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oneeyeuk
Had a good day yesterday.
Managed to mess about with my rig for about 10 hours in total.
First, stripped everything out of my chassis. This was also a good opportunity to give everything a quick clean.
Eclipse makes it soo easy with all the removable panels and motherboard tray.
Assembled my rads next so I could see how they were going to fit in the case.
After trying in the rads (the 120.1 fitted fine) I could see that I was going to have to cut a section out of the PSU tray for the barbs on the 120.2 rad to poke through.
Note the position for the HDD cage. The 120.1 rad occupies the space where the main HDD cage used to be.The drive cage I’m using is the optional HDD cage which comes attached inside the top of the case slung under the PSU tray. Most people remove it because it gets in the way of any decent CPU cooler.
After cutting, I tidied up the hole a bit with some edge trim.
The 120.2 rad in-situ.
And a close up of the barbs poking through the hole.
The rad actually rests on the edge trim, air flow isn’t badly impeded because of the hole that I cut for the barbs.
I was able to secure the other end of the rad with self tapping screws through the screw holes in one of the 5.25″ drive bays.
I need to find something to make a spacer for this one.
Next up, CPU block.
Forgot to take pics of installation of the optional back plate I used. But, once fitted the screw heads clashed on the motherboard tray. So I had to drill 4 holes to accomodate the screw heads.
The holes are a little untidy as I went straight from a 2mm pilot to a 10mm drill bit. If I hadn’t rushed and done it in a few more stages it would have looked a bit better.
I also decided to use the optional dedicated S775 mounting plate for the EK Supreme block.
Next up, fitting the GPU block, the EK-FC8800GTX.
Removed my Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 8800 cooler first and cleaned up with isopropyl alcohol.
Then it was ready for fitting.
The EK block comes with spacers for your barbs which you must use to stop the threads poking too far into the block.
Also, for a good thermal interface, apply a little TIM when you attach the aluminium MOSFET cooler to the main block.
Quick pic of the GFX installed.
Had to do a couple of small mods to make the drive cage fit before I could start putting everything back together and piping up.
First, had to cut off the bottom 2/3 of the black plastic cable tidy panel on the motherboard tray.
I would have removed it altogether, but the top 1/3 houses the speaker.
Then, I had to cut off the ‘lip’ that protrudes from one side of the drive cage.
The drive cage is held in place with velcro strips.
FIrst attempt at pump postition as I had originally planned.
Decided to relocate the pump as it would be in the way of the HDD’s.
New pump position and tube cut to size and installed.
Still had to move the pump 1/2″ further forward as it was clashing on the 220mm fan on my side panel.
Anti-kink coils fitted and tubes fixed in position with jubilee clips.
At this stage, the proper thing to do would be to flush the loop to get rid of any debris.
However, me being a little too eager I just went for it and dumped a load of acid green Feser One into it.
The loop took a whole litre bottle, plus nearly two fingers of a second litre bottle.
Bled the last remnants of air out of the system through the blled screw on the top 120.2 rad, which I was able to acces through the front panel.
Left the pump running all last night and no sign of any leakage.
Be very bad for my reputation if there was any leaks as I install industrial/commercial gas and water pipework for a living.
Here’s a few shots of the loop running with my fans on too.
Apologies for blurry ones. Will take some more using my tripod later.
Things left to do:
Install rest of hardware and check system still boots up.
Check how well the loop cools my CPU & GPU.
See if I can push my overclocks any further.
Sleeve and tidy cables.
Order, then install acylic mirror panel for bottom of my case.
Wait on back order of UV CCFL’s.
Wait on back order of mesh panel to make a rad grill in my top panel.
Stop buggering about with my PC and get back to playing COD4.
Looking good! Nice work.
ThanQ 
Looking good - given that you’ve got a mesh side panel, is it noisy?
Thanks Alex. 
It’s not very noisy at all.
It’s audible, yes, but not obtrusive.
I sleep in the room with it still on most nights.
Although, my fiance sometimes has to physically threaten me to turn it off as she is disturbed by the glow. 
Hats off to you, that looks damn good. Ten hours too. Thigs left to do list add, stop kidding oneself. Next will be tha north bridge, then the south bridge etc etc. lol.
Its unavoidable, it is your destiny.
Aaaargh, this is the second time i tried to send a reply down shiny little! last one got lost in mobo. ah mate you have never seen a 4 yr old and a 2 yr old look at an AMD like that. Well funny, jack keeps it in his room!
AAAArgh, that one went before i finshed! Thanks for the reply mate.
rebuild news. Slow man, got mofsets, s/b and cpu blocks, waiting on n/b. also had the koolance splitters and some UV+ shiny blood.
Just discoverd i can fit 2 240 xflows in the lower chamber and the fans and both pumps. so gonna order 2 rads in a bit.
Will try and put sum pic up on my plog tonight but i warn you the 2 mice in shiny lapbook are lazy gits. thanks mate