NR200 Owner's Thread

SaiBork said:
@bwarr1or
Like @far from home says, you can try with the fan on the outside, but that does mean you'll have an ugly fan outside the case instead of neatly inside. Can you not mount the 92mm fan on the case instead? Or does the CPU get too hot with the 92mm fan instead of a 120mm fan?
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My version of the case is the NR200P, which doesn’t come with the 92mm fan. Mounting a 92mm outside the case is always an option but I guess it will look a bit odd and be slightly more noisy.
An alternative would be using that same 92mm fan on the inside and instead of the 120mm but I guess cooling performance and noise would take a hit.
 
bwarr1or said:
The issue is the diameter so a slim 120mm fan would still not fit.
Any smaller diameter fan would fit instead of the 120mm fan but cooling performance and noise would take a hit.
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I agree with you on this, slim 92 mm won't give you much.
if you can get a fuma 2 and flip it you can use 3 120mm×25 or you can revert back to lian Li case see what works better for you but remember the need for the top fans if you are using a tower cooler with these new rtx cards
 
far from home said:
I agree with you on this, slim 92 mm won't give you much.
if you can get a fuma 2 and flip it you can use 3 120mm×25 or you can revert back to lian Li case see what works better for you but remember the need for the top fans if you are using a tower cooler with these new rtx cards
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The Fuma 2 is looking like the best option. I wouldn’t be able to flip it though because I would probably end up in the same situation with that third fan.
I’ll wait for Machines and more video comparing the NR200 to the TU150 but in the meantime, I might give a try to the Fuma 2. The idea would be to replace the slim fan with a regular 25mm fan and use the slim fan as top case exhaust should there be enough clearance for it.
 
bwarr1or said:
He did and that’s the guy I was referring to. The only reason why he managed to fit it os because his motherboard (Strix B450-I) doesn’t have one of those tall heatsinks with the embedded I/O shield. This way, he was able to drop the back fan just enough to make it fit. I am about to post a few example photos so keep an eye on the thread.
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Ah I follow along now. Its an issue with that specific cooler and mobo. Gotcha.

Wonder if running the Ninja with only the 'push' (front) fan will affect thermals all that much vs having the 'pull' (2nd) fan.

Saw people running the Cryorig H7 which is a similar design as the Ninja 5, albeit a little smaller heat sink.
 
Richard Holm said:
Ah I follow along now. Its an issue with that specific cooler and mobo. Gotcha.

Wonder if running the Ninja with only the 'push' (front) fan will affect thermals all that much vs having the 'pull' (2nd) fan.

Saw people running the Cryorig H7 which is a similar design as the Ninja 5, albeit a little smaller heat sink.
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I haven’t tested it as I no longer have a GPU for the full picture. Wasn’t expecting those RTX 3080s to vanish so quickly!

I fell for it after I saw that guy fitting the Ninja 5 on the NR200 but I should have checked or looked better at his photos.

Just to be clear, I don’t think that this issue is specific to my motherboard and cooler though. I haven’t tested others but due to the protrusion of the 120mm, anyone using a motherboard with a integrated I/O plate and heatsink will have this issue if they’re CPU cooler requires a 120mm to be flush with the back of the case. Those that have CPU coolers where the heatsink is flush or those with smaller fans will be fine.
 
Hello! I just created an account just to post here, I was following this thread while I was waiting for a restock for the NR200 in Europe and finally last week I could get it and built it over the weekend.
I posted a build log on reddit with all the details I could come up with, I hope I can help someone just as this thread helped me when I didn't have it on my hands: https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/iw3fuv/detailed_build_slightly_modded_nr200_with_fuma_2/ (or just the pictures: https://imgur.com/gallery/F4P3syB). There's also some thermal testing at the end of the post.

I can confirm that the side bracket can fit (although not ideally) with the Fuma 2. Also there is a small clearance problem with heatpipes touching the RAM module with my MOBO (MSI B450i) if you invert the Fuma 2 but doesn't look like it's a problem neither.

If you have any question about this setup please feel free to ask.
 
Mmedrano said:
Hello! I just created an account just to post here, I was following this thread while I was waiting for a restock for the NR200 in Europe and finally last week I could get it and built it over the weekend.
I posted a build log on reddit with all the details I could come up with, I hope I can help someone just as this thread helped me when I didn't have it on my hands: https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/iw3fuv/detailed_build_slightly_modded_nr200_with_fuma_2/ (or just the pictures: https://imgur.com/gallery/F4P3syB). There's also some thermal testing at the end of the post.

