Case stand/water cooling box

[AngelEyes]

Its a prototype, black pvc panels will be replaced with grey or black smoked acrylic when I like the design and cooling parts layout. Still need some grills and to cut holes in the case bottom and stand top to route tubing internally.

[Kelainefes]

Is that the only reservoir behind the case? I thought the reservoir needed to be in the highest position of the loop, this way if there are bubbles they will go in your CPU waterblock.

EDIT: Wait i see a stock intel cooler? You are cooling your VGA with liquid then?

[AngelEyes]

2 loops

1) 3/8" tubing. DD CPX-pro pump, HW labs Black Ice stealth 240 X-flow radiator, Crossfired 4850's with Koolance vid-485 waterblocks, Swiftech micro res, back to pump.

2) 1/2" tubing. Lang D5 vario pump, Fesser X-changer 120.3 radiator, Core2Duo E8400 CPU, Home made reservoir, back to pump.

The GPU loop is internal to the case with the radiator mounted on the back, the CPU loop routes out the back and down into the case stand/cooling box.

Nether reservoir is the highest point, I move the radiators around and re-mount them to clear air bubbles. I don't think any air is trapped in the water blocks they are the geatest point of restriction and any bubbles should be pushed through by the water pressure. Once a bubble is traveling through the tubing the reservoir need only have some depth and the intake well above the outflow, then any bubbles that entire the reservoir float up and collect in the top while the heavier fluid drops and collects at the bottom to return to the loop. Flat single bay reservoirs are to shallow to do this and any reservoir will start to suck air back into the loop if the fluid gets to low.

As far as bubbles just staying in the loop, they might if the flow was weak. I could see the Lang D5 on its LOWEST setting maybe allowing bubbles to stay in the waterblocks but the pressure from it on high would be enough to push them through, or so I thought... I will look into this but I think its a question I already pondered and discarded as not an issue with a decent pump.

Will post some pics of the internal setup in a bit.

[Clunk]

Nice job mate, what's the case at the bottom? Is it a custom made thing?

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Originally Posted by AngelEyes

Will post some pics of the internal setup in a bit.

Is that sticker on the side of your case a Jul Bock like the straw one from Gavle?

[Kelainefes]

Uh, good, with that pump you shouldn't have any problems and i doubt air will just get in your loop on its own.
But maybe a high reservoir would allow you to avoid moving the rads around when you open the loop for any reason (ie. cleaning, adding a new block..).
Anyway the custom case for the LC stuff is really awesome.

[AngelEyes]

Thanks everyone

Yes Crunk its a custom home made water cooling stand for the stock Antec 1200. Love that case but it needs to become something more. I am thinking of actually reproducing it in acrylic... it should not be that bad as there are few complex radius curves its mostly straight lines and 90 degree corners. I wish I had cut the front of the stand to match the angles of the case front. I think I may just make an Acrylic copy with an extended base to match what I have now. Sad that after 3 days work I am liking it so much I want to tear it apart and do 3 months work

[Clunk]

It should make an interesting worklog if you do decide to make a full replica