Me too, lulz

hey its wet! go ahead!

Thanks! It was my first time sleeving, but like I said, I did my homework, and it certainly paid off!

Thanks!

That was the goal!

I couldn't bring myself to go flexible, this just looked too good :)

It's a Corsair 350D, it's designed for use with water cooling hence the removable hard drive bays etc. It's also a fairly big case for something that only takes mATX boards and smaller.

I get that question alot! Came from about 6 months of planning, and about 6 more months of research on how water cooling works, and the most efficient type of loops. I have 2 240mm radiators, one 30mm thick, one 60mm thick.

Thanks! The pictures were just the PC, a bedsheet draped over a posterboard, natural light through a window, and a nikon point and shoot camera! (and a flash for some of the pics).

Thank you, all these positive comments really mean a lot to me.

I am using Mayhems Pastel White coolant. When you fill your loop with coolant, beware that coolant DOES stain tubing and sometimes clog up and make your waterblocks all mucky. If using colored coolant make sure to have a very high flow loop with a good pump. Colored tubing and DI water is recommended, but they didn't make the type of acrylic tubing I wanted in color... good luck and happy building!

Thanks! I peeled off the label (tedious), and removed the glue with some goo gone, and carefully put two layers off red carbon fiber vinyl film on it so it was completely opaque (took me 3 tries!). With the fan grill, I kinda lucked out, and forgot to peel off the plastic packaging cover on the corsair circular logo in the middle, so I painted it, and then peeled that off, and voila!

Honestly, I started by googling it! I then joined the forum I mentioned, overclock.net, which is pretty much a community of watercoolers, and modders, and asked them questions, one by one, until I had it all figured out. Youtube guides are also a huge help! In my case, it was pretty hard to plan out the loop route exactly, because I used rigid acrylic tubing instead of the standard flexible tubing, so I had to predict every angle bend I would need. I ordered some, tried them, and then ordered more, until it all worked, and I only ended up with 3 fittings left over. It takes a lot of patience, but it was definitely worth it for me.

I am using a Lamptron 8 Channel (30 Wt per channel) FC8 Controller. I love it, and it's worked flaweless for me so far!

The water loop added up to about 800 if I remember correctly, and I purchased them mainly from Performance PC's, with a few orders from frozen CPU.

Thank You!

Glad to see you found it here, couldn't have done it without you.

No, I used a type of sleeving called Stiff Line sleeving, made by LutroO, a user on overclock.net. He has great products and youtube guides on all sorts of sleeving!

I estimate around 800 for the complete loop, but if you really want, you can add up the price of all the parts in my complete list on my build log. When I enough time, I may do it myself because I am slightly curious myself!

Thanks, I tried very hard to make his look neat, I think it turned out pretty well.

Thanks, I saved up for two years!

I fully encourage you to! All it it takes is patience...

Thanks! I thought that colored coolant looks better personally, and the red tubes would add too much red to the build, and not have enough white. Thanks for the idea though!

I honestly don't know, but I think how it works is the fan controller provides a certain amount of power available to a fan. You can sort of think of a fan controller to a fan as a PSU is to a PC. If you throw a Corsair AX1200 in a 200 budget build taht takes 100 wts peak, it won't fry the pc, hopefully.

Thanks!

Thanks! Custom is the way to go! To take it a step up, I think this summer I'll be doing a project that involves building my own case.

Well if you know how to build a regular, air cooled PC, that's most of it! Their are some simple cable sleeving tutorials listed in one of my comments with a huge list of links (one of the first comments I think). As for the watercooling, there are many videos and links that I've listed on that also! The simplest way to learn would be just to watch and read, because if I told you everything about watercooling at once, it would be slightly overwhelming for most people. Good luck!

That's the reaction I hoped for. :)

Thank you, it really means a lot to me!

Thanks!

Thank you!

Just a bit. :)

Thank you, I tried really hard on this build, and it's gotten so much good feedback, even I'm surprised!

So I'm the creator of God's mother, eh? Pretty unique I'd say.

Thank you!! This was sadly built just before Rigid tube bending became very easy and common, and making all the tubes horizontal or vertical would have been very cosly to do with fittings.

They're absolutely great!!!! I love them, completely flawless, look GREAT in person, nothing to complain about besides price!

Haha, thanks!!!

Yes.

Thanks!! The drain port actually serves best for carbonated beverages. Because of it's close proximity to the pump, I can get some real pressure going out the drainport to carbonate drinks, coke especially. :)

Why thank you. :)

Thanks!

I got the 770 right when it came out, so the 4gb version wasn't released yet.

It is Mayhems Pastel White coolant, with all bitspower fittings. What's the plan for your build look like?

Why thank you. Not quite my goal, but not a bad result. :)

Thanks!!! Want to see even a tighter build I'm currently working on? Check it out here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1495338/build-log-blowout-heavily-modded-acrylic-loop-250d-matx/180#post_22572685

It looks good for the most part to me, just be sure to confirm that you actually will use 3 TB of HD space, most people don't use more than one, so if money is important to you, I'd say think about that. Looks awesome otherwise! :)

That's true, but you have to take into account that a 4.3GHz Intel processor may be just as physically fast as a 5 GHz AMD processor. It has to do with how much each processor does with each cycle, so even though AMD has bigger numbers, it's better to test the actual performance of the processor than just what it says the speed is, because they're honestly very hard to compare.

Anytime! Thanks for checkin it out!

I have the Swiftech MCP 655-B Pump with a bitspower acrylic pump top added to it.

Correction: 16 two years ago when this build came out. ;)

Thanks for the kind words! Yeah, it's still running blazing fast for my needs, so I don't have a reason to spend more money and upgrade it. The money will be better spent on a laptop for college, yay...

At the time, it was approx. 1000 dollars.

Uhh.. maybe? :)

It was a while ago, but I recall it was around 700-800 dollars, and I got them from performancepcs.net

Thank You!

I know the feeling!

Yes.

I'm using custom water cooling for the CPU, and don't have an optical drive. I use an external one when I need.

Milk cooling! :)

Thanks! It is about as real as computer builds get, my build log is proof!