Watercooling in the Antec 900??

Notorious Lee · 8 Apr 2007 at 15:16

Hi guys,

I am serioulsy thinking of buying the Antec 900 case & am looking to the future in case I ever want to overclock & was wondering whether this case is big enough for 2 x8800GTX cards & a watercooling system

Thanks.

chaparral · 8 Apr 2007 at 17:17

You most likely could fit two 8800gtx and watercooling in a antec 900 case...

But you be 1000 times better off with something bigger like this case here for that http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-AK&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=507
Dim: 460 x 240 x 560

phi1 · 8 Apr 2007 at 17:18

you could deffo fit 2x 8800 but i am not sure about water cooling..

-Nick- · 8 Apr 2007 at 18:02

chaparral said:
You most likely could fit two 8800gtx and watercooling in a antec 900 case...

But you be 1000 times better off with something bigger like this case here for that http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-AK&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=507
Dim: 460 x 240 x 560

he would be better going for a nice looking case! lian li perhaps

something like the v2000b lol

Notorious Lee · 8 Apr 2007 at 19:49

I must admit I do like the Eclipse 62 but can ou replace one of the sides with perspex as I would like to be able to see the insides?

jaykay · 8 Apr 2007 at 20:07

yes here
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-006-AK&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=507

WJA96 · 9 Apr 2007 at 10:37

phil14 said:
you could deffo fit 2x 8800 but i am not sure about water cooling..

I really don't like the Antec 900 (as you may have gathered) and while it is physically possible to fit 2 8800GTX in, no-one sensibly recommends it. As for water-cooling, it would almost certainly have to be something hung off the back as you couldn't really cut the roof. You might be able to get a 120.2 in the front if you cut out all the metalwork in there, but then where would you put the HDD?

It's actually a very small case and I would struggle to think of anything worse to go water-cooling in (Arctic Cooling TC1 maybe), but I'll be first to congratulate you if you do it and make a tidy job of it.

chaparral · 9 Apr 2007 at 10:42

WJA96 said:
I really don't like the Antec 900 (as you may have gathered) and while it is physically possible to fit 2 8800GTX in, no-one sensibly recommends it. As for water-cooling, it would almost certainly have to be something hung off the back as you couldn't really cut the roof. You might be able to get a 120.2 in the front if you cut out all the metalwork in there, but then where would you put the HDD?

It's actually a very small case and I would struggle to think of anything worse to go water-cooling in (Arctic Cooling TC1 maybe), but I'll be first to congratulate you if you do it and make a tidy job of it.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17681752

escobar'97 said:
here ya go.Its not the best pic in the world

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Wish i'd done a log of how it was done,so i could share more info with anyone who is interested

WJA96 · 9 Apr 2007 at 11:00

Congratulations to Escobar '97. I couldn't live with 1 optical drive and one HDD myself, but it looks very tidily done. Can you imagine it with 2 8800GTX's though? Did the OP want to water-cool those as well?

PhillyDee · 9 Apr 2007 at 11:02

I wanna watercool mine in the future, but would mount the rad externally. Plus, i have 3 hard drives, 2 dvd drives, card reader and wanna cool my gfx too. Definately wouldnt fit in the 900.

chaparral · 9 Apr 2007 at 11:07

PhillyDee said:
I wanna watercool mine in the future, but would mount the rad externally. Plus, i have 3 hard drives, 2 dvd drives, card reader and wanna cool my gfx too. Definately wouldnt fit in the 900.

It be much easyer to use an ext watercooler like the new Zalman Reserator XT..

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17713888

PhillyDee · 9 Apr 2007 at 13:56

I quite like the look of that. Will look about closer to christmas.