Having started on the steps of my first watercooled rig, I thought I might aswell make a log. So here you all are! The main theme is going to be White lighting, but with (and as the title suggests) a Touch of red. My Gainward card helps here hehe. Specs are: Gigabyte K8NXP-9 Motherboard AMD64 Venice 3000+ Gainward 6600GT Golden Sample 512mb Crucial Ballistix 80Gb Seagate Hard Disk Samsung CDrw/DVD combo Black Floppy drive ...and maybe a pioneer slot loader. Watercooling Specs: PolarFLO CPU Block PolarFLO VGA Block Bay Res 1xCSP-MAG pump Thermochill HE.120 So far, I've stripped the case, drilled out some rivets that were holding a second hard disk bay, and installed the rad. Anyway, Pics are better than words! Out with the old, In with the new... And again Before... After... Close up of rad Overall look (you can just about see the res) Thats all for now, tmoz, install begins!
Nice case. Make sure you throw away the 80mm fan that came with it. It's a crappy little fan that tends to catch fire and kill the PSU, or at least it did with mine.
Altron, Theres no 80mm fans in this thing now (cept on the Hiper PSU) Leeum, Thanks More to come soon! hehe Cookie for you! Only the best damn metal band ever!
The front bezel - no pics yet, but the black behind the plex, was black, is going crimson. And i'm adding some more plexi over the drive bays... I think
And the pics... Pump installed PSU awaiting components Mid install more... adding the water VGA shot Pump/Rad CPU shot Another running pic Running windows at 23c Idle (according to bios!)
wow... do you like water over components??? just the fact you havent secured the other pipe - barb's at all!!! LEAK! as soon as that gets warm the pipe will become flexible and it will piss water over your stuff!!! just a little warning
yes... really as soon as it gets under load, the water will warm up, and then the tube will become very flexible, and just slip off the barbs basically, so yes, get those cable ties boy!
Oh, and just so everyone knows, that MAG did so well tbh, its really decent on its own. I can't imagine how powerful a MCP600 is etc
Cable ties now on, eventually :/ They were a bitch to get on lol Not sure if I want to add UV dye. There is Zerex in that, about a cap and a bit (but I can't see any purpleness)
Going Bliss-II style... nice! IMO, you should do what DDK never did. Put the front thumbscrews in a drill and file them down so that they are the same outside diameter as a 1/2" copper tube. Then get 4 1/2" copper 90* bends for the corners and 2 1/2" copper T joints for the thumbscrews in the middle. Something like this" Code: |----\ |---| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---| | |---| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---| | |----/ the leftmost line being the front of the case, the right parallel lines being the copper tubing, and the dashes being copper joints covering thumbscrews. It would look really nice, but I keep forgetting to pick up the tubing when I'm at home depot, which is why I haven't done it yet.
