Well, I didn't start a build log before now. I may go back and outline the steps I took to modify the case, cause it wasn't as straight forward as I was led to believe. Maybe that information could help someone else. Anyhow, I'm far from finished, so I'm going to start logging the progress here. Better late than never, no?

I'm posting this thread from my new watercooled computer. I have to admit it took some guts to fire it up. But it booted up without any problems. After messing with the bios settings, I booted into Windows and was greeted with happy temperatures -- 29c idle, 50c load with a mild overclock @ 3ghz, no voltage alterations.

Ok, it's about time I said it. Thanks all for taking the time to write on this forum. You guys really made this project a whole hell of a lot simpler than it could have been, and I feel confident that the investment made was well spent.

And here's this thread's first pic.



Like I said before, there's still a lot left to do. I have some stuff ordered -- cable extensions to hide the wires a little better (the tj07 cables were really to short to accommodate the BTX modification), a Silverstone bay converter for the hard drives since I took the hdd waterblock out of the loop (it was too restrictive), other various things.

One thing still to do is the top window. The fan and grill wouldn't fit back on after the BTX modification, so I'm going to cover it with plexi glass. I still need to research this though, so no ordering for now.



One last note about the water. The plan was to have UV green coolant. I have two liters of Alien Green Fluid XP+ Extreme, but I'm not sure I'm going to use it after reading a comparison that showed Feser to be a little better in terms of liquid temperatures. For now I'm using plain distilled water with 2 drops of algaecide I picked up at the pet store. The woman there was really nice, and was also very interested in what I was doing. She suggested doing away with the clear tubing due to algae liking the light so much. I guess she has a point, but I still want UV green.