Further Additions
The A-open full tower case I started with was pretty boring, so I had to mod it a bit. The first thing was the window. Had a friend cut out the design and used some gorilla glue to put the plexiglass on. Simple and easy. Thats really the only outside case mod I did, besides the hole for the water cooling. Although, the power led for the case is a RGB slow fading led. It changes between 8 different colors or so at a pretty slow rate. It is a nice touch. Glad I got such a hard to find case.
Inside the biggest addition is the lights. Some green led clusters on top and in the air hole. The bottom has 2 uv tubes and 1 green tube at the moment. I can turn on which ever ones i want with some switches i installed in the pci slots. All the cables for the lights i redid since the wiring was not long enough for my huge case. I also had to chip off the plastic end on the uv tube that is behind and above the motherboard tray. It fits in a track above it, but just barely. I had to round the end off with a chisel to get it to fit. I reccommend safety glasses if anyone has to do something like that as the clear plastic can go flying quite far. The UV was very much worth the trouble though. The water, reservoir, ide cable, floppy cable, spiral tube covering, and even the mobo itself all lights up perfectly now. Putting the tubes in front, near the window, just was not getting it done.
The power cables off the Thermaltake psu came covered in wire loom, but I covered the rest of the cables in my case in it as well. Everything is in black with black heatshrink and wire ties so that none of it can be seen. There is also some grills on teh front of the case to cut down the dust.
At the bottom of the case I recently placed a mirror that i cut out. It reflects the uv lights and you can see perfectly underneath the video cards and the bottom of the motherboard is more visable. It also makes the inside of the case look a lot bigger and better. I sorta took that idea from car shows, where they put mirrors under the cars so you can see the chrome.
Inside Pictures
Here's a basic drawing of the route the water takes in my setup.
Update 11-6-08
Basically the same setup. The pump has been leaking lately but I think that was due to the system being overfilled with water. I've found by having a bit of air space in the reservoir helps with expansion. Having it full all the way just is way too much pressure on the pump. These pumps really weren't designed to be in a closed loop regardless of what the companies say.
The computers getting a bit dated and I'm building someone a new computer in the next few weeks so I should be able to switch out some of my parts.
Been spending most my money lately on peripherals...I should really post a picture of that I guess.
