Blue Storm

[diluzio91]

Update time:

Got the design for the window nailed down, and its now in place (with tape) the grills will have to be filled with bondo, but other than that we are great, so, pics!

There probably wont be any more work done until school is out, but ill still answer any comments or questions.

[Xtrykr]

Woah, that's some crazy shape. What are you using to cut that?

Btw, where does the mobo go in the case? (I notice the radiator is mounted where the mobo typically is in a case o.O).

Looking forward to your next update

[diluzio91]

The window will be mostly cut with a dremel, jig saw, and finished with files, sand paper, and some elbow grease, aaand the radiator is only mounted there for storage, that rad will be mounted on the top of the case, and the fill port will be connected to it as well.

[diluzio91]

Shameless Bump time. Update will be coming soon on this. Along with lots of case pron, watercooling pron, and radiator pron! horray!

[diluzio91]

Da da da DAAAA update time!

So after getting over a cold i got to work on this thing (finally). To start out:

The Victim, a coolermaster 690 that my beloved girlfriend got me for our 1 year anniversary.

Looking at the inside. it CAME WITH 2 RADIATORS???????? not quite, those are the fruits of my labors of staring at the for sale section for hours.

A closer view of my $20 each radiators (lol... to B.O.B., thats what it works out to with division in my head)

the little one

The big one!

Sir! where are your clothes!

Oh i see, you are here for surgery...

Here is the hole for the top radiator!

And all that silly mesh removed so the power supply can breathe.

Oh i have always wanted one of these... would make life sooo much easier... Dremel tools make dreams come true

Hmmm.... That looks like a piece of the mesh that he cut off... what could that be for...

ZOMG... this man is a genius! Such a simple, free, and effective radiator mount!

And it even holds the radiator above the DVD drive to reduce vibration!

The same design to mount the top radiator? how versatile!

More to come

@ SXRguyinMA, Thanks for the awesome RAD hookup, ill be using plumber's epoxy to put a 1/2 in barb fitting into the top hole of the rad where the missing plug is supposed to go so i can route it to a fill port on top of the case.

@ Blue on Black, Thanks for the WC parts hookup, ill be taking glamour shots of the parts when my new barbs arrive.

@ x88x, microcenter hookup = AWESOME! you will see the use for that random seeming T fitting and all that sleeving soon enough.

Also thanks to all the sweet mods that prodded me into this!

[x88x]

Looks good. Interesting rad mounts. Less solid than I prefer, but I like things to survive an elephant sitting on them.

[StormRider]

hmm, neat way to secure the rads. like x88x, I prefer to have a case that can survive a sledgehammer, so I won't use that in the big project I plan to get around to sometime before I die

[diluzio91]

hmm, neat way to secure the rads. like x88x, I prefer to have a case that can survive a sledgehammer, so I won't use that in the big project I plan to get around to sometime before I die

TBH, with 4 of them that rad is extremely stable... but elephants were not used in the testing of this mount...

[x88x]

Actually, you make a good point. If the top of the 690 is anything like the top panel in my 590, it's 2mm steel...pretty strong, even in that small a piece.

[SXRguyinMA]

no prob, glad to see it's actually being used! lol