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mhiner

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Yes that would be me... I picked up a z68x-ud3h-b3 rev 1.3 motherboard and 2500k cpu for $280 @ microcenter before Christmas. I had asked for and received a H100 and an Agility 3 120gb drive for Christmas so I thought that I would just do all the fun stuff at once. I already had a relatively new HAF 912 that I love (BE 965 currently in) and it has openings for 2 120's on top and I figured that was plenty of space (Bonehead)! I guess I should have done as much research on the case/cooler combo as I did on the cpu and board. NO JOY! I can make it work with a little modding but I thought I had finally found a case that I wouldn't cut up / weld / mangle... I may sell it but it fits perfectly depth wise @ 19.5" for my office desk, anyone with any suggestions on a case that's 20" or less in depth and can handle a H100? Sorry, long winded for that question.

Michael
 
Yes that would be me... I picked up a z68x-ud3h-b3 rev 1.3 motherboard and 2500k cpu for $280 @ microcenter before Christmas. I had asked for and received a H100 and an Agility 3 120gb drive for Christmas so I thought that I would just do all the fun stuff at once. I already had a relatively new HAF 912 that I love (BE 965 currently in) and it has openings for 2 120's on top and I figured that was plenty of space (Bonehead)! I guess I should have done as much research on the case/cooler combo as I did on the cpu and board. NO JOY! I can make it work with a little modding but I thought I had finally found a case that I wouldn't cut up / weld / mangle... I may sell it but it fits perfectly depth wise @ 19.5" for my office desk, anyone with any suggestions on a case that's 20" or less in depth and can handle a H100? Sorry, long winded for that question.

Michael

Right at 20" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139009 The Corsair 500r midtower
 
So this is what I decided to do until I get a new case. I put the 2500 in the 912 with h100 pump mounted upside down, fed the radiator out the opening for the motherboard back plate and then installed the motherboard with no backplate. The h100 lines are sitting loosely on top of the video ports on the board and the radiator is mounted on the outside top of the case. The stock fans were too small thickness to get the radiator high enough to use the stock 120mm holes so I replaced them with a couple scythe kaze 38mm thick fans which raised the radiator high enough to mount. I cut two small pieces out off the honeycomb grill on top of the case for the fan power cords to go through. So this was the best solution until I get a 400r when I get time to run to micro center and pick one up!
 
Sure I'll take a couple tomorrow and post them up. Its alright but a little noisy as I was not intending these fans to be used in my office.
 
So these will be the first pictures that I have ever put up so lets see how much trouble I get into for 9 pictures. Admins can tell me if that's too many and I'll delete some.

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I would grab the 500R personally. Looks nicer IMO :p. Also a more capable case overall. If you're going to replace a case; you'd want to grab a good that that will fit everything you need it to for later builds.
 
Thanks I'm digging the 500r now that I've done some reading on it. I really like my 912 but since I'm replacing it I'm going to go with the 500r.
 
i actually like what you did as the temporary fix more then the 500r haha... :attn:
 
Just in case anyone was curious this is where I am. I just ran prime for an hour and didn't get over 61°c on any core. I have the H100 with the scythe kaze 38mm fans set at middle setting on the cpu block. I have my vcore @ 1.300 and the multi-step line load at 3 with all the power saving things on and a 45 multiplier (4.5ghz). I did notice the same anomaly that others with this board have and that it sets the command rate on the ram to 1t regardless of what it actually is. I fixed it and am running my xms memory @ 1.65v 1600 9-9-9-24 2t and she's rock stable!!!! I may push it up and see how far I can go with 1.3v cpu voltage, but I wonder if having the fan/radiator externally is helping with the temps because it's not getting hot in the case? Thoughts? Although I am having problems with GTX 460 showing that it is running @ pciex 1.1 8x gotta figure this out, I'm not running vurtu right now either... hmmmm
 
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