PROJECT: V300 Chilled

Hi, looks like a good spec :)

I have doubts that the cooling will be particularly good tho tbh :o Im not up to date per se, but the Q6600 and GTX put out a lot of heat and thats not a particularly good rad. Not saying it wont work, but I doubt youll get much lower temps than good air cooling. Then again though, taking into account the case size, air cooling would be worse again :p .
 
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this water is the best solution i could think of for the case. i couldnt get a decent air cooler in the space of 100mm so i went for water. this was should be sufficient to keep my components at normal decent air cooled temp but in a really small case :)

StevenG
 
StevenG said:
this water is the best solution i could think of for the case. i couldnt get a decent air cooler in the space of 100mm so i went for water. this was should be sufficient to keep my components at normal decent air cooled temp but in a really small case :)

StevenG
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That's what i meant :) If thats the aim, then its perfect. Shame a Thermochill didnt fit tho. :(
 
My girlfriends been ill tonight so we couldnt do our normal couple'y things so ive had some time to get the hdd cages painted just trying to get most things done that can be with the parts i have.

as with the bracket above i sanded down to get a key and then spreayed with 3 light coats of matt black to get the nice finish.

let me know what you guys think. i need to get the rest of the stuff before i can mount these in the case as these attach to the 5 1/4 drive bay which needs to be modded to allow the tubes to access the pump :)

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3 layers of paint and looks much better IMO should look good with most of the internal cage parts painted black. the front 5 1/4" drive bay will only be black on the outside, it would just scratch off on the inside if i painted it.

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should look something like this but with a hard drive in :)

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thats it for now till friday, thanks for reading again :)

StevenG
 
InvaderGIR said:
Not going to blacken the plastic drive holders to make it all fit?

InvG
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nah, id thought about it but i think too much/all black will look a little too much. plus the reason i did the hdd bays to begin with was that those drive holders will take the drives so the bays wont get scratched.

im going to spray the outside of the 5 1/4 bays for the same reason so i'll still have the mix of black and silver.

a mate said to me i should use silver mesh behind the side panel to set it off a little so i think i'll take his advice and do that.

Cant wait for all my gear to finally turn up later today :)

StevenG
 
Exciting Update

Well at long last my panel is back from the laser cutters :)

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StevenG

edit: more updates due today/tomorrow as im in the middle of building and just thought i'd put these up to tease you a little :) hope u like it. and i'll have another update for you soon with the water build and hopefully the pc up and going :)
 
Sorry but no updates. after putting it all together i found out the pump has a problem and leaks. so i'm in a faul mood and will post my progress when i feel better lol

FYI if your trying to get watercooling and youve got ideas in your head, leave margin for error and things that wont go as planned. i used every milimeter of my tubing in the case and i though i would have a fair bit spare..

anway pics and an update to follow soon. thanks for reading

StevenG
 
Love the quality on the spraying, i cant do any of this stuff i'm far to useless.

Really nice, that laser cutting looks really well done.

Is it me though or does the front cuttings for the rad (when viewed from front of the case) look off centered?
 
<De@thW!sh> said:
Love the quality on the spraying, i cant do any of this stuff i'm far to useless.

Really nice, that laser cutting looks really well done.

Is it me though or does the front cuttings for the rad (when viewed from front of the case) look off centered?
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yeah they are off centered, this is because the radiator has the barbs at one end and as the rad coveres the full front of the case, i had to put them off centre to get them to match up with the rad,

thanks for your comments on the spraying, its only done by cans andmy first real attempt at spraying and i think it came out quite well.

thanks for the comments and following my build i'll get some more of my pics up today with a little write up about my problems.

StevenG
 
well after sorting out my pump reaplcement ive got some time to write up what ive done so far,

all thats left to do is get back my pump and do some final little mods and it'll be done at long last.

Sophie guarding my dremel

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most of the pics are self explanatory so i'll just add titles. Cpu block fitted

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here you can see how much room i have to play with. not a lot

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here you can see how much room i have to play with. not a lot

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did some cable tidying.

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and for all those thinking this wouldnt fit... it did.. JUST

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see its touching :) very very very very close fit.

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started putting my tubing in...

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the finished hdd cage assembly to go into the case reason i put this in last is that the gtx wouldnt go in the case with this in place so now this is rivited in the GTX is a permenant fixture lol

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Another update to follow directly

StevenG
 
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