But what's wrong with my intake fan now?
The drive cage blocks airflow. Move the cage up or the fan up. Or if your case supports it, install a side fan.
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But what's wrong with my intake fan now?
Can you explain why?
Btw it says "The new fan frames allow air to pass around it, compared to the previous NZXT FN fan version with the standard frame"
And the black things that hold the drives are removable if that helps
The downside is that any time you upgrade you usually have to get new blocks (or at least new mounting brackets) as CPU and GPU manufacturers keep changing the placement of the mounting holes or shape/location of the chips. Full GPU blocks are even more troublesome as they fit only one type of card.
I ran watercooling for years but about 2 years ago went to back to air cooling with a massive Phanteks CPU cooler and ASUS and later Gigabyte GPUs. There wasn't much difference in noise levels on the desktop (where noise is most noticeable) and the load noise isn't that bad either. GPUs these days are actually pretty quiet as long as you have a non-reference cooler.
I do really like watercooling but I feel it has to be built well from ground up: you need a case where you can fit big radiators, a reservoir and a pump. It can get pretty expensive.
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The Phantom 240 will take CPU heat-sinks up to 158mm in height, but as we all know that's not where the action's at these days. What we all want to know is does it have native water support? Well, although NZXT are a bit coy about confirming the support offered we can confirm that there's a 30mm gap between the case roof and the motherboard tray edge.
As we know there can be a bit of leeway in the "roof to motherboard gap". To a greater extent this depends upon the layout of your motherboard and how tall the RAM is that you are using. In the example below we can see that we are in fact able to get a 35mm thick XSPC RS240 radiator into the roof space without it fouling the motherboard components. If we were you though, we'd stick to those 30mm and under just to be safe.
Fortunately there are many 240mm AIO units on the market that will fit into this 30mm space, although sadly none made by NZXT themselves. Rather coincidentally though both the Kraken X40 and the Kraken X60 come in at just 25mm thick so should fit up here no problem. Ding dong, a case with native 280mm AIO cooling in the roof.
With everything in place we think the Phantom 240 looks rather well proportioned. The removable HDD bay ensuring that should you wish to, long GPUs can be accommodated. It's regrettable that the front of the case isn't easily adapted to offer native water support as it would have been nice to have been able to fit an AIO in the roof and another in the front offering support for NZXTs new Kraken G10 GPU bracket. Still, for £50 we can't have everything can we?
Can you explain why?
Btw it says "The new fan frames allow air to pass around it, compared to the previous NZXT FN fan version with the standard frame"
And the black things that hold the drives are removable if that helps
By top, you mean on top of the mobo?
I'm not sure that cage is removable? The screws are tiny for it where as the middle cage was advertised as removable and had normal screws
I found this
your case support 2x 120mm or 2x140mm fans in the top of the case...
So 2 fans on top, 1 above my current intake, and if i can removed the hdd cage. And im good?
Any fans in particular that are good?
You need another 120mm fan anyway - no way in hell that single 120mm will be able to provide good enough airflow for 300W gpu at reasonable rpm speed.
You need another 120mm fan anyway - no way in hell that single 120mm will be able to provide good enough airflow for 300W gpu at reasonable rpm speed.
Where do I need another 1? (How many do I need in total, I'm ordering them in an hour)
Also figured out I have to remove the rivets to remove that hdd, shouldn't be too hard
They're handpicked but more importantly their customer service is 2nd to none in the PC component realm. My current thoughts are that I'll never buy another card other than a HOF.Oh btw since you have a Galax. Is it true the Galax hof cards are the best at Overclocking?