Watercooling Antec 900

name='Marci' said:
S'a couplea threads down - "Suck or Blow" - http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=12736
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Ok so i've found that... Its not really definitive...

I guess it depends on the setup.. With regard to the 900's 200mm fan, I dunno that it would be that efficient at sucking heat out from the rad.. It doesn't fit it properly and yeah its big but dunno how much air it would shift being used in that way. 1 plus point being the heat would rise out of it naturally and some would be sucked away..

Ahhhh I dunno.

Might stick to hanging it off the back.
 
Somewhere on XS there's a guy who did it, and stated the 200mm top fan was relatively useless in comparison to having two 120mm fans properly mounted directly to the rad... can't find the link at the mo...

As for what'll fit where... Grab Sketchup, grab the radiators and other watercooling parts for Sketchup from http://scc.jezmckean.com/ and grab the Antec 900 Sketchup from HERE

For the basics of how to use Sketchup, see the tutorials here: http://sketchup.google.com/tutorials.html
 
name='Marci' said:
Somewhere on XS there's a guy who did it, and stated the 200mm top fan was relatively useless in comparison to having two 120mm fans properly mounted directly to the rad... can't find the link at the mo...

As for what'll fit where... Grab Sketchup, grab the radiators and other watercooling parts for Sketchup from http://scc.jezmckean.com/ and grab the Antec 900 Sketchup from HERE

For the basics of how to use Sketchup, see the tutorials here: http://sketchup.google.com/tutorials.html
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See thats what I pretty much thought... It would be nowhere near the performance of 120mm fans directly mounted to the rad.

As for those link :) thank you... I'll take a look over them later in the weekend as messing about with pc ideas is out of the windows untill then (girlfriend).

I'd really plump for the rear mounting of the 360 rad if I had any way of getting my hands on brackets like that bloke used in the first pic I posted... Searched a bit but can't find anything as i'm guessing they were made by the person whos rig it was. I'd make them myself but have no way to bend the metal into shape. Got an angle grinder to chop em up alright.
 
These are the brackets, they just need painting now :-)

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Wow what a cool thread this is! I am actually contemplating cooling my Antec 900 with liquid and I am also new to this - there are people which say the 900 isn't good for this, but I think with slight modifications internal kits can be well installed.

My current train of thought is to mount a 240 rad underneath the 200mm fan or simply take out the 200mm fan and install a rad in there - the pump can go at the bottom in an unused drive bay and the resevoir can go in a single drive bay also - should be great if I can plan it out properly.
 
name='cube' said:
Wow what a cool thread this is! I am actually contemplating cooling my Antec 900 with liquid and I am also new to this - there are people which say the 900 isn't good for this, but I think with slight modifications internal kits can be well installed.

My current train of thought is to mount a 240 rad underneath the 200mm fan or simply take out the 200mm fan and install a rad in there - the pump can go at the bottom in an unused drive bay and the resevoir can go in a single drive bay also - should be great if I can plan it out properly.
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See I was thinking like that originally, but I decided on a 360 rad. I don't need that cooling power currently but in the future i'm planning on a quad and for the price difference I may as well future proof with the 360.. Well actually a 120.3.

Also I quite like the big fan on top as its very quiet and quite efficient at removing the heat that will still be in there from my GFX card and northbridge. Don't particularly want to butcher the case up too much either.

Anyway for a 240 it does seem there are 1 or 2 possibilities for squeezing it in there. I'm gonna plump for the rear mounting as I don't think it'll look to out of place on this case.
 
My Antec 900 is water-cooled -- I'm using a PA120.3 and hanging it off the back of the system using the Swiftech Rad-Box:

http://www.swiftnets.com/products/MCB-120-R2.asp

I basically mounted the PA120.3 from the middle fan mount ( I originally tried doing it from the top but found my Rad was taller than the box from that mount point). A use 3 Ultra Kaze 2000's mounted on the back in a pull config.

Since I don't have an image on hand I'll describe the setup.

A) First, on the back of the system where the metal butts up to the plastic top cover (where the 200mm fan is) I drilled 2x 7/8" holes and put rubber grommets in them. This is where the tubing goes in and out of the system.

B) From the radiator I go straight to my Apogee GT CPU block, from there to my NB Chipset cooler, then to my 8800GTX board, from there the GTX dumps into my MICRORES,

C) The Microres is mounted right on/above my PSU using the rear 'screen' above the PSU to mount the microres with the barbs pointing to the front of the system. The microres outlet connects to the MC655 pump inlet.

D) The pump is mounted on the bottom of the case by removing the lower drive cage. I wasn't using the space, I mounted my drives up on the upper one. The pump faces towards the back of the computer so the outlet of the microres and inlet of the pump face each other.

E) Pump outlet loops back up to the top into the Radiator again.

For me, it all fits nicely, I did some other case modifcations to route wiring to the back panel.

P-
 
OK, I got a pic of my inside setup. You can see the flow from the top to the CPU, to the NB then to the GTX down to the Microres. I could've used elbows but I didn't want to compromise gpm/lpm -- and I thought about using a T-Fill, but I like how the microres works -- also to empty the system I unscrew the microres from the back put the computer on a bench and lower the microres, turn it over and it dumps the fluid.

WC_Layout_010308.jpg


Using the flow calculator this setup gives me about 1.62 gpm, with the PA120.3 I'm getting ambient + 6C for water temp -- that's with 3 Scythe Ultra Kaze 2000 RPMs on a sunbeam 4x fan controller -- they're running a little over 7v so they're pretty quiet as well (this shot was prior to my pa being installed, it was with my older swiftech 220).

You can just make out next to the pump the big 1 1/2" holes I drilled into the back 'wall' of the A900 for passing the wiring to the back side.(it's right above where the tube connects to the pump on the bottom line) -- This made it much easier to get rid of clutter and really open up the case for the piping.

Lastly, I still run 2 case fans, the top bay fan for cooling the RAID-0 drives and the top 200mm fan at medium setting to keep air passing over the 680i's voltage regulator mosfets.

P-
 
Ok so here is the basic plan... Was bored at work and only had paint to hand.. Paint FTW (sorta)!!

I'm posting both as without the tubes it actually looked decent (check the WB detail..)... Tubing on paint is tough!

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pftw.jpg


Only question I have is with the Microres does it matter which way round the inlet and outlet is?? Reason I have it this way is I can do with the extra height on the out so the pump will be that lil bit lower than the res.
 
What I meant was, it's kinda weird. Seeing as the rad is cooling nothing but air..

tbh I would do pump > res > rad > cpu > pump
 
name='Brooksie' said:
What I meant was, it's kinda weird. Seeing as the rad is cooling nothing but air..

tbh I would do pump > res > rad > cpu > pump
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What do you mean cooling nothing but air?
 
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