Introduction
At the end of February, Lapino built the water-cooling unit of his Koolance into an Antec case (link). After the top-less (no not topless:p) Koolance had been lying around his house for more then a month, he dropped by at a local LAN-party (M²) and give it to me for free :)


What to do with it
Now I finally had a nice case worthy of being the replacement of my AOpen HQ08. But what to do with the big, gaping hole in the top panel that used to hold the Koolance radiator. After some thinking, I decided to fill the emptiness with some kind of mesh/grate and 2x 120mm fans. Water-cooling style without WC!

Unfortunately enough this mid-tower has no intake fans at all, so I had to provide some to create some efficient airflow.

Window and side panel fans weren't an option... why? They require lots of work, it's hard to finish and everyone can buy a case with pre-modded window and fans! I wanted something more original and it should cool down my system enough without making me deaf. (The last 2 are always hard to mix).


Here's the case before the carnage started: the two 120mm fans were attached with simple plastic strings