Water Cooled 400R

[Overclocker55]

So I already showed my rig off in the gallery but I have plans to water cool it. I already have a buildlog going on another site but I'll make on here too!

Current Specs:
In My Sig


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Water Cooling Parts:
EK Supreme LTX Intel CPU Liquid Cooling Block -Ordering
PrimoChill PrimoFlex Advanced LRT Tubing -Ordering
SwiftTech MCR220-XP 240mm Radiator -On It's Way!
XSPC X20 750 Pump/Res Dual Bay -Ordered
6X Monsoon Free Center Compression Fitting White -Ordering
Black Ice GT Stealth 120 Radiator - Ordering Next Month
XSPC Razor nVidia GTX 680 Full Coverage VGA Block - Ordering Next Month

First Pic ( Will have the loop like this until funds for the 680 come in )
Second Pic Is The Final Build




Stay tuned for updates as my rad is coming in this week and waterblock next week! ^_^

 

[AndyM95]

Looking forward to it! I have a 500R myself and I'm always interested how people do their water cooling builds in the Carbide series cases because there isn't an awful lot of room to work with.

 

[Overclocker55]

Thin rads and research my friend

 

[AndyM95]

Thin rads and research my friend

I know I have mine water cooled, I just find it interesting.

 

[Overclocker55]

Yeah I will prolly have to mount the fans uptop. Not sure atm

 

[airdeano]

is this going to be an overclock rig?
starting with a CPU loop is fine, but just adding a 120 whatever, isn't really a solution
for cooling the CPU/GPU.

to properly do an overclocking CPU/GPU loop, you need surface area, but the case
is limiting this (other than going outside the case - blah) you might wanna look into
relocating or discarding the HDD cages and mount a decent if not beastly 240 in the
front. but this will kinda clash with the mega finned MRC up top. so different fans
will not perform well enough to keep a good headroom. two regular 60mm rads
can cover a medium OC and GPU, but those will have to be some great rads.
AlphaCool XT/UT, XSPC RX, HL SR1. low fin per inch, low-low fan speed (600-1200rpm)

the 750 pump will last a lil, but look for an upgrade when adding the GPU to the loop.

 

[Overclocker55]

Well I might just go ahead and water cool my gpu and put my stock cooler on my cpu for now. I also own a HAF X so when It's time to water cool everything I can get a bigger rad for it.