Please Kind Sirs, would you be so kind as to admit my humble noobness to your most exclusive of clubs? 
Heres the deal. I've got an MSI GTX580 Twin Frozr which will be getting an.....eh, Twin for SLI in a few weeks. Putting aside the fact that I need to redo the thermal paste because this thing is running nearly 100ºC with the BF3 beta with the side panel off and a 120mm fan aimed at it, well, I know this thing vents internally in the case and could really do with some mesh panel side mounted fans, but I really really don't want to hide it nor the Mobo, H100 pump, Ram etc. ie. I really want to use the windowed sidepanel.
So here is what I came up with to try and achieve that while at the same time not have the H100/CPU affect GPU temps nor the GPU affect H100/CPU temps.
I also wanted to do the minimum of destructive non reversable mods to the case.
The plan is to leave the front 200mm in place although perhaps I should snip the fan power cables and just let the intake from the 2 push fans on the H100 spin the 200mm blades??
I reckon the H100 can fit here with just a small slot cut out in the base of the case to let it drop down the 3/4 inch it needs. I think the Pump hoses can reach this area. The H100 will be ducted with dividers that isolate the airflow from the rest of the case and direct it up into the back of the 5.25" bays. Do I let the positive pressure push it out the front of the 5.25" bays or do I fit a single 120mm fan to help it out of the case or would a 120mm fan actually hinder the exhaust instead of helping it?
In the bottom behind the PSU I would drill out holes and duct and mount another 120mm fan to feed air to the graphics cards. I could also remove some PCI blanking plates and fit a 120mmoutside on the rear of the case to feed air to the graphics cards from that direction too. I'd have a divider to prevent most of the PSU exhaust from being sucked right back in this fan.
Top rear 120mm and Top 200mm would be exhaust.
If you can 3D visualise the ducted/enclosed H100 Push/Pull rad being mounted towards the cable management side of the case you might see that about 20% of the front 200mm airflow bypasses the H100 ducting between it and the Windowed side panel feeding a little air to the Mobo/Graphics card area but more importantly the 2x green 40mm fans could pull from this area feeding a HDD enclosure mounted in the bottom 5.25" bay and a further 2x 40mm fans on the other side of the enclosure exhausting into the main 5.25" exhaust airstream.
I'd either get an external bluray drive and undermount it to the desk or perhaps seeing as I wouldn't need to use it except to install some programmes I might be able to fit an internal version under the top case vent, .ie out of sight but easily accessable.
What say you??
Few more pics:
Heres the deal. I've got an MSI GTX580 Twin Frozr which will be getting an.....eh, Twin for SLI in a few weeks. Putting aside the fact that I need to redo the thermal paste because this thing is running nearly 100ºC with the BF3 beta with the side panel off and a 120mm fan aimed at it, well, I know this thing vents internally in the case and could really do with some mesh panel side mounted fans, but I really really don't want to hide it nor the Mobo, H100 pump, Ram etc. ie. I really want to use the windowed sidepanel.
So here is what I came up with to try and achieve that while at the same time not have the H100/CPU affect GPU temps nor the GPU affect H100/CPU temps.
I also wanted to do the minimum of destructive non reversable mods to the case.
The plan is to leave the front 200mm in place although perhaps I should snip the fan power cables and just let the intake from the 2 push fans on the H100 spin the 200mm blades??
I reckon the H100 can fit here with just a small slot cut out in the base of the case to let it drop down the 3/4 inch it needs. I think the Pump hoses can reach this area. The H100 will be ducted with dividers that isolate the airflow from the rest of the case and direct it up into the back of the 5.25" bays. Do I let the positive pressure push it out the front of the 5.25" bays or do I fit a single 120mm fan to help it out of the case or would a 120mm fan actually hinder the exhaust instead of helping it?
In the bottom behind the PSU I would drill out holes and duct and mount another 120mm fan to feed air to the graphics cards. I could also remove some PCI blanking plates and fit a 120mmoutside on the rear of the case to feed air to the graphics cards from that direction too. I'd have a divider to prevent most of the PSU exhaust from being sucked right back in this fan.
Top rear 120mm and Top 200mm would be exhaust.
If you can 3D visualise the ducted/enclosed H100 Push/Pull rad being mounted towards the cable management side of the case you might see that about 20% of the front 200mm airflow bypasses the H100 ducting between it and the Windowed side panel feeding a little air to the Mobo/Graphics card area but more importantly the 2x green 40mm fans could pull from this area feeding a HDD enclosure mounted in the bottom 5.25" bay and a further 2x 40mm fans on the other side of the enclosure exhausting into the main 5.25" exhaust airstream.
I'd either get an external bluray drive and undermount it to the desk or perhaps seeing as I wouldn't need to use it except to install some programmes I might be able to fit an internal version under the top case vent, .ie out of sight but easily accessable.
What say you??
Few more pics:
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