Ok, here is the work log from the past 3 days, i know i should have done it day by day.. but ever tried to surf through hundreds of pics, crops, edit, re size and organize all from a net book and little touch pad

So i got up bright and early Tuesday, and got straight to work with drain most of the water out in my room into some jugs, then took the case down to the kitchen where i took the tubing out





washed the Pump top, and cleaned all the gunk off the blocks,









all the dust has built up just over 4 months , so got the hoover on it





Cleaned the thermal paste off the CPU, and realized that silver cleaner really makes copper shine =]






At this point the kitchen and dinning room was just full of PC parts, looks like a bomb had hit it



Once i had cleaned the MOBO with canned air and cleaned the blocks, i put it back together and took some photos outside





Cleaned the thermal paste off the GPU and put it back together again





I use OCZ freeze for the CPU and GPU and them Artic silver 5 on the RAM chips and parts on the MOBO



Cleaned the GPU up and put the block back on, i changed the oriantaion of the barbs 4 - 5 times after this as things didnt fit and tubing wouldn't bend etc, when i get the new hardware in a month or so i will get some 45c fitting






Cleaned the CPU block and put that back together with the new compression fittings, was worried at first that they werent going to fit



Once all that was done i put everything on the MOBO tray, and routed some tubing from the CPU to the GPU, also ran my 24pin ATX extenion cable under the MOBO as there was no way in hell that would of worked once everything was fitted (there is ther pic from the other day with no blur this time )






Now it was time for the sleeving of the 8pin CPU and the 6 + 8pin PCI-e cables, my original plan was to sleeve each wire but.. i didnt have enough 4mm sleeving so i just did them in one go



I checked to make sure the 240 rad and PSU wud fit, they did which was good, but it ment the 2nd mid plate holes wouldnt line up *fail* so i had another idea to use blue acrylic to make the midplate



Put the pump back together and put barbs on the 360 rad with lots of PTFE tape as last time i did it it leacked then connected them togther and put them into the case, was a close fit









This is the pic at the end of day one (well at 12.30 at night )



Do to the direction of the top SATA power connecter needed to changed the direction of the others that were at 90c, was more difficult than a thought it would be



i tried to sort cable managment but with 4 x HDD, 1 x SSD and 1 x DVD drive all with cables its a bit difficult.. but o well out of site out of mind

Once i did all the cabling i found the wire wasn't long enough so i had to join it, used juction boxes and it fitted all neatly back in place









Ironically fans didnt fit in my fan grill due to depth so i used acrylic and some spare blue LED's








I had chopped all molex's off the ends of my wires to save on space, so i made this, just one molex with a female connector on one end then all the cables in the case go to a male connector and simply pushes in, and they had yellow black and red





Here a pic of the HDD, the SSD is ontop of the DVD drive (blury pic soz)



A late night snap shot of cable management




Heres the a Pic of the PC at the end of day two, testing out the lighting



Got up at 7 this morning and got straight to work with filling the loop up with Pink dye and Ultra pure water







I had jsut enough space the squeeze tubing in the top to fill it




And here are the working results









I have lots more to say but in a rush at the moment so will post thoughts and stuff later

hope you have enjoyed this installment

~Jiggy