micro atx My Micro Atx Build

[wonderouspizza]

Well i've been building this small beast and planning his creation since August of last year. Day by day buying each part until today where i got my planned beastly AiO cooler by EKWB the predator 240...... but it won't fit... in the corsair air 240.... the pred. 240 was actually a little more bigger than 240, so i have mounted as right now to the top of my case on the outside of the case with the top panel off. I'm kinda at a loss of what i should do. My only options i have in mind is buy a new case to fit all my part but i don't know any specific cases that are micro atx that will definitely fit the pred. 240.  I'm hoping someone here can help me with recommendations on a case or a way to make it fit or something. If you want to look at the build here it is on PcPartPicker.com http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qYTZkL

[Amazingasian]

Corsairs website says that it can fit 240mm radiators in the front and top.  Since the EK rad has the pump on the radiator itself, it won't be fitting in the Air 240.

[wonderouspizza]

yup, thats what i ran into the hard way today, i didn't rough put it in or anything but i'm just at an impasse and i don't know any solutions from here. Kinda just fishing to see if anyone else has had this kinda exact problem and found a creative way to work around it or i something.

[mapegl]

Sorry but the air 240 seems like a flawed case to me. Rad support is not the greatest, as the motherboard can easily interfere and air cooling is very limited since height of GPUs used should not exceed reference coolers by much and CPU tower heatsinks are basically a no-go as well.....well decently big ones at least.

Not saying the case doesn't look good, but it doesn't make that much sense to me. 

You might be wondering why I am telling you this and...well I would buy a different mATX case. Something like the Evolv or a Fractal Arc mini. 

 

[wonderouspizza]

would those fit the pred 240?

 

[mapegl]

4 minutes ago, wonderouspizza said:

would those fit the pred 240?

 

The fractal arc is THE mATX case for watercooling. I believe it even supports a 360 in the top, never mind a 240. So even if the ek 240 needs more space, that should be accounted for.

 

The evolv should also be fine, but I can't check that right now. Though I believe it has those rails to mount a radiator in the top, so there is some extra space afaik. 

 

 

BTW, please quote posts you are answering to. That way people actually get a notification when you react to their posts and are more likely to respond. 

[wonderouspizza]

1 minute ago, mapegl said:

The fractal arc is THE mATX case for watercooling. I believe it even supports a 360 in the top, never mind a 240. So even if the ek 240 needs more space, that should be accounted for.

 

The evolv should also be fine, but I can't check that right now. Though I believe it has those rails to mount a radiator in the top, so there is some extra space afaik. 

 

 

BTW, please quote posts you are answering to. That way people actually get a notification when you react to their posts and are more likely to respond. 

ohhhhh, thank you! i'm very new to this site and quoting people's messages and stuff. I don't think i'll be going as big as 360 even though it's better cooling but i'm really into the evolv case. 

[mapegl]

1 hour ago, wonderouspizza said:

ohhhhh, thank you! i'm very new to this site and quoting people's messages and stuff. I don't think i'll be going as big as 360 even though it's better cooling but i'm really into the evolv case. 

Well I only pointed out the 360 fitting to show you that the ek 240 should definitely fit. ;-)