The Perfect watercooling case?
 

Have any suggestions for which case is the perfect case for watercooling?

No one thinks they have "the perfect case for watercooling"?

actually i do. This is mostly due to the fact that i made my case from scatch, this way i can have a wind tunnel for my heatercore.

it THE BEST WAY FOR A PERFECT CASE.

antecs are pretty nice in my opinion. but not perfect

Xaser III?

I dont know, you should be more positive in your answer. Like XaserIII!!!!! Not XaserIII? Its like your answering my question with another question.

I am working on the perfect case (imo) but still have a way to go. It takes a lot of money to bring a good case to market and I have put most of my efforts to my block. :shrug:

"Xaser III"

I should kick you. :evilaugh:

hee hee

I´m happy with my Chieftek Dragon (it looks soooo innocent), but I do envy the guys with YY-cubes.
regards
Mikael S.

I'm going to try to use a Lian Li PC60 for my setup.

I have been wanting to get one of these lately, due to the huge amount of empty space at the top, and large number of drive bays. You could definately fit a nicely sized radiator into it... and cheap too.

But for now I'm going to stick to my dragon case.

I use the Chieftech or Antec case (same thing really). You can get them at a fair price, and they have the window, and fans that you need to get a good flow in the compartment. They are also VERY modifyable. The rivets only take a drill to pop, and its all Alu. so it cuts really easy.

The closing front keeps my son out of it. :D

Lite-On FS-020.

Better yet, build your own.

Not to my eye....
 

Heck NO!:cry:

Rule #1. You will always get a big enough case to hold your stuff - BARELY!! If you have an open case, you will find more to stick in there until...

Rule #2. There will be something in the wrong place or layout

Even my Chenbro SR-103 server case is a nightmare to try to rearrange (had to fix some wiring this weekend) w/o pulling it all out. Also ahd to mod the heck out of it to get what I wanted in there in the first place!

Sooo - plans for next case (Rev 3.0 - DIY) are hatching in my mind as I type:

1. Will be height of Desk(nothing goes above it anyway so why not!)

2. Motherboard will sit Horizontal (let heat rise) and blow out back.

3. Rads/pumps will get their own compartment w/ fans at back blowing out.

4. Hard drives in back are good idea, same compartment as MB.

5. PSU may be in same area as MB, gotta figure that out.

6. Question for general discussion: given something like above, should rads / pumps go above or below MB (see good reasons for both setups, want more views).

Got pretty good w/ riveter during last project, plan to make main support structure out of AL angle and sheet for internal air baffles, then enclose whole thing in Oak / Maple (looks nice and deadens sound also). May start a new thread to garner ideas from the intellegent masses....:D

Ok I am new so I will bite on this on just to see the responses I get.


I just acqured (read scounged from local company that shall remain nameless.) This Cabinet.

http://63.90.33.38/hubbellpremise/da...S&FAM=Cabinets


This should make a pretty decent starting point for a W/C rig I would think. At leastt hat is my current project.

Now all I need to do is get the $$$ up for the custom RAdiator and Res I want to put in it's back panel and one of Cather's Silver Cascades and I will be set.

http://www.addtronics.com/cl9240.htm

:D

:eek: :eek: :eek: :drool: :eek: :drool: :drool: :drool:

I want one... Wait, no I don't, I go to LAN parties... If I had that case, I would put all 3 of my computers in that one box, and run the wiring to the center of the room...

i like my lian-li pc70, its a great wc case - lightweight and plenty of room/features.

I like my Cheftec Dragon DA-01 (see link in sig), but I'd like to try out a YY cube sometime (can YY read this?:D )

Maybe on the next build.

www.mountainmods.com is all i have to say :D

http://www.netbetty.com/H20/frontdone.jpg

]http://www.netbetty.com/H20/cube/casters.jpg

http://www.netbetty.com/H20/h20sidedone.jpg

http://www.netbetty.com/H20/pumpsidedone.jpg

Installation shotsHERE

nikhsub1, You made me drool in my keyboard. ;)
regards
Mikael S.

I like the mountainmods case, except for a few nitpicky things... it really should be all 120mm fan mounts (and fewer of them). They might want to give some thought to doing a specalized version for watercooling with a place for res mounting and oversized radiators and such. That could go over quite well.. lord knows it has the room for it.

