Alright well my current case is only good for a 240mm rad and i can hardly fit anything in it so I eventually got round to getting a better one, thanks to Brewster0101 I now have an awesome Lian Li case (my first one!). Man does it look good, very pleased with it.
Now since i have a 360mm rad i needed to find room for it, the top panel seemed like a good spot and i know lian li sell their own top for radiators but I couldnt find retailers for it so i decided to put some of my tools to use and do it myself!.
So time to mark up the whole placement of the grill/radiator. Using my awesomely cool Japanese rotating pencil (really is an epic mechanical one haha).
All looks OK so far, already started a bit off with the dremel equivalent from Draper and i cut through most of the corners (i didnt take pictures at this point sorry) And then used a Jigzaw to cut everything. And the holes were drilled by a 4mm bit(after finding a 2.5 was to small!).
Heres the almost complete top without grill :
Ok so not the best work ever but working with some cutting discs that just either worn from the inside out (ie falling off!) and the others just grinding down so low it meant that i had to use the jigsaw most of the time and avoid using the guiding plate as to not scratch the panel, unfortunately there were a handful of marks now (not bad if you dont look very closely) and then the stupid wooden work bench managed to scratch the side enough to annoy me but to fix that I will be polishing it as they arent deep... i hope that works.
Now for pictures of the finished top:
Looks very acceptable IMO so did what i set out to achieve. Apologies for the poor picture quality, had to use my HD2 as the DSLR is on charge after my dad used it at silverstone last week lol.
Now the more annoying part is to move everything over to this new case! Need to find an anti vibration block for my DDC pump (any suggestions?) and then I think im set. After thats done I will provide some better pictures of the finished pc!.
Oh and thanks to scaryjim with his very similar mod (i was going to do that on my older case but it just to much now haha) It gave me a kick in the right direction.


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) And then used a Jigzaw to cut everything. And the holes were drilled by a 4mm bit(after finding a 2.5 was to small!).

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. Apologies for the poor picture quality, had to use my HD2 as the DSLR is on charge after my dad used it at silverstone last week lol.

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, the scythes are 12w per channel i think so i assume the load isnt to great. The NZXT keeps popping up and I was going to get it but keep thinking about it looking different I.e not brushed aluminium. Need to stealth my DVD drive but i hope to keep everything in the same scheme. The price of the NZXT makes it pretty darn close to the scythe ones which to me seems a bit of a hard reason to choose it since I can just use the scythe and it should fit in fine with the case.
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