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Almost finshed my new build to find out the AIO is too thick. Please advise.

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Hiya, the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 does not fit into the top of the Corsair Crystal 280x. I bought it with the intention of it going there and id have thought it would fit but its just too fat. The Radiator and fans are about 6mm too deep. It covers the Mini ITX standoffs.

Im trying to work out solutions.

I could fit the cooler in the front of the case, but i was hoping to have RGB fans there. I have 2 Phantek SK PWM DRBG 140mm fans could i just swap these out?

How much cooling power would i loose if i swapped the fans to thinner types?

This is to cool a Ryzen 7 5800x.

I think that overall moving the AIO to the front would possibly be the best option if thefan swap is possible, which id have to do for thinner fans anyway.

If its a no to these questions ill have to send the AIO back 8-(

Thanks in advance
Brian.

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If you can fit it with the smaller fans on the top, I would do that. you would not be sacrificing too much performance while keeping the nice aethetic of the case. 

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12 minutes ago, count_zero99uk said:

Hiya, the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 does not fit into the top of the Corsair Crystal 280x. I bought it with the intention of it going there and id have thought it would fit but its just too fat. The Radiator and fans are about 6mm too deep. It covers the Mini ITX standoffs.

Im trying to work out solutions.

I could fit the cooler in the front of the case, but i was hoping to have RGB fans there. I have 2 Phantek SK PWM DRBG 140mm fans could i just swap these out?

How much cooling power would i loose if i swapped the fans to thinner types?

This is to cool a Ryzen 7 5800x.

I think that overall moving the AIO to the front would possibly be the best option if thefan swap is possible, which id have to do for thinner fans anyway.

If its a no to these questions ill have to send the AIO back 8-(

Thanks in advance
Brian.

The product page on the cooler says the fans are 27mm thick. The page for the Phanteks fans say 25mm. 25mm is about as thin of a fan as you can find. You think you need 6mm and can only get 2mm with fans.

I'm assuming you're using an ITX board. What GPU are you trying to fit in here also?

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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Yeah ill be swapping to the phantek RGB fans if i put it in the front of the case so the thickness is irrelivant there.  There will be a 1070 gpu in atm, but a 3070 eventualy

 

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