I'm a bit confused by the drawing. Is this intended as artwork / aethetics (in which case it makes a fair amount of sense) or as a practical system that easily accomodates hardware changes?
There's potential from a practical perspective which I think you're falling short of. One of the biggest irritations with watercooling is for people who change graphics cards frequently. To a lesser extent the same issue occurs when changing a watercooled motherboard while intending to keep the same gpu and cpu block. Specifically, some cleverness with valves &/or quick disconnect fittings would allow you to unplug any given component from the loop while leaving the rest of the system unchanged. This can be made approximately elegant by countersinking most of the disconnect into the base, so you can undo the two connectors and take the graphics card out.
In a similar vein, there's no good reason to mount the reservoir next to the motherboard, or to use a large one at all. A smaller one in the base means fewer tubes to worry about when changing components.
You haven't drawn any cables, I imagine there are holes cut near the motherboard with cables routed through? Perhaps consider mounting a range of sockets to the board, such as a 24 pin atx & a few pci-e ones, connected out of sight to the psu. Then have a small number of cables that connect these sockets to the system. Same idea as a modular psu, but with the sockets mounted in convenient places instead of on the back of the psu.
I think there are assembly issues too, if that's all acrylic then I think the base will weigh enough that it'll tend to shear off from the upright, and I wish you luck forming the beautiful sweeping curve near the top. That's hard to judge from the sketch. Ambitious for A level design... what sort of tools are available? A laser cutter would make a world of difference if that's all plastic.
There's potential from a practical perspective which I think you're falling short of. One of the biggest irritations with watercooling is for people who change graphics cards frequently. To a lesser extent the same issue occurs when changing a watercooled motherboard while intending to keep the same gpu and cpu block. Specifically, some cleverness with valves &/or quick disconnect fittings would allow you to unplug any given component from the loop while leaving the rest of the system unchanged. This can be made approximately elegant by countersinking most of the disconnect into the base, so you can undo the two connectors and take the graphics card out.
In a similar vein, there's no good reason to mount the reservoir next to the motherboard, or to use a large one at all. A smaller one in the base means fewer tubes to worry about when changing components.
You haven't drawn any cables, I imagine there are holes cut near the motherboard with cables routed through? Perhaps consider mounting a range of sockets to the board, such as a 24 pin atx & a few pci-e ones, connected out of sight to the psu. Then have a small number of cables that connect these sockets to the system. Same idea as a modular psu, but with the sockets mounted in convenient places instead of on the back of the psu.
I think there are assembly issues too, if that's all acrylic then I think the base will weigh enough that it'll tend to shear off from the upright, and I wish you luck forming the beautiful sweeping curve near the top. That's hard to judge from the sketch. Ambitious for A level design... what sort of tools are available? A laser cutter would make a world of difference if that's all plastic.
