d3daiM

Watercooling! Fun stuff! Let's get to it

With the lack of pictures, I present to you these select few of the finished setup!













I also had to make a custom "T" splitter for the Danger Den fillport.



I found an "el cheapo" plastic T splitter with 1/2" barbs in my hose junk department of my house.

I chopped off the plastic barbs and will tap the holes for my own high flow 1/2" 1/4 BSPP barbs.



Here it is tapped, painted, and assembled.

I was worried about leaks so I wrapped a lot of the think in teflon wrapping and then put green electrical tape on it to make it look a bit better. I then proceeded to ensure that it wouldn't leak by adding a few heavy duty clamps.



Coolant I used

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing

d3daiM

I also got my lighting done, theres a total of 5 custom LED strips:







(As Requested)

Well, for my LED Strips I bought a few different colored packs of 50 5mm LEDs and hooked them up in a series-parallel circuit inside pieces of channel metal.

First, I found the channel metal at Orchard hardware, cut it to fit various parts of my case, then proceeded to mark it up for the amount of LED's I wanted per strip.

I then hole punched and drilled out the holes to fit the LEDs.

Along with my LEDs, I bought chrome 5mm holders. I secured the LEDs in the holders and then placed them in the holes with a dab of hot glue on the inside.

With all the LEDs placed, proceed to connect in a series-parallel circuit running off the 12V and GND line in groups of 3 LEDs each with a 100ohm resistors on the end.

Remember: the short leg of the LED is negative, long is positive.

If you can make sense out of my following pictures, it may help you go along.

Steps to build:

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing

d3daiM

Another feature of my mod is the 525" bay grills:



had to cut my 5.25" bays to fit with my case handles..



standoffs I used..



standoffs are placed.



The Aqua-Computer Airplex Evo 240 grill



painted mdder's mesh.



shazam!









The Aqua-Computer Airplex Evo 120's fit *perfectly* across if they are mounded sideways.





I had to cut the lower to fit









caged in



Done

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing

d3daiM

Here's the 5 temp sensors for the aquaero placed in the fron top, bottom top, back top, back bottom and water of my case..











The last one is for the water and is placed in a fitting for the aquatube

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing

d3daiM

An update for the various stickers used in my case



AMD on my shroud, I am a true junkie..







This guy even gave me free stickers!










and last, but not least...



Thanks overclock.net (admin) !!!!

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing

d3daiM

I also had to replace my heatercore with a radiator because it had some factory leaks:





It's an Aqua-Computer Even Xtreem 120



I also put some C-Channle trimming from mnpctech on the bottom of the shroud for noise dampening.




I also found out that it would be impossible for me to get my two hard drives installed in my 5.25" bays because I have not enough space, so I came up with a better idea:



marked for custom brackets..



cut.







A suitable alternative

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing

d3daiM

It's time that I've showed you what I've been up to with my side panel.

Let's check it out.



A dusty side panel..



Hey! There it is again!



taped.



design drawn out..



mesh I will be using for the bottom



began cutting..



to make a long story short, here's what I came up with



I want put this stencil on the side.



The plan is, I will be spraying the stencil with gray primer.



Done with the stencil and added plexi to the top. Finished!

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing

d3daiM

Ok..TIME FOR THE FINISHED PICTURES!!















grill cage is nice

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing

d3daiM

My computer room setup



Overclock.net represent





^ the dual blue and white LED setup I did. They dim as the water is cooler and brighten as the water becomes warmer. Very cool.



my workstation











Vista!

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing

d3daiM

Well, there was my fun!

I hope you enjoyed my case mod!

If you are sad that it is over so soon, don't worry, there is more to come! I bit of fine tuning and add ons for the mods I could not complete in time:

- A dremel cut out of my alias that goes over the PSU LCD on the motherboard side panel..

- Pop out TFT LCD screen!

- dual monitor setup



I will also be benchmarking the thing in the coming weeks and seeing how far it can OC as it is aimed at visual appearance AND performance.

So..stick around! There's more fun to come!

__________________

Performance Shroud FAQ | Extensive Guide to RMAing