Carbon-Li by Ediejo

Cooling the HDDs

Rather than let the HDDs or their nicely watercooled enclosures disappear into the abyss that was the drive bays, Ediejo wanted to feature them. Of course, anybody could just stick another bay at the bottom - so he concocted the idea to have them seem to "float" in the middle of the lower chamber.


To accomplish this, he built a frame out of some metal tube that he had laying around. The HDD enclosures would be attached securely to this frame, which would be tucked deep in the back of the lower compartment. A carbon fibre panel makes it disappear completely, leaving the HDD enclosures to "float" in the middle of the compartment.

The upper water loop

Now that the HDDs had been placed, it was time to begin laying out the actual watercooling loop. Carbon Li features three radiators - a 240mm on the top (hidden behind the drive bays), a 120mm external on the back of the system and another 120mm in the front of the lower chamber.


The upper portion of the loop consists of the 240mm rad, the reservoir, the pump, an Innovatek CPU block and two 8800 GTX waterblocks. The water then goes from the CPU out to the 120mm external radiator on the back.