Silverstone TJ08-E Owners Club. - Page 170

Originally Posted by psyclum 

baddad62 has an elegant (if abit extreme) solution by moving the entire cooling engine (radiator/fan assembly) outside the case as seen here

however, his mod actually requires the minimal amount of cutting and modding. he simply made his case "bigger" by extending his thermal solution beyond the physical confines of the case. essentially he's exploiting the primary feature of liquid cooling to it's fullest extent. he recognize the fact that liquid allows him to transport the heat elsewhere, and, he's transporting the heat to a location that can do no possible harm to his system (outside the case) and as far away from the cool air intake of the case as possible to avoid cool air contamination by hot exhaust.
for a 240rad that's about the best solution you can have. the other solution involve removing the HDD cage and actually mounting the rad side ways on the side panel.... would be a pain in the arse every time he has to open the side panel. for 2 x 120 rads, the best solution would be the bigger rad on the rear exhaust port and cutting the hole on the roof of the 5.25 bay for the smaller rad. no hot air remains inside the case and all other components stay cool while retaining the 180mm fan as intake for crucial cooling of your RAID.

Originally Posted by psyclum 


i don't recommend making the 180mm an exhaust. that would put your system into negative pressure mode and invite tons of dust everywhere to migrate into your system and complicate an already difficult thermal solution.

what you have to keep in mind is WHERE the heat goes after you transport it around in the water loop. heat does not magically disappear, it has to go somewhere. ideally you want the heat to be dissipated via the radiator to an external environment (hence the suggestion of cutting a hole on the roof of the 5.25 bays) if the heat remains inside the case, then you are simply moving the heat around and not alot of "cooling" is actually done. the heat will effectively be raising the ambient temp inside the case and cause problems with other heat producing components such as PSU, RAM, northbridge, HDD, etc..

baddad62 has an elegant (if abit extreme) solution by moving the entire cooling engine (radiator/fan assembly) outside the case as seen here

however, his mod actually requires the minimal amount of cutting and modding. he simply made his case "bigger" by extending his thermal solution beyond the physical confines of the case. essentially he's exploiting the primary feature of liquid cooling to it's fullest extent. he recognize the fact that liquid allows him to transport the heat elsewhere, and, he's transporting the heat to a location that can do no possible harm to his system (outside the case) and as far away from the cool air intake of the case as possible to avoid cool air contamination by hot exhaust.

for a 240rad that's about the best solution you can have. the other solution involve removing the HDD cage and actually mounting the rad side ways on the side panel.... would be a pain in the arse every time he has to open the side panel. for 2 x 120 rads, the best solution would be the bigger rad on the rear exhaust port and cutting the hole on the roof of the 5.25 bay for the smaller rad. no hot air remains inside the case and all other components stay cool while retaining the 180mm fan as intake for crucial cooling of your RAID.

Originally Posted by psyclum 

what you have to keep in mind is WHERE the heat goes after you transport it around in the water loop. heat does not magically disappear, it has to go somewhere. ideally you want the heat to be dissipated via the radiator to an external environment (hence the suggestion of cutting a hole on the roof of the 5.25 bays) if the heat remains inside the case, then you are simply moving the heat around and not alot of "cooling" is actually done. the heat will effectively be raising the ambient temp inside the case and cause problems with other heat producing components such as PSU, RAM, northbridge,

Originally Posted by lightsout 

Thats sick it looks like it fits right in there.

Originally Posted by MaxFTW 

What is the best PSU to get for this case, The XFX is 2mm thicker so i cant have the fan facing down.

Originally Posted by BadDad62 


Ha Ha ha you think that a bit extreme, the external idea actually started with a 420mm rad then down to a 360mm rad then the 240mm rad .