Part 1

The ExtremeMhz flagship case project will be presented in 3 parts.  The first installment will consist of an overview. Part 2 will concentrate on the details and performance of the cooling system. Part 3 will go into the construction of the case and describe the mods that were performed. The articles will be spaced about a week apart.

The specs for the flagship case are as follows:

In the planning phase we first determined what we wanted to accomplish as well as what our desired outcomes should be:

1. The system would be built on an AMD Dual CPU platform.
2. Maximum cooling would be achieved in a water cooled environment.
3. The entire system had to be self-contained…no external anything!
4. A balance had to be achieved between a maximum overclock and rock solid stability.
5. The final product should be aesthetically pleasing.

Finally I wanted to keep the computer safely locked in my home office; away from the prying eyes of undesirable elements (I don’t want to mention my wife and kids by name) ;).

The case was designed by us after determining which components were going to be used to accomplish our goals.  The design was submitted to AcrylicPC, a company in Canada who delivered a product that exceeded our expectations. The case specs are as follows:

Here is a picture we received from Frank at AcrylicPC when the case was completed, just prior to him shipping it out.

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In the following picture you can see the case populated by the components we decided to use.

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From top to bottom we installed 2X Seagate cheetah 15K SCSI drives in Coolermaster HDD bay coolers, Creative SB Platinum Live Drive, 2 empty bays for future expansion, Kenwood Truex 72X CD, Plextor 12x10x32A CDRW, Pioneer 16X DVD, Dig-Doc (used for temperature monitoring only), 2X Compunurses to measure AMD chip temperatures, PC Mods Rheobus, and finally a Matrix Orbital VFD.  Sitting directly behind the Compunurses sits a modded Western Digital HDD.

The following picture shows a ¾ front shot of the case in low light conditions.

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Moving on to the left side of the case you can observe the drive cage components as well as the motherboard and water cooling subsystem.

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The Enermax 651P-VE PSU was removed from its casing and paced in front of bottom intake fan.

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The PSU sits on a double acrylic tray.  Red, white, and blue LEDs were imbedded into the tray for effect. The PSU is not visible in this shot…it sits directly in front of the fan in the case.

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Moving to the back of the case you will notice that the radiator is encapsulated in an acrylic shroud to further its cooling capabilities.

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This double acrylic tray which sits on the interior of the back case panel holds the inverters that were used for case lighting, 2X “microbuses” to power case lights and spot cooling fans, as well as a 30mmX30mmX5mm speaker for the motherboard.

The following is a picture of the cases’ right panel side. Notice the back side of the Iwill MPX2 board.  To get a better gauge of the size of this case, keep in mind that this motherboard measures 12”x12”.

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Part 1 Continued...