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Hey all - I currently have my liquid cooling setup in an NZXT 630 Phantom. It's a great case, but very cramped for my 360mm & 240mm rads plus all the other goodies (my case build post is: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/735036-Fish-s-First-WC-Build-Log).
I'm wanting change my build at some point (which might be soon since I have bent CPU socket pins on my mobo......) and change out my case to make life easier. I have a spare HAF-XB at home, but it won't accommodate my rads. Priorities are ease of filling/draining the loop in addition to having more room to work around and on the mobo without fans and parts of the chassis in my way. I plan to get Monsoon MMRS res (or similar) instead of my Monsoon v2 box res.
The Corsair 900D is a beautiful monster that would give me more room than I have now to maintain and install a loop. The idea of a bench chassis is very appealing to me - the Primochill Praxis Wetbench, as an example, offers instant access to everything in the loop with plenty of room (ya know, all the air around the chassis!) to route cabling and tubing. Cube cases are in between. The Carbide Air 540 looks large but I'm not sure there is an advantage (other than price) over a tower as large as the 900D. I don't have any space limitations.
My question is this: Do I sacrifice cooling performance if I use my liquid cooling setup on a bench chassis? I am cooling the GPU & CPU with both rads in push/pull. The vram and memory won't have any other cooling other than ambient air unless the bench I buy has a spot to easily hook up a fan nearby.
I've seen people argue both sides --- e.g. the airflow through a case is better for your internal components even if you're watercooled --- e.g. the components are being adequately cooled with the radiators and loop, the SSDs & RAM are fine in ambient --- and plenty more.
Does anyone know of some actual tests or have some anecdotal information that will shed some more light on the subject? Lot's of it is taste which I understand. I'm not worried about dust from an aesthetics point of view, either.
Thanks!
Fish
I'm wanting change my build at some point (which might be soon since I have bent CPU socket pins on my mobo......) and change out my case to make life easier. I have a spare HAF-XB at home, but it won't accommodate my rads. Priorities are ease of filling/draining the loop in addition to having more room to work around and on the mobo without fans and parts of the chassis in my way. I plan to get Monsoon MMRS res (or similar) instead of my Monsoon v2 box res.
The Corsair 900D is a beautiful monster that would give me more room than I have now to maintain and install a loop. The idea of a bench chassis is very appealing to me - the Primochill Praxis Wetbench, as an example, offers instant access to everything in the loop with plenty of room (ya know, all the air around the chassis!) to route cabling and tubing. Cube cases are in between. The Carbide Air 540 looks large but I'm not sure there is an advantage (other than price) over a tower as large as the 900D. I don't have any space limitations.
My question is this: Do I sacrifice cooling performance if I use my liquid cooling setup on a bench chassis? I am cooling the GPU & CPU with both rads in push/pull. The vram and memory won't have any other cooling other than ambient air unless the bench I buy has a spot to easily hook up a fan nearby.
I've seen people argue both sides --- e.g. the airflow through a case is better for your internal components even if you're watercooled --- e.g. the components are being adequately cooled with the radiators and loop, the SSDs & RAM are fine in ambient --- and plenty more.
Does anyone know of some actual tests or have some anecdotal information that will shed some more light on the subject? Lot's of it is taste which I understand. I'm not worried about dust from an aesthetics point of view, either.
Thanks!
Fish