Good cases for Watercooling?

[DeathScytheVT]

Looking to build a new system and watercool it. I've been hearing that watercooling takes a lot of room, and often requires you to cut up the case if you use a heatercore.

What kind of cases are good for watercooling? I'd need something with a good PSU obviously (Unless you guys can reccomend a good separate PSU). Also will it actually need to be cut up, especially if I just went with a Radiator such as the Black Ice Extreme?

Last question, and I'm sorry if it's been said a lot before, but where is a good place to get watercooling supplies?

 

[W00TSAUCE]

I don't know anything about watercooling but my Coolermaster Stacker has plenty of room.

 

[sparkyclarky]

Any of Lian Li's full towers will work well. Actually any full tower will generally be fine, but bear in mind that it is easier to work with aluminum than steel from a case modding perspective (not to mention that a full tower steel case weighs a ton). As far as PSUs go, most good cases, save for some Antec models, come without one. Brands to look at are Antec, PC Power and Cooling, OCZ, Fortran, etc.

Oh, and most importantly, invest in a Dremel for case modding.

 

[Daddyjaxx]

After searching high and low, the cheapest place for water cooling is directly from the manufacturer:

http://www.dangerden.com

 

[DeathScytheVT]

Thanks a ton guys. Still gonna have to take a while to look around for things, but i'm gathering there's no way around having to mod the case for the radiator? Never having modded a case before I'd like to avoid having my first time be on a $200 Lian-Li case ;;;

As a ref, i'm looking at either a single or double 120mm rad, though with that coolermaster it looks like i could sacrifice some front room and just mount a triple there instead of the normal fans...course that sucker would also be heavy as hell, being steel.

 

[Viggilyboy]

http://www.coolcases.com/cases/sr104_m_p1.html
This is the Chenbro sr104 some refer to it as the Chenbro Genie. It can be modded to have dual 120mm front fans. It also has a 120mm and 92mm exhaust so airflow will not be a problem. This is a large server style case, it has the hard drives put in the top back of it so it will be good for cable management. Here is a link to a guy who put a similar radiator in this case. Oh and the guy at coolcases will do any modding that you do not want to do. I got mine modded for around 125.
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=17354

 

[HardWarrior]

Regardless of brand (though a well-made case is the gift that keeps on giving), get a full tower. If you have the cash and aren't a whiz with a drill, get it cut for your rad right away. I know of one place where you can can get it drilled to order and I'm sure there are more. This will save you lots of time and headaches in the long run.