Mod corsair 450D to fit H110i?

[Gdourado]

Hello,

I am waiting to receive the parts for an upgrade to my rig.

I'll be going for a 450D and an H110i GT to cool the CPU.

The thing is the H110i is usually mounted with the pipes to the back of the case.

But in order to better fit the Fury X radiator on the rear exhaust fan mount, I want to mount the H110 radiator with the pipes to the front of the case.

The thing is that with that orientation, the radiator and pipes stay inside the 5 1/4 drive bays, and the pipes are bent.

I pulled two pictures from pcpartpicker to illustrate:

I don't want to take the 5 1/4 cage off as I have a lamptron fan controller to install.

So I was wondering if I could use a dremmel to cut a small square on the bottom of the cage so the pipes would follow stray from the block to the radiator.

Any ideas? Can you help me out? Thanks!

Cheers!

[deVIZtation]

Is there room to mount the rad in the front of the case or do you have the HDD cage in the way?

[Gdourado]

What I wanted was for the pipes to flow like this picture, but to the other side:

Cheers!

[Gdourado]

Is there room to mount the rad in the front of the case or do you have the HDD cage in the way?

There is room, but would prefer the radiator as a top exhaust and just two front 140mm fans to feed cold air to the interior of the case.

If I mount the radiator as front intake, the interior of the case will get warm as the Fury X radiator would be feeding of hot air.

Cheers and thanks.

[TomvanWijnen]

Is there room to mount the rad in the front of the case or do you have the HDD cage in the way?

I think the HDD cages would be in the way.

[deVIZtation]

There is room, but would prefer the radiator as a top exhaust and just two front 140mm fans to feed cold air to the interior of the case.

If I mount the radiator as front intake, the interior of the case will get warm as the Fury X radiator would be feeding of hot air.

Cheers and thanks.

If you can cut a hole and not interfere with the fan controller then do it.

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

They aren't bent enough to be a concern, I would just leave it, it's a nice gradual curve and won't hurt anything.

 

[Gdourado]

I think the HDD cages would be in the way.

I don't need the hdd cages.

The case has two SSD slots on the rear of the motherboard tray and those are enough.

[Gdourado]

They aren't bent enough to be a concern, I would just leave it, it's a nice gradual curve and won't hurt anything.

In my case, they would probably bend less.

The example I gave has a dad writer on the bottom bay.

My case will only have a fan controller that is like this:

So it would probably bend less.

I just don't know if I should try and out to avoid flow issues or strain to where the pipes meet the radiator.

Cheers

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

There won't be any flow issues with a bend like that, it's too gradual.