If you are talking about the amount of tubing you need to hook everything up in a case, then no it makes little difference. I put an extra 7 foot piece of 3/8" ID in my system and it reduced water flow by only about 10%, made no discernable difference in temps. If you want to run hose to another roo...

My only experience with HD blocks is with the Koolance one. The experience was bad, it killed my drive. Since then I've just payed a little attention to airflow in the case so there is sufficient cooling on the drives. They aren't hard to cool even with very quiet case setups if you make sure they g...

Here is a link with pictures illustrating the mods and where the fans go. http://www.coolcases.com/cases/sr104_m_p1.html Click on the pictures for more details Straker - The drive bay is in the rear of the case next to the power supply, there are 2 x 92mm fans exhausting air directly past the drives...

The Chenbro SR104 case will fit 2 x 120mm fans in the front nicely. you can even get it punched and drilled for that from Coolcases.com I'm currently assembling a similar system, AMD64, 6800GT and 4 drives. My design goal is for very low noise but with moderate overclocking. The SR104 Genie case is ...