Hi, I've got a coolermaster 220 shown below
and I've just purchased 2 rads from soulsend shown below:
What I was GOING to do was put my hard drives in the CD bays above, the wider housing that ends level around with my CPU cooler. I was then going to hack saw off the housing below that which goes up from the bottom to about 2/3rd of the way up the case, which holds the floppies and the hard drives.
I was then going to mount the 2 rads in that space, 1 on top of each other, move my sound card up to just below the 3d cards which will be water blocked (Maze 4 GPU you reckon?) so air circulation wont matter so much, and also water cool my A64 with an A64 RBX (all agree?) and mount an MCP600 pump (a suitable pump would you reckon? I need silence as I sleep by this thing) under that.
The rads would be nearly touching, but they've have a 120mm fan each, and the fact theyre nearly touching wouldnt even be that bad because the air flow of the lower 1 would increase the performance of the top 1.
The only trouble is that'd mean the bottom rad is pretty close to the bottom of the case, SO I was gunna cut a 92mm blow hole into the far side (the one you cant see on the pic) of the case at the bottom and put a 92mm fan in, and then stick another fan around level with the top rad, and an 80mm fan where the floppy drives would usually stick out.
The thing is, would you do this? I'd guess this'd make a good watercooling setup, but how good would you reckon? I've got a 80->92mm fan adapter for the read air intake/outake, and an 80mm fan pushing air through the top.
Or would you just screw this all over and just make an external housing for the rads/pump? I need it to look sexy, but quietness is oh-so-desirable.
My idea for the design is below, the circles by the rads are the fans on the far side.
Thing is, will this ge enough air-flow? Should I go external?