Hi,
This is not about any particular radiator - I'm looking into doing a liquid cooling build with a Cooler Master HAF X full tower chassis - At this point I am just looking into this as it seems quite tricky and I've never done any water cooling YET.
I know I need a CPU water block or cold plate - It's possible a GPU cooler maybe needed but maybe not - I understand that a reservoir and pump are needed and these can be separate or they can be combination units with both pump and reservoir.
Some pump / reservoir units can go into the 5.25" drive bays which is handy and in Cooler Master HAF X there is spare space that could be used for this.
I write this to show I do have some basic knowledge of what is needed but this query is to ask about radiators. It seems there is room for a 360 mm radiator at the top [but inside] the case and one end of the 360 mm radiator will occupy the 1st 5.25" drive bay.
I've looked at a few radiators from different manufacturers but can't get all the facts I need unless I've missed something which is why I'm here.
All the radiators on one side have screw holes to fix say 3 x 120 mm fans onto - I've got this as I've seen 12 screw holes for these fittings. What is not clear is whether the opposite side of the radiators also have 12 screw holes on to attach 3 more fans.
Is this the way it is done? - have 3 fans on one side and 3 fans on the other? - so 6 fans in total?
I figure I could buy 3 x Noctura Industrial 120 mm fans that spin 2000-3000 rpm ? - and attach them to a radiator
What also is not clear is how to attach A radiator to the computer case as for example A manufacturer will not have instructions of how to do this as there are far too many computer cases available to do this - I understand.
I'm just trying to piece together how to do this gradually like a puzzle to work out how this is to be done. A small case modification could be done but I'm not into anything too big as a modification as this could ruin a good-ish case.
If radiators do have screw holes on both sides I can see how fans can attach to both sides. I'll leave it there for now so any useful advice will be very helpful on honing in on all the necessary facts - Thanks -
This is not about any particular radiator - I'm looking into doing a liquid cooling build with a Cooler Master HAF X full tower chassis - At this point I am just looking into this as it seems quite tricky and I've never done any water cooling YET.
I know I need a CPU water block or cold plate - It's possible a GPU cooler maybe needed but maybe not - I understand that a reservoir and pump are needed and these can be separate or they can be combination units with both pump and reservoir.
Some pump / reservoir units can go into the 5.25" drive bays which is handy and in Cooler Master HAF X there is spare space that could be used for this.
I write this to show I do have some basic knowledge of what is needed but this query is to ask about radiators. It seems there is room for a 360 mm radiator at the top [but inside] the case and one end of the 360 mm radiator will occupy the 1st 5.25" drive bay.
I've looked at a few radiators from different manufacturers but can't get all the facts I need unless I've missed something which is why I'm here.
All the radiators on one side have screw holes to fix say 3 x 120 mm fans onto - I've got this as I've seen 12 screw holes for these fittings. What is not clear is whether the opposite side of the radiators also have 12 screw holes on to attach 3 more fans.
Is this the way it is done? - have 3 fans on one side and 3 fans on the other? - so 6 fans in total?
I figure I could buy 3 x Noctura Industrial 120 mm fans that spin 2000-3000 rpm ? - and attach them to a radiator
What also is not clear is how to attach A radiator to the computer case as for example A manufacturer will not have instructions of how to do this as there are far too many computer cases available to do this - I understand.
I'm just trying to piece together how to do this gradually like a puzzle to work out how this is to be done. A small case modification could be done but I'm not into anything too big as a modification as this could ruin a good-ish case.
If radiators do have screw holes on both sides I can see how fans can attach to both sides. I'll leave it there for now so any useful advice will be very helpful on honing in on all the necessary facts - Thanks -