Project: Yin Yang

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Bun-Bun

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Alright this is my first real attempt to mod a case and go watercooling at the same time.

First off heres the case.

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A Lian Li PC-6077B.

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All its cables nicely sleeved... mmm

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And thats the RAD and fans that I am mounting hanging from the top. (It's gonna be tight!!!)

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I'm sure you noticed the rocker switches on the front of the case. Well that is the first complete wire harness for the switches. This one is the on/off for the cathodes and has the terminal block that will provide power for my fans.

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This harness is not sleeved yet but is one of a few that will be used to power the fans.

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Thats my DPST relay to allow me to run my Panaflo's in 7v/12v using the SPST rocker switches.

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Everything being tested... trust me it will all be sleeved and look a lot cleaner once inside the case lol

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7v/12v switch in action...

So yeah thats it for now. But there will be much more to come!!!
 
Lookin' very nice man. I'm still gonna have to come over and check it out, I've been staring at this damn Antec SLK1650B way to long.....neeeeed.....Li-Li. :p

Good luck with the mods though, and I'm less then half an hour away, I'll still have to get some hands on input on this puppy. :cool:
 
filthysanchez said:
care to give us the exact plans on what you're doing?
just gonna watercool, or what?
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What do you mean "just".

Water cooling is going to be the main method of cooling. Starting off cooling an E6600 and 8800GTX but once I upgrade the PSU from a 600w GameXtreme to either a toughpower 850w or Xclio 850w then I will have a kentsfield and dual 8800GTX's however the GPU will probably get aircooled since I will only have a dual RAD.

The biggest mod will be mounting the RAD up on top. Plan to cut a hole and make a custom plate out of alumium (similar to MNPCTech's billet grills) to mount the RAD kinda like a radgrillz does.

And simple things like a window with a side fan and all the fans grills will be modders mesh.

Its not meant to be an overly complicated mod. Just something simple and very clean and easy to carry to lan parties.
 
Alright an update.

First off I had to replace the PSU in my main rig due to blown caps but before I put the new one in I stuck it in the Lian Li to space out the rad.

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It's tight and this is a 150mm PSU... what am I going to do when I get my 160mm Thermaltake TP 850w?

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I tried moving it forward justifying that I can cut into the frame a little bit to make room for the fans.

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Put the caliper up to it measuring 10mm and yay I have enough room!!!

So I have to cut up the frame a bit in order to move the RAD that much forward but ohwell. And it sticks into the front bezel abit now lol

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Now that I have it fitted I did a bunch of measurments (and rechecking of measurements) and modeled up the top plate that will be used to mount the RAD and fans.

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The top hole is for a fill port. The plate is 3/16" thick aluminum and the back side has counter bored holes allowing for the nut on the fill port and allowing me to attach modders mesh to the back side to prevent damage to the fans and little curious fingers.

Now all I have to do is get the plate made up and I can start cutting up the case.

Thats all for now. Next im going to design the window for the side panel and then its time to take stuff to the local laser cutting place to get the side panel and top plate done.
 
looking good bun-bun, I look forward to helping you slice that little lian-li apart until it is a thing of beauty!
 
Berg0 said:
looking good bun-bun, I look forward to helping you slice that little lian-li apart until it is a thing of beauty!
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It already is a thing of beauty, it'll just become a more original and creative thing of beauty. ;)
 
Quick update:

Sorry I do not have more but I am waiting till I have some significant advances before posting my updates.

I need peoples opinions on my current mod idea.

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That is the front of the Lian Li... I have had mixed emotions about it and some have expressed there dislikes about it... So I decided to do this.

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What do you think? That is with a blue LED cooler master fan and a Logisys laser led ont the other side because the fan is off center. Now my thought process is it looks a little weird with the left side as the fan and the right side as the LED's... so I thought I should put a non led fan in there (a higher CFM fan to help cool the 150 gb raptors that are going in there) and get another Logisys laser LED and put it on the other side to make it look even.

What does everyone think?

BTW...

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I just got that sunbeam tool kit and it ROCKS!!! It is so easy to remove connectors now...so much better then a flat screwdriver lol.

