** CM 690 -> PC 7B Worklog **

[taylormsj]

Hello

I bought myself a Lian li PC - 7B to swap from a CM 690

The coolermaster is an amazing case, but i want something that looks a bit nicer, something smaller that i can keep my loop internal for (as i attened more lan's now'adays.) Plus my external mount of my CM 690 is fugly.

My old set up



This is what i plan to do...



I recieved the case yesterda, and since then i have abeen a busy bee

We start with a stealth bay





I havent decided where to mount the switch yet, any suggestions??

Now for cable holes. I created a large hole to route power cables behind the mobo tray area, along with a smaller hole to route my 4 pin ATX power connector.



I also made two holes for front panel connectors and USB headers. These are pretty tatty, but i think small holes are hard to make with a dremel, the motherboard will cover most of the mess anyway



I have also sleeved the front panel connectors and some fans
NOTE, the front grill for the intake fan is gone





And the main bulk of the work i have completed is a top blow hole and fill port.





Thats all i have done so far.

I now need to go about cutting the bottom of the case to fit my MCR 320 radiator, its going to be tight, but im hopefull it will fit

I also want to cut myself a simple square transparent window soon.

The one thing that is going to make my scratch my head is mounting my pump, the barbs on the top of the pump and my radiator wont be flush i dont think

I also want to decide on what i want to do about a fan controller.

This is my previous one i made, with toggle switches.



However i dont realy want to use these for this case, i want to keep it stealthed, hence the stealth drive.

Any suggestions on this problem would be appreciated, as well as any other comments

I will update sooon.....

Taylormsj


EDIT

I got bored of waiting for comments so i marked out the radiator cut, anyone see anything wrong with it??




EDIT April 30th

Got home this afternoon and cut out the radiator hole. Its going to be a very tight fit, but it will fit, if my cuts are accurate

There wont be enough room at the fron for an intake fan, but i may have an idea of getting it to fit there....


Please dont flame me for the rough cuts, its not going to be visible so i didnt spend my time making it look pretty









It is annoying, i want to put the radiator in there along with the pump to work some stuff out, but its being used on my computer and i dont want to have to drain it tonight

More updates soon (Friday hopefully)

Comments?

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EDIT MAY 01

I spent all of yesterday afternoon setting this all up, and its done

I cant belive how long it takes to fill a system running off a t line Took me the best part of an hour

Here are some pictures. I forgot to flush my stuff, so i still have some feser black that has turned my distilled water a purple colour, i dont hate it though







And here is the most troublesome part of the build, however, this is not kinked and provides excelent flow it seems, im confident it should be fine









It was a real tight fit getting the fornt panel cables and the sata cables to fit , the radiator squishes them into place.

Im pretty happy with how its turned out, its all fit, which is the main thing, i even managed to fit a high cfm front intake fan, which i didnt think id be able to when i measured it all up, which says something about my measurements

Things i just need to do now would be

Sleeve and shorten that fugly blue pump power cable.
Sort some fan controls out
Add my white cathodes
Cut side window

Any comments ?? As far as im aware, this hasnt been done in a PC - 7 before

Taylormsj

[taylormsj]

Reserved for more pictures if needed

[Tw1st3d]

Looks great! Love Lian Li project's

Keep it up

Just don't get why Lian Li dosn't make a PC7 rev X. with cable management..

[taylormsj]

Yeah thats true, they have done three revisions to it all ready, this is rev 2 i believe

[biftek.]

Don't use a switch for the cd drive, use a hot key.
http://www.vicman.net/cd-eject/index.htm

Otherwise nice progress so far. What did you use to attach the cover to the cd drive?

[[XC] NetburstXE]

Subscribed

[taylormsj]

Don't use a switch for the cd drive, use a hot key.
http://www.vicman.net/cd-eject/index.htm

Otherwise nice progress so far. What did you use to attach the cover to the cd drive?

I used some no more nails double sided tape

Subscribed

Thanks

[taylormsj]

UPDATED APRIL 30 th, bottom of post 1

[septim]

rough cuts? just use a file on them, problem solved...

this should be an interesting build...

keep us updated...

[BNDMOD]

Suscribed :d

[taylormsj]

Suscribed :d

Thanks for the comments

BIG UPDATE IN POST 1 !!

