case help... please?

[Toxic.]

I need a case With duel 120 rad mounts on the top and at the bottom without losing too many drives. I only need 2 drive bays. And no compatibility issues With the power supply. The power supply i plan to use is the thermaltake smart series 750w (non modular ) I got my sights on the cooler master 690 ll advanced black and white and the rosewill blackhawk. My budget is around a 100 usd. Give or take 10-20 bucks. Any recommendations or is there any clearance issue by using the psu? Thanks in advance.

[Hazy125]

Is it too much of a stretch for a NZXT switch 810? If you have a motherboard with a low profile chipset you cant mount a 360 in push/pull on the top and a 240 in the bottom, with a little modding you can get a 280 in the bottom and then you can add a 120 on the back. If you have slim fans like the gelid slim fans you can have 25mm fans on one side of the 360 top mounted rad and the gelid fans on the bottom to still go push pull. On the 240 at the bottom you can go push/pull easily and you only need to take out one hard drive bay leaving one left. That won't need to be removed because besides one graphics card I can think of, every single card will fit in without removing the top hard drive cage

[someone]

Well you can always try to install the radiators externally from the case..that would save a few bucks..

[Toxic.]

Is it too much of a stretch for a NZXT switch 810? If you have a motherboard with a low profile chipset you cant mount a 360 in push/pull on the top and a 240 in the bottom, with a little modding you can get a 280 in the bottom and then you can add a 120 on the back. If you have slim fans like the gelid slim fans you can have 25mm fans on one side of the 360 top mounted rad and the gelid fans on the bottom to still go push pull. On the 240 at the bottom you can go push/pull easily and you only need to take out one hard drive bay leaving one left. That won't need to be removed because besides one graphics card I can think of, every single card will fit in without removing the top hard drive cage

Maybe the corsair air 540 might work better at a lower price? Maybe the phantom 530?

[Toxic.]

Well you can always try to install the radiators externally from the case..that would save a few bucks..

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Don't look clean. Sorry bud,all internal.

[Hazy125]

I'm not really too familiar with most cases, I've just been looking heavily at the switch lately. On the NZXT website the display their case with a radiator in there, it looks like a thin radiator though, maybe 45mm or even less so bear that in mind. It also looks like it has room for push/pull at the top using this picture as an example. They also have mounting room for 2x120mm fans in the bottom which, provided the fans use 20mm spacings(Which most tend to do) you can mount a 240 rad in the bottom as well

As for the 540 air... Well, it is mostly designed for air cooling, but I found this thread which shows planning for watercooling in that case and it looks like you can get a similar setup to the switch. In this picture it's a 240 on the top and a 360 on the side although it should also be noted that a 280mm rad will fit in the top as well

 

 

http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/134-phantom-530.html

http://www.overclock.net/t/1399040/lightbox/post/20150115/id/1503621

[Hazy125]

This is also just me, but I personally think that this particular corsair case just doesn't look as good as their others do

[Toxic.]

I'm not really too familiar with most cases, I've just been looking heavily at the switch lately. On the NZXT website the display their case with a radiator in there, it looks like a thin radiator though, maybe 45mm or even less so bear that in mind. It also looks like it has room for push/pull at the top using this picture as an example. They also have mounting room for 2x120mm fans in the bottom which, provided the fans use 20mm spacings(Which most tend to do) you can mount a 240 rad in the bottom as well

As for the 540 air... Well, it is mostly designed for air cooling, but I found this thread which shows planning for watercooling in that case and it looks like you can get a similar setup to the switch. In this picture it's a 240 on the top and a 360 on the side although it should also be noted that a 280mm rad will fit in the top as well

http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/134-phantom-530.html

http://www.overclock.net/t/1399040/lightbox/post/20150115/id/1503621

The air and phantom 530 both look great imo. Thanks for your help!