Extreme core 500 Msi Sea Hawk 1080 ti edition

[DKTechGuy]

Hey techies 

 

does anyone know is you Can fit a sea Hawk cooler rad in the back, and a Dual aio rad i the top ? 

 

course i have a Big Dual fan CPU cooler now and the rad from the sea Hawk, mounted in the top front, but i would like to upgrade the CPU cooling to hit 5ghz on a i7 7700k ?

[Zando_]

Wheesh! You going for the most powerful box of awesomeness award? And I'd try putting the Seahawk rad in the back, then figure out the measurements of a 240mm rad, and see if it can fit. 

[DKTechGuy]

6 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Wheesh! You going for the most powerful box of awesomeness award? And I'd try putting the Seahawk rad in the back, then figure out the measurements of a 240mm rad, and see if it can fit. 

Haha yeah something like that ?? i had a 780 from gigabyte, and i so still go to lans, so i wanted to build a very powerfull mini itx pc, and i knew, cooling would be bad, so went with the sea Hawk, but the CPU needs better cooling, if i want to hit 5ghz, and seriouly its a i7 7700k ofc i want to hit that ????

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, DKTechGuy said:

Haha yeah something like that ?? i had a 780 from gigabyte, and i so still go to lans, so i wanted to build a very powerfull mini itx pc, and i knew, cooling would be bad, so went with the sea Hawk, but the CPU needs better cooling, if i want to hit 5ghz, and seriouly its a i7 7700k ofc i want to hit that ????

I hope you can cram a good rad in there! And what case is that?

[DKTechGuy]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

I hope you can cram a good rad in there! And what case is that?

It's a fractal design core 500, its a great mini itx case couse the psu is in the front, so you Can install a Big CPU cooler  you can't do that in cooler Masters equivalent ??

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, DKTechGuy said:

It's a fractal design core 500, its a great mini itx case couse the psu is in the front, so you Can install a Big CPU cooler  you can't do that in cooler Masters equivalent ??

IMO, Fractal Designs makes the nicest looking mITX cases anyways. I just wanted to know what model it was. 

[DKTechGuy]

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

IMO, Fractal Designs makes the nicest looking mITX cases anyways. I just wanted to know what model it was. 

Yeah sorry I get overexcited ???? core 500 ???

[Shoeboxer]

I was making a similar build, but with Noctua d15 cpu cooler and EVGA 1080ti ftw3. But since the company where I ordered the GPU can't deliver.. I might need to change to the MSI 1080ti seahawk. The only thing holding me back is that i heard it was quite noisy.. what do you think?

And I noticed you use the radiator as an intake? Did you test the temperatures when using it as an exhaust as well? What is the best way to go in the Core 500 for airflow?