Build complete, no leaks, good temps, couldn't be happier
Absolutely in love with the Maximus Formula - looks stunning, overclocks without breaking a sweat, vrm temps maxed out at 42°C after an hour of prime95 with 9900k overclocked at 5GHz 1.28VHow are you getting on with the Maximus Formula?
Hey folks, sorry to res a dead thread, but just started looking at this case for my next build and had a quick question:
Is it possible to get a rad (and if so what thickness) between the outer frame and the dustcover/outer plate?
I'm asking cause I'd like to have the fans inside rather than the rad (mainly for the lighting effect)
Most builds I've seen have said had it [... reservoir | rad | fans | case-frame | filter ], but they've also tended to use thicker rads. It doesn't _look_ like there's enough room, but figured I'd toss the question out there
it seems like it could be possible to do:
[ ... res | fans | rad | case-frame | filter ]
or even potentially
[ ... res | fans | case-frame | rad | filter ]
any thoughts?
Oh no doubt, I love it, one of the bonuses of marrying an Austrian (who helps me design my builds too!)
Just found a decent build log where they put in a 30mm 360 on the front (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xtWLro6dzg) and it seemed to work fine, i'll go for more flash and circumstance but it at least proves the concept
Will keep ya'll posted (but probably in a new thread)
cheers and thanks for the quick responses, good to join this community after all these years shopping at oc uk hah
I just completed a build in this case with a 420mm Alphacool Nexxxos ST30 at the front, and 280mm Alphacool Nexxos ST30 x-flow in the roof. Corsair ML140 RGB in push on both. No problem fitting everything in, although I had to jankily attach my res to the back wall with two screws and a zip tie to get it to fit, as using a 140mm fan bracket resulted in the res being either too high or too low.
Yeah, the res bracket location is a pain in the backside, either too low/high.
As I have the fans sandwiched between case and rad, and was mounting the reservoir direct to the rad, I was able to use the lower two middle fan holes for the top of the bracket, and then used two smaller washers on each of the bottom res bracket mounts to clamp to the radiator housing, then mounted the rad as high up as it can physically go in the case. for the EK-RES this gives just enough gap for the pump cables and lines up nicely with the case main compartment floor: That's using the same rad as yourself:
I'm also annoyed that I can't easily sync the Memory RGB or motherboard RGB to everything else (The case and blocks are all controlled from a corsair commander pro), I have to keep firing up the various invasive apps to set a static colour, or switch to cliche "rainbow wave" etc.. We need government intervention to cure my first world problem!
I nicked your idea to mount the res but modified it slightly, instead of a zip tie. I trimmed a small piece of plastic from an old hard drive holder. Drilled 2 holes in it, put it behind the wall and screwed the right side of the bracket into it. Super secure and less janky than a zip tieI just completed a build in this case with a 420mm Alphacool Nexxxos ST30 at the front, and 280mm Alphacool Nexxos ST30 x-flow in the roof. Corsair ML140 RGB in push on both. No problem fitting everything in, although I had to jankily attach my res to the back wall with two screws and a zip tie to get it to fit, as using a 140mm fan bracket resulted in the res being either too high or too low.