Been a while since I’ve posted a project log, so for those who don’t know me, or don’t remember, Hi, I’m Mosquito, also known as Chris, and I’m a case modding enthusiast 
A coworker and I were talking about some of the case mods I’ve done in the past, and as a result wanted to try watercooling his BitFenix Portal case. He thought switching back to the Wraith cooler for the CPU, and doing a custom loop with a 120mm radiator for just the GPU would be all he’d get. I told him I bet I could fit a 240mm radiator in there, so that’s what we’ve decided to go after…
It actually took a lot less modding than I thought it might, as we got relatively lucky with the radiator just clearing the GPU block, but we’ll get into that more later.
Before we start out, this is the BitFenix Portal for those who are not familiar.
Something that makes things a little weird, is that the chassis slides out of the main shell, so we had to make sure we allowed that to continue working through all this.
This is what the ‘stock’ build consisted of. ASRock B350 ITX, Ryzen 1600X, and an RX Vega 56.
First things first, we’ve got to tear the existing build apart.
With the case empty, this is roughly speaking what we intend to make happen.
Removing the back fascia gives a pretty compact little chassis. Though with some indexing pins on the bottom, it doesn’t sit on the work bench very well!
Next up, remove the drive cage. I’m not sure why this wasn’t easily removable, as the bottom is mostly held in place by some sliding connections. Never the less, there were 6 rivets to drill out to remove it.
After some fiddling around we realized that it was going to be a lot more work to get the radiator mounted on the outside of the case. Instead, we figured we would have to make it work with the fans in front of the chassis instead.
That’s it for this update. In the next one, we’ll have to get it to fit both fans up front, so check back for that one. Thanks for checking it out!
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