Time for an update
The two 6870 waterblocks were starting to get slightly stained, so I took them apart and hit them with some Mother's metal polish with the Dremel and buffing wheel and cleaned them up pretty good.
I also cleaned up the nickel on the CPU waterblock as well as stripped the old paint of the retention bracket and re-painted it black
I also got my care package in from
Performance-PCs
! I got a second XSPC 120mm radiator, some Bitspower fittings and some other assorted goodies.
I decided to mount the second 120mm rad on the bottom of the case in the 5.25" drive bay compartment. I'll be using a fan controller but it's short and won't interfere with the fan/rad setup at all.
I also removed almost all of the 3- and 5-way snake rotary fittings to clean up the overall look. It looks much cleaner this way and the Duralene tubing I'll be using is very flexible so I don't need perfectly straight line-of-sight from one barb to the next.
Next up I drilled a hole at the back of the case for the Bitspower panel fitting. This will allow me to connect the reservoir and pump through the back panel of the case.
I had to notch the motherboard tray support just a tad so the panel fitting lock ring would fit properly.
Then I installed the necessary rotary and barb fittings to line everything up.
I also got my i7-3770K in for the build.
I used my custom
fan template from White Light Laser
to mark the bottom of the case to cut out for the 120mm intake fan for the lower radiator.
Silly me marked the holes for the 120mm fan but marked (and unfortunately cut) the large hole for the 140mm fan. No worries though, I'll make something to clean it up.
Next I made an accent piece for under the pump mount. This not only gives a little look to the pump mount it also raises it 1/8" so the pump to radiator fittings line up better.
Then I sleeved the pump's wires with the black/green paracord. This was my first time working with paracord and I like it a lot.
And finally I cut a small piece of tubing for the pump intake. The crystal block is a "T" style and the system temp sensor will go into the bottomside opening.
That's it for now!