Parts are currently inbound, and it's going to mostly be a transplant, but of course it's hard to call something just a "transplant" when the case is only $190 after taxes, yet you end up spending over $400 total once you start adding on extras like fresh tubing, fresh fasteners, fan kits, as well as fan, & RGB controllers.
Don't have the loop completely planned out yet (need to see the case first), but I've got 3 different 240 rads (EK, XSPC, and an old thermalrite I believe originally came from 3.0 Charlie), as well as a single alphacool to consider. I'm also ditching my bay res so I'll probably end up using the modified pump head from my InWin build along with the cheezy tube res I picked up from amazon for a pittance a while back.
No pics yet, but I've already modded up a couple of fan shrouds as a placeholder so that a 240 up top doesn't leave a weird looking gap.
Looking forward to this... pretty hard to believe it's been over two years since I did anything major to my main rig.
edit: Threads with build pics...
And the final completed build...
Don't have the loop completely planned out yet (need to see the case first), but I've got 3 different 240 rads (EK, XSPC, and an old thermalrite I believe originally came from 3.0 Charlie), as well as a single alphacool to consider. I'm also ditching my bay res so I'll probably end up using the modified pump head from my InWin build along with the cheezy tube res I picked up from amazon for a pittance a while back.
No pics yet, but I've already modded up a couple of fan shrouds as a placeholder so that a 240 up top doesn't leave a weird looking gap.
Looking forward to this... pretty hard to believe it's been over two years since I did anything major to my main rig.
edit: Threads with build pics...
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...b-something-old-something-new.html#post891661 https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-2.html#post891898
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-2.html#post891926 https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-2.html#post891968
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-3.html#post892106 https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-3.html#post892148
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-3.html#post892408 https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-4.html#post892472
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-4.html#post892527 https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-5.html#post892732
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-5.html#post892745
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-2.html#post891926 https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-2.html#post891968
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-3.html#post892106 https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-3.html#post892148
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-3.html#post892408 https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-4.html#post892472
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-4.html#post892527 https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-5.html#post892732
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for...something-old-something-new-5.html#post892745
And the final completed build...
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