Project: Little Rascal (A Modified Lian-Li V300)

Nixeh

Nixeh

Nixeh

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I finally decided to start modding my Lian Li V300. Some people might ask why... as it is a nice case, which it is true, its a gorgeous case, but can be greatly improved on in places, and this is what i plan to do.

My plan is to modify the Lian Li V300 case, so that it can accomodate a full working Dual 120mm Watercooled system, and a full 9" Gfx card (which was sadly overlooked by Lian Li :rolleyes: )

I have already composed a review of my intial thoughts of the case which can be found here.. Nixehs V300 Case Review

Right enough of the babbling and on with the Project Log. I got some cutting discs for me trusty dremel today and instead of do all the modding in one go i decided to post it bit by bit as it might inform people about the good and bad points of this case and obvioously the moddability of this case.

I decided to strip the case down to its bare chassis, removing the majority of the bezels, fans and mounts and the accessibility port for sound, usb etc etc at the front, and this is what i got.

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Here is a closer picture of what i plan to be removing today. I havent decided on whether to remove the just the floppy drive caddy, or the bottom cd rom caddy aswell.

All i need to do is make room for the dual radiator and fans, and also the space needed for the 9" graphics card (X1900XTX)

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As i found out, the fan mount is detachable, which is going to help me a bit later, as i will definetly have to alter it to accomodate the mounting for the dual 120 rad.

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And after about 15mins of careful hardcore dremel action, i managed to roughly cut out the floppy drive... heres the wreckage.

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What you see here is the bottom part of the floppy caddy.

Removing the floppy caddy on its own opens up a hell of a lot of space.

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I still wonder why Lian Li put the floppy drive space into this case. Ok so there might be the odd few users out there who use the space.. but most of us dont. And i think if they removed it, it would be the best case for sff'ers (if you dont mind the slightly larger footprint).

This pretty much concludes my project log at this moment. Obviously i have to do more work, but ill get round to that in the coming weekend, especially when i finally get the radiator ordered.
 
Also before i go, i noticed one thing that i have to modifiy around if i decided to remove the cd rom caddy.
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This is the bottom most support of the HDD, now ive had a look and im sure it will be stable without it, but im not sure what it would be like for stabability and also if this will help absorb any vibrations.

Anyway, hope you like my first log.

Feel free to leave comments, and suggestions and constructive cristism.
 
Ah yeah, knew i forgot something.

The spec is what im running in this current system which is as follows:

Opteron 165 @2.5ghz
Biostar Tforce 6100m9 Skt939 Motherboard
2Gb Gskill ZX DDR Ram
X1900XTX (Sapphire)
320Gb Maxtor HDD
500Gb HDD (which will replace my failing 160Gb HDD)
Hyper Modular 580w PSU (Blue)
NEC DVD Burner (currently black bezel which will need replacing)

Watercooling:
Dual 120mm Black Ice GT Radiator
Custom made or Cd Rom bay Res
2x120mm Akasa Amber Fans
1x80mm Akasa Amber Fan
2x40mm Fans

Not sure on what CPU and Gfx blocks to use yet.

All this will be running on my Dell 2405fpw
 
i wouldn't bother with the 2 40mm fans, might get 10cfm with a lot of noise. i'd be more tempted to holesaw out another 80mm hole at the other side of the case, or somehow modify one onto the back of the hard disk rack?
 
Yeah i was thinking of mounting a 120mm on the side instead of the 80 as i do have 4 120mm fans laying around, all akasa ambers.

Not sure about the space at the rear of the case for the HDD's, but with the cdrom removed, i could possilby have a duct on the side which will suck in and blow over and expell out the rear.
 
Nixeh said:
Yeah on the tforce, gotta retry pushing it further, did have problems pushing it beyond 2.5 but it got a bit dodgy, but i think that was me doing soemthing wrong with the overclock settings.
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I had similar problems with mine. I once got it stable at 265 for a day or two - Ran prime non stop. Then I fiddled some more and have never been able to get it stable past 248 without serious voltage. And I've been through every setting on every BIOS. Bit odd really. :(
 
Heya guys, small pdate.

Just to let u know why theres been a lack of one. I am shortly going to holland for a lan on the 3rd of august until the 8th and im not sure if i should do the watercooling before as i dont know what will happen to the pressure within the tubes.

I will be though either tonight or tomorrow, modify the front fan mount to accomodate 2 120mm akasa amber fans.

Pics soon to come.
 
Will be interested as to how you'll keep the front inputs and power & reset with two 120mm's in. Might have to try that myself at some point.

Have you put it together yet? I think you might have problems getting the hiper in with the extra cables. My tagan 580W didnt fit :( Will be interested as to if yours does. Have you put a system into it yet?

Mines pretty toasty at the moment and probably will get hotter as i try to silence it. O well.
 
Well this is what i was going to do, but i thought, it might be best to wait for the radiator to be purchased. As its a tight fit, if i put the mounting for the dual fans in the wrong place i wont be able to get the radiator mounted properly.

But dont worry i will be ordering my radiator before i go so it should be here when i get back so i can get the mounting holes positioned correctly.
 
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