Corsair C70 with a H100 in the front (sorta)

[Xenomorphical]

Some time ago a friend asked me to build him a new rig for gaming and 3D modelling to fit within a certain budget.
Also he wanted a case that wasn't the standard square plastic box model and for the rest i pretty much could go crazy on it.

This is what i ended up with for parts:

Intel i7-3820, 3.60GHz, 10MB
Corsair H100 in push/pull in the front
ASRock X79 Extreme4
Corsair C70
MSI GTX 660 OC edition
Corsair Vengeance 16GB @ 1600 in quad channel
Corsair Force GT 240GB for windows 7 64bit and 3D programs
WD Caviar Green 500GB 7200rpm 16MB for games and documents

And now the pictures from the build below:

Boxed

Unboxed.

SSD mounted in the Lian li fancontroller.
I choose for this fancontroller so i can make the most use of one DVD case slot.

The inside of the case, harddrive cages blocking airflow badly imo.

This is the only location where cold air can / is supposed to come in the case in the out-of-the-box setup.

I took these off and compared them with the new white LED fans and damn they (the black ones) hardly move any air at all.

Tell me how thats supposed to happen with harddrives installed blocking off the big gaps completely.

The black plastic looks pretty out of place compared to the green of the case.
Time to do some more modding.

I took off the front panel of the Lian li fancontroller, also i took out the circuitboard itself.
Then i put the front panel back on and from the inside of the case i marked out the location of where the hole for the knob had to be.

I drilled a hole in one of the front cover plates so only the knob sticks trough.

I did the old trick again for the DVD drive by mounting it deeper into the case.
Modding another front cover plate so it looks like a grenade pin makes it a nice total.

This is the back of the DVD cover plate.
The trick is to keep pulling stress off the rivet, i did this with a larger plastic part that slides over the back of the rivet.


The next part is a mod i did to fit the H100 radiator in the front of the case:

I made custom floor brackets to secure the radiator to the bottom of the case.

Like so.

One more bracket in the top and the radiator is one with the case.
Also the fans are mounted in a push configuration.

The H100 tubes arch nicely around the ram sticks as well, leaving 2 inches of space between them.

Two more Xigmatek 120mm fans added to the front of the case to supply the radiator with cold air.
The front and top fans are on the fancontroller and the H100 fans are connected to the pump on medium speed.
The rear fan is on a fixed speed connected to the MOBO.

The harddrive floats in rubber mounts in one of the DVD slots of the case.
I allways use the Nexus Doubletwin anti vibration kit for this.

The glow with the panel on and off.
Note that i swapped the plexiglass around in the sidepanel so you can actually see the parts in the case.

The final result in normal lighting.

Just like my own CM Trooper project i didn't like the idea of the rad being in the top of the case where the warm air is.
The way its setup now the front fans pass the cold air on to the H100 fans, trough the rad into the case.
This results in a Alpha temp of 11 degrees C above room temp for the CPU in idle.
Max CPU temps when testing the system with games didnt get over 35 degrees C.

Greetings,

Xeno

 

[remember300]

love it, might do this to my rad one day. one thing you could do i found to get better air flow is buy some accrylic and replace that whole window having no holes helps keep positive preasure and you wont have any dust issues

 

[Xenomorphical]

love it, might do this to my rad one day. one thing you could do i found to get better air flow is buy some accrylic and replace that whole window having no holes helps keep positive preasure and you wont have any dust issues

Yeah the fan mounting options in the sidepanel don't really work with this case.
I had two Xigmatek crystal 120mm fans in the sidepanel to test the airflow but i could barely feel any air coming of the fans with the panel on.
I think the plexi is to thick or the perforation in it isn't right or something.
To me it felt just as usefull as screwing those two fans on a solid sheet of material :/

Also, a custom accrylic window wasn't in the budget so i just flipped it around to show off the parts in the case.

 

[Permafrost]

looks good, love to way you mounted the rad might want to put afull window on the side panel. i did and it looks a lot better!

 

[Xenomorphical]

looks good, love to way you mounted the rad might want to put afull window on the side panel. i did and it looks a lot better!

Yeah that was my plan as well but again it didn't fit in the budget

 

[Permafrost]

it should cost you no more than £15 and makes a world of difference.

 

[remember300]

to start i payed £7 in B&Q to enough polyester something or other that gave me a window, i will buy better acrylic but thats all i needed but also i used the stuff to stick number plates on so it made a nice seal

it should cost you no more than £15 and makes a world of difference.

 

[Permafrost]

you see is can be done on the cheap, I went to B&Q and there stuff wasn't very helpful at all..

but yeah £7 nice find!

 

[Xenomorphical]

Sounds like i didnt push the customer enough then lol ah well, its a done deal now anyways and also a 1 hour drive away from where i live.
Might do it eventually tho next time i go visit :lol:

 

[Permafrost]

cool i look forward to seeing it!

 

[Liarma]

Sick mod man. I especially like what you did with the fan controller!

 

[Xenomorphical]

Sick mod man. I especially like what you did with the fan controller!

Yeah that worked out pretty well indeed the fanconroller thing.
All i had to do was take its front panel off and make the hole and it all went back in the original position but covered up all sneaky :lol:

I see you moved your HDD's up to the optical drive area as well in your rig.
Thats pretty much standard procedure for me now to create the most airflow in the front possible :lol: