I made a conjoined mess of both the Asetek and Corsair coolers for twice the cooling fun. Unfortunately, twice the fun was too much, and they partied too hard, and it seems the Corsair pump is dead.
Anyway, after some use I plugged the whole thing, including the Corsair pump, back into my 2600K rig, and it blew the fan header out. So, I grabbed the extension that I posted earlier in the thread...that thing burst into flames.
I guess the Corsair head ran dry. The Asetek side of things is A-OK, though. Because they share parts, I just disconnected hoses from the heads to join the two together, easy-peasy, no leaks, no mess, and took a whole 30 seconds.
I had hung the coolers with the pump heads higher than the rad to drain the fluid out of the heads, to make teh "operation" easier, and it was. If you look closely at teh pic, you can see the Corsair head hanging out the back of the case at the middle top of the pic. I suppose it was too high, adn the combined air form teh two coolers was too much.
Oh well. I'll take the H50 head and join the H50 and H70 rads for another "project".
Um, the case is a CM690. The first pic shows the hole in the top, with the top plastic cover removed, that I put there to accommodate a 2x120mm rad long ago. The original CM690 cases didn't have hte right holes spacing for rads with fans close together, so I jsut topped out the top, screen and all. With the side panels and top on, it looks like a regular CM690, which functionally, works just fine.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45127&stc=1&d=1325891945
This is the first time I've put a rig in a case in a couple of years. I posted this picture a couple of days ago now. below the arrows are my two rigs in use, the one under the right my daily driver that used to have the 6950's, and now uses a 6770, and on the left is the Gigabyte board whose review went live yesterday. In fact, if you look on the monitor, you can see teh 3DMark 11 bnech was running...and the numbers from that run are in the review.
My personal rig is merely attached to motherboard tray pulled...no..hacked out of a Gigabyte 3D Aurora, from like 8 years ago. You can see teh gold fan that is blowing on the HDDs, and the BlueRay drive below.
Oh, and the can of Old Milwaukee in the middle of my desk. Hmmm, I'm thirsty, I better go get one. 4:15 PM on a Friday, and the wife will be home soon. Yes, time for a beer it is.
I've already done the measurements, going to fit no prob, and don't have to worry about leakages or the pump dying on me
