So after a week or two of messing around with things, I'm finally ready to upload some images for you. First, I had to take everything out of the old case:
Everything has been in the case too long, as you can see there is quite a bit of buildup on the rad (mostly drywall dust) and inside the res is some kind of funk.
Parts and cables everywhere!!!
So after some initial cleaning, I placed the mobo on the new tray and started to add the fittings.
As you can see, I am using Lian Li thinbscrews to hold the motherboard in place, and Bitspower compression and rotary fittings. The blue Promichill tubing is 1/2" ID, 3/4" OD and bends nicely, but requires some big compression fittings.
My San Ace 120mm x 38mm monsters needed to be cleaned up, then have their cables sleeved and plugs changed. They come with a 4-pin server fitting, but soon these are gone and swapped for some standard 3-pin black plugs. Black sleeving and black heatshrink finish the look.
I originally wanted to place the San Ace fans on the outside of the rad and use four of them, but there was not enough clearance between the rad and the side panel for 38mm thick fans. I chose to use my trusty blue LED Yate Loon medium speed fans instead.
Two of the San Ace fans still made it to the back side of the rad:
With the PSU in place, the fan was pointed at the rad to add some more airflow to the area.
To add three SSD drives and one 2.5" data drive, I used the Lian Li 4-in-1 bay module.
Here's the motherboard tray slid in the case with one of the GPU's in place.
The 4-in-1 module sits in the bay below the Blu-Ray drive, then Lian Li mesh bay covers fill in the rest of the space.
What are they hiding? Another Yate Loon medium speed fan on the front of a single 120mm rad.
I had previously sleeved the tail on my D5 pump, but it was way too long. I cut it short and resleeved it, this time adding a black Molex connector.
Then i did the same thing to the LED for my Bitspower Crystal LED, but used a 3-pin connector for this one.
Fast forward a little, as this was the frustrating part. I needed to do the tubing, but only had a little time to do it, so some pics got skipped. Then I ran into the issues I spoke of earlier with the leaky res, and trying to get all the air out of the loop.
Finally it was all wired up, and the loop was leak tested and bubble-free. I placed the rest of the components in the system and got it ready for a trial run. Here is the system off:
An finally the system powered on:
