grazzhopper
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Well folks it works and works well.
The outside mmmm, do a google for lots of good pics, I am simply showing what it looks like under real world conditions (fuzzi) .
No room for a duel Black Ice Stealth GT radiator in the top or bottom of the case so ended up having to make custom ali brackets to mount the rad in the front bay area.
Just able to squeeze in Rad and keep :
fan control switch
top external ports (sound usb etc)
lowest drive bay, at the moment has floppy drive, i expect it will end up containing a card reader.
Area is still "work in progress" thinking of milling centre area out of each blanking plate, any suggestion would be nice?
The inside view, pretty crowded. case is really designed for external water cooling unit, or a large heat piped air cooler.
closer view, the big silver box is an exhaust fan, since taking photo's i have changed loop so that cpu-chipset goes over chipset-res and does not rest against fan box.
Res is by swiftech with home made bracket, blocks are by Alphacool, (can not see the offset chipset block in these photo's)
As the case has no window kit, I have not added a UV reactive dye to the coolant (non conductive "FluidXP").
The Alphacool block.
As Alphacool use 8mm fittings, and Swiftech use 3/8", and I could not buy in Australia the proper 3/8" fittings (ie. dangerden or Koolance) I ended up having a friend lathe "O" ring space's into standard 3/8" airline brass fittings.
Under the silver box is the Tban BigNG controller, that controls both the pump and rad fans, as well as 7800gtx cooler. Pump, rad fans (2), rear exhaust fans(2) all run between 70% - 78%.
Tban heatsink 60 degrees.
Pump is Swiftech, half the size of a pack of cigs, currently mounted on to side wall behind power supply, will eventually be suspended by lacky bands as it resonates the case .
Thermal compounded, I imported a tube of Liquid Pro from Coollaboratory in Germany.
Performance:
Ambient (case): 28 degrees
CPU : 28.5 - 29.5 Idle
CPU : 32 - 34 Load
Chipset : 34 Idle
Chipset : 42 Load
Next year will add GPU to the loop.
Noise:
The air setup was silent at idle and got louder under load and was shocking in our Australian summer. Now comp a little noisier at idle, but this does not change will full load. ( and no the Tban does not have ambient compensation, but can be programmed to run different profiles at different timers of the day, a function i have not jet used)
Yesterday Logitech G15 keyboard arrived, and I downloaded a program called hyperLCD. It has a plugin for the Tban and a standard porting into the G15. So i should (when i learn how to program hyperlcd) have Tban data on keyboard display.
Any body have the script to do so please post
The outside mmmm, do a google for lots of good pics, I am simply showing what it looks like under real world conditions (fuzzi) .
No room for a duel Black Ice Stealth GT radiator in the top or bottom of the case so ended up having to make custom ali brackets to mount the rad in the front bay area.
Just able to squeeze in Rad and keep :
fan control switch
top external ports (sound usb etc)
lowest drive bay, at the moment has floppy drive, i expect it will end up containing a card reader.
Area is still "work in progress" thinking of milling centre area out of each blanking plate, any suggestion would be nice?
The inside view, pretty crowded. case is really designed for external water cooling unit, or a large heat piped air cooler.
closer view, the big silver box is an exhaust fan, since taking photo's i have changed loop so that cpu-chipset goes over chipset-res and does not rest against fan box.
Res is by swiftech with home made bracket, blocks are by Alphacool, (can not see the offset chipset block in these photo's)
As the case has no window kit, I have not added a UV reactive dye to the coolant (non conductive "FluidXP").
The Alphacool block.
As Alphacool use 8mm fittings, and Swiftech use 3/8", and I could not buy in Australia the proper 3/8" fittings (ie. dangerden or Koolance) I ended up having a friend lathe "O" ring space's into standard 3/8" airline brass fittings.
Under the silver box is the Tban BigNG controller, that controls both the pump and rad fans, as well as 7800gtx cooler. Pump, rad fans (2), rear exhaust fans(2) all run between 70% - 78%.
Tban heatsink 60 degrees.
Pump is Swiftech, half the size of a pack of cigs, currently mounted on to side wall behind power supply, will eventually be suspended by lacky bands as it resonates the case .
Thermal compounded, I imported a tube of Liquid Pro from Coollaboratory in Germany.
Performance:
Ambient (case): 28 degrees
CPU : 28.5 - 29.5 Idle
CPU : 32 - 34 Load
Chipset : 34 Idle
Chipset : 42 Load
Next year will add GPU to the loop.
Noise:
The air setup was silent at idle and got louder under load and was shocking in our Australian summer. Now comp a little noisier at idle, but this does not change will full load. ( and no the Tban does not have ambient compensation, but can be programmed to run different profiles at different timers of the day, a function i have not jet used)
Yesterday Logitech G15 keyboard arrived, and I downloaded a program called hyperLCD. It has a plugin for the Tban and a standard porting into the G15. So i should (when i learn how to program hyperlcd) have Tban data on keyboard display.
Any body have the script to do so please post
