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[kempez]

Quick update to anyone who's interested on the Water Block

It was VERY uneven and even after over an hour I only managed to get this

[kempez]

I had to sell the stacker to raise some funds meaning that I had to move to the Lian Li today. I haven't done much modding really. But I did manage to get a couple of things done:

1: Install Rad + Grill + Fans
2: Decide to put a window in front of the 3 1/4" bays where my HDD's are. Looks pretty nice.
3: Install everything back into case minus watercooling. Still waiting on some integral stuff from Watercooling Shop

Soz for the bad pics but I had to use my phone as the missus has gone away for the night and taken our digi-cam

Still waiting on some stuff for watercooling so thats why there is a stock HSF on there

Top Screws done. This is for the benefit of whoever wants to know where to drill out the rivets. If you look at the top there are two bolts holding on the case top. Before I started they were rivets. This is about the same at the back of the case. Just drill em out



Grill and fans installed:



Getting the LCD in



Getting all the drive bays in place:



Dinner break - 10pm!!



For the drive bay I cut off a piece of perspex to size of the hole. I then drilled 4 holes equidistant from each corner of the drive bay. I drilled the perspex with matching holes and use some nice bolts and nuts to hold it in place. I think this looks nice



Eventually got the hardware installed



Front view of the case:



Top view showing that sexy grill and fans. I found that silenX fans come with a kind of black dust covering them. Maybe this is for protection but either way I got out some surgical spirit and got it off. Now they're nice and shiny



A money shot of the LCD in action as well as the HDD drive bay window. I may mod the drive bay itself to accept a small fan blowing over the HDD's from the side. We will see.



Planned:

* Figure out window mod

* Figure out lighting

* Mod the HDD bay to accept a fan

* Clean up and perhaps polish HDD's so no stickers show

* Etch window bay acrylic

* Get the rest of my watercooling to actually turn up at my house then install it.

* Braid all unbraided wires in black

* Find some wheels for the case.

I'm thinking white lighting with UV cathodes. What dya think?

EDIT: And do something about the power and reset switch....damn they're boring

[MantisCSS]

looking good so far m8, keep us updated with pics n stuff! and that dinner looked amazing!

[kempez]

Oh I can tell you it was a lush dinner! - aspecially after a hard days work!!

Thanks mate more pics and details will come once I do a bit more.

I am probably going to install the pump on the floor, install the HDD's in the lower drive case, then install a bay res in the 3 1/4" drive bays so you can see it from the window.

Should be fun

If my last watercooling parts turn up

[MantisCSS]

quick question, i never seen one of them LED drive bay thingys b4, what are they and what do they do??

[Whiternoise]

Wow, didnt' know that Kustom did blowholes for you.. must get on the line to them..

looks good so far

[kempez]

Its a Crystalfontz

Check it out Here

And yeah Kustom do all sorts of modification installs

[kempez]

Here's a pic of my planned water loop. Unsure of whether I'm going to have those fans in the top-left blowing air to the rad or not but we'll see. Its a rubbish pic which I may tidy up with Sketchup once I'm home and not @ work



I have various elbows and fitments coming soon so should be able to install the water soon

EDIT: Comments always welcome people

[herulach]

good luck getting that pipe to bend to the intake of the pump. and alo you may have issues crossing over the lines to the rad and the resevoir. Surely youd be better going straight to the gpu also? Less piping, and somewhat higher pressure across the blocks i would imagine.

[Whiternoise]

I suppose the rad takes off heat made by the pump, then it goes to the CPU (cos that's most important) and then GPU. I suppose it depends which pump you get.. the D5 or MCP655 has decent enough flow to keep the pressure up.

[kempez]

Yep I have a D5.

@herulach: I have some 90degree elbows More pics:

Reason its going through the rad first is to cool down the air before it goes into the CPU block. Also takes out the small amount of Heat that the pump adds.

More pics:









I don't think its too bad for my first etch

Here's some pics of the alphacool block cleaned up and the changed internals

[herulach]

That looks pretty nice, however, if you can get some mirrored/black card to go behind it and some side facing leds it will look much cooler

[johnny02004976]

mate only prob with elbows is that they can slow the flow down a little - BUT the D5 should keep it nicely ticking over its looking sweet mate

[kempez]

@herulach: Yeah I am going to be adding a whole lot more stuff into this - its certainly not a finished project. I'm deffo going to getting some mesh in there and perhaps mirrored stuff

where exactly did you mean the mirrored bit? I will have the res behind the window with at least 1 x 4" UV CCFL and 1 x green LED + mesh

@johnny: Yeah the thing with this rig is looks + performance so the D5 should be able to push round those corners nicely.

[herulach]

@herulach: Yeah I am going to be adding a whole lot more stuff into this - its certainly not a finished project. I'm deffo going to getting some mesh in there and perhaps mirrored stuff

where exactly did you mean the mirrored bit? I will have the res behind the window with at least 1 x 4" UV CCFL and 1 x green LED + mesh

I meant directly behind the perspex, youll loose the seethroughness, but you will get a cool glowing letters effect.

[kempez]

Cool I'll keep that in mind. I want to see how it looks with the mesh + lights. If its not too good then I will deffo consider that

Thanks mate