Water cooling probs

[AndrewZ3]

I have a small micro atx case because my PC was originally a budget build but I decided to splurge after I bought the case.  Anyway I have no room for a resevoir or radiator inside the case however my case has dual 120mm fan mounts on the side so I could put my radiator and fans on the outside.  Any ideas for cooling solution.  Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147166

[spartaman64]

buy a bigger case if you are going custom

[cloclo8003]

That wouldn't be very practical, I recommend getting a new case if you have the money

[brandishwar]

Consider going with an external solution -- mounting one or more large radiators to the outside of the case. I discussed this on another forum with someone with a small mid-tower that wouldn't provide a lot of radiator options. There are large square radiators available -- 2x3 and 3x3 120mm radiators -- that if you can be a little creative, you might be able to mount one of those to the side of your case. You'll need to figure out how to power the fans, but it'd at least have the radiator taken care of.

[LeighPing]

You could always run the hoses to a remote cooler like this. Then you could keep your current case.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOguwuLbQqY

[Benji_w]

Le sigh, you can make anything fit with enough imagination, a drill and a dremel. Mount the rad and fans on top of the case, cut 2 holes for the tubing, put the fans under the rad, as for the res, dual bay res combo failing that you could mount a D5 tube res on the outside or buy one that you can lay flat on the floor of the case etc etc blah blah. One thing you must not do is compact watercooling parts in such a way that you end up heating up other components such as a rad on the floor of a case with fans intaking and blowing hot air onto a pump, PSU and a GPU with the PSU wires blocking half the airflow, you're just wasting time and money...

[4b33r]

I would mount the rads on the top of the case (externally).If you have questions on how to do that just start another thread,we will be more than happy to help you out.

[Benji_w]

I would mount the rads on the top of the case (externally).If you have questions on how to do that just start another thread,we will be more than happy to help you out.

 

Why start another thread? Give him the information in one spot, nothing worse for someone coming to the site from google to then track down the rest of the infromation (done that more than enough in my time and it could all be solved with info in one thread).

[4b33r]

I specifically said more than enough.

[Benji_w]

I specifically said more than enough.

 

Like? If the case gets modded and then its all in here like a little build log then its easier to read etc, think bout it, imagine reading instructions for something but the pages are all muddled up and not in order.