Case Design for Liquid Cooling

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1. the front intake fan is hrm .. too large .. somehow i looks bit rude and the circular mesh doesn not suit it .. how bout make it 120mm with the grill-like look added to the mesh?

Hehe, the original design he had for this had a 120mm in front and people suggested it get changed

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5. i think the ventilation is going to be a problem ... intake 140mm .. outtake 120mm? maybe you could incorporate another 120mm at the top of the mobo?

If you are watercooling the machine, the only source of heat in there will be the hard drives and possibly the chipset. I doubt even a pair of 120mm fans is inadequate for that, and this already does better

6. the PSU slot .. the bottom suspending the psu .. i think it should be splitted to 2 bars only placed parallel side by side left & right (not front back) .. you might not know if you wish to place the psu bottom air intake

Very true, I also had suggested this gets turned 90 degrees to allow people to stuff extra cabling in the cavity, your idea would work better than mine !

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Then there are people who would look at your 2 500GB raid0 storage volume and cringe at how there is not some form of redundancy there.

I have a RAID0 stripe of two 500GB drives ? Mind telling me where it is ? because I never knew I had one.

Separating it all into two devices wouldn't save me anything, the HDD's themselves don't use much power at all.

Except that a large storage machine is kept up all the time to allow all the users on the network to access it. Which takes less power, a small dedicated NAS box, or an overclocked, triple SLI, watercooled, machine with a dozen fans and lights and such ? My point was that you could now shut off the 180Watt power hog of a gaming machine, and leave just the 35Watt NAS up and running.