I can confirm that the side bracket can fit (although not ideally) with the Fuma 2. Also there is a small clearance problem with heatpipes touching the RAM module with my MOBO (MSI B450i) if you invert the Fuma 2 but doesn't look like it's a problem neither.

If you have any question about this setup please feel free to ask.
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Great to see another build using the Fuma 2. Thanks for sharing!
 
Has anyone considered the Be Quiet Dark rock TF? I’ve read that it has a few clearance issues but as it looks like a potential great option for the NR200, it would be great to hear your experience with it.
 
bwarr1or said:
As is though and potential cooling leaks apart, I feel that this case is far better suited for water cooling.
It’s disappointing but I am considering re-transplanting everything back to the Lian li Tu150 which I believe is a better suited case for air cooling.
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Possibly a silly question, but have you actually compared temperatures between the two cases?

Just wondering, as you could be getting hung up over nothing here. Might be that temps in the NR200P are better than in the TU150 without a rear fan on the cooler, or with a 92mm instead of a 120mm.
 
McPhee said:
Possibly a silly question, but have you actually compared temperatures between the two cases?

Just wondering, as you could be getting hung up over nothing here. Might be that temps in the NR200P are better than in the TU150 without a rear fan on the cooler, or with a 92mm instead of a 120mm.
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It is a very good question.
The YouTuber “Machines and more” is apparently working on this exact comparison video so I’ll be waiting for that.

Because I am waiting to get my hands on an RTX 3080, there’s also the question about the hot air coming out of the fan back into the tower air cooler... hopefully he managed to get one to include in his comparisons.

In the meantime, I’ll try using the Scythe Ninja 5 with one fan only but I might swap the 800rpm it comes with with a 1200rpm version I used before as a front case fan in the TU150.
 

Just got my Fuma 2. It is fit perfectly but can't rotate it because of tall memory and heat pipes does not allow to install it in different direction.
 
KaRaPuZ said:

Just got my Fuma 2. It is fit perfectly but can't rotate it because of tall memory and heat pipes does not allow to install it in different direction.
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This looks to be the default orientation. If you pull the slim fan slightly up it shouldn’t interfere with your RAM.
Flipping the cooler moves it to the right and your RAM will then be under the fan.
You can pull the fans up until they’re at the level of the heat pipe tips.

What motherboard are you using?
 
Asus Rog strix x570i
I've already tried it. Nothing gets in the way, only heat pipes are an obstacle. It also works well in this form.
I will try to reproduce and make pictures a little later.
 
That’s the way the cooler was intended to be used but when flipped, do you think the heat pipes would also interfere with lower RAM? Something like the Corsair LPX should work, no?
 
KaRaPuZ said:
Asus Rog strix x570i
I've already tried it. Nothing gets in the way, only heat pipes are an obstacle. It also works well in this form.
I will try to reproduce and make pictures a little later.
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Couldn't you push the cooler a little bit and fit it like in my MOBO (https://imgur.com/tl8ymIX)?
Anyway I think that the default orientation is best as the heatsink is closer to the rear of the case and you expel the air out directly (or intake the air directly from the outside if you flip the direction of the fans) and have more clearance on the PSU side. In my case I expected clearance for adding a third fan (which is not possible with the default PSU orientation) and also want to have access to the Clear_CMOS jumper that's located in between the IO so that's why it's flipped.

bwarr1or said:
That’s the way the cooler was intended to be used but when flipped, do you think the heat pipes would also interfere with lower RAM? Something like the Corsair LPX should work, no?
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The problem in this case is not height clearance but width, check my picture: https://imgur.com/tl8ymIX, I'm using Corsair LPX RAM modules.
 
bwarr1or said:
My OCD wouldn’t accept having the RAM pushed like that so I’ll definitely use this cooler in the default orientation should I end up using it.
Thanks for pointing this out!
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Haha, yeah, kinda on the same boat, was so ****** when I noticed. Luckily it's so hidden that I don't have to look at it. As said, probably you're better off mounting it in the default position.

KaRaPuZ said:

Just got my Fuma 2. It is fit perfectly but can't rotate it because of tall memory and heat pipes does not allow to install it in different direction.
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BTW, if you're using it as an intake and want to fiddle a little, could you add some tape to the sides of the heatsing between the fan at the middle and the rear of the case? I'd predict that this could help temps as it would prevent the cooler from intaking hot air from the GPU from the sides and take it all from outside of the case but I'm curious if that'd be the case. I guess that'd also help to exhaust all the hot air outside instead of recirculate some of it to the case if you're running it as exhaust but there's not a reliable way to test it.
 
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