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this is a follow on write up that continues following the mods i'm doing to my case for watercooling. If you missed the first part you can find it in this thread....
here
had a bit more time on my hands the last couple of days so i decided to do the next step and as you can guess from the thread name it's the windtunnel.
first step is to cut some of the motherboard tray off cuz it's directly where the air flows and radiator is going to be.
I had to use my dads old skool hacksaw for this cuz i've run out of cutting discs for my replica dremel, gonna need to get some though so that i can cut the intake and exhaust holes for the fans.
Here you can see the motherboard tray back in situe. You can clearly see the other sidepanel now whereas before you couldn't. Did a couple of others mods to my mobo while i had it out the case. added some sinks to the mosfets and southbridge and also tried to solder some wires to the back of the cpu socket so that i can easily turn the L12 mod on and off with a jumper (this didn't work though, need to get the board back off to check why).
and now for making the windtunnel, i used some polyprop sheets that my dad got from work, it's nice and easy to work with and cuts a lot easier than sheet metal would. here you can see the windtunnel starting to take shape, it's clear where the air will be flowing, in one side of the case and straight out the other...
heres another with the rad in place and an extra bit of polyprop to make sure all the air passes through the radiator and none round the sides.
even in the stupidly big case i've got there is only only just enough room to fit the pipes in without them crimping, i recon 5mm less and i would have been buggered.
next job on the list was to cut the holes in the side panels for the fans. I needed to get some cutting discs for this but it was like £15 for 5 at the local DIY, sod that for a laugh. Ended up buying some metal blades for my jigsaw for a third of the price and i recon they did a better job, much quicker than drememling. Here you can see the holes cut and the panals after a quick respray.
Final pic for this part of the write up is with the sidepanels back on, i'm well pleased with the results, looks well nice.
I'm just waiting on a bracket to arrive in the post now so that i can mount the block on my chip (don't have the 4 holes). when i get this i'll install all the other components and get some results and do another write up. can't wait for it to get here.
UPDATE No. 1
Bracket didn't come in the post today so in true [H]ard style i tried to make my own...
needless to say it didn't work. couldn't get a proper seat on the cpu and gave up cuz i didn't wanna fry my chip (i've had it running at over 2.6ghz before on air so it's gonna be good on water when i finally get this rig running).
going on holiday tomoz so theres gonna be no updates for a week or so, i'll keep you all informed when i get some results.
here
had a bit more time on my hands the last couple of days so i decided to do the next step and as you can guess from the thread name it's the windtunnel.
first step is to cut some of the motherboard tray off cuz it's directly where the air flows and radiator is going to be.
I had to use my dads old skool hacksaw for this cuz i've run out of cutting discs for my replica dremel, gonna need to get some though so that i can cut the intake and exhaust holes for the fans.
Here you can see the motherboard tray back in situe. You can clearly see the other sidepanel now whereas before you couldn't. Did a couple of others mods to my mobo while i had it out the case. added some sinks to the mosfets and southbridge and also tried to solder some wires to the back of the cpu socket so that i can easily turn the L12 mod on and off with a jumper (this didn't work though, need to get the board back off to check why).
and now for making the windtunnel, i used some polyprop sheets that my dad got from work, it's nice and easy to work with and cuts a lot easier than sheet metal would. here you can see the windtunnel starting to take shape, it's clear where the air will be flowing, in one side of the case and straight out the other...
heres another with the rad in place and an extra bit of polyprop to make sure all the air passes through the radiator and none round the sides.
even in the stupidly big case i've got there is only only just enough room to fit the pipes in without them crimping, i recon 5mm less and i would have been buggered.
next job on the list was to cut the holes in the side panels for the fans. I needed to get some cutting discs for this but it was like £15 for 5 at the local DIY, sod that for a laugh. Ended up buying some metal blades for my jigsaw for a third of the price and i recon they did a better job, much quicker than drememling. Here you can see the holes cut and the panals after a quick respray.
Final pic for this part of the write up is with the sidepanels back on, i'm well pleased with the results, looks well nice.
I'm just waiting on a bracket to arrive in the post now so that i can mount the block on my chip (don't have the 4 holes). when i get this i'll install all the other components and get some results and do another write up. can't wait for it to get here.
UPDATE No. 1
Bracket didn't come in the post today so in true [H]ard style i tried to make my own...
needless to say it didn't work. couldn't get a proper seat on the cpu and gave up cuz i didn't wanna fry my chip (i've had it running at over 2.6ghz before on air so it's gonna be good on water when i finally get this rig running).
going on holiday tomoz so theres gonna be no updates for a week or so, i'll keep you all informed when i get some results.
