Have you considered having a rad on the top?
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Bottom radiator with a single slot GPU is listed on the spec sheet.
I can see some clever soul designing a replacement mount for the top panel TBH. With the PSU mounted at the front, it should be possible to fit a radiator and fans in the top. Only thing stopping it from working is the stock mounting; it's centred rather than offset, and it uses push pins rather than screws. Maybe something for CM to look at if they do a V2? Even if they can't officially support a radiator up there, a wider variety of mounting options in the roof would be appreciated.
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Sorry I'm a newbie and this might sound stupid, this is my first PC build. With Ryzen 3900x and RTX 2060, would I be ok with using just the included 2x 120mm fans at the top? If not then should the additional fans at the bottom below the GPU be an intake or exhaust?
The additional two fans are meant to be installed at the top so they should be fine. For the bottom fans generally, they should be the intake for the GPU. Otherwise, your gpu will be taking air in and the two bottom fans will be pushing air out which is just counter-intuitive.
One difficult bit about cables is that you have so many fans cables but there is only 1-2 sys fan ports. So you need to have a plan on how to connect them.
As mentioned, a radiator in the top isn't going to work easily. It's not a "supported" option, and it would definitely take some effort making it fit above a PSU. Potentially you could shift a PSU down, but then you may have it clash with the graphics card depending on your card.
I'd love to have a 240mm both top and bottom with the side window, but not sure it's going to be possible. Will play about with layout options though, not going to give up easily. Got a 3d printer and not adverse to a bit of modding!
I'd love to have a 240mm both top and bottom with the side window, but not sure it's going to be possible. Will play about with layout options though, not going to give up easily. Got a 3d printer and not adverse to a bit of modding!
Thanks! Yea I'll be running an extra Arctic p12 daisy chained to a Noctua NF 12 on my Noctua nh-u12s cooler, both as intakt so that takes care of the cpu.fan header. As for the 4 additional fans arctic p12 fans I'm planning to mount I'm hoping the fan cables will be long enough to be routed from top to bottom of the case and then just daisy chain them togheter to my single sys.fan header. If not I've got a Corsair Carbide 678C which is basically a relatively small 6 fan pwm splitter that I could route all the fans too.
As mentioned, a radiator in the top isn't going to work easily. It's not a "supported" option, and it would definitely take some effort making it fit above a PSU. Potentially you could shift a PSU down, but then you may have it clash with the graphics card depending on your card.
I'd love to have a 240mm both top and bottom with the side window, but not sure it's going to be possible. Will play about with layout options though, not going to give up easily. Got a 3d printer and not adverse to a bit of modding!
Shift the PSU to the front. Depending on motherboard and RAM heatsink sizes, there should then be plenty of room for a 240mm rad up top. It just needs a mounting solution.
That looks great, amazing fit on that cooler, wonder why they don't mention it in the spec, makes the case so much more versatile with CPU cooling.NH U12a arrived today. So here is the final build. The u12a fits just fine with the vented panel. Thermals looking great with two bottom fans intake, rear and cooler intake and top exhaust. 3700x hits all core 4.1Ghz in Cinebench R20. Totally satisfied with it.
Doesn't look like that will clear enough space. I've got a knackered old 240mm radiator (that I'd not put near an actual system, and only have because I'm a horder) and even if you have it flat against the back of the case, it would still go slightly over the power supply. The power supply cable on the rear stops you having the rad right to the back unlesss you have it off centre.
Might be able to get it to work with a slim radiator and/or slim fans and potentially rerouting that power cable. Something to experiment with for sure! Probably preferable to run with a slim setup to not obscure a lot of the motherboard too from a visual perspective.
edit. XSPC do a 20mm slim radiator, add in some of those decent slim Noctua fans at 15mm. That's only 10mm deeper than the stock fans. That sounds doable
if anybody still wondering about fitting an Arctic Freezer 240 in:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/i9i48r/cm_nr200p_arctic_freezer_240_problems/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/i9i48r/cm_nr200p_arctic_freezer_240_problems/
The Freezer II was never going to be a good idea 
From an SFF perspective, it's just really poorly designed. Long, stiff tubes which exit from the top of the block, with no rotation = nightmare. Couple that with an iffy warranty, and it's probably best avoided.
Just a shame that the Kraken coolers have such inflated prices right now. Pretty close in performance terms, much better warranty, and much easier to install.
From an SFF perspective, it's just really poorly designed. Long, stiff tubes which exit from the top of the block, with no rotation = nightmare. Couple that with an iffy warranty, and it's probably best avoided.Just a shame that the Kraken coolers have such inflated prices right now. Pretty close in performance terms, much better warranty, and much easier to install.
Doesn't look like that will clear enough space. I've got a knackered old 240mm radiator (that I'd not put near an actual system, and only have because I'm a horder) and even if you have it flat against the back of the case, it would still go slightly over the power supply. The power supply cable on the rear stops you having the rad right to the back unlesss you have it off centre.
Might be able to get it to work with a slim radiator and/or slim fans and potentially rerouting that power cable. Something to experiment with for sure! Probably preferable to run with a slim setup to not obscure a lot of the motherboard too from a visual perspective.
edit. XSPC do a 20mm slim radiator, add in some of those decent slim Noctua fans at 15mm. That's only 10mm deeper than the stock fans. That sounds doable
Been looking at this radiator as they do it in white which would match my case, I just can't find stock anywhere
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I don't understand the obsession with getting aio's to fit, each to their own etc but if it's primarily for gaming the best setup is two bottom mounted fans pointed right at your GPU and then just fit whatever air cooler takes your fancy because the difference with an air cooler and AIO in games is going to be nothing
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Is anyone planning on using the side bracket to mount AIO rad? Seems air cooling is dominating the builds right now, and although I could go down that route I've got a Corsair H115i Platinum that I'd prefer to re-use from my current build if possible (I'm assuming it fits).