Also sorry about the washed out pictures... my good flash batteries were dead...
 
I know things have been happening as I've seen progress first hand...we need more updates man!!! :D
 
Ok by public demand (from corny) I am posting an update. I have lots done but I will only focus on a couple highlights. First the final installment of LED's in the front grill...

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That is with two 5 LED lights installed in the center pointing outwards. I am pretty happy with the results of this $10 mod...

Now on to the biggest part of the mod... well at least the part that took the most planning.

Here is my plate after the laser place got there hands on it.

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When I went to go mount the fans and rad onto it I found that the nuts wouldn't fit with the LED's in the way on the fan...

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After a little carving with a swiss army knife (two hours later)

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Woot so I am pretty happy thus far. Here is the fans mounted on the plate.

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And turned on...

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:D Anyway there is still mesh to be put on which you will see in a later pic. But on to cutting up the case.

Oh and BTW... got my Seasonic M12-700. Awesome PSU!!! :D

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Now heres the case...

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Nice big hole... only after cutting it did I realize that it was the entire width of the drive bay cage...

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The pic above shows that even after all my measureing and testing fitting I forgot to account for the thickness of the top of the case that I just cut out... therefore the RAD does not clear the front by about 0.030" !!!! As the pic below shows it just does not get any tighter then this...

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You can see a little bit of bare metal just below the fan where it was touching the case as I tried to make it fit... grrr. Anywho I decided to drop the idea of recessing around the holes to mount the mesh and just put the mesh on between the fans and the plate to give a little bit more room for it to clear... well that wasn't enough so I had to cut out the front a little bit to allow the RAD to fit through. Here is the result.

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Ok a little more happened then just cutting the front... I drilled the holes and mounted it but yeah its done and I am quite happy with how it looks. Now here is a teaser to show the beginnings of the loop coming together...

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Check back later... more to come ;)
 
Thanks :D

It is Tygon 1/2" R3606 tubing. I will be running Pentosin G12 with some Purple UV. Only the water in the reservoir will be lit up UV.
 
Alright another update with a somewhat sad ending. Here it goes:

Instead of writing descriptions along with each picture I am just going to say roughly what I did and the pics will explain themselves. I made a bunch of cuts to assist with wire manegment and I did a bunch of sleeving. Also I mounted my relay and power distribution block.

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And for the sad part... I filled the loop up with water, it has an airlock problem, really hard to fill, hard to bleed... after a couple hours a leak formed on my reservoir...

So the reservoir is being sent back to performance-pcs and I am on to custom wiring :D
 
Don't sweat it bro, I know things will work out, just keep at it.

Can't wait to see it finished and get over to your place to watch the finishing touches come together. :cool:
 
Question:

The honeycomb mesh that I am using is going to get anodized. I was initially thinking of silver but as I am sitting here looking at the back of my case I noticed the mesh on the back of the PSU is honeycomb as well... Now I am thinking of getting all my mesh grills anodized black to match the PSU.

What does everyone think?
 
Ok here is a big update.

First off I decided to paint the mesh black. That is all done I just haven't taken any pictures of it yet.

I also decided to make a mounting plate for pump so that I can still take out the dvd-burner and not have the pump fall.

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I then did a lot of work on my custom wiring. Here is my first attempt at the SATA cables but they did not work very well (one of the crimps was bad and I have to remake the cable) but it looks good.

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Then I did all the wiring for the switchs/fans/relay/pump. I will post all the pics and hopefully they will be self explanatory.

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And that is it for now. Next I have to remake the SATA cable and make a cable to go power the X-Fi Elite Pro sound card.
 
I'll have to get over some time and see it again...lookin' good.

I'm rethinking things and I'm pretty sure I'll still be going with a PC-7B Plus II...plans I've got for that thing go far and beyond anything I could do with this V1000.
 
ganstafm said:
very good wiring there man top notch looking forward to see the final product :)
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Thanks :D

Ok it is getting close to the end... sorry I haven't been updating. I got most of the components in and have been having fun playing command and conquer 3 :D

Anyway... big update again.

I moved the cold cathodes so that they are both right on the edge.

