1st H20 ProjeKt - Antec P180 -

[DoggRoger]

I decided to move to water cooling after deciding to WC a couple GTX 480's. So I have little modding experience, and no WCing experiencing, but I think I did my homework well enough to piece together a decent couple of loops.

Im going to let the pictures do most of the talking on this one, but I felt that my Antec P180 was ready for a makeover.. There is a certain satisfaction you get when an outdated case becomes viable again.

So the challenge I had was to not use any rotary fittings and planning how was I going to fit 2x120.3 rads, and 1 120.2 rads in this case and still have effective airflow.. It only took me a couple of minutes to decide that I had no problem looking at the rad's outside the case.. and thus the work had begun.

I will be updating the original post with pictures on a regular basis until all is completed.

In The Beginning...




Jigsaw + Dremel + Dreaming










Have not put rubber in for the grill yet, just getting a feel.







Some of the guts, and overall theme





So do you notice I had to mounted the LC horizontally as I found the block to be resting on the caps which EVGA placed right next to the CPU socket when mounted vertically. If this creates a temperature problem I will be switching out the block.






So during the dissembling of the reference cooler on 1 of the GTX480's a screw got stripped so bad I had to revert to a dremel and eventually a drill to get the screw out of the card and heat sink.. "No GTX 480's, or heatsinks were harmed in this process." ".



Pump used for CPU/NB/SB/Vreg loop

Pump for the GPU's





First flush of the MCR320

First flush of the TFC X360

First flush of the MCR220

Odd Modz


This will make more sense later into the build - basically it's my my MCP355 will rest in the drive bay.



The paint is safe for Arcrylics, I just could not justify the extra cash for the Black/Metal BP T's, I think these will work fine, 4 were painted, only 3 shown, these are the T's I will convert to elbows and will be using for my GPU blocks.

They came out perfect... Except I wont be using them and I have some BP Black metal T's on the way as I did not want to stand the risk of the Acrylics cracking over time which I have seen they can

The Metal T's came in today, I was stoked when I saw the package.





The start of some custom air boxes/shrouds











And.. They're Done!! - Finally I can start system assembly!








CPU Loop is finished - the rest coming soon.















Received the rest of my parts today 5/4/10














Added my T line.. I might change this around depending on how well it functions



Never mind the dust, I still have to blow this system out



Thanks again for the comments guys, next is cable management



So I have been holding out on this idea until I had it almost finish. Basically I am using removable plates so I can make any logo I want. I designed this H2O plate and had a friend laser cut the plate for me. I plan to make a [H] one, and may get more creative.. So I am holding it on with velcro. The images are an idea of how it will look. I got some plexi which I painted white on one side and left clear on the other. I plan to have 4 green LED's shining into it to create a green glow. The resivoirs are also going to be glowing green. The images here are only a piece of white film with some gren LED's behind it to give it the effect I wanted. Also, no cable management has been performed yet.













Almost finished but still have to make it more tidy.

Sorry no temps yet, still havn't powered the board up yet.. currently waiting on Performance PC's to send me my res for the GPU loop. I have about an hour a day to spend on this due to the "not spending enough time" with the girl.. (grrr) I did manage to get some of the cable management done though.