Liquid cooling problem

[Elbow]

How exactly am I supposed to fit in this 2X 140mm fan when the MOBO is getting in the way? I even bought an extra large chassi to be able to fit everything but maybe it ends up too small regardless?

 

RIP

[Firewrath9]

put it in the front

[Elbow]

4 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

put it in the front

Wouldnt that mess up my air intake? Seeing as I'm pretty sure it takes in air from the front and blows it out through the back and top. Putting the water-cooling fans there would increase the heat in my chassi wouldn't it?

[Elbow]

Maybe I could try to fit the metal bracket the water flows through on the top of the seating and the two fans below the seating? Though it'd mean less airspace up there and a few millimeter gap between the fans and the bracket, but maybe that wouldn't matter?

[Mick Naughty]

Most people don't care about using the rad as a front intake even with the temp increase. They rely on youtubers to tell them its fine.

As long as the gpu temps aren't horrid I wouldn't worry about it. Is the cases top cover large enough to run the rad on the outside?

[TVwazhere]

On 6/16/2019 at 9:18 AM, Elbow said:

Wouldnt that mess up my air intake? Seeing as I'm pretty sure it takes in air from the front and blows it out through the back and top. Putting the water-cooling fans there would increase the heat in my chassi wouldn't it?

It's a minimal difference. You might see a few degree difference in intake tempso as a result, depending on how much of a load you're putting on the CPU. 

 

The Dark Base Pro 900 Rev 2 is able to fit the RAD at the top. The catch is you have to use low profile ram to make it fit. You're using Trident Z ram which is what's interfering with the RAD, NOT the motherboard.

 

So unless you want to switch out the ram to mount it at the top, I would mount it at the front. 

[Elbow]

15 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

It's a minimal difference. You might see a few degree difference in intake tempso as a result, depending on how much of a load you're putting on the CPU. 

 

The Dark Base Pro 900 Rev 2 is able to fit the RAD at the top. The catch is you have to use low profile ram to make it fit. You're using Trident Z ram which is what's interfering with the RAD, NOT the motherboard.

 

So unless you want to switch out the ram to mount it at the top, I would mount it at the front. 

Sadly this isn't the case since there's only one way to seat with 140mm fans so the far side of the cooler is almost parallel with the ''board'' of the MOBO itself with less than a centimeter of clearance, so literally everything jutting out more than a centimeter of the MOBO (like heatsink, CPU cooler seating, RAM, almost everything basically) comes in the way of the 2X 140mm cooler. Only way I could seat it like that is to have the fans below the cooling seating and then screw the radiator on top of the seating and have it occupy the airway on top which I don't want. Granted what you say might be true for other size of fans but for the 140mm you couldn't fit everything underneath *normally*.

 

I still managed to make it work by lowering the entire seating of the motherboard by one screwhole and rerouting the CPU power cables' entrance point, leaves a small gap in the back of the chassi (about 2 centimeters). That's a sacrifice I'm fine to make since I wont even see the back end of my chassi and I doubt it will increase noise levels beyond what the normal hexagonal plate pattern where 80% of the surface area is entirely open.

 

On 6/16/2019 at 6:29 PM, Mick Naughty said:

Most people don't care about using the rad as a front intake even with the temp increase. They rely on youtubers to tell them its fine.

As long as the gpu temps aren't horrid I wouldn't worry about it. Is the cases top cover large enough to run the rad on the outside?

Yeah the case is large enough to put the radiator on top though I didn't do it since I'd probably gain a little temperature between the fans and the radiator as well as almost entirely blocking the top airway for exhausting heat. Not really worried about temps on my GPU (ROG Strix gaming 1080 TI) and it'd probably only increase temps on my CPU by a few degrees but still it wouldn't be optimal.

 

But as said I got it to more or less work, took an image of it so you guys could see the end result.

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Yes that's me without a shirt in the reflection, if you're into that sorta thing enjoy the free fanservice!

 

Gonna try booting it up right now, wish me luck!

[Elbow]

First computer I've built that started up on first try without showing any error codes, fantastic!