Watercooled i5, Lian Li PC-7

Ducky Spud · 9 Oct 2009 at 23:29

All my builds seem to just be evolutions of the last but quite different at the same time. My last changes involved me creating a dual loop setup, and before that just learning how to do things with my first mods.

Recently upgraded to an i5 and have been posting in the overclocking forums with my results but not put up any photos of it so figured I'd just share some snaps as Im quite pleased with it

At first I just stuck with the old colours but wasnt too keen on the look of the pink anymore. Looked alright in my original build, the UV blue tubing with pink fluid looked great, but now it just didnt look right...

So had to change that

Going off mobo colours I went for black tubing, UV blue coils and clear/UV blue fluid. Looks much better now if you ask me but still need to sort of the lighting and window. Got one UV CCFL but no point installing it until I get the side window too. So until then, its looking like this

Bit bright with fan LED's on so turned them off for some photos haha

Definate improvement dont you guys think? No actual build photos but most of the work is shown in my old build logs, this was pretty much just hardware swap.

Anyways, hope you guys like

Stuff · 9 Oct 2009 at 23:49

Looks awesome, great work! Love it

radar19 · 10 Oct 2009 at 00:06

Very impressive!

Shakeel · 10 Oct 2009 at 02:40

looks very very nice

hyperst · 10 Oct 2009 at 04:12

looks impressive, the more i see watercooled pc's the more im tempted to do it, one question for you, does it add a lot of weight to the pc

Marine Iguana · 10 Oct 2009 at 05:10

Good job looks nice and tidy.

ChrisGreen1993 · 10 Oct 2009 at 11:11

nice. the black and blue go well together

Ducky Spud · 10 Oct 2009 at 12:09

Cheers guys

glad others like it too! And as for weight, dual loop added quite a lot to the weight, had around 2 litres of fluid in there! At the moment theres just over half a litre, adds weight but probably not much more than if u had a big 1kg air cooler

Shakeel · 10 Oct 2009 at 22:33

is watercooling hard to get done? do you not feel scared that it might leak?

RJC · 10 Oct 2009 at 22:43

Looking good

Ducky Spud · 10 Oct 2009 at 23:43

Shakeel said:
is watercooling hard to get done? do you not feel scared that it might leak?

Have a read of the overclocking and cooling section, lots of info about watercooling in there. Its a bit more fuss than fitting an air cooler but I wouldnt say its hard. And as long as you take your time and do it properly the chance of it leaking are extremely slim. Its all in the initial set up, leak test and such. If theres no problems then odds are it'll be fine as long as you leave it

karl01 · 11 Oct 2009 at 00:06

very nice.

reflux · 11 Oct 2009 at 00:08

Phwoar, that looks the nuts!

EdGey · 11 Oct 2009 at 13:13

looks nice, really like what you've done with the front of the case.

Ducky Spud · 11 Oct 2009 at 13:51

Cheers

I want to change the rad grills to somthing different, Currently got that blocky design one on the front and a hex mesh style one on the top... ones that match would be much better haha.

Also note though, with that one at the front I can no longer use the front connectors for USB, headphones etc. Doesnt bother me, my monitor has USB sockets in the side which are much easier for me to reach anyway, and never use headphones/microphone or any other sockets that were there

Monkey Puzzle · 11 Oct 2009 at 13:58

Get another hex mesh - looks better than the blocky one. Oh, and clean the dust from the filter at the front.

Looks good though.

hyperst · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:22

seing as its all blue have you thought of wrapping this stuff round your pipe work , would look the bees knees then i think Here.

Ducky Spud · 11 Oct 2009 at 15:06

I tried finding a single hex grill but couldnt anywhere! Found doubles and triples but no singles at all. Think I may have to be boring and just go for stripes like everyone else lol. Found some crazy designs on an american site but cost a fortune!

And never seen that before hyperst! Not a bad idea, but the coils I have are UV anyway, just not got any UV lights in there at the moment

Will see if I can mess around tonight and get a few photos with the UV in there

Ducky Spud · 11 Oct 2009 at 17:08

Not much else going on today so I hooked up the UV cathode Ive got for a few photos. Im just holding the cathode for them lol, couldnt be botherd setting it up properly, plus I need to buy some more anyway, this ones knackered! But yea, you get the basic idea

hyperst · 11 Oct 2009 at 17:17

thats looks good with the uv

, so you gonna get a pic up with the side on and uv's in when you get some more so we can see what its like overall