[HaGGaRd]

Gratz taylor !
its turned out really well
see you at college you sexy bugger

Nice toilet fluid in the loop btw
ahahahhahaha =P

[BNDMOD]

Thanks for the comments

BIG UPDATE IN POST 1 !!

Well it's not a big update. but i like so much your job that i suscribed... jejeje i'd like to see finished...

For now.. you're in a good way :p :d

Go on!!

[ANP !!!]

Great build there

I liked your CM690 a lot. Better then this.

[taylormsj]

Mark you willy whipper

Well it's not a big update. but i like so much your job that i suscribed... jejeje i'd like to see finished...

For now.. you're in a good way :p :d

Go on!!

Yeah, not a huge update in the way of content,

It will be completely finished soooon, thanks for the interest !

Great build there

I liked your CM690 a lot. Better then this.

Thank you, you preferred my CM 690? i got bored of it, it looked ugly with an external radiator, and i did an awfull paint job with it. I love these lian li cases, aluminum is gorgeous in person

Thanks for the comments

[OC4/3]

Nice to see someone liquid cool PC7,nice project and to my surprise,it is possible to fit 3fan rad!!

[[XC] NetburstXE]

Although not intentional, I still really like the purple tint to the water Purple FTW! (yes, I am male)

[taylormsj]

Nice to see someone liquid cool PC7,nice project and to my surprise,it is possible to fit 3fan rad!!

Hehe, thanks, i wanted a small case but be able to internally mount a 3 fan rad, it is just big enough

Although not intentional, I still really like the purple tint to the water Purple FTW! (yes, I am male)

Thank you, im male too and im in no hurry to swap the fluid out

[ANP !!!]

Yea the external Rad kinda looks bad, But cant help it.

Cant wait for your case to be completed Best of Luck.

Mark you willy whipper



Yeah, not a huge update in the way of content,

It will be completely finished soooon, thanks for the interest !



Thank you, you preferred my CM 690? i got bored of it, it looked ugly with an external radiator, and i did an awfull paint job with it. I love these lian li cases, aluminum is gorgeous in person

Thanks for the comments

[taylormsj]

Thanks a lot for the encouragement, i will be ordering some acrylic for my window tonight, but im still unsure on a fan controller ??

[[XC] NetburstXE]

Thanks a lot for the encouragement, i will be ordering some acrylic for my window tonight, but im still unsure on a fan controller ??

Scythe Kaze Master

[ANP !!!]

Thanks a lot for the encouragement, i will be ordering some acrylic for my window tonight, but im still unsure on a fan controller ??

The Scythe Kaze Master if you have the money, but its a bit overpriced, looks great though.

http://www.petrastechshop.com/surhfanspcob.html
This is a good Controller for the price, 20w/Channel

[taylormsj]

I like both of these, but i want to keep the front of my case smooth and stealth ed, the rehobus wont do this, i dont want to go to the trouble of making a face plate for it, ill only mess it up, i love the kazmaster, but its a lot of money for what it is.

I was thinking of maybe just swaping some molex pins so every fan is running at 5 V. It's just a bit of a task if i want to overclock to the max and run some benchies

I also thought about getting one of these

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...ia=fan&doy=1m5

I dont know how much it could handle though, and where could i mount it?

I can run my fans at 5 and 7 V and whenever i want 12V (benching or in hot summer days) i can just quickly re plug them.

ALSO

Has anyone any suggestions on a side window. I want to show the right side (pump) as well as the motherboard area, but i wont want one large rectangle showing the 5 " bays, it will look dire

[taylormsj]

AN UPDATE

Sorry for the lack of updates till now

Iv cut my window.

I couldnt get a good finish on the edges, so im using recycled rubber edging until chilled pc gets some back in stock, unless anyone else knows where i can get some....

Ive also ordered a rehobus, which should be here tomrow, and will get a lian li bezel onto it for looks.

Here are some pics











I will get around to sorting out the wires once the rehobus is here

Pictures of my stealth bay soon once i have finished it.

EDIT





Need to find somewhere to mount the button ??

Taylor

[biftek.]

You could get a really small button and mount it in one of the vent holes on the front...
or rewire the reset button or something...