PROJECT: V300 Chilled

StevenG · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:49

V|per said:
the gfx card is 276mm long iirc... hope u got room for that extra 5mm

Great work so far dude, have some stars

read about mate and ive seen that some people are saying as long as 28 and some as short as 26. i've seen a pic of the card next to a ruler and its about 26.7cm long

StevenG

jellybeard999 · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:10

Hi, looks like a good spec

I have doubts that the cooling will be particularly good tho tbh

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

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StevenG · 8 Jan 2008 at 22:45

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

jellybeard999 · 8 Jan 2008 at 22:54

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

That's what i meant

If thats the aim, then its perfect. Shame a Thermochill didnt fit tho.

StevenG · 9 Jan 2008 at 00:29

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

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.

should look something like this but with a hard drive in

thats it for now till friday, thanks for reading again

StevenG

StevenG · 9 Jan 2008 at 21:54

New camera so i though i'd get some decent pics up of the hdd cage finished up.

Should have some more updates tomorrow

StevenG

Massive Attack · 9 Jan 2008 at 22:11

Looking great so far m8 love the black inside

Jokester · 9 Jan 2008 at 22:14

Looking really neat and tidy, keep up the good work.

InvaderGIR · 9 Jan 2008 at 23:00

Not going to blacken the plastic drive holders to make it all fit?

InvG

DarkShadow · 9 Jan 2008 at 23:16

Looking great so far, keep it up :cool:

StevenG · 10 Jan 2008 at 00:46

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

InvG

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

StevenG · 10 Jan 2008 at 14:06

Exciting Update

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

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

gt_junkie · 10 Jan 2008 at 14:14

Wow!

Looking good mate!

gt

V|per · 10 Jan 2008 at 14:15

Looking good dude, keep it up.. looking forward to more updates!

PinkFloyd · 10 Jan 2008 at 14:19

Like I said on msn, Look Very smart

Mirage · 10 Jan 2008 at 18:33

Fair do's mate, that panel design looks smart.

StevenG · 11 Jan 2008 at 01:15

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

<Dubz> · 11 Jan 2008 at 02:04

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?

StevenG · 11 Jan 2008 at 10:57

<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?

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

StevenG · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:41

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

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

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

did some cable tidying.

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

see its touching

very very very very close fit.

started putting my tubing in...

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

Another update to follow directly

StevenG