Project: Black Death 9August2006

Hi

After a long time of watching a lot of great mods in this forum, i also wanted to start my own project log of my LianLi V1100B.
This case is very noble, so i decidet to make an very discreet mod.
A composition of black aluminium, carbon and uv-plexiglas inside of the case.
Except of the radiator and the pump all water blocks will be home-made.

The name of the project is according to the pest plaque in the 14th century
(why? i dont know )

Sorry for my bad english but i am from Germany.


So lets start:

First of all the case:






At the beginning i removed all useless parts in the case



then i used a dremel to cut a 120mm hole in the bottom of the case
(quite ugly but later you cant see it)



this hole is for the fan of the aqua-computer airplex evo radiator
mounted here





now it was time for the internal space
here i use mirror plexiglas to get a bigger and cleaner look



i wanted to have an very special reservoir in front of the mainboard
so i cut some plexiglas

this is the first test

 

Love the case, we don't see many of these ones around.
Nice Res!
Custom work?

 

Cool looking res, hope the rest of the project turns out that awesome.

 

WOW!! I`m impressed and its barely your first post. You`ve already done some cool clean things no one else has done really.

 

Nice res. Look forward to seeing where you go with this.

 

thanks

yes the res is custom made
everything part of the water cooling system will be custom made
tomorrow i will glue the parts with acrifix 192 and the rest of the interior will be done with the mirror plexiglas

 

the next step are the waterblocks

first the cpu block
i took 5mm copper and drilled 16 holes in it



then i made the first plexiglas top



then the last top and all other parts
(first i made blue plexi parts, they´ll be orange later



the first test of all parts



at night





i also made some flow tests



looks good
then the first test in my old case

 

Awesome mod, what did you use to make the waterblock and what program are you using to model the flow?

 

Same question about the flow testing.

 

the programm that was used for this was Flowworks, a programm of SolidWorks
all parts are made with a metall handsaw, a rasp, sandpaper and a borer
only simple tools

 

today i bought a new aquastream 3.5 from aqua-computer
this is a great pump


my ram is very hot so i made a fan holder
this are 2 stripes of uv-plexiglas and one 1mm plexiglas
it fits perfekt in the 4th ram slot



now i went on to build the water blocks for my x800xt and the nf4 northbridge

first i made a positioning device



then i saw some chopper



after some soldering



it is very thin



the same with the northbridge cooler





the mounting is made of uv-plexiglas







and now the final water block in my old pc for some testing







now i have to mount my aquastream...

 

WOW.
That is some damn impressive work. Any chance of some more pics of the Ram-cooler?

 

Yes very nice job on the homemade blocks. What are your temps for you card before and after watercooling?

 

You're doing a great job on the wc blocks. One thing about the mounting though. In my honest opinion, it would look better if you had taken a larger plate, instead of multiple small plates. Just one larger plate, mounted all over the top of the block. Not too sure how to describe it though...

 

thanks
@Shadowed_fury
which ram cooler do you mean
the corsair ram cooler or the ram cooler of the x800xt?

@FanatiK
i only have temps of my cpu water block
a64 @ 2600mhz @ prime95 @ max 42°
but you know, you cant trust temp sensors

@ReFredzRate
i know what you mean, but this was exactly what i didnt want to do
a lage plate would not match visual to the "small" and thin ram cooler block
everybody mounts his blocks with large plates, this is something new and special

 

Sorry yes, the Corsair ram cooler

 

i´ll post some with ne next update
but the construction is very simple
it is only one stripe of plexiglas for the ram slot and two stripes for the 80 papst fan
they are sticked together with acrifix 192

 

Love the RES and love the Blocks! Anyone who makes there own blocks gets in A++ in my book!!! loving the orange pleci mounting brackets WOOT!

 

This is pretty good, I love the way you make your own watercooling parts.
Your fan holder is a pretty good, what's temp do you get with this?

Shinuza San

 

wow... this is really good!

And more photos please!

p.s. where did you get that fluid dynamics software? is it your work or is it available for consumers?