Self Contained Water Cooled System

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After visiting many great water-cooled project pages I decided it was my turn to give it a try. The only problem was that I did not like the idea of having a big fish tank outside of my computer. It did not look very pleasing, so I decided that my water-cooled project was going to be different that the rest of the gang. First I had to decide on the case for the project. This was not as easy as it sounds. There are many problems with building a water-cooled system with the water IN the system:

· Lots of extra components needed to fit in this case
· Very dangerous for the computer parts inside
· Lack of space within most cases
· I did not want a full tower (I wanted to build it as compact and as sleek as possible.
Since I have been selling computers for a while I knew a lot about cases (I also am a little bit of a computer nut). So I started my search. The most important factor that I was looking for was width, due to all the components that needed to fit in the case. I chose the case that I had used on my other systems due to its great design and extra width

Specifications

This case was probably the most important part of teh entire liquid cooled system. If we were going to have a self contained liquid cooled system we had to fit it all into this case. Luckily we were able to with a few 'ahemm' modifications to the cassis and case.
	- click to enlarge -	A nice side view of us checking to see if things were going to fit
	From the back
Main Board	Baby AT, ATX	Enlight 7101 ATX Mini Tower
Expansion Slot	5 Full Size 2 Half Size
Drive Space	3 x 1/4" (Half Height) 2 x 3 1/2" (Full Height) 1 x 3 1/2" HDD (Hiding)
Power Supply	ATX 2.01 UL PS
Dimension (W x H x D)	8.7" x 14.6" x 17"
Optional Fan	8cm
Shipping Weight	G.W 23 lb

AFTER doing some measurements it looked like things were going to fit in :-) Next was the motherboard.

Motherboard

I looked at three of my favorites (Asus P2B, Aopen AX6BC, Abit BH6,BX6) I have the Asus and the Aopen and for this project the Abit offered some advantages that Asus and Aopen did not "voltage manipulation". So I got the Abit BH6, it was perfect for this project - the BX6 was great too but my supplier did not have any. Time was a big factor in this project; I only had 5 days to build it so I was not going to wait for any parts to come in.

Items	Specs	Notes
12V Fan X 4	3 X 0.12A 1 X 0.18A	The better the fan, the higher the Amps
CPU Fans X 5	1 X PII, 2 X Celeron an 2, PI	The PII fan is at 5000 RPM, Celeron 4500RPM, Pent ? RPM
Heatsinks	Lots of different ones	Check out the pictures
CPU Heatsinks	1 X Celeron 1X PII	Just wait till you see what we did with this babies
Plastic Sheets	2 Sheets(1X 1/8, X 1/4 Inch)	These were used for the "fish tank"Get extra - we broke a fish tank at the very end and had to make a whole new one!
Plastic Tubing	6 Feet of the green and 2 feet of the white	The green is thicker
Radiator	2 X Aluminum Radiators	Very thin so that they would fit
Copper tubing	4 Feet	We used thin stuff - due to or radiator used thin tubing.
Copper Casing	Sealed Case	This was used on top of the CPU

These are the main items used in the project, but there was lots of extra items that I have not mentioned (i.e epoxy, silicon....)