stinkas first go at water cooling

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after my case mod in this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17743309
i thought id have a go at water cooling the beast :

well i new it would be a tight squeeze and it was but it works super :

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so i drilled the rivits and took the top off to mark out where the 120.2 thermochill would go i cut that out and mounted the rad in the top with fans pulling through rad

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then i bolted the pump to the floor of case bellow hdd's :

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big thanks to my mate george for knocking me up the t piece and tempory fill port cap as my nylon t piece and danger den filport never arrived on day of build, so good olg george made me some from half inch plumbing fittings and TBH the t piece is prolly less restrictive than the nylon one would be

more to follow in a sec
 
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so i piped it up and began filling and bleeding :

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dead straight forward TBH

i did a leak test for an hour and a half not very long i know but im pretty confident and its been running for 3 hrs now with no sign of anything on this simple loop

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well im chuffed to bits was a piece of cake and ive broke my watercooling virginity

max load after 10 mins of priority 9 orthos is 47 c down from 59 c

so im gonna wack some voltage through her set a divider for mem and see how far shell go

thermochill 120.2 with stainless grill, swiftec ddc, swiftech apogee gtx, fesser 1, t line
 
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