What CPU cooler to cool in this tight space ?

nightrider1470 · 1 Jul 2011 at 14:03

Would I get a Silver arrow in there maybe ?

paradigm · 1 Jul 2011 at 14:06

No chance.

I'd probably go for one of the sealed watercoolers (H50/Antec 620/etc), as you'll easily get one in there with the rad where your rear 120mm fan is.

IPAddis · 1 Jul 2011 at 14:49

paradigm said:
No chance.

I'd probably go for one of the sealed watercoolers (H50/Antec 620/etc), as you'll easily get one in there with the rad where your rear 120mm fan is.

+1

BillTheButcher · 1 Jul 2011 at 14:56

Have a look at this clip that was posted in a thread I started earlier today.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18291563

This is the Noctua but the Silver Arrow is a similar size, i.e. massive. There's no way either of them would fit in your case.

nightrider1470 · 1 Jul 2011 at 18:53

I have ordered the silver arrow with some modding I recon I might get it in there

Tealc · 1 Jul 2011 at 19:14

Mod involving putting the PSU outside your case might just about do it perhaps.

Hard to see how deep your case is though but that graphics card seems quite tight up against that PSU. The silver arrow with it's 140mm fan will take up a fair bit more room than that card.

Jayster · 1 Jul 2011 at 19:20

nightrider1470 said:
I have ordered the silver arrow with some modding I recon I might get it in there

Well I don't know how much modding you could do besides moving your psu to make it fit short of cutting the heat pipes which you do not what to do.

Phenomenologica · 1 Jul 2011 at 19:23

If it doesn't fit, will you send me it if I pay the postage?

Looks way too small for the silver arrow, if you prove us wrong do post pictures!

Justintime · 1 Jul 2011 at 19:27

Highly doubt it.. unless thats double case deep

Would like to be proven wrong though

Modding it how?

Reaper 392 · 1 Jul 2011 at 19:31

nightrider1470 said:
Would I get a Silver arrow in there maybe ?

after a similar question was asked in a different thread i found that even a zalman CNPS9900MAX would clash with the PSU, despite being a very short air cooler (10mm shorter than the silver arrow, despite having a 135mm fan in it)

even if you can remove the join between the bottom of the case and the back of the case, then push the PSU right up against the side wall then you wont even get close to fitting the silver arrow in there

your only option would be to move the PSU beneath the hard drive cages

*edit*
that is the lian li PC-V354 isnt it (possibly with a B after it)

Surveyor · 1 Jul 2011 at 20:37

nightrider1470 said:
I have ordered the silver arrow with some modding I recon I might get it in there

Was there any point in asking when you don't listen to the answers?

paradigm · 1 Jul 2011 at 20:44

Surveyor said:
Was there any point in asking when you don't listen to the answers?

Nope, but some people just don't actually want to know, they think they know best.

Phenomenologica · 1 Jul 2011 at 20:46

It was a kind of contradictory thread. It needs to fit in a tight space, so I'm going to pick one of the biggest cooler I can find, and I'm asking for advice, so I'm going to ignore a bunch of concurrent opinions. Sounds like a human to me. Most of the people I know are like this.

Big Kev · 1 Jul 2011 at 20:54

Fit the psu to the outside and leave the side off, job done.

olivier renault · 1 Jul 2011 at 22:29

Looks like you could nail the PSU under the hard drives. hot hot hot!

pepp77 · 1 Jul 2011 at 22:35

Reaper 392 said:
*edit*
that is the lian li PC-V354 isnt it (possibly with a B after it)

Think you might be right - except it will have an R after it seeing as its red

Tealc · 1 Jul 2011 at 23:37

If the PSU won't go under the graphics card in tge flat orientation you might be able to have it mounted at the front somehow venting out tge front if tge case. < why iPod why do you keep writing tge rather than the.

Case is pretty deep at 420mm

IPAddis · 2 Jul 2011 at 06:38

nightrider1470 said:
I have ordered the silver arrow with some modding I recon I might get it in there

Oh yeah, if you do some modding, it'll fit just fine. There are two mods that will definately make it fit:

1) Buy a different cooler
2) Buy a different case

:rolleyes:

nightrider1470 · 2 Jul 2011 at 09:56

Gutted it doest fit just tried to instal today, have ordered the Notucha D-14 or what ever its called instead

Big Kev · 2 Jul 2011 at 10:09

nightrider1470 said:
Gutted it doest fit just tried to instal today, have ordered the Notucha D-14 or what ever its called instead

That's about the same size mate, so that won't fit either.