Best Case for watercooling?

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SidVicious

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Hi all,

I'm looking for a case to house a triple rad, there are loads of big cases out there but I'm after something that not only looks good but is well built too. The lian-li cases are very nice but most don't come with a side window.

The haf 932 is also an option but i'm still leaning towards the LLs.

What cases have you used for WC?

Cheer
sid
 
The Silverstone TJ-07 is widely recognised as one of the best water-cooling cases, largely because you can get two 480mm radiators in the base without any cutting and a 360mm radiator in the roof with a tiny amount of cutting. It's massive and well made. Pricey, but what's good that isn't?

And the ultimate WC case has, of course, got to be from Mountain Mods in any of their various flavours. Anything upto 6 PA120.3's if you feel the need:rolleyes:
 
Hey guys cheers for the input, I've just bought a beast of a lian li v2000!!! Its been heavily modded by the previous owner, will have pics for you on the weekend hopefully!!

Was seriously thinking about the HAF but then came across the v2000 and just could'nt say no! Cost me more than twice the price of the HAF tho!
 
Plenty of room in my Lian Cube ;)

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WJA96 said:
The Silverstone TJ-07 is widely recognised as one of the best water-cooling cases, largely because you can get two 480mm radiators in the base without any cutting and a 360mm radiator in the roof with a tiny amount of cutting. It's massive and well made. Pricey, but what's good that isn't?

And the ultimate WC case has, of course, got to be from Mountain Mods in any of their various flavours. Anything upto 6 PA120.3's if you feel the need:rolleyes:
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This tbh, or a large Lian-Li such as a PCA70/71 if your on a lower budget.
 
Hefner said:
Plenty of room in my Lian Cube ;)

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Yes, it's a lovely case (and yours is an especially lovely example), but it's not the best case for water-cooling as you can really only get a 240mm and a 360mm in without cutting and the 360mm is miles away from the action so you need a hefty pump to shift all that fluid about.
 
what about this example i built at work?
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really good to build into

but WJA96's comments about rad placement and a hefty pump are very true

but there really arent many other cases you can fit that much watercooling stuff in

TJ07 maybe if you preferred a tower case

but every man and his dog has one of those

we used an 18w laing on the graphics and a 10w on the cpu
 
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WJA96 said:
The Silverstone TJ-07 is widely recognised as one of the best water-cooling cases, largely because you can get two 480mm radiators in the base without any cutting and a 360mm radiator in the roof with a tiny amount of cutting. It's massive and well made. Pricey, but what's good that isn't?

And the ultimate WC case has, of course, got to be from Mountain Mods in any of their various flavours. Anything upto 6 PA120.3's if you feel the need:rolleyes:
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I have a TJ-07 i couldn't manage to fit 2 480mm in the bottom because there was no where else the PSU could go, do you have a link to the build log for that, be great to see how it was managed.
 
The one I saw used an external PSU brick from SilverstoneTek that had a pass-through blanking plate on the PSU port. I'll see if i can find the build-log.
 
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