Paraflow antec 1200 change over

So I was looking back at the beginning of this log and it's crazy to see how far it's come so far. It's gone from this

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Well so this post is something other than reminiscing I do have some more info. Pedalmonkey is going to be buying my 4870x2, kb/m, monitor, and some of my spare fans from me. The plan now is to buy three 285GTX's for tri-sli, get a new monitor (either one with a built in webcam for college or a 2048x1152) get razer's wireless mouse and some keyboard I haven't decided on yet. So yeah, there I go again, spending more money but at least I'm not eating the whole cost of my other stuff.

woo, its like K-Mart to Gucci or Prada or what ever else u wana call high end. ooh good one for you. From Toyota to Lotus :P

That's my next major investment ;) ... in 20 years...

looking good bro! and tri sli 285! good plan... looking forward to that. :D

Yeah =) Tri SLI 285GTX's result in the highest FPS in games currently and will be better to over clock instead of two 4870X2's or two 295's. They scale better with three individual cards vs two dual ones. Also I do folding when I can and the 285's spank the 4870X2 so I think all around it's a better choice. Once I sell my stuff to pedalmonkey I'll buy one 285GTX, my 3 SSDs and my new PSU. My old PSU only had two 6 pin and two 8 pins which are great for two 4870X2's but I need 6 6pin for three 285's :)

So I was able to snag some dancer Marley from work yesterday and I'm going to cover almost the whole interior of my case with it as well as the front panel which I've already glued it to and cut to fit. I have pictures on my camera now to give you an idea of how freaking amazing it looks but my cable is at home (I'm at work) so I'll get them up tonight.

Small update. I mounted and wired the fans that fit on the 2.5" HDD bay. Wired them in a series so they'll get 6v each and even at 1/2 power those things push a lot of air! I'm surprised how much those 70mm fans can put out! And at 6v they really aren't that loud. 12v they're horrible but I'm not using them at that so it doesn't matter. Also I have a picture of the front of the case covered in some of the dancer marley that I got from work. Ignore the small bubble on the top left. It was a bit longer than the metal there but I fixed it. The whole inside of the case I'm going to line with that instead of the sound dampening material because it looks SOOOO much better. Once I cut the hole under my PSU and the other holes under my mobo I'll put everything back in with the marley so you guys can see.

PS. zipties are god

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EDIT: oh and I also got all the pumps wired together as well as the two radiators up front so there's a lot less cables coming from that direction.

Looking good :D

Damn bro, and who said at 1200 was a difficult case to mod :P

Just gets better and better eh..

This really is a pretty creative mod. You're definitely setting the bar pretty high for future 1200 mods!

Thank you everyone =) I haven't had a chance to work on it over the last few days because I was at Global at Red Rocks but today I'm going to cut a few more holes behind the mobo and once I get the $ from pedalmonkey tonight and give him his stuff then I'll pick up some contact adhesive so I can apply all the dancer marley where it needs to go and get the mobo back on. I think with the $ I get I'm going to get the rest of the LC stuff, my PSU, and a 285GTX so I can at least get it up and running. I can use my 250GB HDDs outside the case for now until I get enough for my SSDs

I can't beleive I've only just seen this worklog. (Just goes to show just how many quality liquid cooling worklogs there are over here at XS you tend to get bogged down in them!)

I like how you've adapted the paraflow for the 1200. I would have previously shunned this case as being unfit for anything but this is a nice build.

The paraflow concept from beast is such a great idea as well to be honest I'm a little surprised that more people haven't taken it up.

Thank you I'm glad you like my log :) Yeah when I started doing the whole paraflow idea in my case I was wondering the same thing. I mean it's a great space saver and there are quite a few people that put rads in their drive bays. They could fit twice the cooling power in the same space! Well hopefully more people will see this and more people will start using it. I just got money put in the bank today... now I need to wait for my debit card to come in the mail... ugh

Small update =)

Pictures of the harlequin installed

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applied on the back of the SLI bridge

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my new 27.5" LCD running on my Eee :rofl: the picture makes it look rather underwhelming but keep in mind that's a full tower not a mid tower it's next to

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Oh and yesterday I ordered 4 32GB SSDs, a PCI-E 8x controller, one of my 285 GTX's, my PSU, my keyboard and my mouse so that should all be here next Wednesday or Thursday. Oh and I also painted my HDD cage black FINALLY and drilled the mounting holes for it. I'm going to put those 4 SSDs in it that i just ordered in RAID 0 and then 5 500GB HDDs in RAID 5 for storage =) Anyway, that's about all I can do for now till my parts come. The only other case mod I need to do is drill a ~120mm hole bellow the PSU for air since i'm going to be flipping it upside down.

can i trade you monitors :P

That sort of seems backwards to me haha. I sell you my monitor, buy a new one for more, and then give you my new one and take back the old... I think not ;) I can't wait to see how my boot up time is and how much faster things run in general with my 4 SSDs! Anyway this is the RAID card I got but it was $80 less because it was open box.

