Did a bit of modding on my new case

[Galt]

I've got a little page showing my progress and stuff. It's written so anybody (I.E., family) can actually read it and understand it. The clientele here will find my descriptions pretty simplified, but there are nice pics ;)

http://pages.sssnet.com/aspivey/complog.html

[Steve978]

Looking hawt, I love the placement of the pump and radiator its amazingly clean looking, make sure you post the finished result.

[AlucardCasull]

WHAT RAD IS THAT?!?! I HAVE THAT CASE AND I WANT TO WC@!!!

[Orange Fire.]

Whowah bra.. That's very cool. Im loving the Blue and Black.. Very clean and well organized. I cant wait to see what it all look's like with the mother board put in and everything. Awsome work! What are you going to put for you window on your side pannel? Do you have a cut you are going to do or thinking about doing? Give us some more info on what you are going to do and about your plann's for this Modding Project. Over all it's Great so far, Keep it up dude,
-Orange Fire.

[Sturm]

Looking sweet. I'm thinking of modding a case now after all the nice stuff I keep seeing here.

[spiritedandy]

wow looking good there wish i could get my act together and put something together :(

[Mark620]

Wow, thats a nice job.

[Galt]

Originally posted by AlucardCasull
WHAT RAD IS THAT?!?! I HAVE THAT CASE AND I WANT TO WC@!!!

That's a Black Ice Xtreme II, dual 120mm. It's pretty big, and a good amount of work to get it in there, but it worked out nicely. Be careful though, because it really crowds the wires coming out of the power supply.

[Galt]

Originally posted by Orange Fire.
Whowah bra.. That's very cool. Im loving the Blue and Black.. Very clean and well organized. I cant wait to see what it all look's like with the mother board put in and everything. Awsome work! What are you going to put for you window on your side pannel? Do you have a cut you are going to do or thinking about doing? Give us some more info on what you are going to do and about your plann's for this Modding Project. Over all it's Great so far, Keep it up dude,
-Orange Fire.

Thanks for the compliment, I appreciate it! Nothing major planned for the side window, just the stock panel:

http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?image=11-112-040-01.JPG/11-112-040-07.JPG/11-112-040-03.JPG/11-112-040-05.JPG/11-112-040-04.JPG/11-112-040-06.JPG/11-112-040-02.JPG/11-112-040-08.JPG

As far as more modding, I don't think I've got much more to do, really. My plan for right now it to drop the motherboard in soon (I'm just very paranoid about testing the w/c system) and clamp the north bridge block down then. After that I've just got to grab some RAM and drop in the video card and CPU, clamping down their respective blocks. I'm planning on getting a P4 3.0c, OCZ PC3700EB (1024MB), and an X800Pro. Should come together pretty nicely. P4C800-E Dexlue is the board I've picked up.

[chkptcharlie]

hope it all works out for you.

i also like your setup. it'll really look sweet once you get it all together.

[QuantumPC]

I like the power switch on that case

[arabarabian]

That looks nice. Is that a Swiftech kit or did you assemble it yourself?

[Galt]

Originally posted by QuantumPC
I like the power switch on that case

The regular one, or the switch for the lights that I installed? I'm happy with how the light switch turned out.


Originally posted by arabarabian
That looks nice. Is that a Swiftech kit or did you assemble it yourself?

I put it together myself, no kits for me :)

When I was first shopping around for water blocks, I was looking at everything from various manufacturers. It just turned out that I liked everything from Swiftech. I guess that makes me a fanboy.

[AlucardCasull]

could you post a pic of the inside where the rad is? thanks man!! appreciate it

*edit* doh, i just saw it, thats freakin close, think ill stick with a chevette

[Myhre]

Pretty nice rig. Your one of the few that I've seen that has the grit to actually tear those holes in your Lian Li for the swift tech radiator. I have to admit that I'm kind of partial to that mod myself and a little bit of a braggart about it. I'll show you why.

One of my early systems (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4129964784)

That's mine (http://www.swiftnets.com/products/H20-22600-0.asp#)

Scroll down a little on the second link a little. And that was my first major mod.

Oh yeah, my most recent project was a full tower. I can't tell you how much easier the radiator mod was in it. And I like the MCP600 a lot more than the eheim. And the new waterblocks from swiftech are nicer now as well. I'll try and post some more pics of mine here in a mintue or two. Havn't messed around with it in so long, but yours has kind of peeked my interest in it. Oh yeah. With the chipset waterblock....it's the only swiftech thing I wouldn't recommend. I actually had one, used it, took it off and replaced it with swiftech's air chipset cooler. I like it much better and my water system runs cooler as well. I'm definatly going peltiers on my next system. :D

Okay so I need to stop adding to this post, but I can't help myself. One more advice thingy. With the radiator at the top of the case. It's more effecient if you mount the fans above the rad sucking air through it. For two reasons. 1. Pushing air through a radiator is much more effective than pushing(you don't get air bounce back) 2. with the way a Lian Li case fans are set up, sucking the air out through the top makes a nice pressure zone for the other fans. Oh yeah, to accomplish this I took a 1/8 thick piece of lexan and modded it just like the top of the case(two 120mm holes) and cut it to the size of the radiator. Then I mounted the radiator with the spacer on the underside and the fans on the top. Just slap me to shut up when I start to get annoying. I'll probably end up adding more. I could go on for days.....seriously.....

[Myhre]

Just a followup, took a couple shots of my two swiftech rigs. Wish they still had some of the other bells and whistles attached, and looked better, but oh well. They still have the basic mods.

Swiftech Rig (www.iceelr.com/System.html)

[Galt]

Nice system, Myhre! The only reason I didn't go with a full case was because I plan on moving around with it a bit, and size was a concern.

[Myhre]

Yeah, that was my reasoning for going with a mid tower on the first run as well. In fact I think I have the exact same case as you, except mine is silver.

[Galt]

You probably do, it's a PC-65B. The silver PC-65 was my previous case and I wanted a change, but I just like this case so much :)

I really love these Lian-Lis.

[spiritedandy]

Thanx for building my new case Galt ;) ;) :D

[OKJEFF4]

Where'd you get the coiled sleeving? I could use that for a client's computer.

[Myhre]

You can get them from swiftech. www.swiftnets.com