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Would be careful in these cases with cracken G12 and G10, better add some heat sinks on the vrms and ram as my Zotac 1080 mini got cocked with H55 and a fan blowing on the vrms. I must confece I was also overclocking it as well. Now I have an MSI Sea Hawk 1080 on the way. Should mention with the stock cooler of the Zotac 1080 mini the temp was going up to 84C throttling where in reviews I see most cases 70-75C being reported.

No issues with CPU temp at all with cracken X62. Below 70C, mostly 65 in games with 26C roomtemo with cracken on silent and the 1600X OC @ 3.9.

 

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Originally Posted by xP_0nex

If you have a reference design 1080, I'd look into the EVGA Hybrid kit and VRM worries will go away.

Thats a good solution if you don't have an AIO, but if you have some AIO lying around like me then you might want to look in to the cracken G10/G12, going to require a bit of excess cutting since they are 2.5 slot. In some larger cases it might work just with the included fan but in shift and shift X I would use heat sinks on the VRMs/RAM considering how air starved the gpu is. Thats comming after Zotac 1080 mini + h55 got coocked

Is anyone using dual AIO in Shift X? Cause I want to see what kind of ideas other come up with in mounting a second AIO.

 

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You could probably Install 2 x 120 AIOs on the front mounts, but it wouldn't make much sense, then better go with the smaller shift and just use 2x120/27mm. You can't install any AIO's in the bottom as the tubes would not be long enough. I could only come up with this setup. Although the the GPU AIO can't exhaust the air outside or even pull air, the temps were decen't topping at 65C with the h55

 

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Using extensions in any of these cases is not recommended as there is not that much space to store cables and you may end up cluttering your case or may not be able to close the back cover.

 

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Originally Posted by qiUip

It's not ideal but definitely possible as long as you don't have too many other things in the case. I had extensions initially until I got my custom sleeved set and it was fine, just not as tidy.

Don't see much point for custom cables in this cases as you can't see them much. The only thing which annoyes me a bit are the colored cables by the connectors buy I'm going to fit that with a black permanent marker.

 

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Originally Posted by djtinxo

Hi there!

I am considering buying this beatiful case, but I have a big concern. My graphics card is a gigabyte GTX 1070 MINI itx, so, it's a short card whose single fan would be facing the motherboard in this case, it wouldn't show below it. So what do you think, could this be problematic? would this choke my GPU? (Reminder: this card isn't particulary cool, having a single blower sytle 92mm fan)

Besides the gpu throttling sooner than normal I don't see any possible issues.You could always get a cracken G12 and water cool it with a used h55 or something.

 

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Installed the new gpu after the first one got cocked so thought to attach a few pics with my overgrown HTPC.

 

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Originally Posted by Varinn

That looks really good like that. Very modern looking setup there...

A question for people who have played with the case a bit longer than I have. I have an airflow question

I'm going to be running an i7 8700k and a GTX 1080 on a 280mm rad with dual Phanteks 140mm SP PWM fans. My motherboard has two PWM and one 3 pin fan header. If I go
1: Rad fans on CPU_FAN header (with splitter)
2: D5 PWM pump on AIO_PUMP header
3: chassis fans on constant voltage header

Will I have ok airflow? Should I swap the pump to the chassis header and switch the stock case fans for a different type with PWM? If so, what kind? SP fans for the bottom intake and top exhaust? One high CFM one SP? Has anyone tried different alternatives?

The chasi fans spin tops 1200rpm they are not noisy but not completely silent.My motherboard runs them full speed if I put them on a pwm header and there is nothing I can do. I only have one DC header and using it for the Gpu aio also 3 pin. Cracken does everything via USB control so no issues there and the 2 case fans are connected on a splitter running full speed. I've been thinking to replace them with 2 pwm fans which can be connected togheder but I need to drop another 50 for that. If you can replace the stock fans I would do it with SP, no AF. Case presents a lot of resistance even when fans are exhausting air out due to front pannel. You can drop a few degrees just by removing the front pannel

 

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Originally Posted by Varinn

****. Majority of my water-cooling parts arrived today, still waiting on CPU but decided to start putting stuff together and realized my d5 pump bracket is a bit deeper than expected. I only have space available for a PSU with Max 70mm height. Can anyone suggest a good match for a decent price?

8700k w/ overclock (nothing extreme), a few SSD's, GTX 1080ftw2, custom loop with GPU and CPU. Would a Corsair SF450 work or do I need more like a 550/600w?

450 should be enough but I would definitely go for a 550 if you're going to OC. I haven't looked in to sfx PSUs as I'm using my old seasonic atx. One more thing I have to ask you since you decided to go with a non founders PCB GPU, have you confirmed that the water block you will buy fits on that card?

 

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Originally Posted by qiUip

Looks great dude. How did you manage to fit push/pull with a 1080Ti though? In my case (nzxt kraken x62) only pull hardly left any room for the PCIe cables... I had far more room with the fans pointing towards the glass but the GPU temps were just so bad I had to turn it to the recommended configuration.

He has a 240 rad moved in front there are no side restrictions like there are with a 280. I'm running a cracken X62 as well.

 

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Only seen people with larger ATX PSUs not sitting straight, I have a normal ATX and it sits just fine, only inconvenience is the fan is on the inside.

