First case mods Lian Li V351R & Build Log

Happy · 16 Oct 2009 at 16:40

Very nice, I see there's plenty of space for the GTX 260s

Shakeel · 16 Oct 2009 at 19:08

lot of dust on that 260

Marine Iguana · 16 Oct 2009 at 20:35

Happy said:
Very nice, I see there's plenty of space for the GTX 260s

Yup plenty

Cant wait to finish it with a nice new GT300 series GPU hope they are not as long as the 5870's are.

Still haven't got a side on the case because the H50 will not fit on it's side

Marine Iguana · 18 Oct 2009 at 09:19

Got one window done now to do the other and sort out the H50

Biffa · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:03

Now to watercool those GPUS

Marine Iguana · 20 Oct 2009 at 11:27

Biffa said:
Now to watercool those GPUS

You never know what the future might bring as that first gpu is pretty loud when folding :eek:

Guardsmon · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:54

Marine Iguana said:
And its on about time
*snip*

*snippity snip*

Like your fitting of hard drive, not sure its the best though... why does it need to be across 2 fittings?

Marine Iguana · 20 Oct 2009 at 22:05

Guardsmon said:
Like your fitting of hard drive, not sure its the best though... why does it need to be across 2 fittings?

Erm well the hard drive was the last thing i put in after spending 3hrs putting it all together and then found my sata cable just 2 inches short so had to mount it round that way and it would only fit that way didn't want cables going everywhere.
So ill be getting some longer sata cables plus that hard drive is old anyways so it has to come out at some point and be replaced with a SSD and a F3.

CraigN · 20 Oct 2009 at 23:18

i just finished my V351 build

i have a 5870 and wanted to cool the NB on my Gene aswell as temps were getting high with the corsair H50

so i drilled out all the rivets and drilled the fan mount plate and put the fans on the other side of plate holding the radiator too it. I used a 20mm thick yate loon on the side of the case with the USB ports etc and run push pull on one side only.

is the result

Marine Iguana · 20 Oct 2009 at 23:24

That is very nice

I want to do something like that in the future as i would prefer a custom water setup and my north bridge does get high temps it went to 94ºc before fitting second fan on H50 sits around 60ºc now.

You have given me ideas, now my wallet hates you

Pish · 21 Oct 2009 at 11:02

neat, powerful, compact setup. great effort

Marine Iguana · 22 Oct 2009 at 13:37

Sorted out the H50 radiator position now with some mod to the CD drive bay

Before

Bit of cutting and bending

After

Sorted

Happy · 26 Oct 2009 at 17:02

Nicely done!

EternityEight · 31 Oct 2009 at 22:26

Great work mate.

I've been thinking about this exact setup with the V351 and a h50 - how difficult has it been to get the radiator to fit on the front?

Marine Iguana · 31 Oct 2009 at 22:33

Hi, it was fairly easy all i really needed to do was cut the CD drive bay to fit the radiator in properly and cut one corner off my fan because the 24 pin power connector on the motherboard was hitting the fan, but might be different depends which mobo your going to use really.

Marine Iguana · 29 Nov 2009 at 12:41

Well it's been a while my board is currently in Germany with an RMA and EVGA couldn't be more helpful, but i was looking at my case and thought why not and started ordering some stuff for a cpu WC setup and a new PSU couldn't help myself

GhostlyPea · 29 Nov 2009 at 14:02

I had the V350 for about 2 months, I loved the case itself but the HDDs got FAR too hot and the cpu did the same (Q9550 not clocked). The H50 should keep the CPU in check but I'd watch the HDD

- Pea0n

Happy · 30 Nov 2009 at 18:30

Looking good!

Marine Iguana · 30 Nov 2009 at 18:42

Currently thinking about these for the rest of the loop

Cant wait

CraigN · 1 Dec 2009 at 00:30

check the length on the PSU

i went for the 850w XFX black edition as its a rebadged seasonic and got good reviews and it was the best size power combo. The corsairs were a little too long for my liking.