so the girlfriend said she would bring her sisters jack russell home!

and my case has bean in bits for the last 2 months...and visiting work colleague, when i was taking him out with my girlfriend for dinner and drinks, told her the best way to get me to tidy it up was to "get a cat or a small dog as they like chewing things"

so all hands to the pumps to get the Thermochill PA120.3 mounted into the case!

hear are my results.





up front we have a Thermochill PA120.3, with a custom shroud to mount it into the case. i put the bleed screw though the hole for the case speeker. i wanted to get away form green and blue. so i went for black and 7 Xilence 120mm red LED on the rad. I also had to purchase a Dremel to hack the case up a bit as this raid is much bigger than expected.



and the covers go on






still to do
tidy up the other side, (no I'm not taking pictures its that embarrassing )
the fans start at 5v so I'm going to make a 5,7,12V switch so i can control the speed of the fans, as they are a bit to loud at the moment, although no where near as bad as the stock cooling was.

the only problem, is my card reader is actually upside down. but thats no big deal

now its safe from the jack russell

crazyDAJT said:

now its safe from the jack russell

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Unless it decides to pee in the front! My friends dog pee'd on the front of his server LOL!

fobose said:

Unless it decides to pee in the front! My friends dog pee'd on the front of his server LOL!

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actually its funny you say that, this dog does have a habit of getting a little to excited and not being able to control herself....

nicely done matey but like he said if it pees through the front u might as well not bothered. But nice looking system tbh

I like the look of the front of the case, red fans always look good

now for the quick backwards build log..

It all started when a got a nice watter cooling kit off Cupra in the members market.



so i immediately striped down my case


only problem i forgot to actually back up my data, which was a problem when i needed some for work .


out came the motherboard and out came the TT stock water cooling.

ow no i used the industrial grade sticky back plastic on the bracket how am i going to get that off

answer, about 4 hrs worth of carefully cutting it off with a razer blade.

i spent another few hours craping it while i scraped the rest of this stuff out round the heat sink mounting points.

This is where it got a bit tricky. in the blind hurry to get the kit, i made a very incorrect assumption, 3 120mm fans. thats 9 drive bays, ease!!

not so. this rad is huge!! after some extensive web browsing i worked out how to do it. I removed the case speaker. and enlarged the hole with a big drill. the plan was to stick the bleed screw on the rad though the hole to save me a few mm.



couple this with inverting the power button drive bay, i could just squeeze it in. with a CD/DVD drive.

so i now needed a way to fix the rad into the case so it wouldn't just fall over! this is where work came in.


this also formed my custom shroud that is 30mm thick. i stuck anti vibration material on both sides.




and this is how it stood for about 2 month. Because i really needed some pictures on my PC, that and the gaming .

the problem was that the bottom fan was actually sitting on front lip of the aluminum frame. so this is why i had to purchase a Dremel. i had to hack away at the return in order to get the bleed screw though the the speaker hole in order to give me the space to fit my card reader in. seriously it is a tight fit.

which brings me to the jack russell problem, turns out it was a empty threat anyway she just said it to make me tidy it up.

i didn't have a problem with it all over the floor!!

I know how you feel, ever since february my computer has looked like this:



Then I realised I'd have to move out two days ago. So that entire night and early the next morning (before I moved my stuff around midday) I spent finishing up the spray painting and cutting the last bits of my case to get it together.

It's still not got the custom front cover I'm going to make from perspex or the perspex window (only a matter of cutting that out and sticking it in).

Glad I finally got around to doing it though. Nice to finally have a case again, and temps are down oddly enough. GPU temps are down 10C just because of the airflow moving the hot air away from my HR-03 R600.

crazyDAJT said:

i used the industrial grade sticky back plastic on the bracket how am i going to get that off

answer, about 4 hrs worth of carefully cutting it off with a razer blade.

i spent another few hours craping it while i scraped the rest of this stuff out round the heat sink mounting points.

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For future reference

A hairdryer pointer directly at it for about 1-2 minutes in quick bursts and the whole thing just comes off without trace.

Or even better.... dont ever use the sticky pad on the mounting brackets...

Tetsu said:

For future reference

A hairdryer pointer directly at it for about 1-2 minutes in quick bursts and the whole thing just comes off without trace.

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I tried that. didn't work.

funny thing is about 2 mins after i stuck it on, i read a review that said

"whatever you do don't use the 3m stick stuff"