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waso_dude

waso_dude

waso_dude

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My P180 isn't designed for watercooling and to be honest any water cooling in it is a mess.

So i've decided to take one Lian Li PC-A70B and 2 PA120.2 Rads. Put 2 seperate Loops in side it, no cooling on the out side. I will be starting off with a single loop then adding a secound in the next month - with also modding the side panel to take a window.

PC Spec:

Asus P5K-Delux Wi-Fi
Q6600 GO
2gb of OCz 6400 ( poss change to 2gb of WC'd flex money dependant)
8800GT
XFI Fatality
2x320GB Wester Digital RE Drives

CPU Water loop spec

EK Supreme
Liang 18W Pro with Top
EK 100mm Multires
PA120.2 Rad - mounted in the front
2x Yate Loons Resistor modded to 7v and joined together
1/2 tubing
Feser 1 Pink liquid
Black Fillport

GPU/Memory Loop

Maze Block (poss change to a 88GT G92 EK Block)
Liang 18W Pro with Top
EK 100mm Multires
PA120.2 Rad - roof mounted
Feser 1 Black
Black Fillport

I will try to update this as much as possible.

Cheers

Warren




Update One

I can't get over the size of the Box the case came in its massive!!!

Box Pic:

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Got the case out and the box wasn't just full of padding this case is massive too! Doubt i'm gunna struggle to get 2loops in here.

Case pic:

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Now them time to get removing the insides and brade the LED and Power Switches.

All done looks good:

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Update Two

Got a hour or so to do some today, digged out the old soldering iron and linked the 2 front fans together and braided them. I also unlinked the LEDs to remove that chavness from the case :)

Out the case:

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In the case:

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Just need to get paid to get the rad ect now :)
 
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Update Three

Well the Rads in. Had Great fun getting it in. Heres some of the problems.

Fan Spacing is wrong
Power and Reset Switch Position get in the way.
Rad sits to high in the case.

Pic of the fan spacing:

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Here are some of the fixxes i had to do...

To lower the rad I had to drill a hole in the bottom for the bleed nipple out the bottom:

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That slightly sorted the fan positioning.

But another problem arose - the power and reset switches board was just to low so i'd have to space fans away too.

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So I re drilled hte fan holes - only can do 2 holes without making some brackets - i might do this in the future:

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Then got some bolts washers and nyloc nuts and got it fitted in:

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The Bracket on the front is to take the 2 Pumps.

I would have put pics up of it working but my pump decided to die when i plugged it in to leak test :( hopefully replacement will arrive tomorrow.
 
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Almost exactly what I am doing so I'll look forward to your progress with interest.

My problem is I've had all the parts for over a month but can't find the time to get started :(

Got a PA 120.2 also to mount in the front but I've measured it every which way and it won't fit on the two front mount holes, so I'm going to leave the back of the rack down there and mount it on that.

Not going to cool anything except CPU and chipset so won't need a second loop and won't need to chop the roof this time, have done that to my Coolermaster ACTS201 so good luck :)
 
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Biffa said:
Got a PA 120.2 also to mount in the front but I've measured it every which way and it won't fit on the two front mount holes, so I'm going to leave the back of the rack down there and mount it on that.
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Interesting looks like i'll be measuring up 2morrow, and the drill might be comming out. :D
 
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