Water Cooled HTPC

[firky]

Here is a sneak peek to show how my design will look.

 

[PruritusAni]

I absolutely loved the antikink coil on the inch or so of tube connecting the rad to the center beam. It is indeed some impressive work you are doing here. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Edited December 18, 2010 by PruritusAni

[firky]

I would like some advice from you guys.

 

 

As you can see from my drawing above the stand will hold a 480mm radiator in a vertical position. But which way should I mount the Rad.

 

 

With the fitting at the Bottom? shown on the Left

 

Pro's:

 

Less tube needed.

Easy path to pumps.

Less fittings required.

Easy to drain.

Will work as header tank for pump.

Better to look at no fittings sticking out of the top.

 

Con's:

 

Air may build up and be stuck in the top of the Rad.

Hard to fill water would have to be pumped in unless lay down.

 

 

Or with the fittings at the Top shown on the right.

 

Pro's:

Easy to fill.

Easy to remove air lock if any.

 

Con's:

More tube needed.

would look ugly with tubes passing up each side of the stand.

More fittings required.

 

 

What do you guys think?

 

 

After some more Googleing I found Rad's with reservoir at the top and a select few with a bleed screw at the top. I ended up ordering a "phobya G-Changer V1.2 480mm Quad Radiator"

[firky]

I absolutely loved the antikink coil on the inch or so of tube connecting the rad to the center beam. It is indeed some impressive work you are doing here. Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

 

I felt it was defiantly needed lol Thanks for the kind words.

[firky]

One of my orders from RS arrived this week so I started work on the lead the will connect my cooling tower to my HTPC.

 

 

Unfortunately one of the chassis mounted connectors is on backorder and due at the end of January.

 

 

So I set to work disassembled the plug (a lot of parts for a small plug). Next I started soldering.

 

 

Each wire is individually numbered from 1-7. I helping hand was defiantly need for this job luckily I had my trusty crocodile clips to hand.

 

 

Next hellerman sleeving was added this really did tidy up the job.

 

 

Next the cable braid was added and the back shell fitted and tightened.

 

 

This time I made sure to slide the back shell on first. The whole process was then started again for the female end. I made sure to solder the wires to the correct pins.

 

 

Hellerman sleeving added and then the braid was pulled up and the back shell was tightened.

 

 

The finished lead measures up at 2m. 7 single insulated multi strand cables were used each with a CSA of 0.2mm

[eisbar]

Looks good, quite excited to see the final results buddy.

[firky]

Thanks elsbar.

 

 

Some more parts came today. I ordered a 40mm fan I plan to use this to cool my fan controller which will be incorporated in my cooling tower.

 

 

The fan is well made and very quiet its hardly audible. The fan was packed with some self tapping screws.

 

 

But for what I need the fan for the self tapping screws are no good and to short. So I got my self some M4 taps and set to work only taping two or three turns at a time the plastic is very brittle and it did not want to crack or span the fan housing.

 

 

 

This process was repeated on each conner. Now 4x4m screw now thread in to the fan housing there is no need for any nuts when mounting this fan.

[firky]

 

I got my self this A C Ryan connecter set it was really cheap less than a £1 I ordered it purely for the tools they should make removing pins very easy.

 

 

Well I have been using Arctic cooling silver 5. But for this build I though I would try some new MX-2. My Ek Compression fittings have arrived they will be using on my GPU blocks.

 

 

Here is how I will use the EK fittings on the GPU blocks I was going to stager the fittings by using a bitspower extender as I thought it would make it easier to tighter the fittings.

[firky]

 

The Rest of my EK fittings have arrived as well as the temp senors I plan to use with the T-Balancer.

 

 

120mm fans very quiet good quality build. I will be using 8 of these is push pull on my 480mm rad.

 

 

Add the icing on the cake the one any only T-Balancer BigNg Fan controller.

[firky]

 

My Rad arrived today. It really is huge it should easily keep my i7 and GPU's under control.

 

 

I couldn't wait to get the fans on it. Then I gave it a quick blast on the fan controller. Very quiet even at full speed.

 

 

Then I added then other 4 fans. 110mm thick looks awesome tho!

[firky]

I took the Time to draw up a full 3D model of my design and I'm glad I did because I picked up on a few errors. But here we go my almost final design.

 

 

Back Right view and Right view.

 

 

Front Right view and Front Left view.

 

 

Bottom view.

[firky]

 

This is my design for a back plate on my case it will support the bits-power bulk head fittings that are attached to the male QDC. As well as holding the socket for the power lead supplying the cooling tower.

 

 

 

As there is minimal room behind my case the tubing would just kink when he case was pushed back on to the shelf how ever I ordered my self some 90deg QDC fittings from Koolance they work a treat.