astonishing job, have you got the mill that seems to have done does pieces?
jes

My intention is to lightly mod the case to accomodate and hidden a slim optical drive, I'd also like to cover the two drive bays on the floor of the case with a plate that hides them and clears out the overall look keeping them accessible.

for the tank I have no concern at all. The biggest part of theyr business are water/fluids tanks for sientific labs and test machineries, I have no further details on it, but I know they also test pressures theyr tanks up to 10 bar to ensure that policarbonate has glued/soldered properly.

they do all the job by request of the customer, so I can have a fill and a drain port just where i want them, and the back of the case looks to me a pretty darn good place where to hide them and still have them accessible. (BTW if someone is intrested I can give the contacts of the shop)

let's move on to the fittings.
ok, for the compression ones. they look clear and tidy as I want them to look. is there a brand that 'does it better?'

Pump:
a standalone one, no integrated solutions so that it can be replaced or inspected without draining the whole loop. following this logic I would like to have a (tap?) both over and after the pump to be able to isolate it.
I don't need a top notch one, but the closer we get to 'top notch' the happier I am, so, performance and reliability. moneys are made to be spent and I prefer a most durable solution than a cheaper one.
there are too many different products of this kind on the market to just pick one. what's your piece of advice about it?

thank you all
Jes

it looks like the mars II from ROG

I was thinking also about having a clear look more than a heavy and shining one.
I have a friend of mine working as craftsman in a plastics shop so I'm thinking about having a custom res made by him in the way to have it set where I want with the shape I like with like a liter of fluid inside

it's a very intresting layout. it's an awsome chassy, judging from pics and videos around the web. finally some engineering going into cases

updated the first post with what has been decided up now.

I would really like a slick look more than a flashing one, with some touches of light and colour.

no coloured cooling fluid, so black tubing, res in the back, maybe a big one and huge tubing to withstand the load that 2 gtx 690 will put on the system.

I have no experience with custom water loops

you're guessing right

I totally have to do some cable managment. my config is not event close to the clean look of the one you posted, at least in the back but anyways I'll have to redo the whole computer installing all the stuff.

jes

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I do agree a lot.
I've seen that xspc (always them) does a 'sli bridge' to cool cards in parallel. have you had any experience on this kind of products? do that simplifies the task of cooling 2 cards?
for the tubing, we are a little restricted by the rad form factor. I've checked again and we don't have 55mm but 47, this reduces the possibilities to a smaller range of rads.

for the pump and res, there is quite a lot of space both in the back and in the front. in the front we could attach the combo to the back panel, in the psu chamber we can do pretty much what we want, so what is your advice for maybe a 5,25'' bay? air 540 has the bays rotated 90° so I foresee a problem with stuff like fillports and co. at least and leakings in the worst case scenario, and, by the way I would really like the res or to stick out a lot and show herself or stay completly hidden and invisible.

a dual bay res would leave me without an ODD unit and, being my adsl as slow as a broken snail I totally need it. but there is plenty of space for some mod to install a slim unit. it would look just slick.

any advice regarding what written up here?

thank you so much

Jes

BTW everyone is invited of course I have mounted a little pool a couple of weeks ago so that if we don't suceed in watercooling pc we can still watercool ourselves

or just throw in the entire pc yelling 'now watercool motherf***er' in the case that everything goes wrong