Hello,
I have some doubts about a new airflow configurations to do on this case.
At first, the case was mounted with its original 3x120mm fans, two pulling air from the front and one pushing air out of the case, plus a 120mm AIO from cooler master mounted on the top, pushing air into the radiator and out of the case. Now I'm starting to prepare for an upgrade, I have in mind to put there a 5800x/5900x and a 6800 xt or a 3080, so I started buying an Arctic liquid freezer II 280 AIO, thinking that I could put in top, two 140mm arctic f14 fans to put on the front of the case and one f12 into the rear, with the same configuration as it was at the beginning. But when the liquid freezer arrived, I discovered it was a way thicker boy then I tought, so much that it couldn't be mounted on the top, because the RAM is on the way. So I had to rethink everything and now the configuration is the one in the photos: radiator on the front, with fans pulling air across it and sending air into the case, with the f12 on the rear and an f14 on the top, both pushing out of the case. With my actual configuration, a ryzen 5 3600 overclocked at 4.275ghz at 1.25v all core and my sapphire 5700xt nitro+, games work good with very reasonable temperatures (50°C on the cpu max and 72 on the gpu, clocking 2ghz). The only thing that really put the system on his knees was occt, that pushed, during a combined test gpu3d+ cpu:linpack, the cpu to 70°C and GPU past 80°C, while clocking a pretty sad 1750mhz. Even if I know that's not a possible scenario, I'm worried that more powerful components will suffer inside there. Knowing that the AIO can be mounted only in the way I mounted it because of space problems (if i put the fans in front of the radiator there won't be any space for the tubes to pass), do you think that it will be enough, or have any advice to make things better? Or is it a better idea to just change case for something a little bigger and capable in terms of cooling? Thank you
And for the love of god, don't buy liquid freezers II for this case, even if it barely fitted, the dust filter on the front can't go all the way in now...
If it can be useful, I'll leave here the complete configuration of the system:
CPU Ryzen 5 3600 4.275ghz@1.25v
RAM Ballistix 2x8gb 3600mhz
GPU Sapphire Nitro+ RX5700XT Stock, performance bios
MOTHERBOARD Asrock x570m pro4
POWER SUPPLY Seasonic Focus+ 750w 80+ gold
