Ashalel

I just game and occasionally do some 3D stuff on Blender, which shouldn't be too extreme. As for fan speed I'll tweak them until I'm nice and happy with the noise/temp ratio. Considering I have nice headphones and almost always listen to music the noise isn't too much of a worry for me, so I won't run them at the bare minimun

I'm planning on going to at least 4.8Ghz, but I've seen my chip hit 5Ghz at around 1.32v, so depending on the temps I might run it at that

I've been planning to get a custom loop for my 7700k, only cpu for right now. The rad I'm looking at would be a 360mm rad, I was just wondering what kind of temps I could expect if I run my cpu on a 360mm 45mm thick rad. It may be a bit overkill, but later I plan on adding a gtx 1080ti to the loop along with another 360mm rad. If anyone has any experience with a 7700k on a 360 rad it would be much appreciated

It is a shame how the panel covers it all, but if I were to remove it I would have absolutely no place to mount my HDDs and it would leave a hole all the way to the other side panel, which would uncover quite a few ugly cables. Mounting the pump/res would also be possible just on the psu cover, but that would require drilling and I'm not sure it would look that good. The case may have lots of watercooling support, but you need to sacrifice quite a bit to use it all...

I was thinking of getting a 45mm thick radiator up top, that would fill up the top 5.25 bay leaving the bottom 2 accessible, I was thinking of putting a 5.25 to 3.5 adapter on both of those so that I could move both my HDDs up there and then remove both the drive cages. Then I would have plenty of space to add a pump/res down there and to later add a 240mm rad in the front of the case as well, but I'm not quite sure yet. Removing only one of the 2 drive cages would leave you with about 12cm clearance for a pump/rad which is extremely little

I'm currently running: i7-7700k MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon Kraken X52 Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Tempered Glass My Kraken X52 has been struggling incredibly with cooling my 7700k even at stock, so I'm thinking of going to a custom loop so I can add my gpu to the loop later too. I've been thinking of getting a EK-CoolStream CE 420 (Triple) at the top of my case for now but I'm not entirely sure if it'll fit, according to the specs it should fit a 420mm rad but I just want to be sure. For this loop I'm also going to need a pump and res and I was thinking of getting the EK-XRES 100 SPC-60 MX PWM (incl. pump). Is there anywhere else I could mount one of the drive cages? Because I would like to keep my HDDs but I would also like the ability to mount my pump/res and be able to add another 240mm rad in the front of the case. I am completely open to other parts or ideas, right now my main focus is having everything fit without removing my hard drives