Moved the GPU AIO horizontaly with the rad sitting on rubber feet to improve airflow, fan pulling through the rad blowing up. GPU temps tops around 60C on heavy gaming and 30C idle, around 12C better vs the radiator on the back side with no holes. They should have made a removable back plate there if you don't use the PSU shroud to install a 120 AIO. Next move probably replacing the 2 included case fans as my motharboards headers only has one header which can do DC/PWM the other 2 are PWM only so fans speening 1200rpm.

 

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I want to see more shift X builds to steal some good ideas if any....taking suggestions

BTW let complaing about the riser cable as I had the case on preorder from caseking so I don't know maybe its just a few people having issues as I've seen others on readit.

Had 3 GPUs in this case in quite a shoft time.
1. RX480 refernce card by saphire. Couldn't even use the card, sound crancking, hickups literally unusable. Couldn't even listen to music on it. Slightly better when setting PCIE on 8X but still unberable.
2. GTX 1080 mini Zotac. All good with this card, no issues except for the fact that card was getting hot 84C throtteling where in most reviews stays under 75.
3. MSI Sea Hawk X a bit of cranking, some times losing sound complately only recovers after restart. Setting PCIE 8X resolves the issue.I know there is no idfference in performance between 8X and 16X but still It gives me a bad taste and I want to ask for a replacement cable although it might not solve anything.

 

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Originally Posted by nova_prime

Just wondering but should the videocard cooler be blower type or dual/tri fan type for this case? I have the Evolv Shift and still researching parts.

Hybrid probably the best of both worlds but then you would need to use a 27mm AIO for cpu not something thicker like the h80. As somone who had 3 cars in shift X I would say there is not much of a cooling difference between a blower card which in most cases will throttle slightly vs a custom card (unless water cooled) because the card is quite air starved. A large 3 fan GPU would probably still be better.

Either go with corsair h80 v2 + large custom card or blower OR dual 27mm AIO. Do not go with anything else than AIO on cpu unless you are going with a 65W cpu with no overclocking in mind.

 

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Originally Posted by nova_prime

Thanks for the response. So a hybrid Videocard with AIO and Cpu AIO Water cooler will fit the shorter Evolv Shift ?

Make sure none of the AIOs is thicker than 27mm or both will not fit. Like somone said AIO gpus are expensive but if you keep looking you can find some deals. I got an amazon warehouse deal MSI Sea Hawk X 1080 for 570E which is not bad considering the cheapest 1080 I could find was 500 and most of the reasonable cards were 550.You can consider cracken G12 if you have a cheap AIO sitting around like me, I belive it will require some trimit of that bracket though but you can't see it anyway.

 

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Better just remove the top fan and do push pull only at the bottom instead of cutting the glass or install slim fans if it helps. My temps are around 30 CPU/GPU at idle and 57CPU and 61GPU in Shadow of War room temp 25C (max detauls) but for some reason I still have a need of more tweaks and don't know what else to do. The only thing I decided on is to replace the included fans with PWM fans.

 

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Originally Posted by Schnitter

How likely is it that phanteks will release a V2 of this case? Have they ever released a revised case of one of their other cases? Case looks so nice if only they fix the few details mainly changing the tempered glass panel near the video card to an acrylic one with breathing holes to mount the GPU with fans facing the holes.

EDIT: Also, how good is the PCI riser cable? I saw a video of a Thermaltake case that the reviewer claimed you'd have to get an aftermarket PCI riser cable because the one that came with that case was not one that would utilize the full power of the PCI E lane.

I had various issues with the riser cable. Had 3 cards running in this case and only one had no issues. Maybe just the first ones had issues, had it preordered, have seen a few other owners with similar issues though.
RX480 unusable stuttering, sound crancking
Zotac 1080 mini no issues
MSI Sea Hawk X 1080 only works fine on PCIE 8X, some sound cracking or loss of sound on 16X.

 

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Originally Posted by twitchyzero

want this case so bad, but it's 0.5" too thick when put in the horizontal position for my TV stand

are there any alternatives that are 6" slim, supports a full-sized GPU and has tempered glass?

You can always change your TV stand

or you can find a way to put is vertically. I personally think vertically is best for show off.
Is your TV stand made of glass? Cause otherwise I don't see what's the point of getting a window case.

 

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Originally Posted by RustySpoons

Thanks for that, I'll stick with my ATX PSU Then if I have to buy cables. Was just considering it so I can use the PSU cover, guess I can live without that

You can have quite a clean build with a 140 ATX as well. Just route the cables to the back directly through the hole, they should also be long enough so you don't need any additional extensions. Anything larger than a standard sized ATX will not end up in the best looking way.

 

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Originally Posted by djtinxo

Hi, could anyone tell me if there's a chance of lowering the gpu bracket so my short GPU can breathe some air and have some clearance in comparison with the back of the mobo?

Doubt it this is possible, get your self a cracken G12 and a h55 or swap for a blower style card if your card is throttling more than you would like. Another idea which not sure how much of a difference would it make is to install 2 higher RPM 140mm fans on the case, maybe 1800rmp. That might give you some extra noise but on the other side your GPU might run cooler and lower its fan speed, you can try switching the top fan on intake as well.

I've ordered a pack of 2 Noctua A14 PWM chromax just because the ******ed included fans are 3 pin and my motherboard has a single DC header which is already in use, so they spin 1200rpm all the time driving me nuts (I'm a bit of a noise freak). Anyway no temp problems here 30/30 at idle and around 60/60 gaming 23C room temp