Cooling a Lian-Li to Water Cool

[tok3n]

Hi. I'm in the market for a new case and am going with a Lian Li. But I'm stuck on the PC-65 (midtower) and the PC-75(full tower). I will be watercooling it.

Anyone have experience with either? I know the 75 will be great for watercooling because it has plenty of room. But does anyone have a nice setup with a PC-65 or similar case? Pics? I don't want it to be too cramped.

Also seems like you would need to mount the HD in the sideways mounting bracket (correct me if I'm wrong) and that blocks the space for any radiators for the front fans.

I was only planning on using two or three 80mm radiators for watercooling but with the PC-75 I could use more or bigger.

[Drake]

Just would like to comment that one heatercore/other large rad would be more effecient - flow-wise, and money-wise - than several smaller ones.

I don't have any first hand experience with any, and the only person here who owns one is Player0, and his is aircooled. I do know however that watercooling setups have been successfully installed in either case. Just check out the forums galleries at The [H] forums (http://www.hardforums.com[/url).

I would personally go for the PC-75.

[dicki]

theres a couple of people with water cooled lian li's on www.pclincs.co.uk and various people talking about using the 80 mm rads mounted down the front... have a search in thier forums

[Kill-Switch]

*Points to his sig*

I have a Lian-Li PC75 all watercooled :D

I used a Black Ice Xtreme (BIX) radiator rather than any smaller substitutes. In order to place the radiator(s) at the bottom-front of the PC75 you will need to remove the hidden hard drive cage and then drill a couple of rivets to release the rail on which it sits ... that'll give you all the room you need to play with :)

Go HERE (http://www.liquidninjas.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=3094) to see an old picture of my setup. I've replumbed since then and added some more things but the picture in that thread clearly shows where the radiator is so you can see what has been done.

[Skoob]

I would get a PC-75. Even though it is pretty big, in the end it will seem small once you get things inside. It has a nice space above the PSU for a large radiator like a JPI Scoop Ver2 or any other high flow heater core like D-Tek etc. Of course if you dont have more than 2 HD's you can get rid of the bottom drive cage and mount a large Rad there as well.

[Skoob]

Heres a pic I took during the fitting and placement phase on my old TEC setup. I had to keep the drive cage for my disks so I went to the roof for space but you could easily mount the D-tek radiator there as well.