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Thinking about trying out a Corsair H100 liquid cooling solution. I'm not 100% sure if it will fit into my Cooler Master Storm Enforcer case. Anyone ever try or have an opinion on it?

I know there's room on top for a 200mm or two 120mm fans in the Enforcer and the radiator for the H100 has two 120 fans on it but I wonder if the dimensions of radiator are bigger than the fans and will make my life difficult.

Any opinions welcome.

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Thinking about trying out a Corsair H100 liquid cooling solution. I'm not 100% sure if it will fit into my Cooler Master Storm Enforcer case. Anyone ever try or have an opinion on it?
I know there's room on top for a 200mm or two 120mm fans in the Enforcer and the radiator for the H100 has two 120 fans on it but I wonder if the dimensions of radiator are bigger than the fans and will make my life difficult.
Any opinions welcome.
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Rad will fit in case quite easily, however depending on your mobo and ram setup you may have to mount fans externally .ps I have a 4100 in my little rig works well, I would suggest you go with the H 80-thicker 120 with push-pull fans, will be more than up to the task !
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Got the tape measure out and checked out my enforcer. H 100 will fit but like I said you will have to mount fans on top, if so buy a fan shroud and two grills. Make sure fans are sucking air out of case. This is my little rig-FX 4100-990fx mobo-antec kuhler 620 cooler-Asus 550 ti gpu-16 gig hyper X ram 1600 mhz. Jerry from Toronto.
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I have been wondering this aswell, and I don't want to sound OCD or anything. But I have not found 1 person who has actually managed to fit the rad+fans inside the case using the screw holes. they all had to move it, or have it slanted or something.
 
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Yeah, someone else in this thread used the original holes. It was angled and slanted, in my opinion that looked terrible. All in all I would recommend a different case or an h80 if you want it to look good, the h80 and the h100 are fairly similar in performance (-1.7 C temp difference (h80 - h100) on intel I7 @ 3.8ghz - 100% load according to the h100 box)

This was the closest thing to looking good and not like i didn't give a turd.
 
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I think it shows that most manufacturers are not taking into consideration the mobo, they should offset holes and grills. However that would be a little too hard for them to figure out since they are not the end user.
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in their defense its a mid tower case released prior to the h100 and does specify what fits with the case (2 120mm fans 1 240mm fan etc)
but if they could have set up elongated holes like (_______) across the top so we could tweak the positions that would've been great
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I did use the screws that originally came with the h100, did you try to line up the holes as I did on page 1? Also I had to shave part of the rear fan off for the I/O ports so I could get the fit. If you need direct measurements let me know
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I got it working by using the original screws and used those to mount into the middle 4 holes on the radiator through the venting holes on the top of the Storm Enforcer. It is a tight fit but I actually didn't have to remove or do anything to the rear fan. I'll post a picture so you can see
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PS: I did try to drill 4 holes before I came up with this solution but they didn't line up with the radiator's holes.


Sorry for the bad camera work but this is all I can do at 1 AM
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Cable management after a few more hours of prime95 to check if this is a stable setup.
 
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here is my way of fitting the H100 into my Enforcer:

you'll need 8 motherboard standoffs, and 2 fan filters.

first, install the 8 motherboard standoffs to one side of the H100
second, mount the H100 inside the case, like so:



third, line up the fans and the filters outside the case, like this:



fourth, screw the fans with the H100 on the other side of the case,



that's it.. now you have an H100 in your Enforcer
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I've done this a year ago, but I thought I must share it so everyone will benefit from it..
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it's not necessary to have fan filters, but it'll give it a look, plus it will cause less accidents..
 
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here is my way of fitting the H100 into my Enforcer:

you'll need 8 motherboard standoffs, and 2 fan filters.

first, install the 8 motherboard standoffs to one side of the H100
second, mount the H100 inside the case, like so:



third, line up the fans and the filters outside the case, like this:



fourth, screw the fans with the H100 on the other side of the case,



that's it.. now you have an H100 in your Enforcer
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I've done this a year ago, but I thought I must share it so everyone will benefit from it..
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it's not necessary to have fan filters, but it'll give it a look, plus it will cause less accidents..
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Hey sam thats such a great idea
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im planning to get a h100 or h100i for my storm enforcer in a weeks time, seeing as the one your showing in your case is a h100, would i be able to apply the same logic to a h100i also?
 
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