Case advice/recommendations

SlicingYeti · April 8, 2022

Budget (including currency): £200

Country: uk

Hi all.

TL;DR is that I know nothing about cases and I'm wanting to get one that is roomier than my current Corsair 275R Airflow.

The longer story is this;

I've been wanting to vertically mount my gpu for a while now, bought a cooler master kit, installed it and it looked heckin good (see 1st pic).

Then I realised that I couldn't fit my DP and HDMI cables through the back of the case to the gpu (see 2nd picture).

The kit foresaw this and it is possible to extend it to the right and thus give more room to get the cables in flat then turn to insert them into the gpu, if that makes sense. However, I have a 3080ti and it's chonky, add in that my rad for the CPU aio cooler is mounted to the front of the case, and I have about 3mm of room (see 3rd pic), so I'm unable to do this. And I can't mount the rad on the top as my ram is in the way.

I've been wanting to get a larger case for a while now, this kind of seals the deal for me, but I've no idea what's what at the moment.

Can anyone recommend a nice roomy case to build in please? Preferably much bigger than my Corsair as it was a pain to fit everything in, especially the cable management in the back.

Thanks all.

DEADPOOLSMOM · April 8, 2022

15 minutes ago, SlicingYeti said:

Budget (including currency): £200

Country: uk

Hi all.

TL;DR is that I know nothing about cases and I'm wanting to get one that is roomier than my current Corsair 275R Airflow.

The longer story is this;

I've been wanting to vertically mount my gpu for a while now, bought a cooler master kit, installed it and it looked heckin good (see 1st pic).

Then I realised that I couldn't fit my DP and HDMI cables through the back of the case to the gpu (see 2nd picture).

The kit foresaw this and it is possible to extend it to the right and thus give more room to get the cables in flat then turn to insert them into the gpu, if that makes sense. However, I have a 3080ti and it's chonky, add in that my rad for the CPU aio cooler is mounted to the front of the case, and I have about 3mm of room (see 3rd pic), so I'm unable to do this. And I can't mount the rad on the top as my ram is in the way.

I've been wanting to get a larger case for a while now, this kind of seals the deal for me, but I've no idea what's what at the moment.

Can anyone recommend a nice roomy case to build in please? Preferably much bigger than my Corsair as it was a pain to fit everything in, especially the cable management in the back.

Thanks all.

Easy. Full size Fractal Design Torrent

DEADPOOLSMOM · April 8, 2022

27 minutes ago, SlicingYeti said:

Budget (including currency): £200

Country: uk

Hi all.

TL;DR is that I know nothing about cases and I'm wanting to get one that is roomier than my current Corsair 275R Airflow.

The longer story is this;

I've been wanting to vertically mount my gpu for a while now, bought a cooler master kit, installed it and it looked heckin good (see 1st pic).

Then I realised that I couldn't fit my DP and HDMI cables through the back of the case to the gpu (see 2nd picture).

The kit foresaw this and it is possible to extend it to the right and thus give more room to get the cables in flat then turn to insert them into the gpu, if that makes sense. However, I have a 3080ti and it's chonky, add in that my rad for the CPU aio cooler is mounted to the front of the case, and I have about 3mm of room (see 3rd pic), so I'm unable to do this. And I can't mount the rad on the top as my ram is in the way.

I've been wanting to get a larger case for a while now, this kind of seals the deal for me, but I've no idea what's what at the moment.

Can anyone recommend a nice roomy case to build in please? Preferably much bigger than my Corsair as it was a pain to fit everything in, especially the cable management in the back.

Thanks all.

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/fractal-design-torrent-grey-tg-light-tint-3x-140mm-2x-180mm-fans-usb-31-gen-2-type-c-e-atx-atx-matx

SlicingYeti · April 9, 2022

10 hours ago, Ryan829 said:

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/fractal-design-torrent-grey-tg-light-tint-3x-140mm-2x-180mm-fans-usb-31-gen-2-type-c-e-atx-atx-matx

Thanks for the suggestion!