Design for my 'new' Lian-Li PC-60B; Watercooled. 3D Drawing!

[TrevorRC]

Randomly wasting time, so I spent a bit of it drawing this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/trevor_r_C/Lian-LiPC-60B-Example2.jpg

This is a to-scale (well, as scaled as I could make it) drawing of--hopefully--what the water-cooling system setup will be like when get it installed.

Motherboard, racks & tubing coming soon!

Plans are:
1) Adding the new WCing components to the top.
2) Finding a spot and mounting the 1250 pump so it doesn't vibrate annoyingly.
3) Fabbing my own wires--already bought an extra set of Ultra ATX ones to tinker with.
4) Changing the current 80mm fan (rear exhaust) to a 92mm fan.
5) Changing the fans on the PSU so they'll actually push some air. (With 3x120s sucking air in, I'll definitely need some rear movement.)

More coming, have to grab some dinner right now.

 

[RallyMaster]

sweet drawing. which program did you use?

 

[TrevorRC]

Sketchup 5 😛

Need to grab a copy of SolidWorks from my Dad's factory. Bit more exact XD

 

[RallyMaster]

you need autocad/inventor. those two are great fun and you can be exact 😛

 

[TrevorRC]

Originally posted by: RallyMaster
you need autocad/inventor. those two are great fun and you can be exact 😛

I know 😉 I've played with them at school and at my dad's factory.

Solidworks is where it's at 😀

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Consider a 92x38 rear exhaust mounted externally, this will draw air off the very rear of the case and not have this 38mm blob intruding into the interior.

Consider using a aluminum 80 to 92 adapter for the PSU's exhaust fan and a 92x25 at about 48cfm. I have this set-up. The adapter was bought from froozencpu and is quite thin. Both fans protrude about the same distance from the rear of the case. The PSU's fan has a thermal control.

If your PSU uses a 120, that could be up-rated easily.

I'm just brain storm'en here and not telling you what to do 😉

I know a little about mid to high output 92s, so if you ask, I'll tell what little I know first hand.

Fullmetal Chocobo has some first hand experiance with mid-output 92s as well.


...Galvanized

 

[Painman]

I'll be doing something similar to what Galvanized said re: the externally mounted fan. I'll mount a 120x25 internally as an intake, on the external side of that fan port will be a gutted 120x38 aluminum fan body, onto which I'll mount the radiator. The idea is to have it work as a plenum as well as a standoff. I'll rig up some kind of support bracket for the bottom of the rad so the weight doesn't distort the rear case panel (the rad is dual 120).

I like the top rad mounting scheme, and it works for a lot of people - I just don't want to cut up my poor P160 like that 🙂

 

[TrevorRC]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
Consider a 92x38 rear exhaust mounted externally, this will draw air off the very rear of the case and not have this 38mm blob intruding into the interior.

I really don't mind the 38mm internally--I'd prefer for a better look externally, and really don't want to have fans hanging off the back (hence the reason for buying the new radiator/grill/etc... all internal)

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
Consider using a aluminum 80 to 92 adapter for the PSU's exhaust fan and a 92x25 at about 48cfm. I have this set-up. The adapter was bought from froozencpu and is quite thin. Both fans protrude about the same distance from the rear of the case. The PSU's fan has a thermal control.

Do you have any pictures of this? It sounds appealing, provided it's internal. Again, really striving to keep it all in the box 😛

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
If your PSU uses a 120, that could be up-rated easily.

80, unfortunately 🙁

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
I'm just brain storm'en here and not telling you what to do 😉

Even if you were telling me what to do, I'd probably listen 😉