Silverstone Fortress FT02B-W Owners, Your thought's please!!!

For such a big case, sometimes it looks pretty cramped in there. I.ve seen a few youtubes where one fan needed modding in order to fit the the GPU. £200 case that needs modding to fit a graphic card, seems like its a bit behind the times.
 
What video card did this person fit in the youtube vid? I have not read about anyone having t modify the fans.

I have a 6950 and have a tad under 2 inches space to the fan! Before that I had an 4870 and the pci-e connectors awere at the bottom of the card and not the side and still had room:confused:


ps, The Raven 02 is only a few mm biger than the FT02.
 
Krellor said:
For such a big case, sometimes it looks pretty cramped in there. I.ve seen a few youtubes where one fan needed modding in order to fit the the GPU. £200 case that needs modding to fit a graphic card, seems like its a bit behind the times.
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It will take any GPU though for the longest cards on the market you may have to remove the fan grill.
 
maximusmi2 said:
It will take any GPU though for the longest cards on the market you may have to remove the fan grill.
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Thats my point, the way things keep getting bigger pretty soon they will have out grown this case. Just look at the size of cards 3-4yrs back and compare them to todays.
 
.temp said:
any of you guys changed the fans on your FT02?

do you even need to? need quietness ;)
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I've got a silver FT02 with the AP fans - I have to admit that even on low I find the a little bit noisy - not obtrusively so, but just present in the background.

I've got a few of the 7v fan resistors on the way, so am going to try them out with the fans (the 180mm and maybe the 120mm - though that one does seem really quite quiet).

I'm hoping that I can run the fans with the built in High/Low fan controller, plus the resistors to bring the speeds down, but still have a high/low option. Not that the case gets warm (i5 750 @ 3.6ghz and ATI 5850)


It's a cracking case otherwise - cable management took a bit of thought, but then again, so does any cable management.

Might pop some pics up later.

Cheers,

Rich
 
Just a quick follow up - I got the resistor (7v Zalman ones) and they seem to work - however, the resistors actually seem to get reasonably hot. As they're against the side panel (with the sound proofing foam), I've decided against using them for the moment as I don't necessarily like the thought of them being up against the foam.

Any thoughts if they're supposed to get so warm?

Cheers,

Rich
 
Hello,

Im plannning on using this case with a sandybridge I5 2500k with the Corsair H50 , as the sandybridge chips run cooler will the Corsair be good enough to clock the chip to atleast 4.2-4.5 Ghz? Main reason for using the Corsair is to keep the Cpu socket area clear. As I plan to upgrade to use all 4 slots on a Asus P8P67 Pro and all the air coolers I look at block 1 or nearly 2 of the ram slot.

Any other suggestions would be great.

PS planning on using the Corsair vengeance ram.

Thanks.

R
 
I use a Megahalem with Apache fans and the clips that hold the fan are flexible enough to lift it over the RAM so all 4 slots could be used if needed. I guess this would depend on what RAM you use but my ripjaws would be ok
 
BazBell said:
I use a Megahalem with Apache fans and the clips that hold the fan are flexible enough to lift it over the RAM so all 4 slots could be used if needed. I guess this would depend on what RAM you use but my ripjaws would be ok
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+1. Have nearly the same setup as above. Was thinking of using a H70 originally but from a reliability standpoint i just settled on a Megahalems. Nothing is going to go wrong with a solid piece of metal + no noise + just as good cooling.
 
Awesome have you got it fitted?

I checked the h70 dimensions against the H60s and I think it will too.

H70:

Width: 120mm
Height: 152mm
Depth: 48mm

H60: 120mm x 152mm x 27mm

So its only the width thats different in size and I have seen pics of the H70 fit into the Ft02. So YAY.
 
Robertnpmk said:
Awesome have you got it fitted?

I checked the h70 dimensions against the H60s and I think it will too.

H70:

Width: 120mm
Height: 152mm
Depth: 48mm

H60: 120mm x 152mm x 27mm

So its only the width thats different in size and I have seen pics of the H70 fit into the Ft02. So YAY.
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Yeah, I'm using the H70 with the FT02 as I type this :D
 
What differences are there between the version 1.6 and version 1.7 on the FT02b-w?

The only thing I can figure out is that I dont have the hexagonal grills on the 180mm fans.

R
 
Pics are on their way-

I have yet to fully purchase and build my system- waiting for the new Z68 Motherboards and next months pay so I can afford an SSD.

Thats unless you want pics of just the fans/case?

R
 
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