Well once again I find myself building a new case.
I started out wanting to keep everything running nice and cool. I of course knew that I was going to go with a water setup for this but I didn't want to run into the problem of needing to start all over again once I exceeded the abilities of my current loop.
I came up with this little idea which I will admit contains some "over building". It has plenty of fans and plenty of rads (I hope).
Well as you can imagine during my process of thinking this out a few questions came up, that is why I am here.
I have no idea how to describe what it is I want to do with words so I broke out the copy of 3ds max and tossed together a basic model of what I am thinking.
This model will not accurately depict what the case will look like cosmetically and some of the sizes are a bit off but this should show you the placement of all of the items and show you what it is that I am trying to do.
Any help that you can give me is appreciated, I would also like to hear peoples opinions on this as well.
Well here it is: (click on the thumbnail for larger pic)
This is the case exterior. The "grilles" will not really look like that but it is a representation to show you guys where everything is. I know some things are missing but you guys know where all of the different things plug in at, no need for me to draw it all out.
Well here is a look at the inside. As you can see not everything is the perfect size (pumps for example).
Ok, the idea here is to separate the PSU, HDDs and rads from the MoBo and all attached items.
Also as you can see there are 3 rads. The ones that I will be using are the MCR-320s. I plan to put either 88CFM Yate Loons or 110CFM Skythe Slipstreams on them.
You don't see it in the pics but the HDDs will have a shroud around them to draw the air across the entire length of them and on out of the case. The PSU is below the HDDs.
Right now I am planning on 2 MCP-655 pumps. The first pump will push the water through the blocks and on to the second pump that will push it through the rads. Is this a sufficient amount of pumps?
The doors (case sides) will open in a "gull wing" style there by allowing the hoses to not be greatly effected when opening (it will also use the power of gravity to drain the loop when needed).
I will be using a T-line to fill but it is a threaded T-line that I will hook a res up to when filling and the pump should do the rest (standard res feeding the pump, pump filling the loop way of doing it).
I know that I should not need 3 rads but I want to be able to add what ever to my loop and not see any real difference in temperatures (meaning that if I upgrade to SLI/crossfire or decide to cool the NB or what ever else on the board with water I want the system to be able to handle it). This also goes to say that I want to loop to be able to handle OCing and what ever else may come put in the next couple of years or so as far as CPUs.
All fans will be a minimum of 88CFM and if they aren't 88CFM they will be 110CFM (except maybe the PSU fan).
I am not overly worried about the noise with this case but I will probably put fan controllers in there just to turn the fans down when the computer is sitting at idle over night. I am also not really worried about the size so much, it will be on casters so moving it will not be a big issue (it is 56cm wide, 43cm tall and 45cm long if I recall correctly). I am however considering making it a bit longer to give a pit more room to the PSU, it may also get a little taller if I need to add a second PSU to power the cooling system alone (something that I will need your advice on, no idea what sort of PSU it would take to reliably power this whole thing so I will probably end up going with 2). I could move the HDDs to the front to save on the need to make it taller if I do this.
Keep in mind that there are 6 fans up top that you can not see (on the Mobo side they will be exhaust, on the rad side they will either push air in or just not have any fans there and let the fans inside pull the air in). Looking at a total of 22+ fans so far but that may change a bit.
Case material will largely be wood and acrylic, the grilles will probably either be metal or some sort of fabric/wood combination, what ever I find that will work well and be ascetically pleasing (suggestions on this are welcome).
Well I guess that is it really.
Feel free to ask questions, give advice/opinions or just leave your thoughts. I am sure that I did not think of everything and that there is room for improvement in this.
Good day everyone.
I started out wanting to keep everything running nice and cool. I of course knew that I was going to go with a water setup for this but I didn't want to run into the problem of needing to start all over again once I exceeded the abilities of my current loop.
I came up with this little idea which I will admit contains some "over building". It has plenty of fans and plenty of rads (I hope).
Well as you can imagine during my process of thinking this out a few questions came up, that is why I am here.
I have no idea how to describe what it is I want to do with words so I broke out the copy of 3ds max and tossed together a basic model of what I am thinking.
This model will not accurately depict what the case will look like cosmetically and some of the sizes are a bit off but this should show you the placement of all of the items and show you what it is that I am trying to do.
Any help that you can give me is appreciated, I would also like to hear peoples opinions on this as well.
Well here it is: (click on the thumbnail for larger pic)
This is the case exterior. The "grilles" will not really look like that but it is a representation to show you guys where everything is. I know some things are missing but you guys know where all of the different things plug in at, no need for me to draw it all out.
Well here is a look at the inside. As you can see not everything is the perfect size (pumps for example).
Ok, the idea here is to separate the PSU, HDDs and rads from the MoBo and all attached items.
Also as you can see there are 3 rads. The ones that I will be using are the MCR-320s. I plan to put either 88CFM Yate Loons or 110CFM Skythe Slipstreams on them.
You don't see it in the pics but the HDDs will have a shroud around them to draw the air across the entire length of them and on out of the case. The PSU is below the HDDs.
Right now I am planning on 2 MCP-655 pumps. The first pump will push the water through the blocks and on to the second pump that will push it through the rads. Is this a sufficient amount of pumps?
The doors (case sides) will open in a "gull wing" style there by allowing the hoses to not be greatly effected when opening (it will also use the power of gravity to drain the loop when needed).
I will be using a T-line to fill but it is a threaded T-line that I will hook a res up to when filling and the pump should do the rest (standard res feeding the pump, pump filling the loop way of doing it).
I know that I should not need 3 rads but I want to be able to add what ever to my loop and not see any real difference in temperatures (meaning that if I upgrade to SLI/crossfire or decide to cool the NB or what ever else on the board with water I want the system to be able to handle it). This also goes to say that I want to loop to be able to handle OCing and what ever else may come put in the next couple of years or so as far as CPUs.
All fans will be a minimum of 88CFM and if they aren't 88CFM they will be 110CFM (except maybe the PSU fan).
I am not overly worried about the noise with this case but I will probably put fan controllers in there just to turn the fans down when the computer is sitting at idle over night. I am also not really worried about the size so much, it will be on casters so moving it will not be a big issue (it is 56cm wide, 43cm tall and 45cm long if I recall correctly). I am however considering making it a bit longer to give a pit more room to the PSU, it may also get a little taller if I need to add a second PSU to power the cooling system alone (something that I will need your advice on, no idea what sort of PSU it would take to reliably power this whole thing so I will probably end up going with 2). I could move the HDDs to the front to save on the need to make it taller if I do this.
Keep in mind that there are 6 fans up top that you can not see (on the Mobo side they will be exhaust, on the rad side they will either push air in or just not have any fans there and let the fans inside pull the air in). Looking at a total of 22+ fans so far but that may change a bit.
Case material will largely be wood and acrylic, the grilles will probably either be metal or some sort of fabric/wood combination, what ever I find that will work well and be ascetically pleasing (suggestions on this are welcome).
Well I guess that is it really.
Feel free to ask questions, give advice/opinions or just leave your thoughts. I am sure that I did not think of everything and that there is room for improvement in this.
Good day everyone.