Worklog: CM 690 + Water

[karl_eller]

Despite the fact that I got woken up at 8 am this morning, the arrival of the delivery man gave me new energy.

The first (of 3) packages for my water cooling has arrived, this one from the wonderful people at Flabbergast. My order from Petra's Tech Shop is on it's way (should be here by friday), and I'm just waiting for a TR HR-05 to get in stock for my order from PC Case Gear to ship.

It has begun *cackles*

This is the plan, in general: Do a couple of small mods to my CM 690 case (mostly for cable routing, plus ease of access to CPU/Northbridge/Southbridge mounting holes from the back), paint the case internals, and then install a water cooling loop on the CPU and graphics card.

Computer Parts (all of these I own already):

• Q6600 B3
• eVGA 680i A1
• 4x 1 gig Corsair 667 Mhz RAM (I'll be upgrading these soon )
• Inno3D 8800GTX
• Thermaltake ToughPower 750 Watt Modular PSU

Cooling components:

• D-Tek FuZion CPU block with Accelerator Nozzle Kit (Petra's)
• Swiftech MCW60 GPU Waterblock w/ G80 Adapter plate (Flabbergast) (arrived)
• Enzotech BMR-C1 RAMsinks + Swiftech MC21 Mofset heatsinks for GPU (Petra's)
• Swiftech MCR320 QP Radiator (Petra's)
• Laing D5 Vario Pump (Petra's)
• Swiftech MCRES Micro Hi-Flo res (Petra's)
• Thermalright HR-05 IFX heatsink + 80mm fan (northbridge) (PC Case Gear)
• Thermalright HR-05 IFX/SLI Heatsink + 80mm fan (have)
• 7/16" ID MasterKleer tubing + various fittings (Petra's)
• Swiftech MC14 Ramsinks (for mobo's Mofsets + chokes) (Flabbergast) (arrived)
• Yate Loon D12SH-12 (Most likely run on a rheostat) (Petra's)

Misc Components:

• Side Window kit with 120mm fan mount (PC Case Gear)
• 5/8" ID coils for tubing, UV Blue (Flabbergast) (arrived)
• Anything else I forget

Ok, slightly more details on what I'm going to do:
Cut holes directly behind CPU, Northbridge and Southbridge, so I can change the waterblocks/heatsinks or the CPU (CPU waterblock uses a backplate) without having to take the motherboard out.
Sand the inside of the case with 800 Grit wet-dry sandpaper and then spray with a Satin Black Acrylic spray paint. I had considered getting the case powder coated, but it was going to cost AU$100+ which, compared to AU$10-15 for good spray paint, wasn't worth it.
Install and leak test a water loop on CPU and GPU. MCR320 Radiator is going to be mounted off the rear 120mm fan mount using a bracket similar to a Swiftech Radbox. Cooling chipsets with water was considered unnecessary, due to the fact that they already have 35-40°C load temperatures with Thermalright HR-05 IFX/SLI cooler, which will be changed to an HR-05 IFX (not IFX/SLI) due to the fact it leans up against my 8800GTX.

The package that came today wasn't too much, but it was the sign I was waiting for to start modding

And now it's time for pics They're all roughly 1024x768, so you can either click the link below, or else right click > view image to see them full size.

My computer at the moment:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_5515.jpg

My shiny new Swiftech MCW60 w/ G80 adapter plate:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_5507.jpg
Won't install it on the GPU until the rest of my water gets here.

Case stripped down to the bare metal, ready to be cut, cleaned then sprayed:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_5503.jpg

Back of the case, with rough markings for where the mobo tray will be cut:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_5518.jpg

I made a slight boo-boo when it came to your viewing pleasure. I replaced all the mofset heatsinks with Swiftech MC14 Ramsinks, as well as put ramsinks on all the chokes. However in my excitement, I forgot to take photos before I re-mounted the CPU heatsink. These are the best I can do for now, but I'll have some proper ones when my CPU waterblock gets here:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_5514.jpg


http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_5522.jpg

That's all I have for now. Tomorrow I'm going to cut out the holes in the motherboard tray, sand back and clean the case, and then spray black. After that, it's all up to the postal service as to when the next update will be

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