Phase changing Lian Li V2010B
I decided to buy myself a phase change unit to cool my Intel 980x processor, but it had to fit in my case. I already modded my V2010 to be inverted like the V2000 edition (witch wasn't available anymore - would have saved me lots of work ;))
I had a dual wc loop in my system with a 360 and a 240 rad in the bottom. 2 x D5 pump and the power supply. I needed to change that into a phase change unit from LittleDevil and get all of the other stuff in there.
This is how the case looked like before modding it (again :D). It is an old picture with my old motherboard (bloodrage) and other graphics card (GTX480).
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After measuring everything I realized that the bottom part wasn't high enough for the phase change unit, but I had about 5 cm space left in the top half.
The solution was simple. Make a new backplate and middle plate. Place the middle plate +-4 cm higher and it would fit.
Making the new plates was easy. I had already rebuild the plates on my last mod, so I could just take them out, draw the outline on a new piece of metal, measure everything and place it 4 cm higher.
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On this picture you can see the new mid plate (without support) and the back plate.
When I did this, I realized that the drive bay holders wouldn't fit anymore since they would be too long. I would have to cut them.
My initial plan was to place the 240 radiator in the drive bays, and my power supply behind the phase unit. There was not enough space however to place the power supply behind the unit, so I had to come up with another plan.
Now the idea was to place the power supply in the drive bays, but then I had to cut the drive bay holding plates just under the cd-rom. Otherwise the power supply would not fit. This brought a new problem. The front grills from the drive bays are held in place using the holding plates.
I cut the grill holders off and glued them directly on the case using epoxy. This was also a good thing, cause now they couldn't move anymore so I could just fill the gaps between them with bondo and make it look like it's just 1 big piece.
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Then I made the hole in the mid plate so the cables from the power supply could go trough and could be routed in the bottom part of the case.
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Finally I bought a new 140 radiator to place behind the phase change unit, ordered some Scythe slipstream 140 mm fan's and placed them on the rad and on the phase change unit (original fan was way to loud! - new units from little devil are much better!)
This is what it looked like so far:
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Then I connected all the wc parts, placed the LCD display from the phase change unit in the case and started testing the case for 1 week.
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