Yewen and I, had a riveting time..

Mekrel · 12 Dec 2006 at 23:42

Well, it's been in the works for a while now about going watercooling and finally got all the parts and tools needed during last week.

However, a Lian Li v1200 is completely riveted, so had to take it all apart to get it to fit onto my bench drill.

Yewen has before pics, I only have afters of putting it back together tonight after nearly killing him in the process with my rivet press.

need to get some proper polish to get rid of my grubby finger marks.

Messy room and complete case shot. Complete with Aluminium drill shavings and case for my dremel.

The monster bench drill, normal people use scrap wood under their work piece. Me? Well I used reader digests "Mysteries of the Bible" book. Hard to read now with a gaping 114 mm hole through it.

was thinking of putting current spec into the machine, but think I will get some new internals for it.

IceShock · 12 Dec 2006 at 23:55

nice mod

looks tidy, unlike your room :rolleyes:

nice drill, and nice book. god didnt save his holy book when a mad man was let loose with a power tool.

disclaimer: god didnt give a dam about the book really cause he was busy watching people drilling his son onto a wooden cross

Yewen · 13 Dec 2006 at 00:05

Its a great mod, a V series taken apart and put back together will no ill effects is a pretty good achievement!

Will be much better when its all put together with the full rig and pump et al.

Certainly a nice case, although for air cooling I would certainly doubt if it would be up to the job of a top spec rig.

ReeceKB · 13 Dec 2006 at 00:43

looks very nice mate

WJA96 · 13 Dec 2006 at 09:12

I don't understand - you completely stripped it down to cut a hole in the roof? Why?

Captain Fizz · 13 Dec 2006 at 10:28

Looks like a really neat cut.

Good job - Nicely rounded corners too.

Yewen · 13 Dec 2006 at 10:58

WJA96 said:
I don't understand - you completely stripped it down to cut a hole in the roof? Why?

Would be because of the tools available. I was just there to help put it back together.

Messiah Khan · 13 Dec 2006 at 11:27

Any chance of some pics of the inside? Especially of how much the Rad hangs down over the 5 1/4" bays please. Good job though btw.

Yewen · 13 Dec 2006 at 11:45

I have some once I get batterys in my camera to put them onto le webspace.

WJA96 · 13 Dec 2006 at 12:49

Yewen said:
Would be because of the tools available. I was just there to help put it back together.

OK - So it you had had a hand-drill you wouldn't have needed to take it to bits?

Mekrel · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:00

I took it apart to clamp it onto a bench drill.

Hand cutting wouldn't have been neat if done by myself, plus the only hand drill in the house is a Bosch drill my Dad owns.

He doesn't look after his tools and the chuck has rusted stuck.

Mekrel · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:03

Captain Fizz said:
Looks like a really neat cut.

Good job - Nicely rounded corners too.

I've surprised myself at the quality of the cut. The dremel I bought though did a fantastic job with the small sand cylinders. It helped to knock off any major rough bits, then wire wool made the cuts smooth to touch.

Mekrel · 13 Dec 2006 at 22:12

messiah khan said:
Any chance of some pics of the inside? Especially of how much the Rad hangs down over the 5 1/4" bays please. Good job though btw.

Using 38mm fans and a shroud, so can be drastically cut down with using bare rad on 25mm fans.

Another pic after abit o' polish.

p4radox · 13 Dec 2006 at 22:31

Noob question - what does a shroud do? Does it increase the flow through the rad or something?

Messiah Khan · 13 Dec 2006 at 22:33

p4radox said:
Noob question - what does a shroud do? Does it increase the flow through the rad or something?

It seperates the fans and the rad slightly so that you don't get deadspots where the fan motors are.

Cheers for the pic Mekrel. Unfortunately even without a shroud it takes up too much space for my liking. I was thinking for my v2000. Looks like im going to have to stick with a single 120.1 at the back i think.

Mekrel · 13 Dec 2006 at 22:37

It would take up to two 5.25" bays with 25mm fans, if thats any help?

Noni Juice · 13 Dec 2006 at 23:26

Nice choice of fans

Messiah Khan · 14 Dec 2006 at 09:52

Mekrel said:
It would take up to two 5.25" bays with 25mm fans, if thats any help?

Still too big for me unfortunately. How about if you located it towards the back of the case, over the motherboard? How many PCI slots would you be covering you recon?

Yewen · 14 Dec 2006 at 11:32

messiah khan said:
Still too big for me unfortunately. How about if you located it towards the back of the case, over the motherboard? How many PCI slots would you be covering you recon?

All but the graphics card and the first 1x slot would be my guess.

Messiah Khan · 14 Dec 2006 at 11:37

Yewen said:
All but the graphics card and the first 1x slot would be my guess.

Hmm, maybe I could get away with that. Pushing it a bit though.

I think i'll probably just stick with the 120.1 tbh. Its only going to be cooling the GPU and maybe the NB anyway.