Introduction:

   The concept of water cooling personal computers has been around for sometime now - but there have always been fears of it, the main one being ...water and electronics do not work well together. It is starting to become popular now, as seen by many manufactures jumping in on the market. Numerous companies are trying to enter the water cooling scene to try and capitalize on the popularity. One company that has been in the water cooling business for a long time is Innovatek. Straight from Germany, Innovatek provides the best water cooling products available today. Their expertise is something you should consider when mixing water with your precious computer parts that you probably worked very hard for. Why take a chance? Water cooling products are not something you should cheap out on. You should go for the quality of a product, and Innovatek simply is the best decision.

   I contacted FrozenCPU and pitched the idea of a custom Innovatek water cooling system built on the existing Lian-Li V1000. To my surprise, Mark, the owner of FrozenCPU gave the green light to his team to begin construction. During assembly I worked very close with Mark's team to make sure that this was going to be one of the most insane cases to date. Bucky, one of Frozencpu's employees, is the guy who came up with the design and the person who assembled it. The outcome was just unbelievable! I was just blown away and I think you will be too!

First Thoughts:

   When I first pulled the case out of the package I was amazed at the design and craftsmanship put into this project. The weird thing about the Lian-Li V1000 is that everything is backwards. The PSU is at the bottom, the motherboard is flipped upside down, and the window is on the right rather than the traditional left. It was evident that a lot of time and planning was put into coming up with this design. This is custom work and everything has to fit just right, which takes a lot of time making sure everything works and sits right. I did not know what to think at first, I was just inspecting the case's different features and the placement of some items. I started looking at the manuals and parts that came with the case trying to figure out how this thing went together mainly because this is my first water cooling case.

Innovatek Water Cooling:

Features:

   The external radiator was the first thing that I noticed. FrozenCPU took the Innovatek Dual RADI and mounted it on the top of the case rather than inside like most. This was done mainly to save space, and it really could not have been done any better. They also took into consideration if you drain the system by putting shut off valves to the radiator. This makes it easier to drain the system because the radiator is just a pain to drain. Right under the valves in the first 5¼" bay they mounted the Thermaltake Water Temperature Indicator. This device glows blue and has a cool alarm feature if your water temperature exceeds the set limit. At the bottom of the front there is a noticeable difference. Where an alleged 120mm went, they replaced with the Innovatek Fass-O-Matic. This feature by far takes the cake, it's position could not be any better. It serves as the port hole for the front of your case! Along with looking cool it also helps dissipate heat from the water.

   Moving on to the right side of the case you can notice a small hole with a rubber grommet around it. Upon closer inspection it turned out to be the Innovatek Flow Meter Pro. This is a really neat gadget - every time it makes one rotation it blinks blue. Usually though when water is flowing it will look like a constant light, this is a good tool to use to see if there are any kinks in the tubing. If the light is noticeably blinking then you have a kink somewhere. The Flow Meter will also report RPM's to your motherboard so you can monitor your water flow speed (1900RPM is the average). On the left side there are 4 screws. These are holding the pump to the side panel.

   The Innovatek Eheim HPPS Plus Pump was mounted to the left side panel with rubber feet to avoid vibration noise, the pump ended up fitting nicely around the Fass-O-Matic.