HAF 912 custom loop

[f5alcon]

Am I missing anything, or other ideas? Sorry this is probably not easy to follow. 

I have a coolermaster HAF 912 case, which is too compact for internal liquid cooling, but instead of buying a new case I want to do external liquid cooling, which it supports with a single 240mm radiator, which doesn't seem like enough cooling for a CPU, I will be upgrading to an 115x i7 based build from AMD. Depending on when skylake is released either that i7 or a 5790k. MSI gaming 5 motherboard. and GPU Gigabyte Gaming G1 970. I have added sound damping material to the inside of the case already and that limits air cooling options. The inside of the case is not painted so no side window, looks don't matter on the inside of the case.


The current case fans have blue LEDs and it will be moved to my Sim racing rig that is also a black/blue theme, so I will continue with that. I am going to use Blue vinyl wrap on the side panels.
Current fans 200mm front intake, 200mm top exhaust, this will stay unless mounting screw holes are needed for radiator mounts, but there are a 2nd set of holes that may work for those. 120mm exhaust rear fan and 120mm side intake fan.


3/8th X 1/2 water loop, will use soft tubing

Use phobya 2X120 radiator external mounting brackets and mount them on each side of the top of the case where the 240mm radiator would normally go on this case but would allow for the radiators to be on their side and be able to mount two of them. http://www.frozencpu.com/products/12105/ex-rad-187/Phobya_2_x_120mm_Radiator_Stand_-_Black_Powder_Coat_-_15mm_Spacing.html?tl=c95s162b189

Black ice nemesis 2X240GTX radiators blue http://www.performance-pcs.com/black-ice-nemesis-radiators-custom-painted-deep-blue.html

These will be mounted so that the tubes face inward towards each other.

2X alphacool right angle compression fittings for tubes that go into the system. http://www.performance-pcs.com/alphacool-13-10-10x1-5mm-compression-fitting-90-revolvable-g1-4-deep-black.html

2X alphacool compression fittings for tube between rads. http://www.performance-pcs.com/alphacool-13-10-10x1-5mm-compression-fitting-g1-4-deep-black.html

8X EK vardar FF5 120 fans http://www.performance-pcs.com/ek-furious-vardar-f5-120-3000rpm-high-performance-liquid-cooling-fan.html

These will be in a push pull config with hot air being vented towards the space between the rads and pushed up by 200mm exhaust fan.

2X Primochill radiator fan grills on outside facing fans. http://www.performance-pcs.com/new-primochill-hex-2-layer-rad-grillz-dual-120mm-black-black.html

EK supremacy EVO CPU block http://www.performance-pcs.com/ek-supremacy-evo-cpu-water-block-copper-acetal.html

EK GPU waterblock http://www.performance-pcs.com/ek-fc970-gtx-wf3-nickel-acetal.html
EK GPU backplate (will get acetal one just not in stock) http://www.performance-pcs.com/ek-fc970-gtx-wf3-backplate-nickel.html
4X EK compression fittings for hopefully best fit with their blocks

XSPC D5 dual bay pump/res combo http://www.performance-pcs.com/xspc-d5-dual-bay-reservoir-pump-combo-v2.html
2X alphacool compression fittings

primochill pure performance coolant black http://www.performance-pcs.com/primochill-pure-performance-coolant-32-oz-black.html

alphacool clear tubing 10 feet http://www.performance-pcs.com/alphacool-tubing-alphatube-hf-13-10-3-8-id-clear.html

2X 4:1 PWM fan cable to combine fans on each radiator, each one will connect to CPU 1 and CPU 2 fan headers on the motherboard.

I would also have a t split and a drain port coming out of the pump/res http://www.performance-pcs.com/ek-af-fillport-g1-4-black.html


Shortest tubing loop would be pump/res > GPU > rad 1 > rad 2 > CPU >pump/res

Changes that I might make:
Different fans, slower, quieter ones if I don't need that much airflow.
Just go with the stock design of external 240 and add a rear 120 internally for 360mm of cooling instead of 480mm
Cheaper all black radiators
black tubing and clear coolant
small res pump combo
use koolance radiator bracket off the back http://www.performance-pcs.com/koolance-radiator-mounting-bracket-with-quick-release.html
Use 200mm phobya radiator on top, but not sure that is enough cooling for cpu and gpu, could remove bottom drive bay and go front 200mm as well. http://www.performance-pcs.com/phobya-xtreme-200-radiator-v2.html

[Br3tt96]

I had a 912 terrible/fugly case! By the time you spend money on external stuff/modifying the case it probably won't look the best. So if I were you it might be better to just buy a good looking case that is somewhat made better for water loops... Plus you're putting in great pc parts in a terrible case, that'd be like putting a Ferrari motor in a Volkswagen Beatle! 

[f5alcon]

I had a 912 terrible/fugly case! By the time you spend money on external stuff/modifying the case it probably won't look the best. So if I were you it might be better to just buy a good looking case that is somewhat made better for water loops... Plus you're putting in great pc parts in a terrible case, that'd be like putting a Ferrari motor in a Volkswagen Beatle! 

 

Yeah, though except for the external mounts everything would work on the inside of another case, just would need new tubes.