Silent - Big - Water Cooled Case

[Brewster0101]

So... After nearly two years with my Thermaltake Kandalf LCS with a few mods to the water loop and fans I have decided to take my quest for a complete silent pc to the next level...

I am currently looking at the Silverstone TJ07 as the next case, with a common water set up with the triple rad at the bottom and laing dcc ultra pump... This with some silent fans up to a fan controller are looking good.

But I have concerns...

One... Silverstone TJ07 case is expensive and quite old, is there anything better now?

Two.. I intend to only water cool my CPU and GPU, will my northbridge chip get too hot...

Three... What are the best silent fans?

Any photos of similar rigs would be nice....

Cheers

[Webby]

Personally if your watercooling you CPU and GPU the northbridge would be easy enough to add in unless its heatpiped to voltage regs and southbridge in which case you will need to get some more water blocks or get some air cooling for these items. Thermalright offer good Mosfet coolers.

Case wise it really all depends on how much modding you would be happy doing? The Akasa Omega could be made into a really amazing watercooled case with no modding you could fit a duel and a single rad and with a bit of imagnation I think you could potentially get a quad in the top after moving the PSU Antec 1200 would fit a triple in the front you would just need to find somewhere to put the hard drives.

If you fancy something a bit different then the Thermaltake Mozart TX could be right up your street will easily accomodate 2 duel rads.

[Brewster0101]

Personally if your watercooling you CPU and GPU the northbridge would be easy enough to add in unless its heatpiped to voltage regs and southbridge in which case you will need to get some more water blocks or get some air cooling for these items. Thermalright offer good Mosfet coolers.

Case wise it really all depends on how much modding you would be happy doing? The Akasa Omega could be made into a really amazing watercooled case with no modding you could fit a duel and a single rad and with a bit of imagnation I think you could potentially get a quad in the top after moving the PSU Antec 1200 would fit a triple in the front you would just need to find somewhere to put the hard drives.

If you fancy something a bit different then the Thermaltake Mozart TX could be right up your street will easily accomodate 2 duel rads.

I've had a Thermaltake Mozart TX and its an annoying case, side panels don't come of and its very hard to work inside.

Antec 1200 would mean mounting rad on drive bays, therefore blowing warm air into computer, poor indea.

Akasa Omega is a naff case for water cooling, its too small and the top vents are obstructed by the first drive bay. Poor design, oh and door only opens one way.

Currenty my Northbridge and both sets of voltage regs are water cooled by seperate EK blocks, but I want to air cool all of these as a triple rad, with slow moving fans gets too warm..

[Webby]

Why not just get either more rads or a bigger one then?

And you can always have the airflow moving back to front so that the hot air is expelled through the front of the case rather than pushed into the case.

Perhaps you would be happier with a Mountain mods case they are designed with watercooling in mind http://www.mountainmods.com/ will have everything you can possibly want.

[Pob255]

Lian-Li PC-A77

Although you could also consider the Akasa Mirage 62 v4
That's a really old case design, it's still basically a tweeked casecom server case, the design of which have been around for 10years now.
the thing is it's wider than any standard case, so with carefull cutting you should be able to fit 2 3x120mm rads onto the side panel.

Or almos any case with thoes holes at the back an a large fanless external rad.

[Brewster0101]

Perhaps you would be happier with a Mountain mods case they are designed with watercooling in mind http://www.mountainmods.com/ will have everything you can possibly want.

Looking at the Mountain mod Ascention but the other half doesn't like the look. Not sure why I even asked her if she liked it. It would cost the same as a Silverstone TJ07 but be alot more flexible...

Actually thinking about is, I might not even have the space on my desk (which is 2m long) for it.

mmmm

[Million]

I have a watercooled antec P180, and it runs silent except for when the DVD drive is reading. It's got the CPU and GPU cooled but not the NB, is OCed, and temps are good. The NB on my mobo has heatpipe cooling which I rate. Setup involves a 3 fan rad mounted in the top with 3 slowed 120mm fans running through it

[Brewster0101]

I have a watercooled antec P180, and it runs silent except for when the DVD drive is reading. It's got the CPU and GPU cooled but not the NB, is OCed, and temps are good. The NB on my mobo has heatpipe cooling which I rate. Setup involves a 3 fan rad mounted in the top with 3 slowed 120mm fans running through it

You got a photo of the inards? and some specs of fans and equipment! Sounds good

[Million]

Here are some pics I took just after finishing the build (haven't got any better ones unfortunately). It's the standard P180 case, with a hole cut out of the top for a 3 fan rad. I have 3 Noctua NF-S12 fans, undervolted through an Akasa fan mate (controller you see from the front). Specs are visible on the left <<<





I have the standard Antec 120mm fans set to lowest speed on front and back to keep the mobo and RAM for getting too hot.

Let me know if you have any questions

[Will404]

Love the tape over CD drive light. I have the same one. really noisy

[Million]

Love the tape over CD drive light. I have the same one. really noisy

Yeah, if it ain't blue, it gets the electrical tape treatment! Pain that it's noisy, fortunately I use disc images most of the time

[Brewster0101]

Million do you have an issues with heat from the northbridge or voltage regulators?

[Million]

nope, long as the fans are going there's good airflow, plus the P180 has the separate PSU chamber so overall temps are kept low

[Brewster0101]

Thats good. See my biggest concern is that in my new rig I don't want to water cool my voltage regulators on the motherboard and try to avoid water cooling the north bridge too so that I can have the most silent fans on the radiator.

[Million]

well as you can see, I don't water cool the mobo, it's got a decent overclock (3.33 GHz from 2.4) and has never had temp issues. Just make sure your case has good airflow and your mobo has good passive cooling, and you should be ok