Soldato
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I haven't touched anything in my PC for such a long time and i'm bored.. So i'm going to watercool it at last, i'm too impatient to wait for new cards to come out and tbh, i doubt i'll buy one when they do.
Oh and if you don't think this will work, just say, no then kindly justify why you think so
For the time being it will just be a CPU loop and then the GPU will be added in when i get a new case so i want a pump/res that can handle that at a later date.
This is what i plan to do and what it's like at the moment:
And i apologise for the pictures, couldn't be bothered to get my proper camera out.
Due to my silly motherboard I can’t fit a 240mm rad at the top of the case where I’d like it but I have seen something else. I could remove my HDD tray, as it’s only holding my ssd and hdd and either move them to the disk tray holder, or remove the disk tray holder too, giving me much more space and mount the drives elsewhere. I could make brackets for them to be mounted elsewhere if needed. It’s just where? I have absolutely no problem butchering the case it was only like £30. To be honest... I like this case it’s nice and simple so if I could get it to work in here I would be pretty happy, if not I’ll just save the watercooling bits and pop them in next month when I can afford another bigger case (probably a wise idea but I like a challenge and it’s no loss if it doesn’t fit)
So the hatched area would become free. Meaning I could mount a 240mm rad at the front of the case as an intake. I’d also be ripping out the terrible two stage fan controller that’s in the front for them fans, which is the ribbon cable, so that wouldn’t be there and I’d be putting in a proper fan controller.
So here is design 1, I quite like the separate pump/res but it seems it would be hard to run the tubing to connect everything, or am I being stupid? Or would you recommend a pump res combo? It’s not going to be on sight at the moment but I hope for it to be in the not too distant future.
This would be hard to run a route for and get it looking nice too.
This would be Rad, Res/pump, CPU block. Looking pretty simple and clean. The fan config on this would be the same as the last. Then make up mounts and mount the HDD/SSD to the base of the case.
And here is a few pictures of what it looks like with all the parts in, giving a bit of a better view of space. And i didn't realise how dusty it was until i looked at these pictures :O
These are roughly the parts i will be using:
YOUR BASKET
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-D5 Vario X-RES 100 (incl. pump) £105.95
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy EVO - Acetal+Nickel (Original CSQ) £52.99
1 x Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis Radiator GTS 240 - Black £20.00
1 x Primochill Primoflex Advanced Tubing 13/10 - Clear £5.99
6 x XSPC G1/4" to 7/16" ID, 5/8" OD Compression Fitting (Black Chrome) £3.49 (£20.94)
Total : £215.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).
So what do you think?
Oh and if you don't think this will work, just say, no then kindly justify why you think so
For the time being it will just be a CPU loop and then the GPU will be added in when i get a new case so i want a pump/res that can handle that at a later date.
This is what i plan to do and what it's like at the moment:
And i apologise for the pictures, couldn't be bothered to get my proper camera out.
Due to my silly motherboard I can’t fit a 240mm rad at the top of the case where I’d like it but I have seen something else. I could remove my HDD tray, as it’s only holding my ssd and hdd and either move them to the disk tray holder, or remove the disk tray holder too, giving me much more space and mount the drives elsewhere. I could make brackets for them to be mounted elsewhere if needed. It’s just where? I have absolutely no problem butchering the case it was only like £30. To be honest... I like this case it’s nice and simple so if I could get it to work in here I would be pretty happy, if not I’ll just save the watercooling bits and pop them in next month when I can afford another bigger case (probably a wise idea but I like a challenge and it’s no loss if it doesn’t fit)
So the hatched area would become free. Meaning I could mount a 240mm rad at the front of the case as an intake. I’d also be ripping out the terrible two stage fan controller that’s in the front for them fans, which is the ribbon cable, so that wouldn’t be there and I’d be putting in a proper fan controller.
So here is design 1, I quite like the separate pump/res but it seems it would be hard to run the tubing to connect everything, or am I being stupid? Or would you recommend a pump res combo? It’s not going to be on sight at the moment but I hope for it to be in the not too distant future.
This would be hard to run a route for and get it looking nice too.
This would be Rad, Res/pump, CPU block. Looking pretty simple and clean. The fan config on this would be the same as the last. Then make up mounts and mount the HDD/SSD to the base of the case.
And here is a few pictures of what it looks like with all the parts in, giving a bit of a better view of space. And i didn't realise how dusty it was until i looked at these pictures :O
These are roughly the parts i will be using:
YOUR BASKET
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-D5 Vario X-RES 100 (incl. pump) £105.95
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy EVO - Acetal+Nickel (Original CSQ) £52.99
1 x Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis Radiator GTS 240 - Black £20.00
1 x Primochill Primoflex Advanced Tubing 13/10 - Clear £5.99
6 x XSPC G1/4" to 7/16" ID, 5/8" OD Compression Fitting (Black Chrome) £3.49 (£20.94)
Total : £215.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).
So what do you think?