Would this find at the top - Cooler Master - MASTERBOX Q300L

[leegarnham87]

Hi,

 

I wish to by the below case. But wonder if my coolermaster masterlquid 240mm radaitor would fit at the top of the case.

 

I wanted to have 2 x 120mm fans as intake at the front and 1 x 120mm at the bottom. Then have the radaitor and rear 120mm fans as exhausts.

 

Coolermaster Masterbox Q300L

 

Regards

 

Lee

[Guest]

If you want to go for water cooling for some reason (a decent air cooler is just as good), I would advise against that case. Try finding something bigger. The interior will be very cramped if you even manage fit the rad.

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, leegarnham87 said:

 

Should buy a higher quality AIO in general.

 

The layout of the case lets you mount a 240mm AIO anywhere you want in the case so long as you can line it up with the various holes.

 

You can also mount a 280mm AIO in the front, but only 4 screws will fit, works fine though.

*Also are you building a new PC or just transplanting a current PC?

[Streetguru]

Just now, Konrad_K said:

If you want to go for water cooling for some reason (a decent air cooler is just as good), I would advise against that case. Try finding something bigger. The interior will be very cramped if you even manage fit the rad somehow. 

It's really not too bad, that's a 280mm AIO even

[leegarnham87]

Already have the radaiotr in a small case and its struggling with heat, any reccomendations for similar price

StreetGuru could you mount that radaior at the top of the case. I wanted to use my 2 x 120mm fans as intakes at the frotn

[Streetguru]

14 minutes ago, leegarnham87 said:

Already have the radaiotr in a small case and its struggling with heat, any reccomendations for similar price

StreetGuru could you mount that radaior at the top of the case. I wanted to use my 2 x 120mm fans as intakes at the frotn

So you're just transplanting a current system? What's the current case, or just post a picture of the PC?

The Q300L is a pretty solid case all around, though it will lack GPU cooling in the default config, just need a fan in the front to help with GPU intake.

 

The case has HOLE TECHNOLOGY and you can mount 120mm fans/radiators literally anywhere you can line up the holes. and they're all over, I think the final design only has like half of the ones in that render though, must be a very early render

[leegarnham87]

This is my current case https://www.novatech.co.uk/products/avp-hyperion-ev33b-cube-mini-tower-case/avp-ev33b.html

 

Finding tempatures hitting 60 CPU but more alarming is Motherboard which is around the same, GPU gets upto 80c

 

Coolermaster at front as exhaust

120mm in the side and 80mm back as intakes.

 

Key specs that probably matter

Ryzen 5 2400g

Sapphire RX570 Pulse ITX

 

I think according to you picture i would mount it from the top left hand corner to avoid the motherboard

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

It's really not too bad, that's a 280mm AIO even

Yeah clearance isn't too bad (the SSD tray seems to be blocked completely though) , but heat could be an issue.

[leegarnham87]

Streeguru is that a 10mm fat you have mounted at the top

120mm fan even

I ask like this case which may be more sutibale

https://www.novatech.co.uk/products/fractal-design-focus-g-mini-black-window/fd-ca-focus-mini-bk-w.html

[Streetguru]

13 minutes ago, leegarnham87 said:

 

The focus G is also a solid micro ATX case

[leegarnham87]

MY issue is where it will fit a 240mm radisotr at the top or not

 

[leegarnham87]

My case is in a cabinet and those can only get cold air flow from front 

[leegarnham87]

THis looks like a very good option

 

https://www.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00002559

[leegarnham87]

Okay

2 hours ago, Konrad_K said:

Yeah clearance isn't too bad (the SSD tray seems to be blocked completely though) , but heat could be an issue.

 

2 hours ago, Streetguru said:

It's really not too bad, that's a 280mm AIO even

What kind of temps do you get with that also what procesor are you using. I will probably go with a very simular setup to what you have done

[Streetguru]

2 hours ago, leegarnham87 said:

Okay

 

What kind of temps do you get with that also what procesor are you using. I will probably go with a very simular setup to what you have done

It doesn't officially support the 280mm AIO, but it will fit

 

I have a 1950X so temps aren't going to be comparable to anything else, as far as cooling goes it's fine if it's not summer and my shed isn't 100F, but obviously I should have something bigger for a 300W CPU under full load.

The Q300L is a perfectly fine and rather near case.

 

[leegarnham87]

What sort of tempatuews do you get as I would expect mine would be lower 

[Bob Soap]

Hey

I finished my Q300L build some days ago.
I have:

CPU: i5-8400

GPU: sapphire Vega 56 pulse

AIO: Eisbaer 120 lt

Fans:

2x fans in push/pull config

1x NF-P12 redux-1700 top mount

 

The right picture was the first fan setup i did.

 

I had Problems with thermal throttling of the PSU, quite toasty Temps overall.

 

I changed the settup like shown on the left pic. My themps at the moment are ~60°C CPU and ~62°C GPU (~25°C Room) after 2 hours of PUBG. (med to Ultra, 1080p)

I ordert three more NF-P12 redux-1700 the setup will look like so:

 

I will Post my Temperatures when im done.

 

Edit: The Temperatures with the setup above (without the optional fan) are after

2 hours of PUBG 1080p, Ultra preset, screen scaling 110:   Max Temp. CPU: ~62°C GPU: 57°C