Skyreach 4 Mini - Water Cooled HTPC

[SamNicotine]

Hi All!

Excited to share a few pictures of my HTPC build with the S4M. This PC is my media server, hence the hand-me-down HW from my last Gaming build . Happy to answer any questions about the experience. There's not a whole lot to it though. Taking the covers to get powder-coated tomorrow, appreciate any color suggestions! Thanks Josh!!

CPU: i5-6600k
Motherboard: Asrock Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac
Memory: Corsair DDR4-3200 2x8GB
SSD: OCZ Vertex4 128GB
Cooler: Corsair H60
PSU: picoPSU-160-XT + ATS200T-P120 192W Brick

 

[alexmcdouchebag]

Ooooh boi, those are some tight tubes. Does it close?

 

[SamNicotine]

Ooooh boi, those are some tight tubes. Does it close?

Yes it does. The tubes don't look great, but I've run some handbrake/prime95 and temps looked good. There's no doubt in my mind it's restricting flow though. I'll post some more pictures when I get the cases back from powder-coat.

It made me wish someone made an AIO with elbows at the radiator!

 

[1461748123]

Very impressive, how did you mount the radiator down?

 

[SamNicotine]

Very impressive, how did you mount the radiator down?

Thanks! Can’t wait to see how your build turns out, now THAT’S impressive.

I used the included 120 mm bracket. There’s mount points for it right next to the mobo tray.

 

[SamNicotine]

Got my skins back from powdercoat. Can't wait to get my carbon fiber front panel from Josh to replace the one I messed up with some shoddy drill press work .

 

[MoarCoffeePlzzz]

Jeez. Hope that's not gunna be too much pressure on the socket over time.

 

[BrotherStein]

Makes me feel good about my tubes! I'm hoping to have a build log uploaded this week, but I decided to cram a H75 in a slightly wider/longer case than the s4m. I had to pick up a Noctua slim 120mm fan which works really nicely. I wouldn't mind seeing more pictures from the other side behind the radiator as well if you have time. Thanks for sharing your build!

 

[SamNicotine]

Jeez. Hope that's not gunna be too much pressure on the socket over time.

Yeah agreed, time will tell.

Makes me feel good about my tubes! I'm hoping to have a build log uploaded this week, but I decided to cram a H75 in a slightly wider/longer case than the s4m. I had to pick up a Noctua slim 120mm fan which works really nicely. I wouldn't mind seeing more pictures from the other side behind the radiator as well if you have time. Thanks for sharing your build!

I sure will. Thanks! Look forward to seeing how your H75 turns out too.

 

[Josh | NFC]

Thanks for posting this. Any more pics of the paintjob? Love your color choice...