80mm Case Cooling with no mounts

dancook · 27 Jul 2016 at 09:56

Overclocking the GPU was great until I put the glass panel back on

There are no mounts in the case for fans, except the top of the case where I have a 240M AIO cpu liquid cooler.

A blower GPU would probably be ideal, but that's not what I have. The front of the case has venting, I thought maybe I could pop two 80mm fans in there - blu tack them in or something...

Short of doing a custom WC loop, what do you think?

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sweols · 27 Jul 2016 at 10:02

Looks like you're pretty limited on space if you were to do a custom loop ( not saying it's impossible ).

Ideally you want 360 rad x1 120 for each component and one extra.

Would this be an option?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x EK Water Blocks Predator 360 All In One Watercooling Solution - Revision 1.1= £215.99

Total: £226.49
(includes shipping: £10.50)

If your case supports 360 RAD

dancook · 27 Jul 2016 at 10:08

I didn't know they did AIO coolers like that, they don't make it clear - but I assume you can cool the GPU with it too.

The external dimensions of the case is just barely 380mm long, it supports a 240mm rad only.

Oh for custom loop I believe the PSU be mounted lower leaving some space to mount a small reservoir, custom drilling though.

sweols · 27 Jul 2016 at 10:15

You'll still ideally need 360 rad to cool both Cpu and gpu.. You havnt got space for one 240 and one 120?

dancook · 27 Jul 2016 at 10:23

sweols said:
You'll still ideally need 360 rad to cool both Cpu and gpu.. You havnt got space for one 240 and one 120?

Are you discounting air cooling completely?

I have space (no mounts) at the end of the graphics card for 2 x 80mm case fans - not sure if they should extract or provide intake though.

dancook · 27 Jul 2016 at 10:39

http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-o5s/

space for 300mm radiator according to this

but the venting at the top is only about 240mm

sweols · 27 Jul 2016 at 12:58

80mm fans will just make a lot of noise.. But hey its better than nothing.. I know you said you're tight on space but might be worth looking into getting something slightly bigger casewise?? Longterm

You're getting 1070/80 anyways which runs cooler so might be okay?

dancook · 27 Jul 2016 at 13:25

sweols said:
80mm fans will just make a lot of noise.. But hey its better than nothing.. I know you said you're tight on space but might be worth looking into getting something slightly bigger casewise?? Longterm

You're getting 1070/80 anyways which runs cooler so might be okay?

Well I'm only looking to making the most of the case I have

don't want to change it - I will just work around it.