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Best case for watercooling?

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I'm looking to move from air cooling to water in the near future, and also want to get a new case. I want to buy a case now that has room for all the internals of a watercooling system without creating a wire nest (I'm a neat-freak about my airflow in case). I like the PC-71 from Lian-Li, and it looks like you could mount a radiator above the PSU, which would make for a fairly clean install. Any other cases you guys'd recommend?

Ideally I want a case thats:
1. Full-tower
2. slide-out mobo tray
3. front 120mm (or at least room for) intake, with HD mount in front of it
4. rear 120mm (or room) above/below PSU
5. with or without window, but room for one (no handles, etc)

Don't really need any front i/o ports, although that's pretty standard now.....don't NEED a psu, although if it's better than my antec true 430 I won't argue :D
 
No opinions? Even if it doesn't have any of my wants, I'd still like to see some feedback..... I seen plenty of pics of peoples w/c rigs, alot of Lian-Li PC-6x's and PC-7x's, chieftecs, etc.....
 
U2 - UFO, Chenbro NET

Depending on what parts you are watercooling, size of rad and fans for the rad, major impact on what the case should be.
 
well, eventually I want to have a system with a CPU, GPU, and NB waterblocks. I thinking of going with 1/2" piping, ehiem pump, external reservior (forget the name right now, the tube style that mounts outside case above pci slots), and probably a dual 120mm black ice radiator (I've seen these mounted to the top of the Lian-Li PC71's, fit great).
 
Consider a good heater core for the radiator. Also, if you are doing the Innovatek res, you will need to switch out the hose fittings.
 
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