Sat here tonight at this time in the morning a wave of inspiration hit me to completely watercool my Nine Hundred Gaming case that is just sat under my desk unused at the moment.
recent talks with Raikiri have really got me thinking about a dual loop setup which without a doubt would be awesome, even with the hassle. So i wondered to myself... "how would i do it?" and a few ideas started popping into my head and the main one was to mount a rad facing into my case at the back, like i was planning on my 1st attempt but didnt succeed because the drill bits were pants, so i will buy new drill bits and make sure that happens this time. i will then have one at the front mounted to one of the front fans behind the grill. the one at the front doing gfx and the one at the back doing cpu and possibly chipset. i was thinking of getting two bay res's so that water levels were easily attainable and hopefully not too hard to top up.
then i got round to pumps and thats where im stuck, i need two decent cheapish pumps, identical if possible, one to power each loop. i expect both to have to be positioned on the bottom of the case so they will have to be fairly powerful, so ideas for these would be appreciated.
i also need to find another cheap rad. i need another 120.1 which is fairly low profile where the barbs are as my plans mean that the barbs cant stick out too much.
the sort of spec i would be going for over the coming months is something like quad core and 8800GTX/9800GTS, would a single 120.1 be enough to cool a 8800GTX? or would this depend more so on the pump res and block used in conjuction with it?
also what do you think of what i consider "fairly ambishous" project, espically for a Antec Nine Hundred, which i would never ever suggest for watercooling.
i'll try and get a diagram up of how i would like/expect it to look.
recent talks with Raikiri have really got me thinking about a dual loop setup which without a doubt would be awesome, even with the hassle. So i wondered to myself... "how would i do it?" and a few ideas started popping into my head and the main one was to mount a rad facing into my case at the back, like i was planning on my 1st attempt but didnt succeed because the drill bits were pants, so i will buy new drill bits and make sure that happens this time. i will then have one at the front mounted to one of the front fans behind the grill. the one at the front doing gfx and the one at the back doing cpu and possibly chipset. i was thinking of getting two bay res's so that water levels were easily attainable and hopefully not too hard to top up.
then i got round to pumps and thats where im stuck, i need two decent cheapish pumps, identical if possible, one to power each loop. i expect both to have to be positioned on the bottom of the case so they will have to be fairly powerful, so ideas for these would be appreciated.
i also need to find another cheap rad. i need another 120.1 which is fairly low profile where the barbs are as my plans mean that the barbs cant stick out too much.
the sort of spec i would be going for over the coming months is something like quad core and 8800GTX/9800GTS, would a single 120.1 be enough to cool a 8800GTX? or would this depend more so on the pump res and block used in conjuction with it?
also what do you think of what i consider "fairly ambishous" project, espically for a Antec Nine Hundred, which i would never ever suggest for watercooling.
i'll try and get a diagram up of how i would like/expect it to look.
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which will very soon probbaly be all built in if i can scrape the cash 
