Case Mod - In Progress Saturday Night Special.. OMG I'm in the MOTY woooohoooo

Thanks a lot dude. it's all looking quite nice.

The only problem that I've run into now with the loops is that once the 3rd one went in it bunched all the tubing up to closely together and looked totally chaotic, so the mid floor has been pulled out. Going to have to have a rethink on that one now and how best to route the tubing and keep it neat and tidy. I've tried the tubing loose and it looks a bit to wild for my liking. So the other choice \i think is to put the floor back in but with repositioned holes and go for a solid colour rather than clear and then use pass through fitting. At least that way can use angled fittings and maybe get the cleaner look that I'm after.

What do you think guys?

 

I'm using feser tubing w/ barbs and seems to be flowing very smooth without any kinks.
Have you thought about building some brackets specifically for the tubing to keep the lines even along it's lenght?

 

Talon clips

 

I've just being playing with some, the problem is they don't quite look right and there's very little to actually attach them to.

I'm sure with the combined brain power of bit-tech we can come up with some thing.

 

Thats what I think I'm going to have to do.

 

Voigts did some tubing forming on his latest mod. Check that out I believe it will help.
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=184144&page=14

 

Thanks Alex. I followed his build. I think I've got it all under control now..Well sort of. I'm off work for a couple of days now so I'll have some time to mess about with it, so hopefully I'll get it sorted.

 

Oh look bubbles..lol

The end result with the loops looking messy was that I pulled them out completely and started again.

After 4 hours of shaking and flicking pipes till my fingers hurt it's still got about a billion of the little f8*kers in it.

Still got to do it all again with the GPU loops

 

All the things that look coll in reservoirs are always bad
damn, I just wasted my 2000th post on you

 

Wasted is dead right, I haven't got a clue what you're on about Kid...lol

Edit: I had to think about it for a while, you're on about the bubbles aren't you.

 

I see nothing else to turn my nose up at in that res, or is there something you're hiding?

 

There's nothing hiding in the res. After 7 hours of bleeding it I'm hoping there's no bubbles hiding in it any more. I'll still give it a few more hours though.

 

Do you think it could be the coolant itself causing the problem?

 

I'm using Thermochill EC6 so it should be ok. I think it's the CPU block. It's got all those tiny little pins which I think are braking up the big bubbles in to really small ones and they are getting stuck at the top of the rad. I've still got it running now for leak testing (all nice and dry)and I give it a shake every 30 minutes and the last 2 shakes haven't pulled any bubbles through so I think it's all ok now. I've done the usual start, stop thing. I'll leave it to run for few hours tomorrow just to make sure.

 

I kind of like the effect the bubbles give...

 

So do I, they would look great in my fish tank.

 

Yeah, but the fish won't thank you for the coolant.

I only just got caught up with this thread - it's been a week or two.

It's looking very pretty Jeff.

Thank you for making me, and no doubt plenty of others, feel completely inadequate at modding; again.

 

Just as it was all going so well, I went to fire it up and give it all a shake down before getting everything finished up and ready for the glamor shots and the fu*kin mobos dead as door nail. I even went as far as changing the CPU in case the bios needed up dating for the Hex core. I've done the usual and swapped out everything for know working stuff and still nothing....Right now I am seriously pissed off. Almost at the finishing line and this happens!!!!!!!

 

Now u gotta remove the watercooling again?

 

I can get to the CPU and chipset blocks easy enough, it's the mobo that might be a big problem, the triple rad sits across the front of it and I doubt if I'll be able to get in behind it to get the screw out. I really down want to have a drain down. Apart from £8 worth of wasted juice it took about 10 hours to bleed it properly.

The thing now is I've also got to mess about with RMA on the board and thats going to drag out for weeks. I've been stuck on my been stuck using my laptop for about 7 weeks and I actually thought I was close to a proper computer again..