ReD.SkY's Mountainmods/Swiftech/Thermochill Build

[ReD.SkY]

Well, the time has come, where big cube cases, and watercooling have met their enemy... ME!

Thats right, i will attempt the very easy but still quite enjoyable task of yet another U2-UFO Build.

Parts involved:
Mountainmods Black Powdercoated Original top U2-UFO Case.
8 x Yate Loons Silent fans :)
A buttload of screws
An endless amount of sleeving
4 x UV Cold Cathode
2 x Red Cold Cathode

Watercooling components:
Swiftech Storm Rev.2
Swiftech MCW-60 w/ Sinks
Swiftech MCW-30
Swiftech MCRES-MICRO
Thermochil PA120.3
Alphacool DDC+ Ultra
7/16ID 5/8OD Masterkleer

System Specs:
Conroe E6400
Asus P5B-Dlx
Team-Xtreem DDR2 667 2GB Memory
ATI X1900XTX
Hitachi 2 x 80GB SATA2 in Raid0
Silverstone ST60F Modular PSU w/ Yate Loon
Sunbeam Rheobus
2 DVD Burners.
DigiDoc 5 (Black)



Pics Time!
{NOTE} Still Under Construction


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This will be the look on your face when this is finished:

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[septim]

lolz, seems almost finished to me...

[CedricFP]

Good work... I love the case!

[ReD.SkY]

trust me, its not finished ;)

[qwerty69]

Nice work you got there. :)

I like the fan covers/filters you used. Makes the external appearance looks alot better than the original Mountainmods fangrill look.

[virtualrain]

Man, doing water cooling in a UFO case is too damn easy! :) There's enough space in there for a small beer fridge too! :toast2:

The wiring is incredibly well done - I can't see it! (Although I'm guessing you haven't got much wired up yet).

[Alchemy1]

Looks good. Is that the "used" case you got from MM a while back?

[vudoodoodoo]

That pump sitting above the PSU looks scary.

[nealh]

where are the EK barbs?

[Herr Brun]

How was mounting the nb block?

[syne_24]

god i hate that stock screws on the storm. PITA everytime I swear! Nice build Red. :)

[UnreaL]

god i hate that stock screws on the storm. PITA everytime I swear! Nice build Red. :)

Agreed! My experience limited to the Swiftech MCW60, but I hated the mounting to such an extent I have moved back to the AquaXtreme MP-1 I originally had, which is built soooo much better! Little bit more restrictive but so worth it!

Infact I should have got some pictures I have remounted my MP-1 about 10 times without any damage to GPU, perhaps this makes me less caucious but there is marking to the core from a single mount with the MCW60, the design is that bad its almost unbelievable. The new mounting is only just getting near the MP-1's standard.

[ShoNuff]

Nice!!! Glad to see you got your case and conroe set up.

[SiGfever]

Looks kinda familiar....:D


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[nealh]

Agreed! My experience limited to the Swiftech MCW60, but I hated the mounting to such an extent I have moved back to the AquaXtreme MP-1 I originally had, which is built soooo much better! Little bit more restrictive but so worth it!

Infact I should have got some pictures I have remounted my MP-1 about 10 times without any damage to GPU, perhaps this makes me less caucious but there is marking to the core from a single mount with the MCW60, the design is that bad its almost unbelievable. The new mounting is only just getting near the MP-1's standard.

they changed the mounting less than a month after I bought my MCW60...sucked

[thunderstruck!]

Don't forget to use clamps. Even though 7/16 on 1/2 is snug, the hot water in the loop can expand the tubing a bit and it may slip off. It happened to a friend of mine after not having clamps on for a year!

[ReD.SkY]

i put clamps on before i filled the setup lol

no, this case is new (but was damaged so i got it hella cheap)

i dont trust the ek barbs on my mcw60... i took apart the setup, but it untwisted itself lol that was scary ..... plus i didnt have enough of thm and i wanted it all to look uniform

overall, the mcw60 setup isnt as easy as the maze4/MP-1, but it looks cleaner when its done.

the MCW30 mounted just like you would mount any waterblock onto a 939 socket, just 2 screws.

The storm r.2 is awesome lol quality is amazing :)





and no, the psu wires arent in yet lol....

[J-Mag]

them fans look familiar ;)

[ReD.SkY]

hell yah ;)

actually, i think one of them died lol,one on my rad isnt working, and i have no idea why... then i broke a connector on another one, so i might end up needing 3 more fans lol (3rd is because i ended up putting a fan in my psu so my 2nd top blowhole has no fan

[J-Mag]

Well I will be getting in some of the D12SM and D12SL's in a couple weeks...

[ReD.SkY]

ok sounds good :)

[Patriote]

Nice Set-up!

[septim]

if only it wouldn't cost to much to ship an MM case to the phil...
maybe next year...