Smallest case for water cooling and full sized GPU

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Planning my upgrade for the end of this year and I'm really interested in having a really small case with water cooling inside and a full size GPU.

Any suggestions?
 
Telecaster said:
He said really small :p
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If you're doing a custom loop with CPU and GPU block, 240mm rad at least then the Prodigy is actually pretty small - it's only if you're air cooling or not using lots of hard drives is the Prodigy then an oversized waste of space.

I've seen custom loops go into a Silverstone SG05 if you want REALLY small, but it's not practical doing CPU and GPU on a single 120mm radiator.

Similarly, I've seen custom loops in a Silverstone Temjin TJ-08E, but that's the same size as a Prodigy.

So what were YOU thinking :p
 
What about an Ncase M1, can fit 240mm rad in that and a full length gpu if you use an SFX psu.

Google some pics of watercooled builds.

I don't have one, but been thinking of getting one for my spare build.
 
The TJ08 can take a 180 radiator up front with a 120 radiator in the rear. Quite a few have managed to watercool with it. Particularly easier if you remove the HDD cage and use a bay res/pump combo.
 
sastusbulbas said:
The TJ08 can take a 180 radiator up front with a 120 radiator in the rear. Quite a few have managed to watercool with it. Particularly easier if you remove the HDD cage and use a bay res/pump combo.
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The standard Prodigy can do 240 in the roof, 180 or even 200 in the front and possibly a 120 in the back if you're careful.

Just goes to show how much wasted space there is in that case considering it's Mini ITX!
 
The EVGA hadron hydro can take up to 267mm cards, you are limited by the power supply though (500w).

You are probably going to have space and noise problems with a more powerful card.

I have one with 240+120 radiators in it cooling a [email protected] and a zotac gtx970 stock, I need to have fairly high speed on the fans to get rid of all the heat during load.
 
You'll get 280mm GPU in our X1.0:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/LP/parvum-x10.php

Only a single 120mm in the front but ideal for a AIO & huge GPU. You will also be limited to SFX PSU's; but with bundles for the 600 or 450 by Silverstone its a no brainier. If you like the look of our case that is ;)

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Another option in this small case is in fact to totally w/c on 1 or 2 120mm rads or choose either or. I think using air on the CPU & water on GPU is a really nice option considering how little heat CPUs produce these days:

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