Phantom: You know you want that case.. then you could rig up R/C gear for it! Then it would carry ITSELF to LAN parties. :D

Heh, I could drag it around with my new T-Max 1 HP motor! That'd be awesome!

I can see it now.. Pro/2-D2!

From where?
 

I've tried looking, but can't find any vendors that carry the U2-UFO case and ships to Canada. :cry: Are there any Canadian vendors that carry it yet? Or is it still too soon? :shrug:

Well, I dont know exactly what kind of case will fit your needs t00lb0x, but I was looking for a very specifically designed case.
In my opinion, this was the hardest part of setting up a WC system if you aren't going for a monster case b/c it's damn difficult to visualize how everything will fit inside a case and find a case to your specs.

Let me link you to a review for a case that I found just yesterday after about 3 months of searching for the perfect case: Global Win YCC-61F1 Server Case. And here is where i found it for a bargain price.

Here is what I think about those other cases out there and why they didn't work for me:

I wanted a quiet system with 3 120 mm fans. One intake in front to blow over the multiple HDDs, one intake on the side for cooling mobo and vid card, and one exhaust in back, with the radiator mounted to it. (You also automatically have an exhaust with the PS). This configuration gives you positive pressure in your case and lots of air flow but also quiet.

Well, these requirements eliminate all of the CHIEFTEC and ANTEC cases that are so popular with the 5+ 80mm fans (that's gotta be noisy!) and the two removable HDD cages that have one 80mm fan blowing on just one cage. It's also not going to circulate as much air, and you can't mount a 120mm radiator like the Black Ice Extreme 2 (which is probably the best rad after a heater core) unless you mount it in front by removing the lower HDD cage.

Also, I wanted everything to be internal but didn't want things to be crammed in the case with all of my WC equipment. I thought about using a mid tower case that had 120mm fans like the ANTEC SLK3700AMB and placing the pump and reservoir beside the PCI slots underneath the radiator, but this is very cluttered, so that wouldn't work. It seemed that the only thing I could do would be to pick a super tower, and mount this stuff above the PS, but these have many problems IMO.

I personally don't like the super towers that are super tall and skiny. IMHO, they look ugly with 6 external bays of which usually 3 at most are occupied. That's also a waste of space. And call me paranoid, but I feel like I would easily knock this beast over. Oh, and do I have to mention what a pain it would be to carry and move? And... many times the hard drives are located above the power supply, which makes it a pain to reach with the cables when the RAID IDE channel is at the bottom of the mobo. You're also still stuck with using 80mm fans on the back by the mobo. That'll make 4 fans blowing out the back of the case, which destroys your positive pressure and will also make plenty of noise.

The LIAN LI PC-70 was the one case that came the closest to what i wanted functionally while making a few sacrifices, but I just couldn't buy it. Problems: 2 80mms by mobo destroy the cooling and acoustical characteristics as I mentioned earlier; placing 120mm fan in front would be messy because originally occupied by 2 80mm; same with back above the power supply where rad would go; this case is a monster (23" x 23" by 8"!!!); it's freakin expensive and there is no PS or side window (actually, you could get the window for $50 extra on newegg, or DIY, but don't put one of those small 12x12 windows, IMHO, they are tacky).

Oh yeah, and the cubes are nice, but they are just too bulky. They wouldn't fit under or around my desk very well. The best I could do would be to use it as a stool instead of my chair. You also couldn't carry this very well either and they aren't cheap.

And if you read the review that i linked to, you'll see that the case that I suggested has a lot of great characteristics.

You can fit your cooling in a standard case. If you are really worried about it, learn to cut and mold acrylic and do it that way. Really: any midtower can contain a watercooling system easy, if you plan ahead.

The perfect case, imho, is a nonexistant one with wires and shiz running everywhere ... but that's just me.

I personaly was looking into using a YY-0221 Minicube but then stumbled across Addtronics W8500 WTX Tower.
lots of room... Here is a url to a list of reviews on it...
if this isn't enough space then you realy have issues...

the ultimate case for watercooling... great for those occaisional leaks... cardboard just mops it up like a paper towel..

http://www.lupo.co.jp/develop/ccpc/ph/title_l02.jpg

those goofy japanese... lol

LMAO! I never expected to see a cardboard case! ROFL! Damn, what will they think of next? :p