Watercooled Case Gallery
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Heres some shots of my humble setup 
Its a chieftec blue dragon, and runs a 19+22+19 tri monitor config of Mitsubishi Diamontron tubed CRT's. The 120mm rad fan(which doubles as a case cooling fan) and rad are mounted to rear of case. I decided i didnt want to sacrafice 2 drive bays when i isntalled the watercooling to put it out the top (used to have 3 optical drives in there, only 2 now though), or have a seperate radbox, so the back of the case seemed like a good place to go> just the small issue that I just had to make the rad and a 120mm fan fit there, ala Antec's new Sonata case but without the extra width they added. If youve got a chieftec type case, take a ruler out and measure the distance from the mobo header to the handle, hehe
I cut out a section of the back panel and made a new custom panel extending from the side of the case right to the mobo header which allows fixing of the 120mm fan internally and the rad externally. The plate is secured with 3 screws and when these and the waterblock are undone the panel can be pulled out through the case so the whole shebang can just be lifted straight out in a oner despite the 'external' rad.
Few more as links:
http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~lau01117/case/z14.jpg
http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~lau01117/case/z15.jpg
http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~lau01117/case/z16.jpg
Its a chieftec blue dragon, and runs a 19+22+19 tri monitor config of Mitsubishi Diamontron tubed CRT's. The 120mm rad fan(which doubles as a case cooling fan) and rad are mounted to rear of case. I decided i didnt want to sacrafice 2 drive bays when i isntalled the watercooling to put it out the top (used to have 3 optical drives in there, only 2 now though), or have a seperate radbox, so the back of the case seemed like a good place to go> just the small issue that I just had to make the rad and a 120mm fan fit there, ala Antec's new Sonata case but without the extra width they added. If youve got a chieftec type case, take a ruler out and measure the distance from the mobo header to the handle, hehe
I cut out a section of the back panel and made a new custom panel extending from the side of the case right to the mobo header which allows fixing of the 120mm fan internally and the rad externally. The plate is secured with 3 screws and when these and the waterblock are undone the panel can be pulled out through the case so the whole shebang can just be lifted straight out in a oner despite the 'external' rad.
Few more as links:
http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~lau01117/case/z14.jpg
http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~lau01117/case/z15.jpg
http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~lau01117/case/z16.jpg
Well ive finaly got around to taking some pics!
PC in situe:
PC from side:
Close up:
Cascade
Hydor L30
Passive car rad
ClearFlex 60
XP2500+ @ 2.4Ghz (209X11.5) - 2.6Ghz for benchies
1Gb Twinmos w/winbond 8-3-3-2
Abit NF7-S
Rad 8500
Temps:- 45C MAX load (12hours Prime)
Soon to be watercooling the Gfx (rad9700Pro) and NB too and will be making a manifold to go on the back-top fan mount to let the tubes in and out neetly, then i can put the side back on!
Also will be adding another passive rad in paralel (already have) to cope with the extra heat output from the Gfx and NB
The manifold should look something like this:
PC in situe:
PC from side:
Close up:
Cascade
Hydor L30
Passive car rad
ClearFlex 60
XP2500+ @ 2.4Ghz (209X11.5) - 2.6Ghz for benchies
1Gb Twinmos w/winbond 8-3-3-2
Abit NF7-S
Rad 8500
Temps:- 45C MAX load (12hours Prime)
Soon to be watercooling the Gfx (rad9700Pro) and NB too and will be making a manifold to go on the back-top fan mount to let the tubes in and out neetly, then i can put the side back on!
Also will be adding another passive rad in paralel (already have) to cope with the extra heat output from the Gfx and NB
The manifold should look something like this:
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Well, I was building this system for my brother but liked it so much that I watercooled it and kept it myself.....I have since built him a replacement
Close up here.
Getting any form of watercooling into an Antec Sonata case is a nightmare but luckily Antec decided to use a 120mm rear exhaust....useful for mounting my Thermochill HE120.1 rad. I am using a Hydor L30 pump, 1/2" ID Tygon all round and a Swiftech MCW5000 CPU block with a Swiftech MCW50 GPU block. Case temp under full load is 29C and CPU temp is 39C (2x Folding@Home clients).
System specs:
Asus P4C800E Deluxe
P4C 2.8 @ 3.5GHz
1GB Corsair XMS4000 Pro (1:1)
Radeon 9700 Pro
2x WD Raptors (RAID0)
1x 250GB Maxtor (Music and pr0n)
etc
Close up here.
Getting any form of watercooling into an Antec Sonata case is a nightmare but luckily Antec decided to use a 120mm rear exhaust....useful for mounting my Thermochill HE120.1 rad. I am using a Hydor L30 pump, 1/2" ID Tygon all round and a Swiftech MCW5000 CPU block with a Swiftech MCW50 GPU block. Case temp under full load is 29C and CPU temp is 39C (2x Folding@Home clients).
System specs:
Asus P4C800E Deluxe
P4C 2.8 @ 3.5GHz
1GB Corsair XMS4000 Pro (1:1)
Radeon 9700 Pro
2x WD Raptors (RAID0)
1x 250GB Maxtor (Music and pr0n)
etc
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Pics of my slightly re-worked rig. This is still not finished yet. Got some work left to do to add UV reactive braiding to all my internal cabling & add a couple of case fans that hopefully have brighter Blue LEDs.
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I managed to cram everything into my 101. I've still to cut a hole in the I/O panel for the power lead of my Hydor to escape from and I've still to tidy up the psu cables and rearrange the rad but other than that it's working a treat. 3.6ghz stable at approx 25 degrees idle.
