Considering custom building water cooling system for Lian-Li PC-6070

[pandemonium]

Since I moved into a friend's house and now have my computer in my room instead of about the open 800sq.ft. that my apartment did, I have to keep my door closed due to kitty cat relations (or lack there-of >.<). Also, due to the lack in air floor in the room I'm in and summer months quickly approaching, I've noticed my heat levels have dramatically increased on my GPUs and CPU; not to mention the fact that it's getting hot as fok in my room.

Any and all advice is appreciated. I've read the water cooling basics on here and understand the basic needs, so my questions here are more specific to my case and other's experiences with it.

My case.

Can anyone share their trials and tribulations with water cooling this case?

I'm considering doing it fully custom and here are the notes in what I've come up with so far:
- 2 radiators (front bottom @intake fans and rear below PSU - reversing rear case fan; case fans I'll be replacing from stock to increase air flow)
- 1 pump stored in the lower area of the 5.25" drive bay (shielded for critical failure protection)
- reservoir in 3.5" drive bay area (shielded for critical failure protection)
- all components will be mounted to the case for purposes of travel and stability
- I run 2 GPUs in Crossfire and plan on keeping it that way in future upgrades (is 1 pump enough?)
- I mildly overclock, however, if watercooled I'd probably push it further just to test

Thoughts? :hmm:

 

[dawp]

that case is a bit small for a water cooled system, it can be done but you probably will want to mount the radiators externally or get a bigger case, I have a pc-6 that I did do an internal water cooled and mounted a 120 radiator on top in front of the power supply. A small radiator like that will do just the cpu, for more you really need a larger rad, something like a 360 or 480 rad. You'd be better off getting a larger case, IMO.

if you want to keep your case with the least amount of modding, you may consider something like this with quick connects for the hoses:
http://www.dangerden.com/store/external-3-x-360-radiator-and_pump-case.html

also, what cpu and gpu are you running? I'm currently running a i7 950 and the 120 rad just isn't cutting it for the cpu alone. I'm going to get a larger rad soon and will be cutting up my case to mount it.

 

[pandemonium]

that case is a bit small for a water cooled system, it can be done but you probably will want to mount the radiators externally or get a bigger case.

I was afraid of this, but I'll see what possibilities I can come up with. My case is kinda tight as is without any water cooling, but I'm confident I can clean it up and do some intuitive fanagling to get everything to fit.

also, what cpu and gpu are you running?

Nothing extreme. CPU is Q9400 and GPUs are HD4830 1Gs in CF. I'm probably going to be upgrading my GPUs in the near future.

Edit: My main focus is just to get my temperatures down so it's not a sauna in my room, haha.

 

[dawp]

your best option with that case is to use something like that external radiator case I linked to but for that price you could get a full tower and some do have mounts for rads in them.

 

[Elganja]

Watercooling doesn't make the heat magically disappear... it may be even hotter in your room (your components will run cooler however)

 

[pandemonium]

Watercooling doesn't make the heat magically disappear... it may be even hotter in your room (your components will run cooler however)

That is totally true.

Maybe I just need to get some heat ducting and run it to the window all ghetto like! :whiste:

 

[aigomorla]

i love how people on this forum can now give good advice.

It really makes my life a lot easier now.


I remember when i used to be one of the only people who knew how to setup a proper h2o system.

But reading though the threads now, im happy to see a lot of people know how to give good advice.