V2000b & WC..help

Drazic

Drazic

Drazic

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Just bought one for £130 posted off a forum.

I got 2 Pa120.3 rads.... where is the bets place to mount these??

Only need to do a single for now but top or bottom?

Also anyone up for doing the rad holes and fan moutns for me? I don't have tool skills or time sadly
 
How about mounting it something like this.

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Umm thats a cool pic there and differnt.

How ever i don't bleive there much air flow over the unit.

I'm also wanting a silent rig so will not need the 3.5 bays as i'm going to suspend my HD's on that eleastic stuff

i got the idea of doing the CPU rad up top and the gfx one at the bottom, top draws air into the case, bottom draws air as well, possibly a front mounted rad to cool my nb drawing air in and the exhaust on the back drawing it out

What other mods are there
 
Sorry for the poor picture:

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The rad is in red, the pinky bit is blocking over the hole so the heat from the hard drives gets channeled to the PSU, otherwise due to the increased flow it all gets shoved into the main compartment, the rear fan is a intake.

You could also make the rad fit on the side panel, would be another alternative I considered.

Worked a dream but only a 120.2, 3 should fit fine.

If you are after a better case for watercooling than the v2000, you should look at the v1200 which is the same but longer, there IS a v2200 but it is soooo rare I have never seen more than the name listed on a email Lian Li sent me.
 
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That a V2000B case?? ^

One rad is going up the top no questions asked about it

Seconds rad will go at base where HD's would go but that HD caddy thing will come out as HD's are being hung in the 5.1/4'' bays

I guess i could mount both rads on the sides of the door pannles at the base maybe, one ether side, both darwing in air so the bototm of the case would be the hotest with

1 cpu rad
1 gfx rad
1 NB rad
PSU drawing it all out with a front fan drawing in the cool air

How wide is the case?
 
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I have a v2000b, and i have just installed my wc kit, i have a dual heatercore mounted at the top, with the fans taking in air from the top, and the fan at the back exhausting air.

I get great temps, 29c idle on CPU, however my motherboard can sometimes get up to 50c in Asus Probe, this is very worrying becuase i want to overclock in the near future.

So if the exhaust fan at the back was taking in air rather than blowing out air, will this make the difference, if not what will?

Tbh in your situation having that bottom 120x3 rad at the bottom but having the fans blowing air up rather than down the case may make the difference.

Ill try posting pics soon of mine for you.
 
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If that is the motherboards temperature then there is not much wrong is there :confused:

My Gigabyte K8N-e SLI-Pro's heatsink on the northbridge regularly gets to well above 70.
 
Umm i'd say have your rad fans sucking air outta the case. Hot air rises so if you have the following

Rear exhuast fan blowing into case (thus would give some direct cooling to mobo)

Rad fans sucking the air out the case (fornt of cas eis a meash so cool air will be drwan in to replace it thus adding you mobo cooling)

The bottom rad will darw air into the case and the top draw it out of the case. The divered in the case i think will get blocked so it's air tight and the'll be two sections then for both rads and no conflicting heat transfers...we'll see though when she arrives
 
surely 2 120.3s is totally over the top?

Just stick one in the top of the case and have done with it..

and if you must have 2 120.3s get a mountain mods case.
 
Ones cpu ones GFX, if you wnat decent cooling and can;t do phase due to hardwear then go 2nd best thus

2 inderpenat lopps, fact it'll be 3 as NB shall be done too

I can get a decent car and fund it for a month easy and have forced air cooling for the price and effort to get said case to the uk dude
 
you don't need to tell me about dual loop watercooling!

before I went to my mach2 I had my X2 4400 at 1.55vcore on a 120.1 and my clocked sli 7800GTXs on a 120.2, both on seperate loops. Both well within sensible temps.

see.. one loop red, one loop blue...

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I still think 2 x 120.3 would be overkill, more to the point you'd be inconveniencing yourself for nothing.

Whats more you'd have to be off your head to do a special loop for your northbridge.. I chopped my northbridge into my gfx loop when I got rid of the cpu loop for the phase and I needn't have bothered. I had a zalman passive cooler on it before and the watercooling really was for the hell of it, your nb will take silly temps before it keels over, certainly doesn't require its own loop.
 
Is that red UV dye that your using? Becuase im using red UV dye and it sucks, ive used the whole bottle as well, how much did you use?

Ill have pics up tomorrow, im at work all day today and yesterday.
 
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Is that red UV dye that your using? Becuase im using red UV dye and it sucks, ive used the whole bottle as well, how much did you use?

Ill have pics up tomorrow, im at work all day today and yesterday.
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lol yep, whole bottle..

never thought it would be pink!
 
This things has d
had 3 Mach II's on her all at once

1 CPU
1 Nb
1 GFX

Can we get it clear that 1 rad is for cpu, other rad is gfx

A 4.2GHZ (full 1ghz overclock form stock) kickes out a lot of heat, current setup is hititng 40c full loaded with 13 hours of testing

NB hits 50c 24/7

I just want to use the parts i got here and show off the fact i can have 3 loops in there and it look the sex as per yours has withthe 2 loops and the 2 differnt dyes in there as per what i shall be doing mate

Also my Yonah (retail) might go in here and i've a Conroe ES on it's way shortly to play with and latter a proper retail Conroe
 
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