My new watercooled machine

[dedwards]

Here's my new water-cooled PC-7 - Let me know what you think...

Lian-Li PC-7 Plus II case
Seasonic M12-500 modular PSU
Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard
Intel E6400 C2D CPU
G.SKILL F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ RAM
EVGA 7600 GT video card (weak link I know)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KS 500GB HDD
SAMSUNG 16X DVD±R DVD Burner
Swiftech Storm Rev. 2 CPU waterblock
Swiftech MCW60 GPU waterblock w/ ramsinks
Swiftech MCW30 chipset waterblock
Laing DDC pump w/ Petra's top
BIP III radiator
Masterkleer 7/16 tubing
Yate-Loon D12SL-12 fans

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Worklog and more pics here - http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1154571"]http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1154571[/URL]

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

Brilliant! Looks great, I especially like the unique placement of the radiator and pump. Kudos for fitting a triple rad in there.

 

[Corporate Thug]

very clean

 

[Old Hippie]

You do great work. Congrats! :thumbsup:

 

[MDE]

Nice, do you have any bigger pics?

 

[Operandi]

Wow, thats super clean, nice work.

 

[WoodButcher]

I'd quote and say ditto to all the comments above. really a nice bit of work!

 

[Elfear]

Very nice work. I like the clean wiring and watercooling routing.

How is the radiator vented? Meaning how is air fed to the underside of the rad?

 

[Woofmeister]

I own that case and am amazed you were able to get all that into such a small mid tower. Congrats on a very clean build.

I'm also curious about the installation of the radiator at the bottom of the case. From where is the radiator drawing air and to where is it being exhausted? It looks to me like your rad is drawing air from, uh, nothing, and exhausting it right back into the case. That seems, shall we say, counterintuitive.

 

[dedwards]

Thanks guys - I'm really liking this machine so far. I've got Vista installed and starting to play with that.

@Elfear and Woofmeister -

I cut an opening in the bottom of the case for the radiator, then replaced the stock case feet with taller feet to give a little more space underneath. The fans draw air from under the case, through the rad, and exhaust up into the case. This setup uses the coolest air to cool the rad, then gives extra airflow inside the case to help cool the RAM, MOSFET's, etc.

See my worklog for more pics, detailing the radiator mounting -

Worklog here

Full size pic - Pic1

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[Boyo]

Very sweet rig. Nice and clean. I have the same case and you do it justice. Nice job.