BurntToast
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Here is my red Aspire X-QPack with a modified Evercool EC-WC-202 Water Cooling Kit. The kit comes with both a 120MM RAD and 80MM RAD, Pump, Res as well as CPU/GPU blocks. The kit normally takes up 1 or 2 5.25" drive bay that house the 120MM RAD, Pump and Res. But I trashed the 5.25" and gutted the parts from it that mattered to me. By doing this I freed up some MUCH needed space from my 5.25" drives.
Now before I move on, I'd like to thank Massive for his thread in which he uses the very same case and water cooling kit. His tips where most useful.
I made a custom shroud which is placed on the back of my case utilizing the 120MM fan and 5.25" bay RAD. It and it works PERFECTLY, is air tight and draws out a LOT of air. The 80MM RAD is mounted in the front of the inside of the case, raised by spacers and 4 screws coming in from the side. Then a hole was drilled in the side of the window to allow cool air into the RAD. The 80MM has two fans that both push and pull. The outtake of this air then moved onto the system ram. The 120MM fan on the other had just pulls the air through the RAD and out the back.
As far as look go all things are UV, the inside of the case has been painted by UV reactive paint (1.25 cans), I placed three UV LEDS into the stock PSU, changed the two front panel LEDs for the HDD and Power both to red, cut a window out in my DVD drive and I installed grommets for the rear 120MM fan to reduce vibration.
BTW due to space I'm using the privided 420Watt PSU. So far so goo, but the 12+V is at 12.6 which is way too freakin high for me! I hope to soon replace it.
Clearance is not even 1MM !!
If you cant undertsand me then please LMK. It's 4AM and I have been awake on 1.5HRS of sleep att day while at LANfest2K5
Later!
Now before I move on, I'd like to thank Massive for his thread in which he uses the very same case and water cooling kit. His tips where most useful.
I made a custom shroud which is placed on the back of my case utilizing the 120MM fan and 5.25" bay RAD. It and it works PERFECTLY, is air tight and draws out a LOT of air. The 80MM RAD is mounted in the front of the inside of the case, raised by spacers and 4 screws coming in from the side. Then a hole was drilled in the side of the window to allow cool air into the RAD. The 80MM has two fans that both push and pull. The outtake of this air then moved onto the system ram. The 120MM fan on the other had just pulls the air through the RAD and out the back.
As far as look go all things are UV, the inside of the case has been painted by UV reactive paint (1.25 cans), I placed three UV LEDS into the stock PSU, changed the two front panel LEDs for the HDD and Power both to red, cut a window out in my DVD drive and I installed grommets for the rear 120MM fan to reduce vibration.
BTW due to space I'm using the privided 420Watt PSU. So far so goo, but the 12+V is at 12.6 which is way too freakin high for me! I hope to soon replace it.
Clearance is not even 1MM !!
If you cant undertsand me then please LMK. It's 4AM and I have been awake on 1.5HRS of sleep att day while at LANfest2K5
Later!