Watercooling Case Question

When i get the case, hopefully tomorrow i will take pictures of the top section. I will remove everything and change the back panel over to the 120mm fan panel and post some up just for you. There are pictures on the net but not many showing the top without the HDD cage and with the back plate changed

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Thought i best put a picture up for you with 2 rads as i will only have one
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And i emailed their tech support, and they gave me these dimensions
dimensions of top-case (only metal part):
(57 x 23 x 19)cm
 
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if i am honest, it does look a lot less platic then it looks on the website pictures. The drop down sides are metal where as they look plastic. The side is metal with some plastic. The top is all plastic but thats to make it easy to get off. Which by the way i found something i have yet to find anywhere else. I have been able to disconnect EVER IO port from the front of the case except these;

Single USB3
Power button and LED
Reset button and LED

As i only use the power and reset this is a massive thing over my other cases where you have to leave them in! they just un-plug! I will do some basic pictures tonight of me just Putting my current system in the new case. And will update as i go
 
Ok so i got round to mounting the CPU block in temporary, i emptied the loop yesterday but some coolant was still there. So the system has been flushed through with warm water for 10 minutes, and a small drop of citrus cleaner to remove the horrible koolance coolant! it was horrible, and i had to soak the fitting in hot and i do mean hot water to get the coolant off the old barbs its that horrible!

And here is a picture of me running spring water round the loop after emptying it again to get all the cleaner out and the warm water

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I have now removed the 90' fittings and the old tubing, removed the old cooler etc. and hopefully my rad and everything else should be coming tomorrow.

Sadly the long bank holiday weekend is going to kill me waiting for the res and extra fittings to arrive
 
New pictures up on the site in this folder
http://jamie.crimsonskulls.co.uk/3. Changing the loop/

Radiator is fitted, all the wiring is in, a lot has been moved to test the fan controller and fans. I have the 2 front fans running, and the 4 gentle scythe fans all running full, one side isn't on the case and its still so quiet you cant hear it without your head next to the case

pump is placed inside but not in its set place. Got to order some more fittings now and the res, and hopefully it will come some time next week

EDIT: put some rough routing for the hoses in now
 
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Ok so i have a few comments about the case which i have noticed while its been sitting around. The tool-less drive bays are a pain in the butt, as the screws move back and forth its hard to line them up on some things. The screws are also only on one side so the other does not hold without screws.

This makes it hard using smaller fan controllers, mine only uses the front holes in the bay, the tool-less side holds well, the other side even with 2 screws in doesn't hold solid, not sure why.

The hot swap drive bays are a pain. If you open the front half the time the drive bays open by themselves. They do not hold well so open with the slightest of touches. I did fix this using a couple of the cable twists weaved between the mesh and hooped over the clip to hold them shut. not a big issue but could cause drives to eject when you don't want it. The SSD holders are great though

Haven't had chance to boot up yet so not sure how well they connect to the PCB at the back. Other then that the case is great so far, would have been nice is the 5.25" bays in the top section were held in by bolts instead of pot rivets, makes them a pain to get out, luckily i don't need to remove them
 
If im honest no. The only real problem i had was i got an air lock in the CPU block, that was solved by just removing the block from its fastenings so the air would travel up. The radiator had a air trap at the back, so i had to tilt the case backwards and top it up to remove all the air from there. The air all gathered at the top of the res as it was on its side so i could still run the pump as water was still flowing allowing me to force the air out.

And as i used rotatory 90' fitting on the pump and rad, i could actually un-hook the entire res from the mount so i could move it, allowing all the air out very easily :-)
 
Ok, so after changing my cpu and motherboard about 4 weeks ago ive since had my mcp35x die on me. Its been sent back for an RMA. That was 3 weeks ago. And ive been told I have at least 2 more weeks before I might get a replacement from swiftech. Does anyone have any recommendations on a good replacement? I wont say where the pump is from due to competition however if I want to change the pump it has to be one from that one supplier so I will send it over pm to anyone that asks.

It needs to have fittings for G1/4 barb fittings as usual. I was told the mcp35x should be bomb proof but that failed after about 2 weeks so that wasn't great

Thanks,
Jamie
 
Ok everyone so a quick update on the system. I replaced the pump at a further expense, but this one is fighting strong and is actually quieter then the MCP-35X, i went with the combination of;

XSPC Laing D5 PWM Pump Single Edition
XSPC Laing D5 Multiport Pump Top

I kept the pump in the same space as before, but it does need moving i think as the tubing looks a mess in the top section now. I can post pictures if anyone wants them.

The top 2 optical bay surround i am going to remove soon, requires drilling though so im putting it off a little at the moment as i would need to rip the system apart to do it properly
 
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