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nice man, yeah give me a call when ur setting all that up, i'll come over at check it out. Finally u'll have a functioning comp so we can game and stuff. :D

Haha yeah although for now it will only be on air. At least till I get my next paycheck. I really don't have that much left. Only a few hundred to and then the rest is adding more video cards and ram and stuff which I can do at any point. I can't wait to get my stuff! I'm really curious to see how fast my read/write speeds are.

Alright well I got my parts and everything, they look sick. Went to start my comp and power through the mobo but it won't boot. Took it all out of the case, just ran GPU, CPU and one stick of RAM and nothing, no post or anything. So we put in a new video card and that didn't do jack :banana::banana::banana::banana: so my mobo is DOA... yeah that's great and all but I ordered it 3 months ago and now it's out of newegg's RMA time so I'm going to order a new mobo tomorrow because I want to get it put together before college... so yeah FML. I'll post up pics of the SSDs later though, they look amazing.

Alright so a update

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And I just ordered...

EVGA X58 SLI LE motherboard
3x MCW60-R
3x Swiftech 285GTX GPU cover
MCW30
AS5 thermal paste
Heatkiller LT with backplate
And another dimmer knob to use for my pumps

So once that all gets in THEN I will have my computer up and running... a few days before I go to college wooo

Tell me what you think of that keyboard, I have been using the new Apple one that is about the same shape, and I love it, but it doesn't have illuminated keys, so I was checking out that Logitech.

I still have yet to cut the front panel. I'm gong to have the air exhaust through that since the whole point of a paraflow is to keep the hot air out of the case and by adding that wall it helped achieve that as well. I'll figure out a way to keep it clean though don't you worry ;)

EDIT: oh and as far as the keyboard goes, I LOVE it so far. I haven't installed the drivers on anything yet because I don't have a computer where it will stay long enough but it's awesome.

Wow, I just stumbled upon this log. Subbed.

I really like the transformation from the beginning to teh end. At first, I was a little worried about how it would turn out, but it looks great now.

Thank you =) Yeah at the beginning it looked like crap haha. It's taking a while to get done but hey, at least it's getting done at all.

Congratulations on your build so far, I have read your work log from the start, as I wanted to learn more about "Paraflow". I don't understand either, as too why this concept is not more popular.
Keep chipping away at it and you will get there, well done mate:clap:

Thank you =) I'm glad people are still looking at it as I go along. I know it's a rather slow build but it's coming along. A HUGE chunk of it will get done Tuesday as that's when my new mobo and my blocks come in. THEN I will have it up and running and with all the loops as well. After that it's just adding more video cards and hard drives and getting the looks down just right basically.

Alright so just a heads up. I've gotten the rest of the parts I need to get it running, my 3 LC loops are going but the heatsink for my video card is for the original 285GTX so I need to wait for the new revision version to come out. I got my front panel on and it's all looking good. My temps aren't spectacular ~40C idle and 65C load so I'm looking into what I can do for that and at some point I'm going to get the full cover mobo block that EK just came out with for my board but I'm officially broke now so I can't do much. I'll upload pics either tonight or tomorrow when I get back home.

EDIT: oh and my SSDs are getting 430MB/s read speed ;)

read your other post about improving your temps. Where's your mobo loop (rad, pump, res) mounted? I love your "paraflow"idea for the 320s, but must have missed where the MCR220 loop for your mobo went.

Specs of what you have and the GTs for comparison. The GTs are probably lower CFM, but don't forget many people report the GTs quieter than their dBA rating as their tone isn't as obvious.

• Scynthe Sflex SFF21G
  1,900rpm: 0.24 A - 35 dBA - ?? m³/h - 75 cfm
  
• Scynthe Gentle Typhoon D1225C12B5AP-15
  1,850 rpm: 0.083 A - 28 dBA - 98 m³/h - 58cfm (unsure on official cfm)

As for other changes? I'd say remounting with different amounts of grease, or trying a newer TIM. What's the ambient temperature your radiators are pulling in?

Here's where I have the raid mounted for the mobo loop (really old pic in the work log)

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When I get my comp back to my house and take pics and stuff I'll try remounting the block and using different amount of TIM and see if that helps my temps at all. I ordered the rev2 heatsink cover for my 285GTX last night as well so that should be here next week before I head off to college (I hope...) and then I can have all the stuff LCd in my case. I'm not sure when I can order new fans so these will need to do for now =/ Anyway thanks for the help and I'll get pics up tonight of what's done so far.

Alright just an update to show you guys how it looks right now. Ignore the fan with a missing blade I'm going to replace them all soon anyway. The heatsink for the GTX285 is coming Wednesday so when i get that put on I'll take some better ones.

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Those Antec gamer cases, they look big but they're actually not...I'm impressed you managed to squeeze all that stuff in there, cool stuff.

Thanks =) Yeah it really isn't all that big. Other full size gaming cases are about 4-6" deeper, 1" wider and 2-4" taller which isn't a whole lot but it would have made a huge difference.

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Thanks =) Yeah it really isn't all that big. Other full size gaming cases are about 4-6" deeper, 1" wider and 2-4" taller which isn't a whole lot but it would have made a huge difference.

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Looks great man! I was just thinking that the case looks really tall, but I guess that is just because it isn't very deep

Thank you =) I still have a lot of tweaking to do but it's getting there. It is a very shallow case which made things cramped with the reservoirs. Check out the tubing between the res's and the pumps and how the video card needs to fit between them haha.

Nice how you were able to execute on your concept... can't believe how you fit 3 loops into that case...

One question though which I might have missed, are you missing a fan blade on the top most fan? :shrug:

Yeah I broke it off on accident. I'm replacing the fans soon hopefully so it doesn't really matter. Doesn't make it any louder

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Yeah I broke it off on accident. I'm replacing the fans soon hopefully so it doesn't really matter. Doesn't make it any louder

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IC.... how's that LE board working out for you? Any plans to add the EK fullcover block for it?

The board's great. I love the color only thing that's sort of annoying is that there is only one 16x slot, two 8x slots and a 4x slot and I want to do tri SLI with a RAID card so I need to see if my RAID card will run with 4x because otherwise I'm doing tri SLI with 16X, 8X and 4X... and yes, I'm getting the full board block right after I get the fans

So an update, just ordered 8 of the Gentle Typhoon high speeds (not ultra-high speed). I figured I would rather it be 8db's quieter than to have the extra 8 or 9 cfm so those are going to be shipped to my dorm. Also performance-pcs messed up and sent me a danger-den full cover block instead of just the heatsink for the MCW60 so I got it for $40 instead of $150 which was nice haha. but I like the full cover block better because it leaves the next PCI slot open, with the MCW60's it gets blocked so I think I'm going to sell my MCW60's and get full cover blocks for the rest when I get them. Well I'm broke again so once I get the fans I'm done for a while. I'll get more pics up once I get that all put in.

Wow, that looks absolutely amazing, wish I had the guts to go watercooling and the dremel skills to take on a task like that. Great work!

Thank you =) So I was trying to figure out why my CPU loop water is blue and all the others weren't and it just hit me, I used that radiator in my original setup where I had a :banana::banana::banana::banana:ton of blue die in it. I'll flush it out at some point. Once I get my fans in I need to reseat the CPU and GPU block and also fix the power cable for my SSDs because the RAID array keeps being broken and my RAID card freaks out and starts beeping loudly. It worked fine when I had each drive plugged in on it's own with the stock power cables out of the PSU but the molex to 4 SATA cable thing I made doesn't seem to work for very long.

So I got my fans in the mail but guess what... my PSU is dead YAY!!! -_- I won't be able to get this running any time soon it looks like. Anyone want to buy it off of me? Everything works but the PSU and I'll get the fans installed. Specs are in sig PM if interested.

Awesome job !

Really nice build. I sent it to a friend, he juste ordered some WC parts and he want good idea !

Great job! :)

This is by far the most extreme setup i've seen on an Antec 1200 and it is totally awesome. You should consider working for Antec or something .... you powned their design!

What would it take if I wanted to mount a 360 rad to the top of the Antec 1200? Is there any way based on what you've seen to mount on the existing hardware, or do I have to create a custom piece for it.

Hey wow, I'm glad people are still looking at this topic even though I finished all I could and sold the computer a while ago haha. Well from what I was looking at you could mount a 320 RAID in the top but it would be strange... Mainly because there's that giant 220mm fan that's already there so there would be gaps on either side of the raid if you took that fan out and put in your own and because there is a plastic top over the metal so it looks "better" and there's about an inch gap between the two so you need to cut two things..... so a short answer would be no, it's not worth you time.