~~Watercooled Rocketfish *Work Log*

[redphoenix]

5-17-08

I added in the floor, cut outs for wiring and tubing. Also rotated the hard drive rack. I found some new filters in my junk box I bought from compusa maybe 5-6 years ago.

NF7-S Test mobo



Whenever Home Depot restocks my bolts I want I will replace them with shorter ones, but I already bought their last 10 for my project haha.




Perfect fit all around


Evercool (AOC) aluminum fan that I have in mu junk box too. Quiet @ full speed mind you, I thought they were louder. But it will see a fan bus soon.




Mounted some stuff



Stay tuned!

[MINIz guy]

Nice! I like that floor idea right there, would make things a lot easier to mount and it would be cleaner.

[redphoenix]

Heres an update. Last night looked like this.



Filling and bleeding air.


And these are some pics from this morning.












Everything is fine an dandy, except my motherboard fried from a fan being unplugged. Weaksoz.

So I am waiting on an RMA from Crucial for 4 sticks of 1gb Tracers (PC28500) and now Abit IP35PRO.


Not sure if I should leave it clear or dye it. But I am kind of digging the very "clean" look. I ram out of the proper size sleeving for my pump. Oh well. And if anyone is trying to figure out why there is only 1 intake in the top part, well I will be getting one of those Lian Li 120mm fan converters for 3 of the 5.25 bays. Link

[disruptfam]

looks nice man that rocketfish case is a real steal!!

sorry to hear about your hardware woes though

[redphoenix]

looks nice man that rocketfish case is a real steal!!

sorry to hear about your hardware woes though

It happens to everyone. Just gives me time to spend getting the little things done on the case I would of normal given up on haha.

[MotF Bane]

That looks very nice. Well done.

Any chance of another picture of where the tubes go from reservoir to radiator, with flash?

[Polizei]

If you were going to have that setup, why go through the effort to hide the pump but not the res? I would've just mounted the pump to the motherboard try immediately under the res and not bothered with the holes in the false floor. I think it would make routing easier.

I like the floor.

[redphoenix]

If you were going to have that setup, why go through the effort to hide the pump but not the res? I would've just mounted the pump to the motherboard try immediately under the res and not bothered with the holes in the false floor. I think it would make routing easier.

I like the floor.

1) I just liked the whole idea of the floor. I got the metal free from my friends shop.

2) I also wanted to keep a lot of useless heat out. Heat from hard drives, pump and power supply will be isolated.

3) I am trying to keep the wire mess from the power supply away from the clean part of the computer.

4) If I decide to do a window, you wont see the junky stuff, psu wires, hard drives etc.

5) If a leak occurs, the chances of it hitting the power supply or hard drives are minimal now. I had only 1 leak since I have been doing this that killed something. Took 2 750gb Seagates, that were in raid 1. Never again.

6) Air flow in this case is hindered because the minimal amount of fans and how large the case is. If I cut down a big portion of the case, add one of those Lian Li fan modules for the front bays and make the rear fan an intake, my radiator should have plenty of air thats cooler now. Also overall case temps should decrease.

7) It looks sexy.

[redphoenix]

That looks very nice. Well done.

Any chance of another picture of where the tubes go from reservoir to radiator, with flash?

Hard to get my Canon S5 in there but hope these help. I have a fill port connected to the res.

[silverphoenix]

I'm gonna steal some ideas for my bro's rocketfish, credit will be paid where due

[MotF Bane]

Thanks for the extra pics.

[Kougar]

Very impressive, you're making me regret not picking up one of these cases to experiment on!

I do like the overall clean look, would definitely vote for leaving the water clear. That looks to be a very efficient WC loop.

[H2omg]

A very nice RF build! Confirms ideas I've had as well as giving me new ones. Thanks for clean work and nice photography. I look forward to the "final product" picture. : D

[Yeknom]

Credit will be paid when my RF begins work

Great job!

[redphoenix]

Thanks guys, really appreciate it! There shall be more added. Just gotta do the "bills" thing and then we will be good

[hillywav]

now i really want to W/c my new rig

[[XC] NetburstXE]

Updates yet?

[redphoenix]

Waiting on Abit... you know how they are. I sent it in on 5/17... So maybe this coming week? Dont know haha.

Im working on a fan controller mod right now, ill update with pics when I finish.

[MasterChiefElmo]

Looks grate man keep it going!! Very nice clean simple to it that I like..

[Vidar]

Wow looks sweet, can't wait to see more as you progress.

[Sadasius]

I love what you did with the res. I am now thinking of doing the same thing as I have one rad on the top as well and would save from using a longer tube to go to the bottom of my 250. Goo job! Very clean!

[RockfordFosgate]

Your Rocketwish better than SS TJ07 well done bro

[redphoenix]

5-28-08

Hey, just a little update. I want a very quiet case. I have everything volt modded to 7v, but I figure this will fill in one of the 5.25 bays.

I bought one of those Ultra Rheobuses. Trust me, I hate the way it looks. However, I got it for $6.05 at work discounted.


The casing is nothing but cheap plastic. And damn is it big...



Oh look... what a WASTE of space. I didn't expect anything less really.



They use blue leds. However, they only put 2 in there, but there are spaces for 4!



Thats okay. I desoldered the 2 blue leds and added 4 5mm white ones for a very LOW/LITTLE amount of light in the dark. You wont be able to see it til later on when its dark though, so pictures later of that.

Got some new knobs to replace the cheap flimsy POS's that were on their stock. These 2 pics have the board being attached to the Lian Li 5.25 bay cover. But what a difference. Cannot believe its the same one!




So overall, $6 for the fan controller and an extra couple of bucks for the leds and knobs, worth it to match my case!

P.S. That 2" space will have a small white lcd screen to show my water temperature, but I am awaiting that still.

[Snyxxx]

On your reservoir, do you really need the anti-cyclone device if the reservoir is turned upside down? I thought the vortex was created by pushing in and pulling out water near each other.

I have a G70 build in progress and want to also put the res like that. Nice build and thanks for taking all the pictures, looks great.

[redphoenix]

Well I never ran it without the anti cyclone, but.... when I was priming the system, when the res fluid was under the anti cyclone, it was making a tornado inside the res. When it was filled pass the anti-cyclone it wasnt.

But that doesnt mean that the anticyclone stopped it, it could of been the amount of fluid too. It was like $3, so why not...