Lian-Li X1000 Watercooling Project (lotsa pics)

Hey all, just wanted to show off a simple watercooling project I completed this past weekend. I Upgraded to a Core i7 and at the same time got a new case, so along with it I had to redo my watercooling. My previous two watercooled cases were a Lian Li A77 and a G70 before that. Both were single loop with a Thermochill 120.3, EK Tube Res, MCP655, and varying CPU/GPU waterblocks. The new setup will be dual independent loops. The new setup is pretty tight in the Lian Li X1000, as it's not exactly made for watercooling. With the 140mm fans, seperated cooling zones, and generally space efficient nature, this is probably one of the best cases for air cooling, but I wanted to watercool it anyway. I also wont be using any dyes in this project, firstly for a modding theme I will be doing later, but lastly because of some nastiness I found in my old waterblock (I'll show some pictures in another thread.)

The new watercooling components:
-XSPC Dual Laing DDC BayRes
-2x MCP355
-Black Ice 140.2 (cpu loop)
-Swiftech Apogee XT
-Black Ice 140.1 (gpu loop)

The new computer parts:
Lian Li X1000
Gigabyte X58A-UD5 (Socket 1366)
Intel Core i7-930 (2.8 GHz)
G.Skill DDR3-1600 3x2GB

The carried over parts:
EVGA GTX 260 w/ EK Full Cover Waterblock (soon to be upgraded to GTX 470 hopefully)
bluegears bEnspirer Sound Card
Intel G2 80GB SSD
Samsung 1.5TB HDD x 3
WD Cavier Black 1TB x 3
Antec Signature 850Watt PSU

Component pictures are below, assembly pictures with comments are after!

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And more...

This will be the least amount of modding I've done on a case in a long time, as the two previous cases I had to mod for the radiator fans. Before, after, and the plan.

Pump tops removed and mounted on the reservoir.

Motherboard components assembled, mounted. If you look closely in the second picture you can see where I forgot to remove the plastic from the bottom of the waterblock. Fortunately it's one of the things I check before I boot up for the first time, and I caught it.

Tubes! Everywhere!

A little wire modding was in order. The power connectors were too spaced out and the hard drives too close. I've done this type of wire modding before, and it really cleans it up.

I also ordered some nice rounded SATA3.0 cables to replace the flat ones that I've come to hate for wire routing. The heads turned out to be too thick for the stacked 90 degree connectors on my motherboard. So out with the razor and they lost a little weight.

All done... for now...

Some more...

To Do:
-Mesh fingerguard for the back of the 140.1 radiator
-Overclocking my i7-930!
-Custom window and etching mod
-Lighting
-Speed Control the pumps

Thanks for checking out my project!

JudgeDredd said:

This will be the least amount of modding I've done on a case in a long time, as the two previous cases I had to mod for the radiator fans. Before, after, and the plan.

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Cutting out holes for the fittings and mounting the rad on the outside is genius. Might have to steal your idea next time I build a rig.

mrgettmann said:

Cutting out holes for the fittings and mounting the rad on the outside is genius. Might have to steal your idea next time I build a rig.

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Thanks! It helps if the radiator is nicely painted and all, and once I get the mesh made for the back it'll look even nicer.

great job and love the goodies!

Good Job so far....can't wait to see the rest of your upgrades and mods...and the final finish...

Nice Case! Lots of Room!

AHHH YES! Finally SOMEONE I can ask that is using the XSPC Bay Res Two!!!

That's some really nice work. Very impressive!

Thanks all for the comments.

Gwiggles said:

AHHH YES! Finally SOMEONE I can ask that is using the XSPC Bay Res Two!!!

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Ask away.

Nice looking build. I like the time you took to do it right. Nice job... I like.