Watercooling with zero case cutting (56k beware)

Its been such an upgrade marathon this past six months, that I realized I had enough parts to build a second pc. I got the motivation after buying the case at a local fair this past weekend. The pump is an mcp350 cooled by a BIX. The blocks are my own design. The cpu cooler is one of my oldest designs, and is partly made from silver. With a little minor dremel work, and some sheet metal from a local hardware store, I managed not to butcher the case at all.

4400x2
A8n-sli
1GB pc3200 XMS
nvidia 6200

right now Im at:

2.5GHz 1.45v (32*/40*C, ambient 30*C)
250x10, 2-3-3-5 (5/6 divider)

This is by far the quietest pc I have ever built. Besides the psu fans which are practically silent, there are only 2 120mm fans. (the one on the BIX is an AC fan that pushes 150cfm) I have had this cpu running at 2.7 on the same board, but not on the current psu(antec550 20pin). Hopefully a bargain somewhere will surface.

nice

Very clean. Like the way you tied off the tubing along the top instead of just letting it hang.

I like the way you mounted the rad. So simple yet I have not seen it done before.

yeah that a good way to install the rad... different, but technicaly the same as i did in my stacker.
Nice tubing harnesses.
One question, where is the pump? Maybe i am missing something, but how did you manage a 655 in two 3.5" bays?

Senater_Cache said:

yeah that a good way to install the rad... different, but technicaly the same as i did in my stacker.
Nice tubing harnesses.
One question, where is the pump? Maybe i am missing something, but how did you manage a 655 in two 3.5" bays?

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its not the 655 but the 350... wish i could find a place that carries harreness/mount for a rad like that.. that would be a hell of lot easier then in fan holders in the case....

looks more like 3 bays...

Well done. I like the way you mounted the rad, ive never seen a mount like that before. The wiring job is pretty nice too. Again, great job.

nice job super clean ++

What waterblock is that? Interesting mounting too.

Very clean setup.