The reservoir sitting tight in the 5.25" bay. "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave." Eventually, I had have to take the reservoir back off for some minor modifications to the bay.


Here's a shot of ViperJohn's North Bridge chipset cooler. It's a great piece of work.


A shot of the inside. All smooth and coppery and stuff (:


Here's a picture of ViperJohn's mosfet heatsinks. That's a Koolance swivel angle barb lurking behind the heatsinks.

Next up is assembly!


This is the MCP chip cooler. These spring clamps are not easy to install.


To seat the 8800 properly, some the MCP fan fins had to be bent slightly.


This is the NB water block about to go in.


All the water blocks attached


A close-up of the cooling assembly.


Here's a look at the SLI water bridge. You can see that I used the 3603 lab tubing.


Here's the bit of modification I did to the 5.25" bay. I'll be mounting the pump through these holes.


Here's the underside of the pump. I used some double sided 3M foam tape as padding. It's also very handy at keeping the pump attached to the bay for mounting (:

After finishing up the install, it's time for the bleeding!


Here's a shot of the bleeding in progress


The reservoir


A closer look at the pump mounting. All that cabling has been tucked away (:

After a 14 hour bleeding and leak test, I assembled the parts together. The final results are below.





This is the messy side of the case (: I didn't do anything super special (other than tuck away wires and zip tie things in place). I just never get the opportunity to see this side of the case! On the wall is some Scott Kurtz and Frank Cho art. (;


Here she is in her native habitat! All spruced up and ready to go. On the wall is (the much better) art of my 6yo son. He free handed the African continent and filled in the names for the countries. Apparently, there are many pirate islands, sea serpents, and huge spiders surrounding the African continent.


The parting shot.