Advice on my loop?

rare · 16 Feb 2012 at 16:43

I apologise for the amazing photography skills (lack of).

Hopefully you can see the red lines I've taken so much time to draw in. The hose from the external rad will go in to the cpu block then from the block to the resivour, then the res back in to the pump. Not all fitted up as of yet because I had to order a few more angled fittings etc.

No one seems to have done a 120 rad on the back of a 650d as far as I can tell, probably for a good reason

I think it looks great though.

Bluntwrapped · 16 Feb 2012 at 16:48

Yep looks good so far man your off to a good start, doesn't look like you need much advice

I would have put my motherboard in before connecting the fans and tubing though.

ThePengu1n · 16 Feb 2012 at 17:06

Could you turn the 120 rad around, it would make the tubing look much neater

Cleeecooo · 16 Feb 2012 at 17:20

ThePengu1n said:
Could you turn the 120 rad around, it would make the tubing look much neater

If im seeing correctly, he won't have the space to do it.

rare · 16 Feb 2012 at 17:52

The 120 won't fit inside the 650D along with a 240 up top. I realise its a bit odd this way but it actually looks pretty good when not being shot on a rubbish phone camera!

Sir SpankalotUK · 16 Feb 2012 at 18:02

On my old case where I mounted a rad to the back like you've done, I mounted it so the rad ports went directly inside the case by drilling some holes for the compression fittings to fit through, so it removed the need to have piping external to the case.

Personally I would have made up a mounting plate for the rad and mounted it over the rather large fan at the front of the case.

rare · 16 Feb 2012 at 18:09

That's a good idea actually I didn't think of it. I could make a mounting plate up. I am going to try this see how it works first though. I know not everyone likes the external rad look, but I do. It looks much more like a 'machine' this way

Sir SpankalotUK · 16 Feb 2012 at 18:13

having an external rad never bothered me, how often does 1 look at the back of their computer anyway

rare · 18 Feb 2012 at 16:44

rare · 18 Feb 2012 at 16:45

rare · 18 Feb 2012 at 16:48

Got the rest of the bits I was waiting on. Now I'm just waiting for an actual Computer to put inside it

What do you chaps reckon? I will find a mount of some sort for the pump, or just paint the foam black!! I had to use 2x 90 degree angle bends on the rear rad because the force of the hose twisting was undoing the compression fittings in the rad!

Can anyone see any problems? Its my first water-cooling venture...

Cleeecooo · 18 Feb 2012 at 17:55

maybe suspend the pump?

rare · 18 Feb 2012 at 19:07

I didn't think of that, I could potentially suspend it from the hard drive bay mmmm

panyan · 18 Feb 2012 at 21:09

something like the bungee hard drive mod - that could be cool