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Premsanity
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Hey, I have the Masterbox k500 case and I purchased a Liquid cooler for my cpu which is mounted to the front of the case (there’s no other place to put it). That being said if I bought a GPU with a radiator how am I going to fit that radiator? On Pc Part Picker it claims it will all fit but how? 

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9 minutes ago, Premsanity said:

Hey, I have the Masterbox k500 case and I purchased a Liquid cooler for my cpu which is mounted to the front of the case (there’s no other place to put it). That being said if I bought a GPU with a radiator how am I going to fit that radiator? On Pc Part Picker it claims it will all fit but how? 

Looks like you can put a single 120 in the rear, but I would argue to not even waste the money on that. A single 120 is "fine", but nice air cooled card will be very similar, and a good bit cheaper. 

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2 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Looks like you can put a single 120 in the rear, but I would argue to not even waste the money on that. A single 120 is "fine", but nice air cooled card will be very similar, and a good bit cheaper. 

Let’s say the GPU comes with a radiator (aka Kingpin) which I intended on buying) then what? The radiator is a full 240mm.

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2 minutes ago, Premsanity said:

Let’s say the GPU comes with a radiator (aka Kingpin) which I intended on buying) then what? The radiator is a full 240mm.

Then it won't fit...

 

But also, there isn't any point in buying a Kingpin card unless you plan on going for overclock records. Its a hell of a card, but its so incredibly overkill for non-LN2 or at least dry ice cooling.

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8 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Then it won't fit...

 

But also, there isn't any point in buying a Kingpin card unless you plan on going for overclock records. Its a hell of a card, but its so incredibly overkill for non-LN2 or at least dry ice cooling.

Okay, then what is the BEST you can get without completely overkill? (For my specific build) I want something that will push 240fps at Ultra settings. 

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1 hour ago, Premsanity said:

Okay, then what is the BEST you can get without completely overkill? (For my specific build) I want something that will push 240fps at Ultra settings. 

I mean, a 430 GT will push 240 at ultra at 10x10 resolution... lol.

 

But just a normal air cooled 2080 ti is about the best you can do... kingpin will not be really any different. That PCB is engineered to be overkill so you can do crazy things with LN2...

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3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

I mean, a 430 GT will push 240 at ultra at 10x10 resolution... lol.

 

But just a normal air cooled 2080 ti is about the best you can do... kingpin will not be really any different. That PCB is engineered to be overkill so you can do crazy things with LN2...

Thanks for the help man, I think I decided to go with the EVGA 2080 ti ftw3 ultra hybrid. 

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Thanks for the help man, I think I decided to go with the EVGA 2080 ti ftw3 ultra hybrid. 

I would honestly just do a normal FTW3 not even a hybrid just cuz its not worth the extra money imo. But, thats fine. It will at least work lol.

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3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

I would honestly just do a normal FTW3 not even a hybrid just cuz its not worth the extra money imo. But, thats fine. It will at least work lol.

I’m doing it bc it only like $50 more for the radiator so I said fuck it, on the website it says it’s the same price for some reason they are just out of stock 

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