More on this later. I also started with the cables. For the GPU power, I have marked some holes.

Pre-drilling with 1.5mm

3mm

And 4.5mm

This is enough to go through with a sleeved wire.

For the GPU power I used extensions

And sleeved it in 4 colors. Black, titanium gray, gray and white

Other side still loose

One by one put the male connector through

Did the same thing for 24 pins cable.

And placed everything. One gpu have to wait ( need more heatshrink)

 

[baldrik]

Fantastic work. You never fail to impress.

 

[kier]

Thanks Baldrik,
Here's a shot with the second GPU

 

[Almighty ODST]

Great work. Keep it up!

 

[limperatlinks]

Coming together nicely, i really like sleeved cables and the way they run thru the acrylic is just badass!

 

[bonnev659]

wow it is looking amazing coming along

 

[omegatotal]

I am copying so many of your ideas in the near future

 

[KnowYourOnion]

I loved your TJ11 mod and this one looks great!

I have a question...

What do you use to cut holes in your acrylic, like on the front panel?

Also do you sand the edges after you cut out the shapes?

Please keep modding! I love watching your work!!!

 

[shaks]

wow! just simply no words! great progress and all the work done
I got some great ideas for the future from you)

 

[kier]

Update!!!

It's been a while since I've updated the Cosmos build, but here it is .... the long awaited update
Where were we... the sleeved cables. For the Sata cables I've made 2​​ openings

Sleeved some Sata cables

First four sata placed

Second layer on top

It's all a bit messy now, but this will be better It need to be as tight as possible ...

To get this so tight, I drilled some holes on the back from the mobo for the tyraps

Tightly folded around the edge

I will not use them all, but I dont want free sata slots.

In the front there are still some open holes, So I've cut some mesh for this

Placed the acrylic cover back again

I wanted something more for the "fins" on top, so for this I have pasted some DI-NOC

Looks better. To have the same DI-NOC effect in the front I have also pasted the slide panel

And now the big moment ... making the loop ready for filling. For this I have cut the hard acrylic pipe and placed it

Checked the remaining tubes etc.

All connected...yes, fill it up

Fill Port right above is to fill the first loop. Never mind the silver shiny stuff, don't have any black left and don't wanna buy new. This is not in sight

And then it was really time to fill it with... Mayhem Pastel Ice White

Starting to get full

Nice color isn't it

Just one more loop, but not today

 

[EQWoody]

Holy crap this is the sickest mod i've seen in a while.

 

[dougp]

I have a feeling we'll be seeing this on the front page soon. The wiring job is absolutely crazy!

What kind of sleeving did you use on your SATA data cables?

 

[kier]

Thanks you guys,
For the sata I used also MDPC sleeve (sata- sleeve black)

 

[K1tty]

Just amazing! You've managed to make an amazing case look even better.
I'm contemplating getting this case. Not about to go crazy modding like you, but would like to fit a regular 360 rad up top and a fatty 240 rad in the basement.

 

[bonnev659]

wow amazing job

that looks so neat!

 

[kier]

Second loop ready without any major problems

 

[Jorona]

I can't imagine that setup for the video cards working properly. Your second card is likely being starved for flow. Have you checked temps yet?

 

[kier]

Didnt check temps yet, but have done this setup before (even with 3 blocks). identical blocks, same restriction so this parallel connection will work

 

[Idef1x]

Your build is awesome as usual. I have always admired your work. Especially your yellow TJ11.

I was wondering, if you care to tell me, how you achieve the straight rigid tubing - specifically the part that runs behind your reservoirs. I have a long tube running horizontally, and have achieved to get it quite rigid, but it's not perfect as yours. If it's not one of your pro modder secrets