using a second case for watercooling hardware

beasty6 · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:09

hey guys

So i was walking through the office at work and seen a tall PC that the company was going to throw out, so i asked my manager if i could open it up in my lunch break at have a look at it... So i did and after seeing the 5-6 year old hardware i scrapped it instantly and kept the case, its really tall and i thought to myself... What if i mounted watercooling hardware in here and use it as a radiator/res/pump case and just have a inlet and outlet hose going into my CM storm trooper from this case.

It will start as a project as i will need to clean the case up and spray it black, but what do you guys think? Maybe two 360mm rads on a side panel and fans on the other?.. I dont know yet but i thought i would ask for your opinions on it and if i should give it a shot

Throw some ideas or tips at me and ill see it it works

pgi947 · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:18

Should be fine I dabbled with this idea my self

Just make sure to use a strong pump and required power extensions, phobya do a pci plate for external molex connections too

Jay85 · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:19

It's been done before, theres a guy on youtube who's done it using coolermaster CM something with the nvidia edition side panels.

I'll see if i can find it.

beasty6 · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:38

Im not sure of it will work yet, i was thinking of removing the mobo tray and mount two 360mm rads on the right sidepanel and putting two 360mm templates on either side to allow decent airflow to the rads and using a XSPC D5 bay/res then cutting two holes for the tubes to leave and enter the case.

Ill post pics of the case up soon, so let me know what you guys think and what ideas you guys have

(sorry for quality.. only have my samsung galaxy note for camera)

pgi947 · 10 Dec 2012 at 21:34

Nice lump of room to work with

I'd say, open up the front and rear of the case a little and stand a pair of 360's up, have a bay res up top, pump at the bottom. So take advantage of how tall (it at least looks anyhow) the case is.

Edit: Like so:-

*not to scale

beasty6 · 10 Dec 2012 at 21:44

its 720mm from top to bottom

i like that idea, i will be using a xspc d5 res/pump so i will have that bottom space aswell

beasty6 · 10 Dec 2012 at 21:45

ill get a pic with some 120mm fans to get a rough guess of how much rad i can put in

beasty6 · 10 Dec 2012 at 21:58

heres some pics with 120mm fans (rough estimates)

top 3 120mm fans
http://s1291.beta.photobucket.com/u...g Project/20121210_214624.jpg.html?sort=3&o=7

front 3 120mm fans
http://s1291.beta.photobucket.com/u...g Project/20121210_214715.jpg.html?sort=3&o=6

bottom 3 120mm fans
http://s1291.beta.photobucket.com/u...g Project/20121210_214750.jpg.html?sort=3&o=5

bottom rear 2 120mm fans
http://s1291.beta.photobucket.com/u...g Project/20121210_214809.jpg.html?sort=3&o=4

top rear 2 120mm fans
http://s1291.beta.photobucket.com/u...g Project/20121210_214823.jpg.html?sort=3&o=3

middle 3 120mm fans
http://s1291.beta.photobucket.com/u...g Project/20121210_214847.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

whole case 3 120mm fans middle
http://s1291.beta.photobucket.com/u...g Project/20121210_214912.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

3 120mm fans next to case
http://s1291.beta.photobucket.com/u...g Project/20121210_214943.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

pgi947 · 10 Dec 2012 at 22:13

Going by that, the vertical stack idea looks to be the best option, hell you could probably fit 480's or 560's in that thing

Also gives you the room to put a fan controller in

beasty6 · 11 Dec 2012 at 07:57

two rads next to eachother wont fit

unless i have a 360/480 rad at the front and another on the rear and have the warm air exhausting out the top with a couple of 140mm fans