this case is only for Water Cooling, because all top end Air coolers wont fit...it's 160mm minus the motherboard to the back panel....at least 25mm, so your final dimension might only be 135mm......that is really thin
the GPU/PSU is very close to the front panel, this gives you a reduced air flow/ internal volume.
yea' this case is no good for air cooling...... it's a disaster.......water only !!
can you imagine putting a 7990 in there !!!! it would melt the window ......lol
I always enjoy seeing other people's perspectives on things because to me it's a wonder how different people can perceive the same thing in different ways.
Every argument you just made to support this being a watercooling case are the very things I'd say to discount water!
If you can't fit a 240mm radiator up in the roof you're limited to a 240mm in the front, which is not sufficient for a CPU and GPU (and why waste money on a custom loop if you're only going to do the CPU?).
Looking at some hi-res pics from Computex, it looks like the demo builds did get a 120mm AIO in the forward half of the roof, so a 240mm radiator can fit up there, however it's so close to the front of the case you then cannot fit a 240mm in the front too!
So no, this isn't a watercooling case either. You can't get big air in it, you can't fit enough rads in it, so really this is a pretty case for low to mid-range builds that don't require high-levels of cooling. Which begs the question why make sufficient space to fit top-end graphics cards?
It's nice to see Bitfenix branching out with some different styling, but I don't think this case has been properly considered and isn't ready for market in this form. Which is a shame since it's now a production model.
Does the Bitfenix rep care to discuss?