nlraley

I've had my antec 900 since I ordered it and my watercooling setup back in October.

However, after piecing everything together and not doing any mods or anything special to the case, I barely had enough room in there to connect all my cables from my psu to where they needed to go. I could barely clear my evga GeForce 8800GTX Ultra card and even had to push the hd bays out further than they should normally go to plug in my cables for my dvd player and hd.

Question is, if I get rid of the HUGE guards behind the fans on the hard drive mounts and cut the case following a cable management mod, will I be able to fit my entire internal watercooling setup in there? Or would I just be better off buying a mountain mods case and working with that?

I was wanting to use a Thermochill 1203 Radiatior, the pump, resevoir and a block for the processor and graphics card along with air cooling on the north and south bridges.

Is it doable or am I just better off getting a case like the duality? This was my first build and it would save me dishing out the huge cash for the mtn mod case if I can work with this, and am to the point now where I might even be willing to try to mod the case to work with this as I do really like my case as it is, there's just nowhere near enough room.

Thanks.

michinmuri

you can drop the 2 HDD cages and use the 3.5" floppy drive attachment to put the HDD toward the top of the case next to the disk drive. This would give you some space in the bottom of the case, but not sure how much u need.

EDIT. Also, if your case is an older one, with no holes pre-drilled for cable management, you could drill your own so you can route the wires behind the mobo.

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omaryunus

Well to make the watercooling completly internal would be kinda tough and i believe to put the rad inside the case you have to remove the 200mm fan on top. well my suggestion is placing the radiator on the back 120mm fan with the Swiftech radbox. I would definetly suggest doing the cable managment and working on turning the hard drives around which is done in Cyber Druids build ill find that in a bit...If you take a look at my build (in my sig) I've WCed my antec 900 and in the end I have everything placed inside my case except the rad and I have 2 8800GT

well if I can help you with anything else dont hesitate to PM me

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nlraley

biggest question is where would I put the radiator and the 3 fans I need for it and will there be enough room for the tubing to run once I have the radiator, pump, and resevoir inside?

Indignity

http://www.overclock.net/case-mods-g...pictorial.html

http://www.overclock.net/computer-ca...tec-900-a.html

And, check out some of CyberDruid's build logs for more ideas:
http://www.overclock.net/cyberdruidp...now-about.html

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Skullzaflare

using a 120.3 would be hard, i had a few issues fitting my 240 in the front of it

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Originally Posted by lemans81 No. Your going to continue to produce the same amount of heat whether or not your fans suck it all out. What that means is that your computer runs hotter, and that you will leak the hot air out more slowly. If you producing the heat it won't matter if you trap it in your case or exhaust it. Eventually its going to get out, your case isn't air tight.

michinmuri

uh huh, he said hard, uh huh.

sorry, the Beavis and Butthead in me had to...

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