[Valk]

Finally got around to doing this project up. baught a cheap $15 jigsaw and cut out the hole I needed.
I posted about this over at the alternative modding section but maybe you would all like to see how i did.
I also wanna say this... Anyone who complains about a V1200 being too small to watercool can come see me.

I have watercooled two SFF rigs now. a micro atx tower and this one all with 1/2" tubing.

Parts
The cooling
- Apogee 1U 775
- Aquaextreme MP-01
- Liang D5
- BIP3 Black
- 3x Panaflo 1J Medium speed fans
- 7ft Masterkleer 1/2/ x 7/8
- 20 Stainless Worm clamps
- Brass hose coupler for a T cap
- Black Poly T
- 4 Copper 5/8 Elbows
- Lian Li PC-V600 Black

The Gear
- Intel Pentium E2160 SLA3H-L2 Conroe 1mb
- XFX nVidia 650i Ultra
- 2gb Corsair PC2-5400 4-4-4-13
- GeForce 7900GT

the hole





the hole round two after none of my screwholes lined up.



there are 4 CU right angles in this loop. bet you cant find the 4th one.





that is an apogee 1U for 775. the only block that would fit without getting highly restrictive 90s. like, moreso restrictive than the 90s already in there.

Fully assembled for initial testing. i ran the pump overnight with no fans, but woke up and wired the thing. its very quiet minus some motor noise from the fans.



OC testing will still be to come. Ive had some issues with high fsb on my motherboard, but it ran 3.2 with 1600 fsb decently. using the 8x multi. takes about 1.56 volts to do that kinda fsb, and my board has wicked vdroop so i gotta mod it. pushing 1.6 leaves it with liek 1.54 which wont be enough to find the chips top end. i left it running orth at 3.45@1540 fsb and came back to it rebooted, so who knows.

even with that stupid high voltage, and my gpu in there, she runs 51 per core which is decent i guess. My opteron with RBX was a lot cooler running but i guess intels are particularly hot either way you slice it.

im going to florida for a few weeks, so i wont be able to really mess with it this weekend, but ill come back and break it some more.

[Clockwork_Apple]

Nice setup, looks cramped as hell - must of been a nightmare getting it all in. Good work

I'm guessing the 4th right-angle is behind the drive bay, just left of the T-Line? although that bend could of easily been made without it

[Valk]

actully no, cause im running the tubing through a holethats in the bay. the tubing would crimp mad if i tried to do that.getting it in there wasnt really so bad at all. I assembled it in sections and it went somewhat smoothly.

[webdevour]

It actually doesn't look that cramped in there, especially consdering you don't really need that great of airflow anymore. I hope to build something along these lines with the APlus Black Pearl case.

[Valk]

ill add another fan in the front and i might do something for the northbridge too. the panaflo's have a little bit of winding noise which kinda sucks but meh. they are quiet otherwise. certainly better than it was stock.

ah well. thats not untill i get back. sweating it up in florida atm.

[{PMS}fishy]

Does it look possible to fit a standard apogee in there, or should I just order a 1U version?

[extraoddsnends]

sweet rig man I love that

[FallenCow]

Nice build! Don't see too many Apogee 1Us in use.

[Valk]

no standard waterblock will fit down there with the exception of MAYBE a GTX.you might get your tubing to bend enough but then you will be messing with your clamp pressure. I took my angles out and trie to string the tubing over the ram, which it does, but puts pressure on it. so i wouldnt recommend that either.
Get some copper angle fittings with less than 90deg angle. I know they make them, like 20deg span or somthing.

that way you will clear the ram of most mobo's just fine.

next rig for me is in a v300b, which is only a little bigger than an xqpack. ill probably use a apogee drive for that, but its good, since i wanna test one of those out, for potential use in a xbox360.

havent been on a lot lately though, sorry guys. baught a car and been over at the mazda forums for a lot of my free time. Wanna mod the car so bad, but kinda thinking of selling it for a 5 spd, then modding that... grrr. decisions decisions. more fun for the like 10% of driving conditions i can enjoy it, or the comfort of my morning coffee in bumper gridlock at the ungodly am.

[{PMS}fishy]

Humm, maybe Ill try an apogee drive.

Can you get more pictures of how this all fits. Is it possible to sneak a shot between the PSU & the water block?

[Suprchargd]

Nice setup, I'm surprised it all fit.

[Valk]

sorry for the crumby pic. this little camera doesnt do so well at this kinda stuff i guess.
*misses casio with messloads of manual *****



and a pic of how its situated atm.

illl pull the rig if you guys wanna see some more in depth pics of the plumbing. I redid the whole thing so it looks much cleaner and i can... ZOMG TAKE MY MOBO OUT =O.

as for it fitting. thats never really an issue. this tubing can bend all kinds of crazy good and the components REALLY arent that big. Im running a tripple rad, one of the best pumps and cool everything important without issue. i can still add drives and cards, just cant have a second gpu and a sound card together is all.
not that my 7900 has any difficulty with the krpgs i play heh.

[{PMS}fishy]

I have an mcp350, mcw60, & an apogee drive to try out. There looks to be enough room for the pump/block, and with the angled barbs it should work out nice.

Thats for the pictures, and wow, its way smaller than I thought it was.

[Valk]

yea but... come on. compared to my old rig, that isnt bad <_<



the apogee drive should perform much like a mcp350/apogee setup. they are the two mashed together. probably wont hold a quad without mass radage, but will handle a moderatly oc'd setup with gpu just fine.

funny you say the case is small. i find it kinda big. but my next case will probably be bigger, stacker styled.