Corsair C70 Vengeance Liquid Cooled Military Build

[Nomad45]

Hi everyone,

 

I am about to liquid cool my slightly-modded military themed C70 Vengeance case and I thought I'd do some before and after stuff. It's a work in progress and I would love some advice from you guys!

 

*Note the H100i was sent for RMA and will soon be my brother's (I'm lucky I kept the stock cooler!).

 

First thing I did was change out the factory side window for something acrylic and added some bullet holes:

 

 

 

I then modded the reset button to open my DVD drive:

 

 

Here's a couple interior shots:

 

 

[WunderWuffle]

Did you make those bullet holes by shooting them? That's awesome!

[Nomad45]

Haha no I used a drill to make the holes and a chisel/a lot of patience to make the cracks. The acrylic is tougher than I thought it would be!

[CoolBeans]

I like the bullet holes in the side panel 

[The Great Sayain Man]

Did you make those bullet holes by shooting them? That's awesome!

They don't look like they are real. Or maybe it's just the window that makes them look unreal.

[fuse]

Haha no I used a drill to make the holes and a chisel/a lot of patience to make the cracks. The acrylic is tougher than I thought it would be!

Looks amazing anyways. 

[Nomad45]

I'm planning on making a backplate for my GTX 670 with a 3D printer and giving it a camo paint job. That blue PCB makes me cringe!

 

Apparently there is room for a dual 140mm rad on the bottom of this thing but it looks like it'll be really tight so I'm just going to go with the dual 120mm on the bottom and a dual 140mm rad on the top.

 

Here's the liquid cooling stuff I plan on adding:

 

[boggle4321]

wow, so beast. those bullet holes are wowh, i mean,, wow . i think other people will copy you now, you've started a new trend but blue graphics card pcb is a no no

[Nomad45]

wow, so beast. those bullet holes are badass.  but blue pcb graphics card is a no no 

 

Haha yeah that will definitely be getting covered with a custom backplate! Stay tuned for CAD concepts and pics!

[Spannerhands]

Love the bullet holes, nice original idea!

[nickpc]

kool

[BloXx99]

Looks like a cool build, ill be following.

[Monty007]

Great build. I recently did a build for my brother in that case. Not the biggest case but loads of room to fit stuff. Great work with the details. Looking forward to the final build. Love the stealthed DVD drive

[jclappers]

I hpe you didnt make those holes while it was on the case and post some pics of the stealth cd drive pls

[Nomad45]

I hpe you didnt make those holes while it was on the case and post some pics of the stealth cd drive pls

 

Glad you guys like it! I got the idea to hide the DVD drive behind the case cover from a YouTube video but I took it a step further and instead of just pushing on the false-front in the right spot to contact the button, I soldered on a + and - extension on the underside of the drive switch (some dis-assembly required). I routed those wires around back and plugged them into the reset switch leads (instead of plugging it into the mobo). To get the case to act as a false-front I took the front facing off my DVD drive and stuck the C70 part on with double sided tape.

 

*Note the actual DVD drive switch still works as it goes to the same place and does the same thing as the "missile launch switch" on the front panel.

 

 

 

Once I take this thing apart to add liquid cooling components I can do a more in-depth "how-to" if you guys would like.

[Deleon.David]

i will prostitute my self for the finished product of this build

[Nomad45]

Just placed a large order at Performance-PCs so I should hopefully be getting parts in next week. In the meantime I'll design and print a video card backplate - it should be pretty awesome! Stay tuned for process pics.

[Viepert]

I got the same reset/open dvd mod going on.

Best use of a reset button ever, because, who uses reset anymore.....???

[AndyCapets]

Great build! The only thing you need to buy now is a backplate to cover that blue PCB from your GPU.

[Nomad45]

One question for you guys before I proceed: What kind of wattage does a typical pump draw? I have a 620W SeaSonic PSU that looks slick and I'd really like to avoid spending more money on another one. Do you think I'll be cutting it close by powering a CPU and GPU (both OC'd), 6 fans, a pump, and the normal stuff with this? I feel pretty dumb asking help on my own thread but I don't want to buy a new PSU and I don't want to burn anything out. Thanks!

[Damonster5000]

I like it!

[mucitel1]

I really like what you did with the side panel holes! And it looks really good in general!  

[WDan96]

Those Bullet holes look amazingly realistic. Nice!

[NolanUK]

amazing build, Once I've a new case im planning on doind a stealth type build

[KillerTom500]

One question for you guys before I proceed: What kind of wattage does a typical pump draw? I have a 620W SeaSonic PSU that looks slick and I'd really like to avoid spending more money on another one. Do you think I'll be cutting it close by powering a CPU and GPU (both OC'd), 6 fans, a pump, and the normal stuff with this? I feel pretty dumb asking help on my own thread but I don't want to buy a new PSU and I don't want to burn anything out. Thanks!

 

http://www.ekwb.com/shop/pumps-and-accessories/pumps/ek-ddc-series-pumps/ek-ddc-3-25-laing-ddc-3-25.html

 

For the ddc ~20 watts dont know for the others.

 

I'm running SLI 770 on 750 watts and got no trouble and there both 230 watts normally so single 760 and a cpu don't bother