Fisrt water cooling build :)

[Admiral Huddy]

Originally Posted by Bigstan

Nice work Huddy.

I've always fancied doing this myself. One of the things I am wary of is modifying the case for the rad/fans. Is there a list of cases on which you can fit this stuff without having to cut any bits of the case out? I'm sure there are a few where you can just screw the rad/fans onto, it would be handy knowing which ones are suitable.

This was certainly the biggest dilema I had, as although the Kandalf case i had is a full tower, it's poorly designed inside. After hours of "googling" and research, I didn't find one person who had successfully installed internal water cooling in the Kandalf. As a last resort, I bought the radiator first to see if it could go anywhere. The only possible place I could see was on the floor but this meant some serious modification by cutting away the lower HDD bays and the fan holes.

I then saw the the Coolermaster RC1100 Cosmos Sport, which has room at the top to house a triple rad without modification. My thinking was to buy a new case (albeit an expensive case) and get some money back on the old. This would mean less time customising. It also meant i could start the build without breaking down the system until I needed to.

According to my work shop log, the build took 7 hours over a course of 3 weeks.