Project ATi Biohazard

[Shafticus]

So there I was, sittin' at the compy and it hit me. I really wanna mod my lil' compy over here. anyway, I was thinking about water cooling it (why? Because I can), but couldn't really find anything original...

So Here started my plan... Project ATi Biohazard (i know it's cheesy). I am on a mission to make an original mod. something that really stands out it case modding. So here are my ideas...

First things first, I decided to get the biggest beast of a tower I could find.
Then I decided that I would do a biohazard (that overdone symbol) theme.
But I'm not settling for that standard "couple of fan grills" on this guy.
My plans are as follows:
-use blue and uv lighting with blue wiring/sheathing.
-use green florescence for fans and water cooling.
-instead of using clear pvc, Im going to bend acrylic tubing.
-I am going to attempt making my own radiator!!!

I know what your saying... either "He is nuckin' futs" or "Good luck" so, like I said Im doing this because I can, and it sounds way fun. First, Im using acrylic instead of polycarb because of the scratch resist, and because it seems a little easier to work with. What I will be doing is sheathing the power supply cables and putting them down a vertically running acrylic tube (painted with maybe a blue rit dye?). There will be another vertical tube next to it for the water (being flour. green). Im basically going for the whole industrial piping kinda feel. The acrylic tube will be bent of course, simply because I dont want to make it easy and use corner piping.

Next, I will be fabricating my own radiator. The reason for this is that the radiators out there are just too much alike. Im hoping to help other people out by breaking new ground here. Basically the design I came up with is some copper tubing wound in a circle, with copper fins coming off the sides. there will be a 120 mm fan mounted to the base, blowing through those fins. At the top will be the oh so cool looking biohazard symbol, probably made of wire mesh to help prevent against too much airflow loss.

Anyway... tell me what ya think.
Any Crazy Ideas I should try? Any Ideas that would help in the mission? Thanx!!

[halo_2_rocks]

Himm well you could also incorporate your biohazard theme onto your motherboard with uv ractive paint. If you had the means of doing this i have no clue where i would start but make a biohazard symbol shaped control panel where its got the temp reading and what not.

[Centurion]

The radiator looks a little restrictive due to the spiral design, but I guess if you have a strong enough pump it shouldn't matter. Otherwise, I definitely like the idea behind this project and look forward to seeing pictures! :thup:

[Shafticus]

Ive been looking into flourescent and uv reactive paint. not really sure what to use yet... but will post as soon as I find out what I will use.

I was thinking that the radiator might be a little restrictive, but the diameter of the spiral will be rather large (thinking about 5"), as compared to a regular radiator which has those really sharp kinks. anyway heres what I have so far...

[jcw122]

Welp, just to get some ideas, I'd suggest checking out the Case Mod Gallery, and yeah I also think your crazy, but the radiator picture was rather interesting, so props for that.

[Shafticus]

Ok so here is what I did so far.
1. took the 10 ft of copper tubing and bent it in half. Kept bending until it broke apart. (I haven't received the pipe cutter or dremel tool yet, but I really wanna get this project underway)
2. I slightly flattened a good amount of the tubing, minus the inlet(bend1) I estimated that I would need about 4' so I flattened about 3.5' This was so that I didn't end up flattening the outlet should it be made smaller.
3. I bent the inlet at a 90 deg angle so that the acrylic tubing would fit in.
4. At first I started bending the flattened tubing in a circle with a pair of channel locks, but realized I was damaging too much of it. I then started bending it by hand in a circle. Didn't think it would be that easy.(bend2)
The major issue that I ran into at this point was that some of the copper started to kink, and I knew that once that happened there would be no way to put it back to normal. So I just continued to make a circle.
5. I made the other end at a 90 deg... then did my best to line it all up.(bend3a & bend3b)

Mistakes learned from so far:
-I should have cut the extra off.
-Then should have capped off one end and filled the pipe with heavily compacted sand(would have reduced kinks, and maybe mad it easier and better shape). Then capped off the other
-Not sure if the flatness will help with heat dissipation since the tube is so small.
-Should have cut an angle on the ends of the tube and soldered on the inlet and outlet at 90 deg.

All in all, I learned a lot and still have that other half of piping , so maybe I might redo the pipe again down the road.

[5|*42]

How well does water run thought it? It's looks pretty restrictive. But I really like the idea, I hope it works out.

[flamerail]

Copper tube is hard to bend without kinking. I believe if you heat it to a really high temp it actually becomes very soft. Duno have to play with it and see what happiens :D