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Hi all,
I currently have the Phanteks Mini XL on my upgrade list, as I want to replace my Silverstone TJ08B-E and improve airflow/cooling options for Crossfire/SLI GPU's. This is planned over the next few months, case or 850w PSU in Feb.
One of the key choices that pushed me that way was quite simply, water cooling. I was thinking of two Alphacool NexXxoS Monsta 280 rads for cooling a 4770K and two GPU's.
But the more I read and look at builds, and the amount of hardware changes someone may do, the more I doubt custom water loops. mainly the cost of cooling GPU's, water blocks, and how long current GPU's last before another must have is out. IE, going from a 680, to 780, to 980 will have cost a sum in GPU blocks and fittings.
I am not even sure if I would overclock the GPU's further.
If I intended on two air cooled GPU's, with a single 240/280 AIO for the CPU, are there better options that the Mini XL?
I love the minimal look of the NZXT 340 with a Kraken X61, though wonder how two GPU's would cope, yet also like the idea of two huge rads in a big Phanteks Mini XL, though a single 280 would look rather pitiful in that case.
I currently have the Phanteks Mini XL on my upgrade list, as I want to replace my Silverstone TJ08B-E and improve airflow/cooling options for Crossfire/SLI GPU's. This is planned over the next few months, case or 850w PSU in Feb.
One of the key choices that pushed me that way was quite simply, water cooling. I was thinking of two Alphacool NexXxoS Monsta 280 rads for cooling a 4770K and two GPU's.
But the more I read and look at builds, and the amount of hardware changes someone may do, the more I doubt custom water loops. mainly the cost of cooling GPU's, water blocks, and how long current GPU's last before another must have is out. IE, going from a 680, to 780, to 980 will have cost a sum in GPU blocks and fittings.
I am not even sure if I would overclock the GPU's further.
If I intended on two air cooled GPU's, with a single 240/280 AIO for the CPU, are there better options that the Mini XL?
I love the minimal look of the NZXT 340 with a Kraken X61, though wonder how two GPU's would cope, yet also like the idea of two huge rads in a big Phanteks Mini XL, though a single 280 would look rather pitiful in that case.