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woohoo... i finaly got the guts to install my watercooling gear in my A64!
Id found a way of using an A64 hold down device for my Socket A waterblocks and it works great, i couldnt use my best block (ocpc atlantis) due to it being too high for the lengh screws i had, so instead i used a Maze2-1 i had lying around. Anyway:
quality use of boxes id say
Note the hold down is upsidedown, and is used to push the waterblock down onto the cpu. It was rather hard to attach this way. Hope to get a real A64 block soon, or a better way of attaching a waterblock...
CPU temp 32c
Sys temp 32c
room temp 22
rather messy id say...infact, i might remove it right now... although its a lot better than my Barton setup i had before.
Another Question is why?
Why watercool when my A64 rig hits a brick wall at 210fsb?
Why watercool it when the standard cooler cools it to 40c?
back to air i guess, untill some overclockable A64 boards come out
I wish the UK had some good A64 coolers...
Id found a way of using an A64 hold down device for my Socket A waterblocks and it works great, i couldnt use my best block (ocpc atlantis) due to it being too high for the lengh screws i had, so instead i used a Maze2-1 i had lying around. Anyway:
quality use of boxes id say
Note the hold down is upsidedown, and is used to push the waterblock down onto the cpu. It was rather hard to attach this way. Hope to get a real A64 block soon, or a better way of attaching a waterblock...
CPU temp 32c
Sys temp 32c
room temp 22
rather messy id say...infact, i might remove it right now... although its a lot better than my Barton setup i had before.
Another Question is why?
Why watercool when my A64 rig hits a brick wall at 210fsb?
Why watercool it when the standard cooler cools it to 40c?
back to air i guess, untill some overclockable A64 boards come out
I wish the UK had some good A64 coolers...
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Heres some old pics of my Rig...phase change and watercooling combined.
I have removed the watercooling the last few days though
I have removed the watercooling the last few days though
Updated pics with latest fiddling
and
and
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My Lian-Li pc-75.
Danger den waterblock, dangerden chipset block, dangerden GPU Block,
Thermochill 120.2 with custom sprayed fan shrouds. Using 1 Red Galaxy 120mm LED fan & Galaxy Blue 120mm Fan, with Heatkiller 120.2 Fan Grills
6" of dangerden clearlex tubing
2 X White, 2 X Blue, 2 X Red Coolmaster LED Fans
2 X UV Sunbeam Cathodes
1 X Blue Sunbeam Cathodes
1X Red Sunbeam Cathodes
Sunbeam UV Laser LED.
Matrix Oribital MX222 LCD Display
Coolermaster aerogate 2 fan controller.
Hope You Like!!!!!
Danger den waterblock, dangerden chipset block, dangerden GPU Block,
Thermochill 120.2 with custom sprayed fan shrouds. Using 1 Red Galaxy 120mm LED fan & Galaxy Blue 120mm Fan, with Heatkiller 120.2 Fan Grills
6" of dangerden clearlex tubing
2 X White, 2 X Blue, 2 X Red Coolmaster LED Fans
2 X UV Sunbeam Cathodes
1 X Blue Sunbeam Cathodes
1X Red Sunbeam Cathodes
Sunbeam UV Laser LED.
Matrix Oribital MX222 LCD Display
Coolermaster aerogate 2 fan controller.
Hope You Like!!!!!
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Asus SK8V
AMD FX-51
DD Maze 4
Hydor L30
Thermochill HE120.1
Swiftech MCW20
1/2" ID Clearflex
AMD FX-51
DD Maze 4
Hydor L30
Thermochill HE120.1
Swiftech MCW20
1/2" ID Clearflex
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It's actually a WTX server case...specifically an Antec SX1440B.
Beleive me, it's not cack if you have 3x optical drives and 4x HD's. It has 12x 5.25 drive bays
Beleive me, it's not cack if you have 3x optical drives and 4x HD's. It has 12x 5.25 drive bays
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had a pc 75
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That's what I've done as well.
Here's a pic:
You can just make out that the output from the gpu to the n/b has a clip on it & the output from the n/b to the res has a clip on it too. The connection to the Eheim pump inlet also has a clip on it.
Seem to do the job quite nicely. I'm using all four barbs on my bayres, using y-splitters (2xinput 2xoutput) to try & maximise flow. However another reason for it was to get rid of the stoppers for the spare inlet/outlets. As they're sub-standard & leaked quite easily. I'm happy with the final result.
have put the watercooling gallery on my free webspace at ntl
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wynfordjones/page1/index.html
im pretty sure i can setup a poll
so everyone can vote on the best looking system
in the near future
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Just finished my WC setup.
Components are....
D-Tek LRWW Alu top.
Tygon tubing
DD Maze 4 GPU
Thermochill 120:1 Rad
Eheim 1250 pump.
Specs...
AMD XP2500-M - IQYHA 0351MPMW
NF7-S v2.0
1GB OCZ PC3200 EL
Radeon 9800Pro
Tagan 480w PSU
40gb samsumg HDD
Liteon DVD/CDRW
Piccies...
Components are....
D-Tek LRWW Alu top.
Tygon tubing
DD Maze 4 GPU
Thermochill 120:1 Rad
Eheim 1250 pump.
Specs...
AMD XP2500-M - IQYHA 0351MPMW
NF7-S v2.0
1GB OCZ PC3200 EL
Radeon 9800Pro
Tagan 480w PSU
40gb samsumg HDD
Liteon DVD/CDRW
Piccies...