HADRON AIR HIGH VOLTAGE

System Owner: 4RTEX
3DMark Fire Strike: 11,732
3DMark 11: 15,713
Community Score: 6
3DMark Vantage: 47,766
3DMark 06: 0
SuperPi 32M:

ELIGIBLE

System Details

Component Type Brand Product

Motherboard MSI Z97I GAMING AC

CPU Intel i7 4790K

Frequency: 4 GHz FSB / QPI: 100 MHz Multiplier: Auto x Stepping: 3
VCore: Default VTT Voltage: Default PLL Voltage: Default

RAM Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB)

Frequency: 2133 MHz Timing: Default Voltage: 1.55 v

Graphics Card EVGA GeForce GTX780Ti Classified K|NGP|N Edition 3GB

GPU Frequency: Default Shader Frequency: Default Memory Frequency: Default SLI: No

Case

EVGA

HADRON AIR

Power Supply

Corsair

RM650

Cooling

Corsair

H60 2013

Fan

Corsair

Air Series 120 PWM

Solid State Drive

OCZ

Vertex 3 120GB

Keyboard

CM Storm

Quickfire Rapid

Mouse

Corsair

Vengeance M65

Notes

Hadron Air High Voltage

The idea was to have a powerful machine in small and stylish m-ITX case, but also very quiet and civilised. It had to be one of the most powerful Hadron rigs out there, so....

I have removed the factory PSU and managed to fit ATX power supply inside. The choice went to Corsair's RM650 PSU, which is known for its good quality, zero rpms and most of all - no coil whine.

Couple of hours and I had a cut-out in back panel to accommodate new PSU's exhaust. I have designed a backplate to go there as well to make the case more rigid. This backplate is riveted to the case and is made from SECC steel 1.5mm thick.

I had no choice then, but to use compact water cooler and again it's Corsair's H60 - one of few with slim radiator. Obvious thing was to remove the drive cage, as there was no room for it any more. That's where the H60's radiator is mounted, surrounded by to 120mm PWM fans acting as exhaust. Front plastic panel is now glued to aluminium panel and all that is offset from the case by two sets of hank bushes to create a gap for air to come out. I wanted to maintain the front as factory looking as possible.

At the very top of the case there is only one PWM fan acting as exhaust as well.

Now that there is no factory PSU, I have made bespoke SSD mounts to utilize four screws at the bottom of case. This will also fit another 2.5 hard drive in future.

Here comes the best bit. I thought to myself, if this PSU was fitted there just for silence, I wouldn't be completely satisfied. This case had to take the biggest monster GPU I could think of. Didn't have to look far. There is the K|NGP|N card - GTX 780ti. The card is too long to fit the case without trimming so cutting tools came handy again.

Last thing was to design the side panel. I needed more airflow. The rest can be seen on pictures. Bear in mind - this thing will now fit TITAN Z....

Comments

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Vlada011
01/03/2015
11:35 AM

Amazing build. I can't believe how everything fit inside +1000 Hadron is definitely cool case special with so powerful hardware.

trevathecleva
11/14/2014
01:16 AM

I am building an air cooled Hadron right now. This rig gives me inspiration to strive for more :P I just got my GPU (970) last week, now I just need a SSD and an OS and Ill be ready to build. Cant wait. Love your Pics and how your rig looks!

4RTEX
09/30/2014
10:02 AM

New Fire Strike score with Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM and CPU @ 4.7

4RTEX
09/28/2014
05:12 AM

Updated Fire Strike score again with PSU outside case, GPU core @ 1250MHz, CPU multi @auto

4RTEX
09/20/2014
01:19 AM

Updated Fire Strike score with driver 344.11. Core @1215MHz

aka_STEVE_b
09/11/2014
07:29 AM

Definitely awesome job of re-configuring it to handle the big boy cards.....

mdf2t
09/10/2014
03:42 PM

Awesome rig! :D +1

revenantx02
09/02/2014
08:59 PM

Awesome mod you have there!, +1

4RTEX
08/30/2014
04:02 AM

Some measurements made with Valley bench running at ExtremeHD: GPU temp: 83 deg @1202MHz CPU temp: 64 deg (max) noise measured with Sound Meter app 5cm from case: 54dB

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HADRON AIR HIGH VOLTAGE

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