Well, here's Franken Case. I guess you could say she has been modded some. No whinning about the looks of the rad or the outside fans as I will be making a performance shroud that will completely close in the top. I also plan to get some antech cool spots to cool the Mosfets, top outside fan is doing that. Not sure about how to get air to the video cards yet.
First thing I did was to create a wind tunnel under the 5 1/4 bays. It works really well at directing a ton of air into the case. No comments on the Gateway DVD player, it works and I'm cheap.
I may put a splitter back here to direct air to the video cards.
Before water cooling I removed all of the holes up top for better airflow. I also removed all the plastic line pieces on the top, again for better airflow.
I made a cut on the backside of the mobo tray to allow for easier wiring routing.
Decided to go with water as I just could not cool the chip in this thing down and overclock at all. That's not a knock against the case, opening the side panel and stuffing a fan against the computer didn't help either. It's just a volt hog. Also, wiring is not to bad. Not happy with all the wiring in the hard drive cage area but for now it's okay.
Here's where I sat the rad for now. It will stay up top, but I am going to make a performance shroud to completely enclose it and provide better pull for the fans, as 1" just isn't enough space.
Those holes I cut befiore watercooling came in handy here.
Due to space limitations, the resivoir and pump, I have currently mounted two fans on the outside of the case. Upper is for the mosfets lower is for the SLI cards. Ran the wiring through holes beneath the fans.
Here she is all closed up and looking freakish!
