Water cooling a PC-70

Nirach

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Okay. I searched through the numerous water cooling threads, and the numerous threads that mention Lian Li PC-70's.

I intend to buy one, over the CM stacker, because I just prefer it. I have a PC-60 at the moment, and I'm loving it.

However. My problem comes with cooling the mighty beast. I'm going to have to invert the PSU, because it has a fan in the bottom. That means either inverting or drilling the poprivits out of the PSU shelf section, to get a hole bored in it to accomotate up to 120mm fans, the like seen in the bottom of Akasa PSU's.

At present I use two TT Aquarius 3's (laugh if you will, but I'm getting some excellent cooling out of these things.) One for the CPU and one for the graphics card, at present it's only one, but will eventually become two. I want to know really, has anyone watercooled a Pc-70 (I'm sure I've seen an aerocool kit fitted, not sure where on the net I saw that though) and if so, what're the best mouting points for radiators, reservoirs (I'm assuming external for that one), and the like.

I'd like to get some larger tubes and a better block on the CPU eventually, I have some ideas for tubing, they're running along the lines of tygon 1/2", and I'm thinking the Danger Den 1/2" TDX A64 block wise. As for northbridge, I'm stumped, do I stay with DD or go for something else? I'd like to keep the 1/2" size to give it a more.. Uniform feel, but I don't know precisely what's out there for that. Any pointers on HDD coolers would be cool too.

I'm working with a Sapphire Crossfire, Pure Advantage ( http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/productfiles/129image3.jpg ) Case space is no problem, as anyone who's seen the PC-70 will understand. I'm not intending to pack the graphics cooling to internal, the TTA3 and the Koolance card cooler is more that sufficient (60 degrees load, OCed to 600/600).