Silverstone FT01 Fortress

Rossdh · 3 Aug 2009 at 17:34

Hi there. Just wondering if this case will be able to cool and put up with the heat of 2 GTX 285's, an i7 920 @ 3.8 - 4.0 GHz and 2 hard drives?

Diggsy · 3 Aug 2009 at 17:36

Don't see why not. It's one of the better air cooled cases to be fair.

IIRC rjkoneill on here had similar spec in his with no issues.

Xelene · 4 Aug 2009 at 08:43

Most of the builds of this (including mine) add in a front bay cooling device, I used this Silverstone CFP51.

You'll probably want to remove half of the front drive bay to improve the cooling coming in, and do note that the airflow tends to go from bottom right intake to top left exhaust - and people have said it's not an ideal setup for cooling the VGA cards. The hard disk & CPU cooling in this case are excellent however.

Jargy · 6 Aug 2009 at 03:43

I'm considering this case, but removing both hard drive cages and installing the hard drives in the 5.25 bays. This would be best option to get airflow to the graphics cards?

Xelene · 6 Aug 2009 at 08:20

That would work I think, although you'll lose the nice drive trays

Note, the thingy I linked before not only adds a front cooler - but will convert 3*5.25 bays into 4*3.5 bays.

Hades · 6 Aug 2009 at 10:30

Should be fine. But one thing I seem to recall about the FT01 (although I don't own one myself) is that the gfx card area isn't the best for cooling, partly due to the hard drive bay obstructing airflow and partly because the top fan feeds in air which is then pushed straigh out the back.

Don't own one though - just going on comments I've read.

EsaT · 6 Aug 2009 at 18:46

Jargy said:
I'm considering this case, but removing both hard drive cages and installing the hard drives in the 5.25 bays. This would be best option to get airflow to the graphics cards?

Yep...
Just makes it really expensive per number of usable device bays.

Diggsy · 6 Aug 2009 at 23:27

Jargy said:
I'm considering this case, but removing both hard drive cages and installing the hard drives in the 5.25 bays. This would be best option to get airflow to the graphics cards?

You can simply remove the top section of the 3.5" bays and still have room for 4 IIRC in the lower section. This will still allow decent airflow towards the GFX area.