Water Flow

[Thor]

decided to have a littel fun with this idea and downloaded a trial ver of sketchup... (cool program.. )pretend every thing is scaled correctly it would need to be streched front to back so inorder to make the current config work, but sketchup wasnt playing nice with the strech tool

^^^right side.. guts and glory^^^

^^^front.. seamless no drives, no bays backlight the lexan and have a nice show^^^

^^^back half, botom is a simple pass throught manifold help keep it clean top is where the line would run to, control manifold^^^

^^^res and manifold all in one, down side is the res is above the pump, bleading is gonna be a bitch^^^

^^^top down, whats missing is the "flow tuneing screws" one for each line the would simply screw into the top of the manifold to pinch off the flow as needed the tube would then run toward and down the front of the case into the collector res (the entire front of the case) , off to the rad mounted to the back of the case out of the rad to the pump up the pump to the res/manifold...seconed down side, you need to drain and remove the rad if you want to swap cards (thought you probably should any way... ) you could cheat a littel and but a filler port on the rad itself, fille the res/manifold and front manifold useing the rad as a primer res for the pump will make it a littel easyer to fill the loop(s)....

heh.. it was a good shoot any way.... more than any thing i just wanted to paly with that program.. lol
/edit forgot to mention... no cd-roms on this thing... the just get in the way, hook one up when needed, ditch it when you dont.. of course, if you have to have them best way to do so would be if you strech the case like i said and put them so they opend out the left side of the case, when this is scaled correctly, there should be enought room to fit one in lenght wise against the pump.

/edit again.. just relised something.. if you where to fill the system from the fill port and leav on of the hoses off the front tank, the water should flow backwards throught the pump throught the rad, and seek level in the front tank, there by leaveing only the air that is in the lines to blocks them selfs, and it will find its way to the fron tank, (perhaps a fill port there as well)
thore

 

[ikellensbro]

Nice plan, great Sketchups
If this works (which it should) you'll have an awesome loop, and that custom case isn't looking too bad either

The only drawback I see to your manifold loop is if you have restrictive cpu and gpu blocks, but very unrestrictive hd and chipset blocks, giving those blocks a lot more flow than they need, but that was mentioned a while back anyway. Good luck on the loop, that's gonna be some crazy tubing inside

 

[Mysterae]

thore, you're talking my language! Awesome idea, and like ikellensbro says, that case would look sweet! Imagine looking through the water into the pc...

As for the dvd drive, just make a small plinth at the bottom of the case, would only raise it a small bit.

You going to do it? are you? are you?

 

[Erasmus354]

The only drawback I see to your manifold loop is if you have restrictive cpu and gpu blocks, but very unrestrictive hd and chipset blocks, giving those blocks a lot more flow than they need, but that was mentioned a while back anyway. Good luck on the loop, that's gonna be some crazy tubing inside

Mentioned and solved...Mysterae is using ball valves on the HDD, chipset, and gpu sections to control the flow so that it is as balanced (or unbalanced) as needed.

 

[Thor]

Mentioned and solved...Mysterae is using ball valves on the HDD, chipset, and gpu sections to control the flow so that it is as balanced (or unbalanced) as needed.

ball vaulves work, if there inside or behind the case (out of sight) other wise they can be bulky,(and somewhat unsightly) more so for the number of lines this setup uses, a major advangate to useing them is the you can compleatly shut off flow to a given device (if one is used befor and after the device ) allowing you to remove just one device at a time without draining the whole loop, thought that would require twice as much room for twice as many ball valves, the block im useing at the top, while it wont allow me to shut off flow in the same manner,but will be better suited to the case i drew up and should be simple to make, durable, and not as bulkey as 6 ball valves, in his case they would be hidden inside the case but in mine it would be outside and exposed, something more elegant is needed

(expaned so it has 6 hoses instead of only 2)

the hoses run straight through the alu, an alu block(red) is driven down by 4 screws (green) and compresses the hose directly no cuts in the lines to leak, the slot that the hose run throught is wider than the hose itsself because as the hose gets squished it will become fatter, and needs somewhere to go, regulation should be very percise with this but it will take some time to get it setup correctly.

thore, you're talking my language! Awesome idea, and like ikellensbro says, that case would look sweet! Imagine looking through the water into the pc...

As for the dvd drive, just make a small plinth at the bottom of the case, would only raise it a small bit.

You going to do it? are you? are you?

im seirously considering it, it looks to damn good.


thore