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Cooler Master Elite 130 Cooling

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Can anyone tell me if the Cooler Master Eltie 130 case will be good enough to cool a system with an i7 6700K, AMD R9 390 (future upgrade to next year's GPUs), 2x 8GB DDR4, 1x 4TB HDD, 1x 250GB SSD and 1x ODD?

 

I was told the front 120mm should be used to bring in cool air to cool a radiator so would the 80mm fan on the side to the back of the case be used to exhaust the hot air?

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i had to get an adapter to replace the ODD slot with an adapter to hold a slim ODD and 4 2.5" drives, only one of which i am using. it should be ok if you use a 2.5" Hard drive instead 

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=326&area=en

i got one in silver, but you should get black for a 130

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How are you exhausting the hot air?

 

I emailed Cooler Master and the reply I got was that the Elite 130 can fit a 120mm radiator without removing the 5.25" bay. They recommend that the fan on the 120mm rad is used to bring in cool air for the rad that then leaves a single 80mm fan at the side-back of case would this be used to exhaust the hot air inside case?

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How are you exhausting the hot air?

 

I emailed Cooler Master and the reply I got was that the Elite 130 can fit a 120mm radiator without removing the 5.25" bay. They recommend that the fan on the 120mm rad is used to bring in cool air for the rad that then leaves a single 80mm fan at the side-back of case would this be used to exhaust the hot air inside case?

thats what i did and you do not need to cut or remove anything

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So is your 80mm fan used as intake or exhaust?

Just checked your sysytem spec on your profile. What sort of temps you get idle/load?

my 80mm is exhaust, 120mm intake. i have a bad CPU, as i am hitting 95 Celsius, yours SHOULD not run this hot, i am attempting to switch out CPUs at microcenter sometime soon

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my 80mm is exhaust, 120mm intake. i have a bad CPU, as i am hitting 95 Celsius, yours SHOULD not run this hot, i am attempting to switch out CPUs at microcenter sometime soon

Is that 95 under full load? Do you mean bad because its faulty or bad because of it gets to 95? I will be air cooling the CPU the radiator is for the graphics card which as the Fury X has water cooling I'm assuming 2016 cards with feature it

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my chip is faulty, and 95 at  full load. the rad should work just fine, but make sure that your CPU cooler will fit, as the PSU hangs quite low

Thanks. The CPU cooler clearance is 65mm according to spec sheet. I was considering a Noctua NH-L9i. Do I need low profile RAM?

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