SR-2 Stacker by Paul Edwards

Water Cooling Continued

Once that little quirky arrangement had been tackled, I installed all the waterblocks to the motherboard. This consisted of MIPs RAM Freezers, MIPS motherboard blocks and Watercool HK3 CPU blocks, but at this stage I still didn't have any graphics cards.


However, as that loop was pretty much sorted hose routeing-wise, I sat for a good hour staring and trying to plan the best way to route the hoses round the rest of the system. I only had one way to go if I wanted each loop to look clean, and didn't want to back track any hose bends. So, with a little help from a friend, we had it all looped up within half an hour. The end result actually looked better than I'd originally imagined, considering the amount of hose involved.


At this point, I also fitted the top handmade bezel to the top chassis, with the power and reset buttons and LEDs all mounted, as well as the grille.