The case is this:
 
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_204&products_id=20821
 
The Lian-Li PC343B
Case looks affordable until you realize that $350 is a case with no drive bays, no side window, no dual psu support, no fan mounts in the front. No fan mounts on the top. It's just a box, with 18 5" drive covers in the front. That case ended  up costing me $800 3 yrs ago, and you can believe it's worth it, but I will be running it until the end of time because of what I paid for it.

I had thought about getting a MM case, but I went to a friends house and saw his Lian-Li case. Now they're cases are expensive, but working with it, you feel like you get what you pay for, my case fully loaded with all my hardware is close to 80lbs. This thing doesn't even notice, every single panel is replaceable on it too. One minor quirk is the Lian-Li cases take special screws, but by the time you buy the case, and the accy's to go with it you have enough screw to fix 5 cases. The 343 case is made for pure WTH ever you want. Only thing that sucks is replacing fans. this thing has 8 120MM fans, 2 80MM fans
and buyin good fans (Like I am friday) is 200-250 bucks. I am switching all my case fans over to the SilenX IXP-74-14 Ixtrema Pro 120mm x 25mm 14dBA 72CFM Fan what sucks is that they are $22 each so it adds up fast. I switched my HTPC over to the 80mm versions and am super impressed, now to find a quieter CPU cooler for the HTPC.

My daily user is an EVGA micro in an Antec 300 case.  I have a nice aircraft aluminum handle (Milspec design).  So I drag it around on Lan games once a week.  My benching rig is in the mountain mods case.  Not something I would take around.  At its peak it was close to 50lbs.  LOTS of copper & water was in there (some stuff I haven't released to the general public yet) ;)

Not pretty, but it works. 

I think my 295 is heading south... Used to take 1200mV or 1188 on a good day to run 800/1282, now it takes 1212mV to run. Could be that my ambient is a little higher now but I dunno. 
 
Even on air I had it 24/7 at 694/linked/1100 with 1038mV, now it seems to want 1050mV.
 
Sad day. Especially 'cause I know I won't get another dualie 295 back from RMA, but I wouldn't take a Co-Op. Maybe a 480, not a Co-Op though, that would just be a waste of my time.

Temperature carries a lot of weight, even just a few degrees.

I actually was talkin to my a/c guy about it on the phone today, he's comming over to service my house a/c sat and we're gonna look at what I got and see if he has a evap core thats in better shape than mine and maybe convert one of my a/c units over.
 
On another note, I got my fittings today and came up with this:
 

that copper will be a straight heat magnet.

dont get me wrong. it looks spectacular to say the least!

it's only three copper tubes can't see it making a much difference losing or adding heat.
also painting it to any color you want world be sweet!

threedhero

it's only three copper tubes can't see it making a much difference losing or adding heat.
also painting it to any color you want world be sweet!

 
Actually there is 6, 3 on the board, 3 more attached to the case. From the pump to the HK, the Dom Cooler to the outside junction. and from the outside junction to the res. All my radiators are external.
 
And yes, if I attached it to a chiller insulation would be required, but atleast for now thats a seperate project. 
 

I will tell ya one thing I did learn so far. I don't mind sleeving my own cables, I sure am not gonna pay what alot of people want to do it. But after making a custom length 24pin cable, I will NEVER do that again. 
What makes it worse is my PSU uses metal fittings to connect to the PSU and taking those apart to make my SATA power cables was an interesting task. I need to convince myself to chop the 24pin comming out of my PSU in half because it's WAY too long. But I don't want to sleeve all that cable right now. I might do it before I finish the rig, but I don't know yet.

haha. luck of the draw halo_003

threedhero

i tried about 2 different pastes, one being a white paste in a huge tube for about $12 and OCZ freeze which costs the same in a tiny tube lol. Only improvement I saw during DICE was load temp during wPrime 1024 and SuperPI 32m, which gave me about another 50mhz...

damn, i think i got that same tube. (silicone heat transfer compound is what i got) but i use it for mixing with ic diamond and ocz freeze.

yeah nate...im all ears. i need to polish up my copper evap as well.

Nate, i PM'd you, hopefully you can get back to me quickly. Thanks