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I added a diode in reverse polarity to prevent high voltage spikes from damaging any sensitive components from the relay coils when they disengage.

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I made an extension cable for the front LED's because I realized that once the water cooling was installed I would not be able to disconnect it thus making it impossible to remove the hard drives without removing the water cooling...

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The next two shows where I can connect it now and how I shoved it cleaning under the dvd burner.

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I routed cables to the distro block

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And I put together the rad and did the wiring.

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And then I got my X-Fi Elite Pro sound card. It requires a power cable using a 4pin floppy connector... blah. Time for another cable.

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Leaktesting the new reservoir!!! I ditched the purple UV...

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Reservoir!

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I could not figure out how to fit my pump in... so I did this. I put the pads from both of my pumps onto the one to raise it up and fitted it with a 90°

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PITA to get these clamps on the D-Tek Fuzion...grrr

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Paranoid of mobo bending... installed a thermal right backplate

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QX6700 ready for the Fuzion

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All the wiring done (I hope...)

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Back mesh painted and installed.

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New SATA cable for DVD burner and final SATA cables made... I screwed them up again. But at least they work now.

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Water installed!

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More pics to come. But I am pretty much done the case. Only some finishing touches left including the side panel window and I am making a new plate for the reservoir that will match the case perfectly (cutting it out of scrap from the side panel).

Loop hasnt had a chance to fully bleed yet but my fully loaded temps are lower then idle with the stock HS&F. Dual orthos I am looking at temps like this:

Ambient: 23°C (taken from above computer where RAD intake is)

Core0: 49°C
Core1: 44°C
Core2: 40°C
Core3: 45°C
MB: 30°C
Water Temp: 26°C (Taken in teh reservoir after CPU)
 
Excellant wiring job. Really like the way everything is sleaved and hidden. Looks great.
 
Balex99 said:
Excellant wiring job. Really like the way everything is sleaved and hidden. Looks great.
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Thanks :D I tried to hide as much as I could. The only downfall is I can't fit SLI GTX's like I wanted to... there is no room with the HD cage where it is. Hopefully the 8900's will be shorter.
 
looks awesome great work, quick question though. Are you going to shorten and sleeve the cable to the fan on the mobo heatsink?
 
Once I have the side panel complete wiht the side fan mounted I will be removing that fan on the NB heatsink. So there is no need to shorten it or sleeve it :D
 
Nice pics...I finally came by to check 'em out. Really nice how it all turned out...really inspires me to get my new case knowing that it was my old LiLi that was inspiration for a lot of your box. :)
 
Quick update. I finalized the design for my side panel. Going to take it to get cut tomorow. The peice floating in the middle is going to be the front of my reservoir. Cutting it out of the scrap of the side panel so that the reservoir matches the rest of the case.

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You'll have to let me know how the cuts went...hopefully the panel turns out alright and you don't have to redo anything.
 
Holy crap... way too long for an update lol. The case has been done for awhile now, I have just been too lazy to upload the pics and post about it lol.

Anyway to start off with...

The finished side panel!!!

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As you can see in that last pic I had to grind off one of the screws and glue it into place as it was interfereing with the side panel going on (forgot to measure it lol)

Here is the front mount for the reservoir that I cut out of the scrap of the side panel

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And now for the pRoN ;)

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And now some lights out running PrOn ;)

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and thats it, its done. It was fun and now I can move on to other ideas I have for the rest of my computers ;)

Feel free to comment or ask any questions. If any part of the mod could use more pictures or explanation feel free to ask.
 
wow that looks great. It looks really clean because the rad isn't out side of the case it just makes it look really good.
 
Thanks :D

That is what I was going for with this build. My next one I will probably build and exterenal water cooling unit as my ambient temps are affecting this rad too much... would be fine for a dual core processor buy my quad core is killing it...
 
The hottest wiring job I've seen. Awesome job, look forward to any other mods you do.
 
do you think you could do a more in depth job on the wiring job? i really love it and i want to know more about it.:D
 
Nice and clean, awesome! I love wire modding, shame I dont have the balls to try it myself :(
 
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