[Project] Watercooled SG03

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The main aim of this project is to have a watercooled Silverstone sugo SG03 which will be my pc for lans. The watercooling will be for CPU only and all be internal, with the only exteral part being an external dvd drive. A 240 rad with 2x 120mm fans will be mounted behind the front grill inplace of the exisitng 2x 120mm fans. To increase airflow a 120mm fan will be mounted on the top of the case. The bottom fan on the rad will interfear with the bottom hard drive mountings, so a replacement/modded part will be needed there. The front and side grills will be re sprayed blue.

Parts ordered:

Silverstone SUGO SG03 Silver
Aqua-Computer Pro 240 Radiator
Swiftech Apogee CPU Waterblock
XSPC Single 200 Bay Reservoir Pump - Clear
Yate Loon 120mm LED Blue x2
120mm AKASA Imperial Blue case fan
ClearFlex 60 3/8" tubing
PrimoChill Anti-Kink Coils 5/8"- Gloss Blue
AC Ryan RadGrillz Stripes Silver
1/4" High Flow Barb for 3/8" Tubing x6
Nylon Hose Clamp x6
Zalman RC56 (7V) Noiseless Resistor Cable x3
Akasa 3 pin Y-splitter Fan Adapter Cable
Feser One UV Blue
Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
Samsung External USB2 DVD±RW
Plasti-kote Super Night Navy spraypaint

Hardware:

Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
Intel E6600
4GB Geil PC6400 ram
Seagate 250gb 7200.10 hard drive
8800GT 512mb
Creative 7.1 se
Coolermaster igreen 600w
Samsung External USB2 DVD±RW

Next update will follow within the next few days with photos showing the start of the build.
 
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First sum photos of the outside of the case.

Front
front-1.jpg


Left Side
case-1.jpg


Right Side
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Back
back-1.jpg


Front Grill - This case has excellent front/side grills, which i might respray dark blue.
grill-1.jpg



Next step was to fit the res/pump, rad fans, and then the rad into the case.

Originally was going to be Xilence fans, but changed for yate loon LED blue fans.
radfans-1.jpg


XSPC 200 drive bay Res/Pump which will be installed in to the drive bay.
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Rad attached via the 2 fans to the front fan holder.
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Front of case minus the front grill
frotrad-1.jpg


Water block attached with right angled fittings due the the small space between the water block and PSU.
block.jpg
 
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Motherboard fitted
mbin-1.jpg


Tubing attached
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Next after many minutes of swearing the graphics card was put in which is a 8800gt which accelero s1 and was a very very tight fit and the end of the power suply cable is touching the rad.
gfxclose.jpg


Due to the rads lenght the bottom right hard drive holder / foot of the case needs to be removed and has to be cut down to fit, which i will do at a later date. I only want to use one internal hard drive which can be installed in the left bay with no problems.
bottomclose.jpg


Next i started to fill the water system from the res/pump in the drive bay, which handily pulls out to fill. Due to the tightness off getting it all in i decied to fill the system attached to all the parts and hope it didnt leak as it was too much trouble to take it all out again and put it back with liquid in.
fill.jpg


A quick bit of leak testing/gettin bubbles out.
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Next step was to put the PSU in and this is where i wish i had a modular PSU and which will probably be my next purchase as it wasnt easy to find a place for all the non used cables.
system.jpg


Originally i was going to add a 120mm fan to the top, although this would interfear with the drive bay res/pump. A 80mm fan might fit which could be done at a later date if needed.
 
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Nice build, what sorta temps/clocks are you getting with the E6600?

Also, can you flip the PSU the other way? Would probably work better extracting warm case air if the fan was facing the board. :)
 
Yup i can flip the psu round the other way and might do it, see if it makes much of a differance. Temps according to speedfan are 23 core 0 , 22 core 1 , ambient 36 , HD 36 , gfx 43 and the pc has been running for about 6 hours. The CPU is running at stock 2.4ghz as im yet to overclock it. Im using an external cd/dvd rw drive on top of my desk for loading games etc.
 
Not bad at all, get clocking. Really impressed with that actually, great little PC with a fair amount of grunt. Have some stars.
 
Got it clocked at 3.2ghz now. Idle temps according to speedfan are 28 core 0 , 25 core 1,ambient 44 , HD 35, gfx 53. For a CPU stress test i used stress prime 2004, which after 30 mins of testing has 45 core 0 and 43 core 1. This is with the 2 front fans running at only 600rpm.
 
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collisster said:
how do you load games on without a cd drive?
Click to expand...

you are aware that external drives exist?

I sacrificed my optical drives and my case is huge!!

@the op, looks lovely but I think I'd have to have a waterblock on the gfx card too, seems a shame to waste the opportunity!
 
To fit in the right hand drivebay / foot ment I had to cut off the right hand bracket as it was blocked by the bottom of the rad.

bracket-1.jpg


Some final photos of the case, my photography skills dont do it justice and it looks much better in real life.

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