Watercooled P180 - Project log

humax · 12 Nov 2006 at 06:08

in the picture 3rd from the top for some reason your case seems to have a babys arm growing out of it .was this part of the mod also

Sumanji · 12 Nov 2006 at 10:10

Haha, I noticed the baby arm too

Last question about the fan mod (sorry to spam your thread!). When you say "drill out the rivet", do you literally mean stick the drill bit in the middle and drill right the way through it? I.e. passing from one side of the case to the other. I assume it's better (and possible) to drill from the outside.

Sorry for all the Q's, it's just that I'll be doing a rebuild with Conroe soon, and I wanna stick all 4 HDD's in the bottom segment, but that would definitely need better airflow with 2 Raptors!

Cheers,

Suman

ChoÞÞer · 12 Nov 2006 at 13:14

humax said:
in the picture 3rd from the top for some reason your case seems to have a babys arm growing out of it .was this part of the mod also

LOL..!!!

wow, very nice case... love the side window.... nice job

Dreamcaster · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:19

Great set up! do you plan to watercool the graphics in the future?

w3bbo · 13 Nov 2006 at 01:38

humax said:
in the picture 3rd from the top for some reason your case seems to have a babys arm growing out of it .was this part of the mod also

LoL yeah thats my daughter helping me out with the mod's

Sumanji said:
Haha, I noticed the baby arm too

Last question about the fan mod (sorry to spam your thread!). When you say "drill out the rivet", do you literally mean stick the drill bit in the middle and drill right the way through it? I.e. passing from one side of the case to the other. I assume it's better (and possible) to drill from the outside.

Sorry for all the Q's, it's just that I'll be doing a rebuild with Conroe soon, and I wanna stick all 4 HDD's in the bottom segment, but that would definitely need better airflow with 2 Raptors!

Cheers,

Suman

Yeah just drill through the centre of the rivets and they will either pop right out or stick to your drill bit. Drill from the outside. Also bear in mind that you want to give your case a good clean out once you start modding it because drilling it can create some metal fragments that if not removed could damage some other components.

Dreamcaster said:
Great set up! do you plan to watercool the graphics in the future?

Well I have just changed the graphics card to an 8800GTX and the motherboard to the EVGA680i, neither of which are WC'd at the moment. Only the CPU has H2O for the time being until I'm happy everything is working as it should, then I'll cool the rest of the gear. I also upgraded the tubing to 1/2 rather than the thinner 10mm.

I was going to WC the 7950GX2 as I bought a GX2 spacer kit from the States and 2 waterblocks specifically for this purpose but hte lure of the 8800 was too much so the above kit will be appearing in MM soon.

I'll post some more updated pics soon.

Dreamcaster · 13 Nov 2006 at 09:22

Yeah some updated pics would be great

gadget^ · 13 Nov 2006 at 13:14

i have the same case - found theres not a great deal of room after fitting a cooling kit

ted34 · 13 Nov 2006 at 22:21

I use a alphacool nexxxos xp bold block which i got when on s939. I was going to have to get a new top for it to use with c2d but had one of those BT brackets spare so bolted the brackety to the cpu block in the s939 holes and now can fit the block on s775.

Those BT brackets are worth their weight in gold

w3bbo · 20 Jan 2007 at 15:59

Well this is the last shot of my P180 (internal).

The P180 is now sold so all my kit is awaiting the arrival of this beast.

platypus · 20 Jan 2007 at 17:07

Can I ask what tools you used to cut the Antec? Its a pretty hefty piece of metal so I presume they'd work on most cases.

w3bbo · 20 Jan 2007 at 17:27

Jigsaw for cutting and dremmel for smoothing. Cutting through triple layers was a pain as the plasic kept fusing back together but a couple of goes through and it sorted it. Dremmels are ideal for smoothing the edges out.

platypus · 20 Jan 2007 at 17:31

I suspected a jigsaw, that might be a little hard getting access too.

Dmack · 20 Jan 2007 at 21:46

Hey what did you use to make the side of the graphics card green ?

Messiah Khan · 20 Jan 2007 at 22:23

Dmack said:
Hey what did you use to make the side of the graphics card green ?

UV paint AFAIK.

w3bbo · 21 Jan 2007 at 10:05

Yeah it was some acrylic flouro paint - very easy mod if you have a steady hand.

Teknodeamon · 21 Jan 2007 at 11:50

frigging awesome

im too scared to use water, air 4tw!
;x

RaiderX · 18 Jun 2007 at 17:24

ill have this case tomorrow, my first watercooling loop, hoping to get me to 3.4GHz

stinka · 18 Jun 2007 at 20:15

RaiderX said:
ill have this case tomorrow, my first watercooling loop, hoping to get me to 3.4GHz

what mobo are you using you'll prolly need some different memory judging by ya sig

my 680i dosnt seem to want to let me run a divider so i can clock memory lower than cpu therefore im running in sync mode and my memory is stopping me from going over 3.15

just a thought

edit just read your sig again and i missed the bit about the ds3

so youll be able to use a divider i suspect so just ignore me

RaiderX · 18 Jun 2007 at 21:09

stinka said:
what mobo are you using you'll prolly need some different memory judging by ya sig

my 680i dosnt seem to want to let me run a divider so i can clock memory lower than cpu therefore im running in sync mode and my memory is stopping me from going over 3.15

just a thought

edit just read your sig again and i missed the bit about the ds3 so youll be able to use a divider i suspect so just ignore me

my memory isnt the bottleneck, ive had it to 1000MHz, just NB overheats

orderoftheflame · 18 Jun 2007 at 21:15

That looks gorgeous :eek:

good work!!