Silverstone SG13 - HDD compatibility with AiO installed

d0m1._ · March 27, 2020

I want to build a (quiet) System in the Silverstone SG13 soon. I'm mit shure, that small Top-Blow cooler for the CPU could be as quiet as a 120 AiO, so I'm planning to use an AiO. The question is, If there is enough space on the Drive-Tray to mount a 3,5" HDD If there is a Radiator beneath it?

Or do you know a quiet Air cooler, that fits between the CPU and some STX PSU and is not noisy?

I want to pit a Ryzen 2600 with 95W TDP in it.

porina · March 27, 2020

I have two of these. Firstly, make sure to get the mesh front version if you want any airflow. The solid front version might be ok for lower power CPUs but it really does hurt airflow.

I'm not sure about 3.5" disk. Is it at all possible to do it with 2.5" drives, more than one if necessary? Two can fit on the top plate, and one more in the base of the case.

What CPU are you looking at? I'm having a good experience with a delid+LM 6600k with the Intel stock cooler. I'm using that in combination with an ATX PSU. My experience with Silverstone's 120mm AIO wasn't great. The fans on that are quite noisy, and mine seemed to have a slow leak around the block after several years use.

Edit: correction, the 6600k was in there, but is now in another system. Currently I'm running a i7-6700T stock and Scythe Kozuti in it. This is a 35W TDP CPU though.

d0m1._ · March 27, 2020

Thank you for your quick reply.

1 hour ago, porina said:

I'm not sure about 3.5" disk. Is it at all possible to do it with 2.5" drives, more than one if necessary?

The rig is an Office-everyday-System, and should therefore be reliable and useable for quite a long time, that's why I dont want to delid the CPU here (I know it is quite save, but I'm building this PC for someone else ), thats also, why I want to put in a HDD.

1 hour ago, porina said:

I'm not sure about 3.5" disk. Is it at all possible to do it with 2.5" drives, more than one if necessary?

I'm planning to use a Ryzen 5 2600, with 95W TDP, so I'm concerned about the noise-emission of the stock AMD cooler, especially because I'm planning on a mostly passive cooled rig, with just one fan mounted on the rad in the front.

How much space for an aircooler is there among the ATX PSU and the CPU?

Thats the system, I thought about:

https://www.mindfactory.de/shopping_cart.php/basket_action/load_basket_extern/id/7e7d84221131ec340bbca5a0eefa524317b12a175043a2be236

I know, the Mainboard might be a bit overkill.