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Project: Chiller- Noob builder

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Teknokid

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This is my first ever venture into case modding so it will only be relatively small but im hoping you can help me out along the way and enjoy the ride.
Firstly i will tell you the background:
I had a perfectly good system until my striker blew up, that gave me the urge to do something will all the spare time i then had, hence project chiller :)
Here is all the gear i had to rip out :( (minus mobo of corse)

To start of my mod im going to paint the case red so i have sanded it down ready for spraying tommorow:
Here's what i got :)

This will be the hardest to paint, i didnt want to remove my S#@ty water cooling yet, so i left it in there (I'll remove it when i can afford my new kit (next few weeks or so).

The system specs are system 1 in my sig:
This is what i plan for my water cooling:
Laing D5,
Flow CPU block (due to be released soon),
Hoping to swap my striker for an eVga board which i will water cool,
The rad i have at the moment for now,
7/16th tubing,
Purple coolant,
Ek 8800gtx water block,
Few other bits and bobs.
This mod is designed to be 'stealth'. The whole case will be black with black fans, cables etc, hence wanting the eVga board over the rather (in comparison) colourful striker.
I will however have 2 Red Cathodes for showing it off and it should look good with purple coolant.

I like my Systems to run cool, which is why, when i can afford it, im going to get this RAD:
http://www.aqua-pcs.co.uk/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=84

HINTS, TIPS, ANYTHING greatly appreciated :)
Dremel land here i come :)
 
i just thought, my rads external, why not buy a mini fridge and stick it in there?
^^just stole that idea of someone else :p
 
so many decisions in one day. both my ideas have been skrewed :( the mini fridge would overheat it seems and that HUGE rad just wouldnt work. so im now thinking, dual loops. each with a 360mm rad and 3 fans. one handlong my gfx, the other my cpu and mobo. to add a bit of speciality ill run different colour coolant it each :)
 
Teknokid said:
i just thought, my rads external, why not buy a mini fridge and stick it in there?
^^just stole that idea of someone else :p
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Because if you put your rad in a mini fridge you will burn the motor out in the mini fridge do to the constant heat it is trying to cool. Mini fridges, all fridges really, are only meant to have to run for a brief period of time to get the inside temperature back to the desired temperature. If you introduce a constant heat source you will overwork the motor and it won't work. In short you will waste money on the mini fridge to have it work for a little bit only to come back to a broken computer and broken mini fridge because you blew out the motor and fried your system, if you don't have any fans on the rad and don't have a safety threshold on your mobo. Just save yourself a headache and use fans.
 
haha. i worked out to double side that rad with fans would take 120w...lol. well i've been told that it wouldnt really work. so i went back to the drawing board, and ive come up with dual loops. 2 laing D5's, 2 res's, 2 triple rads door mounted but different blocks. I also thought running different colour coolant in each would look brill. i just need the money now. I'm gonna start spraying soon. Hope it works :S
 
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