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Project 'TriChromatic'

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Vitesse

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Well, I decided after my motherboard died that a new/part-new build was in order and decided to go watercooled at the same time.

The reason for the name 'TriChromatic' is the ability of the human eye to percieve three colours red/green/blue and this is also to do with a case illumination mod. This isnt as high-spec as most of the systems you guys are running and i'm not planning and off-the-wall mods except the case illumination as mentioned earlier


The specs are as follows:
Intel i7 920 D0
Asus P6T SE motherboard
3x 2gb Corsair DDR3
XFX 4870 512mb
Coolermaster PSU (re-using)
3x 250gb Maxtor sata II drives

The case choice for me took ages as I dont really want to have to do any external modifying so decided to go with a TJ07 as it has plenty of room for watercooling and other bits and pieces.

Unfortunately I dont have any photos of motherboard/cpu etc as due to the death of my previous motherboard they are currently running air-cooled in my old case temporarily

Anyway, here are a few photo's of the watercooling parts I've got so far, im only cooling the cpu and gpu and leaving some air cooling in place for the mosfets etc

Radiator and fans
Radiator and fans rear shot

pump and other parts

Pump wiring after braiding
Another shot of braiding
Yet another shot of braiding

Rad bracket fitted
Cable management hole cut in motherboard tray
Cable management hole in back of middle tray

I have bought a device called a MiniBee which is a USB driven digital output module allowing me to control devices using visual basic.net
MiniBee
Mounting bolts
MiniBee Fitted

More watercooling parts, this time the waterblock, a couple of bottles of primochill, the XSPC waterblock and some fittings, the rest is on back-order
More watercooling parts arrived

Now for my fan mod, i've chosen to use 5x 120mm Yate Loon blue LED fans and i've carefully desoldered the wiring for the LED's from the fan's PCB, two of the LED's have been removed and replaced with Tri-colour LEDs
and i've added series resistors for the existing 2x blue leds and the new tri-colour ones.

Here's a pic of the fan prior to braiding the now 6 wires coming from it (i've still to do the other 4 fans as this was my first attempt)
Fan Wiring

And here is a series of photo's showing all possible colour combinations
Red
Green
Blue
Blue-Green
Blue-Red
Blue and Red-Green combined
Red-Green combined

For the pump and the reservoir illumination I'm using 5mm full colour (RGB) led's wired for 12v operation with series resistors
Full colour LED wired


That's as far as i've got so far
 
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Looks cool, I will be looking, as I am looking for ways to accent my build with leds as well :)
 
The hardest problem so far is trying to keep the work on the fans as neat as possible which isnt easy with now having 6 wires coming from each all to run back to the bottom of the case to the MiniBee.

Also writing the software with vb.net is proving tricky too but i'm just crossing each hurdle as i come to it so to speak
 
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