Hi All,
Never had a custom loop water cooled setup before. Going for a hard tubed CPU + GPU setup, and looking for input/opinions on cases and rads.
PC stats (Current pccasegear.com cart (Im in australia))
Intel Core i5 6600K
MSI Z170A-Gaming M7 Motherboard
MSI GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G
G.Skill Ripjaws 4 F4-2666C15Q-16GRR 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 Red
Corsair HX1000i 80 Plus Platinum 1000W Power Supply
Cablemod red/black cable kit
WD BLack 4TB HDD
OCZ 80gB SSD
Crucial 250GB SSD
The dillemma im having at the moment is i really like these 2 cases:
NZXT Noctis 450 Mid Tower Gaming Case Black - https://www.pccasegear.com/products/31807
The problem i have with the Noctis 450 is because of the window and to some extent the HDD cage, i would probably have to go with a drivebay res+pump.
I dont know if this makes sense, but being my first water cooled build i kind of want to show off as much of the actual water cooling components as i can. With this case i can really only imagine the water blocks and few tubes would be visible and definitely no res. on the plus side theres a LOT of room for rads. I could just go with an AIO loop like the corsair H100i, its got RGB led on the cpu block i guess. wont look anywhere near as good though
NZXT S340 Mid Tower Case Black/Red - https://www.pccasegear.com/products/30344
This is more what im after. Plenty of space to present everything nice and tidy, and window room to show it all off. Problem is it only supports 1 double 120 res in front and 1 120 in the back. I doubt 2 120's in front would be sufficient to cool a 6600K and a 980Ti (i could be wrong?)
Any suggestions??
Never had a custom loop water cooled setup before. Going for a hard tubed CPU + GPU setup, and looking for input/opinions on cases and rads.
PC stats (Current pccasegear.com cart (Im in australia))
Intel Core i5 6600K
MSI Z170A-Gaming M7 Motherboard
MSI GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G
G.Skill Ripjaws 4 F4-2666C15Q-16GRR 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 Red
Corsair HX1000i 80 Plus Platinum 1000W Power Supply
Cablemod red/black cable kit
WD BLack 4TB HDD
OCZ 80gB SSD
Crucial 250GB SSD
The dillemma im having at the moment is i really like these 2 cases:
NZXT Noctis 450 Mid Tower Gaming Case Black - https://www.pccasegear.com/products/31807
The problem i have with the Noctis 450 is because of the window and to some extent the HDD cage, i would probably have to go with a drivebay res+pump.
I dont know if this makes sense, but being my first water cooled build i kind of want to show off as much of the actual water cooling components as i can. With this case i can really only imagine the water blocks and few tubes would be visible and definitely no res. on the plus side theres a LOT of room for rads. I could just go with an AIO loop like the corsair H100i, its got RGB led on the cpu block i guess. wont look anywhere near as good though
NZXT S340 Mid Tower Case Black/Red - https://www.pccasegear.com/products/30344
This is more what im after. Plenty of space to present everything nice and tidy, and window room to show it all off. Problem is it only supports 1 double 120 res in front and 1 120 in the back. I doubt 2 120's in front would be sufficient to cool a 6600K and a 980Ti (i could be wrong?)
Any suggestions??