Top Radiator height/thickness clearance of Be Quiet! Silent Base 801/802 case?

Techboah · January 12, 2022

Hello There!

I've been looking for a new AIO cooler in preparation for an upcoming CPU upgrade, and I've been stuck on one important part. My obvious AIO choice is going to be an Arctic LFII 280 because it's a no brainer based on reviews and price, but one of the unique things about it is the radiator thickness: the radiator itself is 38.1mm thick, and ~70mm thick with the two fans installed. That's obviously a lot thicker than most AIOs and I don't know if it can actually fit in top mount(don't want to disrupt GPU airflow by installing in front).

I tried doing my own measuring, but I got a full PC installed in the case already and my current air cooler is in the way of proper measurments. I'm afraid, based on my not-so-good measurments, that the fan blades would come in direct contact with the upper end of my RAM(HyperX Predator 2x8GB) sticks. Does anyone know what the official radiator thickness clearance of the Silent Base 801/802 case is at the top with an ATX Motherboard installed? BQ!'s website only writes the standard "up to 360mm" dimension, but does not mention any height. I've been trying to look it up for an hour now, but really can't find anything, not even a build with that AIO in this case, I'm honestly just lost, best I could find is a year old thread here asking a similar question

Any help is appreciated!

Chris Pratt · January 12, 2022

You can contact support. I had to do that for the Corsair 4000D, as I was in a similar predicament. Same AIO even.

FWIW, I'll say I have a hard time believing you couldn't fit it in a case that large. I was able to fit it in the top of the 4000D, which is far more compact, though just barely.

Techboah · January 12, 2022

25 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

You can contact support. I had to do that for the Corsair 4000D, as I was in a similar predicament. Same AIO even.

FWIW, I'll say I have a hard time believing you couldn't fit it in a case that large. I was able to fit it in the top of the 4000D, which is far more compact, though just barely.

Yeah, I'm trying to but still waiting for their response. I do think that it should fit, but personal measurements are questioning that, it's kind of weird, because the case itself is fairly large, but most of the size is really directed at the front, there is not that much space between the MOBO and top radiator mount(slide-out tray), but I can't properly measure it without opening up the case and removing my air cooler and stuff. Kinda lazy, but I really don't want to go through that process right now lol

Jeppes · January 12, 2022

Just do a 360 in roof with 802?

Techboah · January 16, 2022

Welp, Be Quiet support is yet to answer to me(wrote to both their US and local support), so I guess I'll just have to pull the trigger and see how it turns out.

RacehawkDE · January 22, 2022

On 1/16/2022 at 11:57 AM, Techboah said:

Welp, Be Quiet support is yet to answer to me(wrote to both their US and local support), so I guess I'll just have to pull the trigger and see how it turns out.

This is exactly the same problem I'm having. I have not found any information about these two components on the Internet and am about to make a purchase decision. Have you tried it and can you tell me if it works? That would be really amazing.