Watercooled silverstone ft03 "zen"!

PaddieMayne

New member

• Aug 25, 2016

• #1

Yes my mission here is to Major mod a Silverstone FT03

I'm going to try to maintain the Hot air rising principle to maximise efficiency and cooling performance. Using a Silverstone 180mm FAN and an OCool 180mm x 45mm radiator,

I have completely removed the original PSU bottom bracket and modded the bottom panel to fit the 180mm AP fan and rad. This also involved removing some of the Mobo tray. Here is the stripped down and modded skeleton on the spray rack.

I'm going to use an SFXL Silverstone 700w Platinum PSU in this build ive calculated that I can mount it on the back panel and still have room for the intended watercooled RX480 8gb. Heres the back panel with 120mm fan hole and mounting screw holes for the PSU..

Heres a large box of all the stripped out bits..

So a bit more info on the build items, I intend thid to be my new rig for the upcoming zen cpu with an EK CPU waterblock and EK gpu water block for the RX480 8gb, EK pwm pump and 150mm bitspower res fitted directly to the pump all connected with 16mm petg tubing.
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Last edited: Aug 25, 2016

Dawelio

Active member

• Aug 25, 2016

• #2

Nice! This looks very interesting and the Silverstone FT03 is one of my favourite cases. So I'm totally subbed and I'll be sitting here waiting for the coming updates

 

PaddieMayne

New member

• Aug 25, 2016

• #3

Thanks buddy, Ill also be putting a window in the front panel.

 

Dawelio

Active member

• Aug 25, 2016

• #4

PaddieMayne said:

Thanks buddy, Ill also be putting a window in the front panel.

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Hehe damn dude! This I so gotta see man!

 

PaddieMayne

New member

• Aug 26, 2016

• #5

OK. putting it back together, ...Gives a better impression of the metal ive had to cut away from bottom panel and mobo panel..

Here you can see view from bottom with 180mm AP fan fitted...

You can see that I'm able to utilize the original bottom fan filter(magnetic)...

And from top with Rad fitted....

More too follow soon.

 

PaddieMayne

New member

• Feb 12, 2017

• #6

JUST an update, with Ryzen imminent. Been doing some fine tuning on the 180mm rad and fan fitment, including false floor and new filter fitting.

 

Davva2004

Active member

• Feb 12, 2017

• #7

Holy crap that looks good!

 

PaddieMayne

New member

• Feb 18, 2017

• #8

OK small update..

First picture showing cable area of case with hdd mount and twin ssd mount also water pump bracket mounted using a metal shelf bracket,

Then some pictures of the updated back panel with 700w sfx Silverstone psu mounting cable routing and tidying

Finally ive fitted a false back wall inside the pc to clean up lines hide cable hole coming into case using an aluminium sheet covered in carbon vinyl and an AMD homage Red Dragon, which I'm Shure wont look as harsh when the case is all closed up.

 

AngryGoldfish

Old N Gold

• Feb 20, 2017

• #9

In. I love seeing these small cases get so much love.

 

PaddieMayne

New member

• Feb 22, 2017

• #10

Just an update just pulled the trigger on this...
Gigabyte
GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...am4-ddr4-micro-atx-motherboard-mb-559-gi.html

And this.....
AMD
Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-39x-am.html

Not long now and it will be build time

 

PaddieMayne

New member

• Mar 14, 2017

• #11

OK all the parts are now here, been waiting 1 week for the mobo...
You will also notice ive done the window mod for the front panel...

Here testing getting ready to install Windows 10 64bit on M.2

 

Last edited: Aug 13, 2017

PaddieMayne

New member

• Mar 15, 2017

• #12

And so it begins....
Spot the hidden details such as the red painted highlights on the supremacy block....

 

Lynx

New member

• Mar 15, 2017

• #13

Looking real good man, looking forwards to the temperature results!

 

PaddieMayne

New member

• Mar 16, 2017

• #14

Ok a ton load more pictures today...
Fitting GPU water block noticed the modded red lettering on backplate......

Starting to pipe up now....

Filling, Leak testing and Bleeding.....

First boot...

Temp and Stress testing... you can see temp results for yourself 180mm AP FAN is @ 775rpm

BIOS settings all on Auto getting base of 3.2ghz on all cores when stressing and 3.8ghz on single core....Memory running at 2133 hopefully BIOS update will allow it to run at default XMP3100 but it wont boot with XMP on at the moment.

 

Last edited by a moderator: Mar 16, 2017

AlienALX

Well-known member

• Mar 16, 2017

• #15

It looks nice but must you shout, in bold? I really don't see the point of that, other than to make it even more obnoxious for phone users.

 

PaddieMayne

New member

• Mar 16, 2017

• #16

Bold? didn't realize I had sorry.

 

AngryGoldfish

Old N Gold

• Mar 16, 2017

• #17

That is a really cool and unique tubing path.

 

PaddieMayne

New member

• Mar 16, 2017

• #18

AND FINISHED..
Last pictures of PC as one and in situ on my desk.

 

AngryGoldfish

Old N Gold

• Mar 16, 2017

• #19

That is awesome. I love that the front is the focus. Great idea.

 

Dawelio

Active member

• Mar 17, 2017

• #20

Really nice indeed, really sleek and nice work!