Black Rain

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The main goal of this system was to cram as much high performance parts and water cooling I could into an Evga Hadron Air case while maintaining the sleek original look and adding my own touches. Even though EVGA created a water cooled version of the Hadron, I wanted to keep this build as small as possible, and I enjoy the challenge of modding things. I started by modding the top of the case to fit a 240mm slim radiator. The radiator was a few millimeters too long so I cut out the front of the case so the radiator could protrude through the front. Because of this I decided to make a thick front panel out of 1/4" thick black acrylic to hide the protrusion. This gave me the idea to further the mod by cutting out a 120mm hole in the front of the case for an extra thick 120mm radiator. Because of the tight space limitations I devised a plan to cool the entire PC with only two 120mm radiator fans. The case is designed for positive airflow which pushes air through the actively cooled front 120mm radiator and then passively through the top 240mm radiator. All of this water cooling performance allowed me to cram a GTX 780 and I7 4770k processor into this amazing little case. I finished it off by painting the entire case inside and out with flat black paint and dinoc carbon fiber film on the front along with a nice while led vandal switch. The next challenge was to tame the wire management. for this I decided completely rewire and then single sleeve the power supply. I cut all wire to correct length and created custom wires for my graphics card. I then sleeved the wires with LC black sleeving. I painted the ram gold to match the subtle gold parts on the motherboard. I wanted to keep the water cooling pump simple and clean so I modded a Swiftech 220 pump with a custom black acrylic top which works in complete silence. I've built many dozens of computers and this is my favorite machine for daily use. In total it took me a month of modding to complete this build.

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