Hello fellow Citizens! First of all, a disclaimer: I have never modded a computer case, have zero experience with watercooling at all and I have no clue how to overclock a computer. Basically I am a complete noob to all of these. To change that, I decided to upgrade my old rig and put a CPU loop in for training with as much RGB I can cram in and overclock the build. On top of that I would do this by modding my 9 year old C70 case that I bought in 2012. You best learn to swim if someone pushes you into the water they say... Recently, there was a post here about bending hard tubing and I got inspired by this thread to show my build process in pictures. So this is my old rig (I assembled this one in mid-2012, just before StarCitizen came out): - Intel i5-3570K with stock cooler - ASUS TUF Sabertooth Z77 motherboard - GTX 770 - 16 GB RAM, Vengeance (Corsair) - HX750 PSU from Corsair - several HDDs and SSDs because the case has so much space - Vengeance C70 case from Corsair in military green The C70 is considered to be one of the best cases Corsair ever built. There is an Overclockers Owner's thread with over 400 posts on it as well here that was started in 2012 with tons of cool builds and mods: https://www.overclock.net/threads/official-corsair-vengeance-c70-gaming-case-owner-club.1270969/ Since I had the military green case, this was perfect for StarCitizen as the color matches the green theme of SQ42 and ships like the Gladius perfectly. So how could I use this case, designed during earlier days of watercooling, for a halfway modern rig setup? This was supposed to be a learning exercise for me, but I also did not want to mess it up. The case offers a lot of options: At the same time, I was finally lucky to score a decent graphics card on Newegg Shuffle (after 28 continuous days of trying), so no excuse anymore to hang on to my old build: So the first thing to do was to gut the case, remove the lower front drive bays and figure out what kind of radiators would fit in. The top was pretty much a no brainer, a 280mm was the right decision (although some people cram a 360mm into that spot). The front was way more difficult as there are only a few radiators that fit there length-wise: I settled on a 280mm XR5 from Corsair for the top and measured out that a 240mm Classic PE from EKWB would fit in the front: