Watercooling my setup in a CM690II...possible?

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Basically I'm curious if I could watercool my rig (see sig) inside this case. I realise there is quite a bit of heat, and in honesty I'd even be willing to consider a gpu only loop, as the Megahalems is near silent even at load.

Ideas or advice? Not an immediate concern, as it'd be a good few months until I do it, but I dont plan on changing my gpu's anytime soon!
 
Just found this. Also, I managed to fit a loop into my K62 which isn't that different from the CM690II.

CM690-II_Advanced_Liquid_Cooling.jpg
 
I know a 120.2 rad in the bottom and a slim 120.2 rad ath the top are possible, was just wondering if that would be enough for a 4ghz i5 and 2 470's
 
I'm just about to add a 240mm rad into the bottom of mine (currently have a 120mm in the bottom and 240mm skim in the top). The one thing I remember reading and is now something I've been looking into is that to get a 240mm in the bottom you need to check the length of your PSU. CoolerMaster recommends no longer than 150mm. I guess it depends on the exact length of your rad, but it does seem to be a tight fit. I've currently got a Corsair TX750 which is 160mm long and I'm considering getting an Antec New True Blue 750 (or whatever they're called) as that should only be 150mm. I'm wondering if it's worth £100 to ave 10mm, but considering the space you have to work with 10mm might be about an extra 50% space.

By the way I'm currently cooling a 1055T @ 3.8GHz and 4870x2 on a 240mm slim rad and 120mm EK rad. Couple runs of Heaven didn't take either GPU core past 50C, Prime95 doesn't take the CPU past 50C either. Not tried running them together to stress everything at once (not sure how much Heaven stresses the CPU) but have played some BF:BC2 and temps were all fine (50C or less).

I imagine 2 x 470s will kick out more heat than a 4870x2 though and I'm guessing an i5-760 @ 4GHz would kick out more heat than my 1055T too.
 
Two 240 rads will be fine. A slim 240, as said, will be enough for the cpu. Remember that graphics cards are designed to become very hot so a I think that a double rad will suffice on 2 470s.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
The one thing I remember reading and is now something I've been looking into is that to get a 240mm in the bottom you need to check the length of your PSU. CoolerMaster recommends no longer than 150mm.
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This could be a slight hindrance then, as I believe my psu is 170mm long. Bloody sli needing so much juice! :p
 
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