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Hey everyone, I just want to start by saying I'll be working on formatting at a later date and I'll just be throwing here what I have for now to enable followers to do exactly that, follow.
The name of this mod mod is "Boosted". Why boosted? Let me just explain this first and say how to mod was born.
YouTuber "Major Hardware" is having a sort of fan showdown on his YouTube page where users can submit a fan blade design that he then puts on a Noctua fan hub and he rates them that way, this got me and my engineering mind to work, days past, weeks, suddenly I went to my parts bin in my shop to look for a specific fan and voila! Behold a 92mm, 38mm thick, 5000 RPM server fan from an Alienware Aurora R4 case! With that fan in hand, I could now start designing my idea.
My idea was to create a sort of electric turbo, have it functional and supplying the whole system with cooling with it. At first I thought about having it supply air for the GPU and CPU via ducts to their heatsinks, but that quickly escaladed to what I'll be showing you today.
Designing the fan was a fun learning experience for me as I work in SolidWorks, I never drew such a complicated parts with functions I normally do not use. So I knew I had to design it in three parts (ended up being 4, more on that later). I needed the turbo housing to be split in half to accommodate the turbo, so I ended up with the top housing, bottom housing and turbine.
After designing I quickly realized I was at the limit of my 3D printer, so I had to shorten out the exhaust tube to make it fit along with re-adjusting the initial mounting hole locations, this brought me to four parts for the turbo itself.
Then I started modding a Corsair 900D by removing the 5.25" bays, then making a cutout for the turbo itself with car intake performance cone filter, like you see on some turbo'd cars. For mounting the turbo, I simply used a sort of mounting cube made from 1515 aluminium t-slot from Spotswoods which made it super simple to mount. I then wanted to make this case more 2020 and the scratched-by-looking-at-it acrylic side panel didn't cut it. After looking through my stock on cases, I found that the InWin 509 window side panel fits really, really well on the case, oddly close. I then modded the InWin 509 glass mounts, which are screws on the 509 to fit the Corsair 900D to create the first real tinted tempered glass side panel in the world (that I'm aware?). I then took the old acrylic panel and will be using it to clean all the passthroughs and empty area where the 5.25" bays used to be (thinking green!)
This done it was time to move on to the next step, installing some hardware to keep planning and modding the next steps. I installed the motherboard (Gigabyte C621 Aorus Xtreme), two bottom radiators (EKWB Classic PE 360 and SE 360), radiator/pump (EKWB Kinetic FTL 240), PSUs (two Seasonic Prime 1300W Platinums with CableMod Pro ModMesh cables), then my next hurdle was to figure out how I would take the air intake from the turbo and send it to the radiators, this is when I put my design skills to the test once again, I designed an intake manifold with one 2" entrace and eight 1-1/4" exits to fit right between both radiators!
This is about where I'm at right now.
Here's a list of what I still need to do in no particular order.
Completed hardware list
CPU : TBD (Xeon Gold 5218 ES place holder) with EKWB Velocity WS
Motherboard : Gigabyte C621 Aorus Xtreme
RAM : Team Group 6*8GB Grey Vulkan Z
GPU : TBD (GTX 780 place holder)
SSD : HP EX900 256GB with PCIE adapter
PSUs : Dual Seasonic Prime 1300W Platinum with Custom CableMod ModMesh Pro cables
Case : Corsair 900D with InWin 509 parts
Cooling : EKWB Classic PE 360 and SE 360, EKWB Kinetic FTL D5 240
Accessories : CableMod Vertical GPU bracket
The name of this mod mod is "Boosted". Why boosted? Let me just explain this first and say how to mod was born.
YouTuber "Major Hardware" is having a sort of fan showdown on his YouTube page where users can submit a fan blade design that he then puts on a Noctua fan hub and he rates them that way, this got me and my engineering mind to work, days past, weeks, suddenly I went to my parts bin in my shop to look for a specific fan and voila! Behold a 92mm, 38mm thick, 5000 RPM server fan from an Alienware Aurora R4 case! With that fan in hand, I could now start designing my idea.
My idea was to create a sort of electric turbo, have it functional and supplying the whole system with cooling with it. At first I thought about having it supply air for the GPU and CPU via ducts to their heatsinks, but that quickly escaladed to what I'll be showing you today.
Designing the fan was a fun learning experience for me as I work in SolidWorks, I never drew such a complicated parts with functions I normally do not use. So I knew I had to design it in three parts (ended up being 4, more on that later). I needed the turbo housing to be split in half to accommodate the turbo, so I ended up with the top housing, bottom housing and turbine.
After designing I quickly realized I was at the limit of my 3D printer, so I had to shorten out the exhaust tube to make it fit along with re-adjusting the initial mounting hole locations, this brought me to four parts for the turbo itself.
Then I started modding a Corsair 900D by removing the 5.25" bays, then making a cutout for the turbo itself with car intake performance cone filter, like you see on some turbo'd cars. For mounting the turbo, I simply used a sort of mounting cube made from 1515 aluminium t-slot from Spotswoods which made it super simple to mount. I then wanted to make this case more 2020 and the scratched-by-looking-at-it acrylic side panel didn't cut it. After looking through my stock on cases, I found that the InWin 509 window side panel fits really, really well on the case, oddly close. I then modded the InWin 509 glass mounts, which are screws on the 509 to fit the Corsair 900D to create the first real tinted tempered glass side panel in the world (that I'm aware?). I then took the old acrylic panel and will be using it to clean all the passthroughs and empty area where the 5.25" bays used to be (thinking green!)
This done it was time to move on to the next step, installing some hardware to keep planning and modding the next steps. I installed the motherboard (Gigabyte C621 Aorus Xtreme), two bottom radiators (EKWB Classic PE 360 and SE 360), radiator/pump (EKWB Kinetic FTL 240), PSUs (two Seasonic Prime 1300W Platinums with CableMod Pro ModMesh cables), then my next hurdle was to figure out how I would take the air intake from the turbo and send it to the radiators, this is when I put my design skills to the test once again, I designed an intake manifold with one 2" entrace and eight 1-1/4" exits to fit right between both radiators!
This is about where I'm at right now.
Here's a list of what I still need to do in no particular order.
- Add pictures to this thread.
- Design flange to bolt on the manifold
- Cut up the manifold for 3D printing
- 3D print manifold
- 3D print flange
- Get 2" tubing for the plumbing (car exhaust tubing likely)
- Cut mid plate for cable/tubing passthrough
- Paint radiator fins to silver to look like intercoolers (both)
- Surprise mod that I'm not sure will work
- Add LEDs in the case to see everything when the glass is on
- Disassemble everything in the case to respray black everywhere from all the cuts, break clean up any cuts that are still "raw"
- Reassemble everything
- Vinyl decals?
- Plumb watercooling
Completed hardware list
CPU : TBD (Xeon Gold 5218 ES place holder) with EKWB Velocity WS
Motherboard : Gigabyte C621 Aorus Xtreme
RAM : Team Group 6*8GB Grey Vulkan Z
GPU : TBD (GTX 780 place holder)
SSD : HP EX900 256GB with PCIE adapter
PSUs : Dual Seasonic Prime 1300W Platinum with Custom CableMod ModMesh Pro cables
Case : Corsair 900D with InWin 509 parts
Cooling : EKWB Classic PE 360 and SE 360, EKWB Kinetic FTL D5 240
Accessories : CableMod Vertical GPU bracket
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