Project: Watery

Time for some water-cooling bling.

The second I saw these 1/2" compression fittings, I knew I HAD to have some for my build. I aslo got one of the Xtender shrouds to mount on the front 120mm fan for visual effects.







Mmm.. Clear-ness.



LED's for the Xtender



Mmmm. Compressiony.

A BIG thanks to The Feser Companyfor the parts in this update :D
 
I was rather bored so I started sleeving today, swapped the molex's for UV green ones, and used 3mm AC Ryan green. No source of heat though, so heatshrink hasn't shrunk.



 
My PSU arrived today, and its very nice. Unfortunately, its going to be ransacked by yours truely. I'll need to shorten all of the cables in the PSU for my various parts, and change the units colour from black silver. Unfortunately, getting the PCB away from the bottom of the case is IMPOSSIBLE! so I may have to use silver vynal instead. :(

I might have to try and cover the PCB with cardboard and then. Waaah!









Next think on my list is a motherboard, then I can work out the required cable lengths.:D
 
Next stage in the project is going to be buying a motherboard, I was looking at this one:

XFX 630i mATX Motherboard because it really fits the colour scheme, while being a good all round board!



I fully de-sleeved the PSU, and will go and buy a hole load of solder, a soldering iron and one of those 'third hand things' to help me get my sleeve on.

My plan for this summer is to do all of the sleeving so its 100% perfect and the exact right length aswell as collecting all of the hardware, and starting the customisation on the motherboard and the DVD and HDD drives.

:D
 
Unless you're planning on going SLI I'd suggest getting an Intel board, and a DFI mobo may fit in exceptionally well with your case with the UV reactant slots and sockets (not sure if that's exactly what you're after though). Looking fantastic so far though.

Just read the bit about needing an Matx mobo sorry, don't think DFI make any. Although if you really want a power supply that can have the outer case fully removed I think the Corsair 620W modular can, found these pics on a review site:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/371/3
 
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My photography really doesn't do this justice. I'll take some more photos tonight when I'm home with my tripod etc.

I hope you like it :D











And fully done.

I still need to cement it to fully seal the res, and then tap to G1/4" threads.

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A few photos..:

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I'll go off to B&Q tommorrow to buy a Soldering Station and a Helping Hand aswell as a some Taps and Dies and solder, then on tuesday probably, I'll order a motherboard and start working out cable lengths.
 
Havn't done much today, I'm still trying to decide on a motherboard but I'll be using my exsisting Leadtek 8800 GT 512Mb graphics card, unless someones feeling generous :D

I took my old 10W DDC-1 apart today, It should be fine if I'm just cooling the CPU but if I cool the GPU and the NB I'll need a DDC3.2 for the extra 'push'

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:D
 
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