Back in the mid 2000s when biohazard fan grilles were the height of cool Silverstone released the hulking but effortlessly stylish TJ07. I wanted one, oh how I wanted one. My desire was stoked all the more over the following years by seeing fantastic watercooled builds from Charles Harwood and others.

For one reason or another (extra mouths to feed, not enough hours in the day) I never got around to it and ended up staying on air for the next few years, but at the end of last year I managed to source a TJ07 with mint unibody, a ColdZero flush window mod and the insides already powdercoated black for the princely sum of a hundred quid. Game on.

I'm a big fan of 5.25" bays. They can be adapted to fit anything from a big fan (ha) to a radiator to a disk cage to whatever. In this instance they'll be needed to, as the default disk location in the basement is taken up by a honkin' big 480x60mm radiator. I'm a sucker for black anodized brushed aluminium, so any bay devices will have to match the finish of the blanks. I also debadged the case, because if there's one case in the history of watercooling that doesn't need a logo to be recognised, it's this one. The outside is more or less stock with the exception of a fill port drilled into the roof above the 5.25" bays.

The roof radiator is a HardwareLabs Nemesis LS240, which was slim enough to fit in the stock fan cage. It's cooled by two Silverstone FN123 120x15mm fans to give enough clearance for the motherboard. The basement radiator is an XSPC RX480, which is cooled by four Gentle Typhoon AP-15 fans. Each radiator and the pair of Noiseblocker BlackSilentPro exhaust fans at the rear have their own channel on an Aquaero 5 LT programmable fan controller hidden in the rear of a 5.25" bay.

The lightbox is again from ColdZero, drilled to accept two passthrough ports for the res > pump and basement rad > GPU block.