Phinix Nano Tower by Mike Krysztofiak

Written by Antony Leather

July 10, 2012 | 09:21

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After quick assemble and fit tests I painted it all black and put it together once more.

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The pump stand was designed to go inside the power chamber to let the reservoir to stick out from it. The pump stand was screwed to the rear panel of the case, so it would be moved out with the panel to make easy access to the insides.

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That meant the whole pump would go with the rear panel and radiator. I also designed a nice yellow acrylic reservoir grill made of ten rings. I needed something to control all those fans in the case, so found a good old fan controller which was small enough to squeeze it between the rear right rod and radiator hole in the rear panel. I trimmed the fan cables and sleeve to match the whole black/yellow theme.

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To make the whole Nano Tower stand out, I decided to use a 10mm thick acrylic panel at the bottom of the case to 'draw' the difference between the case and a desk and top panel, to keep the structure vertically symmetric.

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I cut out all holes for screws feet and PSU and painted it black. Then I have installed beautiful billet machined aluminium case feet I received from Bill from MNPCTECH.
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