Echelon is a project built on commission to promote the Evolv ATX Tempered Glass. This project was a labour of love and hate, with this project taking more than 6 months to complete. This is primarily because I could not decide what to do with this chassis since it is already so beautiful and well thought out. It took roughly 3 months of planning and playing with configurations when I finally decided for what layout and style I wished to have.
I ended up flipping the entire motherboard 90degrees so that the connectors are up top. This opens up the back panel to have a large window so that the insides can be properly shown off, and that more light comes into the chassis giving the feeling of space. To achieve this orientation, I had to cut out most of the original internal steel structure, and fabricate my own supportive structure from a single piece of aluminium bent three times. This single aluminium piece gives an extremely clean look, and also great structural strength to help support this new layout.
The water cooling loop is unique and very clean. This is with help from the EKWB Predator AIO which has been modified to support CPU and GPU, as well as hard tubing.
Custom aluminium panels are installed all around the chassis, and serves both purposes of looking great and support strength to key structural points.
This album will be updated with the system turned on once the PSU comes back from RMA.
Specifications:
Phanteks Evolv ATX Tempered Glass
Intel Core i7 6700k
ASUS Z170 Maximus VIII Formula
ASUS GTX980 Ti Strix 6GB
Samsung 950 Pro 512GB m.2
Seasonic Platinum 1200w
Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB 3000mhz
EK Waterblocks custom water loop
CableMod custom PSU cables
Performed Mods:
Fabricated entire new internal structure
Flipped motherboard and GPU 90°
Created window from the back panel
Made new aluminium panels for added chassis stability
Sponsores:
Phanteks
Inet
Samsung
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