Taking the "dive" into water cooling

SilverBack

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I'm getting ready to take the "plunge".
I've ordered all my stuff. I'll post pics for those interested as I go along.
 

SilverBack

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I've chosen an Antec SLK3700BQE Black Quiet Super Mid Tower Case.
It comes with a 350W PSU , but I'm replacing it with a TRUE430 430 Watt Power Supply ATX12V, because it has dual fans for just that extra little air movement.

The interior of the case is quite nice. It has 4 Removable Drive Cages for 3.5? drives, that are turned sideways. Neat touch, as the cabling from the drives can be slightly hidden. I'm removing the bottom two cages and this is where my water pump will be housed. The case also comes with an 120mm fan that I will be using in the front of the case. There is a fitting there also for it.

You can read more on the Cases specs here. The one thing that it doesn't have is a bay window. I'll be taking it to work and having one cut to my specifications in the machine shop.

For the water cooling I've chosen Danger Den's MAZE4 Power Kit for P4's. The Maze 4 water block has a Lucite top which allows you to see the fluid as it goes through the block. Important as I'm using Blue LT UV Dye in the system. The UV light will be provided by UV Cold Cathode Kit.
I'm adding both the chipset and video blocks to the kit.
The Radiator is an Black Ice Xtreme.
The liquid will be running through aTyphoon-Quad 5 1/4 Bay-Res reservoir.

The system specs going with this are as the following:
ABIT IC7 MAX3 Intel... i875 (Canterwood) chipset, on-board Gigabit Ethernet, 4-channel SATA RAID, OTES cooling, Firewire
2 Corsair XMS3200 DDR400 Memory Modules, 1024mb total
P4-2.4C 800 Mhz CPU
ATI 9800 Pro