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Fleshing out a Planned SB Build

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I'm fleshing out a planned Sandy Bridge build, and because of falling prices and greater ease of installation, I've added water-cooling to the possibilities (specifically, the Corsair H70). Problem is, the radiator placement would not work with my current Lian-Li ATX mid-tower dating back to 2004.

That means a new case.

I have two CoolerMaster cases and two Antec cases on the short list.

The CoolerMasters are up first: HAF922M (mid-tower) and HAF932 (full-tower)

The Antecs are both from the Nine Hundred series - Nine Hundred Two and Nine Hundred SE.

Which would be best for an H70-cooled ASUS P8P67-based setup?

Doubtless a question that is going to pop up: Why would someone that has been singing the praises of Intel's push-pin mounting system for HSFs, namely me, be thinking about water-cooling?

Two reasons that dovetail rather nicely - falling cost for water-cooling setups and greater ease of installation.

Water-cooling setups used to be not only super-expensive, but were a bear to deal with. The advent of closed-loop packaged kits (including the H70) has knocked the bottom out of that. Even better, the H70 mounts *easier* than a lot of air-coolers.
 
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