Desperate Help Needed In Denial

Vulcanrvn90 · December 20, 2020

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Hi,

TLDR: Idiot didn't research part size well enough to plan out-build and is now stuck trying to figure out how to put his setup together without sacrificing too much of the quality of the build and hopefully money.

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I recently spent quite a bit of money on building a new computer. Did research for countless hours that took well over a month or so, mainly because I wanted to do a custom loop as I never have. Well as you all know I'm sure that it's really hard to plan an entire build virtually when it comes to sizing everything, well it is for me at least. I've spent a lot of money and I know unfortunately to my dismay I'll have to end up eating a few hundred to figure out the situation I'm currently in. I'm trying to put everything together and ran into a snag, my radiator is blocking my SATA ports on the motherboard, and is so close to it in general that I doubt I can get my power cables through to the 24 pin connector. On top of that, I just found out my reservoir/pump is entirely too fat to fit anywhere near where I wanted to mount it once I put the fittings in. Unless I can do intake and outtake out of the top of the reservoir then I'm screwed.

I've posted some photos showing my current situation, followed by the cable management I plan on doing at the end of this journey. I'm in denial because I spent way too much on the case already and I'm stuck between getting a bigger but similar case or figuring out a new radiator? or radiator and reservoir setup? or what I just thought of is to sell the motherboard and CPU and buy a zen 3 CPU and micro ATX motherboard. I've got to say this breaks my heart, I finally found a case and setup that I've always wanted and I can't have it without some more sacrifices. I'm 30 years old and when I was 12-13 I sketched out a case almost identical to my case I have now, and like the Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic. I would have bought one of those but I wanted one slightly smaller. I saw the mini was coming out but didn't think the Silverstone 1k SFX-L PSU would be coming out right after it There was no word about when it would be out so I decided to move on and get this case instead. Perhaps I bite the bullet and buy a mini, a new 280 mm rad, the 1k Silverstone PSU, and hope that I can fit everything in that and that 1k watt will be enough for what I have.

This particular case I love because it's smaller than the PC-011 Dynamic, it has 2 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.0 and you can mount 4 80MM Fans on the rear panel, two for the second compartment and 2 for the main. I also cut out a USB C hole in my top panel with the rest of the IO because my motherboard has a USB 3.2 Gen 2 front port on it providing me the perfect IO setup on a case. I even thought about mounting my thin Qi charger under the panel so I could charge my phone that way. I made the hole freehand and it's not perfect obviously but I plan on filling in the scratch on the side somehow and filling down the slightly uneven bottom. I need to find or somehow 3d print a plastic mount that my cable will screw into similar to how the rest of the io screws into the case or using glue or epoxy to mount it.

My Parts

Case: Inter-Tech C-701 Panaroma

CPU: AMD 3960X Threadripper

Motherboard: Asrock TRX40 Creator

Ram: Crucial 64GB RGB 3600 MHZ

PSU: Corsair 1200 HXi

GPU: GTX 1070 Ti

Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB, 16TB Seagate Exos, Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 1TB, 2TB Seagate Sata SSD

Add-In Card: ASrock hyper quad m.2 w/ 4 2tb Sabrent Rocket pcie 3.0

Fans: 2 80mm Noctua, 3 Noctua 120mm ippc 3000, 6 Enermax squa 120mm, 3 Corsair LL120

Radiator: Hardware Labs GTX 360mm

Pump/Resevoir: Swifttech Maelstrom v2 D5

Block: Heatkiller Threadripper

Fittings from Barrow

Aquacomputer Octo, Splitty4, Fabework 360

Lights: 2 light strips from the fabwek and 2 Cablemod Hybrid RGB-UV

I Will be buying an RTX 3080 20GB/TI down the road as well as another 16TB Seagate HDD, and 2-4 TB SATA SSD

I know this is a lot of information but I feel you need to see the entire picture to help with suggestions. I want to know what everyone thinks my options are or what you would do in my situation. I'm desperate to finally finish this beast, I've been dying to use it and have been "putting it together" for like 3 weeks because of life issues it's taken me a while to find the time.

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi you're my only hope.

Thank You