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Metzen · 10-04-2004, 03:06 AM

Hi,

I'm going to modify a case to try to be one of the best water-cooling cases and I'm looking for some input on whether my ideas are good or bad. I'm very new into the water-cooling scene and have been lurking on these forums picking up pieces here and there as I go, so I'm very much a junior when it comes to this stuff.

Anyways, I've been looking at cases that are friendly to water-cooling and DIY'er's (or with a little modding could become greatly friendly) and would like some input from the guys who now this stuff

To start, I've used a water-cooling system in a very low-flow air case with very little air intakes (2 x 80mm fans) and very little air out-takes (2 x 80mm fans, case has been modded for this) with two 80mm radiators on the intakes. The intakes themselves are limited by the surface area of the intake "hole" which is smaller than the total surface area of the two rad's + fans. Obviously, this has not been great for feeding air to the rad's fans and hurts the potential cooling performance to some degree, about 2-5C whether idle or under load. The load has been measured by removing the air-intake barrier and running the case with the door off (which seems to improve air-flow?). The water-cooling system used is the SwiftTech H20-80 (original with fill-and-bleed) with two 80mm rad's and a VGA cooler.

This case has not been the most specatular it seems and required a fair bit of modding and it is still underwhelming in terms of performance. So, when looking for a new case, I've decided on the Lian Li PCV-1000. The modifications I've made to this case are:

1) Removed the bottom left hard-drive rack so the pump can fit there
2) Removed the floppy bay and bottom 5 1/2in bay to allow for a 120x240mm radiator setup

The 12x24 rad's will go in the front of the case, which is a much, much more higher air-flow case because of perforated design. The case will be cooling the same components the old one did (with maybe a second video card or processor). The cooling kit I plan to be using is the H20 220 R2 kit from SwiftTech with a VGA cooler.

So... What does everyone think?

10-04-2004, 03:06 AM	#1
Metzen Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 18	The best case for water-cooling? Hi, I'm going to modify a case to try to be one of the best water-cooling cases and I'm looking for some input on whether my ideas are good or bad. I'm very new into the water-cooling scene and have been lurking on these forums picking up pieces here and there as I go, so I'm very much a junior when it comes to this stuff. Anyways, I've been looking at cases that are friendly to water-cooling and DIY'er's (or with a little modding could become greatly friendly) and would like some input from the guys who now this stuff To start, I've used a water-cooling system in a very low-flow air case with very little air intakes (2 x 80mm fans) and very little air out-takes (2 x 80mm fans, case has been modded for this) with two 80mm radiators on the intakes. The intakes themselves are limited by the surface area of the intake "hole" which is smaller than the total surface area of the two rad's + fans. Obviously, this has not been great for feeding air to the rad's fans and hurts the potential cooling performance to some degree, about 2-5C whether idle or under load. The load has been measured by removing the air-intake barrier and running the case with the door off (which seems to improve air-flow?). The water-cooling system used is the SwiftTech H20-80 (original with fill-and-bleed) with two 80mm rad's and a VGA cooler. This case has not been the most specatular it seems and required a fair bit of modding and it is still underwhelming in terms of performance. So, when looking for a new case, I've decided on the Lian Li PCV-1000. The modifications I've made to this case are: 1) Removed the bottom left hard-drive rack so the pump can fit there 2) Removed the floppy bay and bottom 5 1/2in bay to allow for a 120x240mm radiator setup The 12x24 rad's will go in the front of the case, which is a much, much more higher air-flow case because of perforated design. The case will be cooling the same components the old one did (with maybe a second video card or processor). The cooling kit I plan to be using is the H20 220 R2 kit from SwiftTech with a VGA cooler. So... What does everyone think?