Project: H2GO

Danm54 · 17 Mar 2010 at 19:18

Another new project for me, hopefully more of a success than my last one, some may remember i was buiding a watercooled Lian Li but it was a bit of a fail and i got fed up.

First off the case, a Mountain Mods H2GO

Ive got a few different ideas about how i want this case to look and fan grills are my first dicision, ive got to get some drive bay covers from the manufacture so i may get some of their fan grills as well.

Opinions are welcome of course.

Tiamat21 · 17 Mar 2010 at 23:02

looks strange, but hey, I come to expect it from mountain mods XD

misterPK · 18 Mar 2010 at 16:24

Hmm, with a name like H2GO I was expecting a watercooled laptop or something

PK!

petriodet · 18 Mar 2010 at 16:37

misterPK said:
Hmm, with a name like H2GO I was expecting a watercooled laptop or something

PK!

it's the name of the case. not very portable imo.

Brizzles · 18 Mar 2010 at 16:39

The H2GO is a lovely case, and perfect for watercooling on a small scale.

Look forward to see what you do with it.

paradigm · 18 Mar 2010 at 16:42

mrdbristol said:
The H20go is a lovely case.

In the same way that a Volvo 740 is "lovely"?

It's many things, practical, spacious, simple to work on, but lovely?

No.

Brizzles · 18 Mar 2010 at 17:13

paradigm said:
In the same way that a Volvo 740 is "lovely"?

It's many things, practical, spacious, simple to work on, but lovely?

No.

I couldn't be arsed to type

practical, spacious, simple to work on

so lovely summed it up

Danm54 · 18 Mar 2010 at 17:31

Ha ha, couldn't think of a project name last night so called it HG2O to start with, it'll get a name when ive got more of an idea what im going to do with it.

How is it not portable, its tiny! Ive got a Lian Li PC-G70B at the minute and i could have a party in there now its free of watercooling, its something different and im looking forward to building it.

Ive yet to decide on colours, ive got green LED's in my current case and i quite like it but i think green fans could easily look tacky, same with the fan grills, they'll be black though.

The optical drive bays could be a bit tricky as it seems there is no solid way of mounting them.

It looks like its going to be very easy to work with, the top and side panels come off and the 'shelf' slides out too!

.:Blindfaith:. · 18 Mar 2010 at 19:29

i was thinking of buying one of these cases
keep my eye on this

gt_junkie · 19 Mar 2010 at 08:42

I'll keep an eye on this too.

You're right about the optical drive mount, it is a little inflexible since you mount the lowest drive to the base of the case and then mount the drives above to side brackets that are secured to that lowest drive.

It's a great case for watercooling. I only have a single 120.2 in mine but at a push you could install 2x 120.2 PA and 2x 120.1 PA rads in dual loop configuration for a high performance and fairly compact (but not tiny!) machine.

Good luck with the build!

gt

Danm54 · 19 Mar 2010 at 17:58

Thanks all.

Ive just ordered the drive bay covers from MM so i can expect a few weeks wait for them.

Ive got a H50 im using at the moment so ill see how that fits in first off, i may put a CPU loop in there later but id like to keep the rad at the bottom of the case so it'd be 2 120.1's if i go that way.

Danm54 · 21 Mar 2010 at 14:23

For this built ill be using Scythe Gentle Typhoon 800rpm fans, ive got 4 already and 2 more on order, ill be running all the the H50 fan off a Fractal Design Fan Power Splitter, this takes a molex power connector and gives;

2x 4 Pin (Molex) Connectors (12V and 5V)
2x 4 Pin (Molex) Connectors (10V)
2x 4 Pin (Molex) Connectors (8V)
2x 3 Pin Connectors (12V)
2x 3 Pin Connectors (10V)
2x 3 Pin Connectors (8V)
2x 3 Pin Connectors (6V)
2x 3 Pin Connectors (5V)

Ill decide what voltages to use when it gets here but with 6 fans i hope to run them at either 5v 6v or 8v, should keep things quiet while still giving sufficient airflow.

As the fans are grey iv painted them, just 3 to start with but im pleased with the results

First i removed the fan blades

Then 2 coats of plastic primer

A quick sand with P400, and finally 2 coats of satin black paint

Both rattle cans from Halfords, gives a nice finish.

Danm54 · 25 Mar 2010 at 22:59

Ive got most of it in now, still waiting for bit from Mountain Mods, ive got the rest of my fans and the controller, just waiting for it to stop raining so i can spray the fans up.

Pics so far

Cant wait to get a nicer looking mobo! Also want to either braid the PSU or get some nice braided extensions

I plan to attach the SSD tray to the back of one of the bottom fans, ill probably have to take the mobo tray out for this but thats easy enough, this case is so easy to work with, sat it in front of my monitor and can get to everything sitting down, small enough to turn around and with the panels off there is loads of room.

SupermotoMX · 27 Mar 2010 at 12:31

looks sweet so far!

altich88 · 27 Mar 2010 at 13:29

Nice job with the fans, might give that a go myself.

baron02 · 27 Mar 2010 at 13:36

looks very cool, Keep up the good work

Badger_grr · 27 Mar 2010 at 19:57

I found with my H50 having the radiator with the in and out tubes at the top it made funny noises every now and then. I think it was air in the system that was getting pumped through. Turned it 180 and never had it again, I assume the small amount of air is trapped at the top of the radiator now.

Danm54 · 27 Mar 2010 at 20:28

Badger_grr said:
I found with my H50 having the radiator with the in and out tubes at the top it made funny noises every now and then. I think it was air in the system that was getting pumped through. Turned it 180 and never had it again, I assume the small amount of air is trapped at the top of the radiator now.

I always ran it with the pipes at the bottom in my last case, just fitted better with them at the top, i may see if it fits the other way up as it is a bit noisier.

The fan controller has 2 really bright LED's on it so ive moved my 2 5mm green LED's into the top and left the fan controller in the bottom so i have 1 bottom blue lit fan and 2 top green ones

twist3d0n3 · 27 Mar 2010 at 22:19

loving the sata cable routing, very swish

more pics plz

Craterloads · 27 Mar 2010 at 22:39

what about using right angled SATA cables?