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Need a good case recommendation

Risant

Risant

Limp Gawd
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I have a 240 radiator and plan on adding to my loop, are there any cases that I can mount the 240 and add maybe a 360 or a 3 x 140 rad? I'm going to have at least 2 5970's in the loop and maybe add a 5870 too. My cpu is a 2500k and I know I can clock it to at least 4.9 if I play with it I had it stable once, but accidentally reset my bios and lost the settings and just haven't played with it since. Anyway, I have some time to work on this, because it is just too warm to have that rig in my room. Plan on finishing it and moving it in the house in the fall. Have to have it done by then.

Also, would a single mcp655 be sufficient for the loop? Our should I go with a second pump on another loop?
 
Using 2+ 5970s and a 5870 means this is for bitcoin mining right?

Regardless of what case you want, the rig is still going to dump all the heat in whatever room you keep it. You would be better served by having an external radiator array and pumping the heat into another room, out to a patio, down into a crawl space under the building, or some other "away" place that preferably has a natural inclination towards cool air.
 
I may do one internal radiator to heat the room, probably put one in the crawl space to heat the bathroom. Yes it's primarily for mining right now, but once the summer is over I should have more time for gaming again and then it will be dual purpose will likely quad fire the 5970's and keep the 5870 dedicated mining

Would like to keep the case under $200 less is better. I'm comfortable doing some minor modding as long as I don't lose too much function
 
Rosewill Black Hawk Ultra will also work. Again though, you will still be dumping all that heat into your room.
 
NZXT Switch 810. Natively supports a 3x120 or 3x140 radiator and a 2x120 radiator.
 
That case looks awesome, great room for what I want to do. Can even add a single 140mm rad in the back if I wanted/needed. Just need to figure out how to vent the heat from the room back through the ducts to the rest of the house :D
 
I like the SilverStone RAVEN RV02-BW Full Tower, could probably be modded to fit all of that.
 
After further inspection, I'm not sure the video cards would fit into the NZXT case without modding. And since I've got 2 that are going to be a tight fit, I may be better going with a different case. The raven looks nice, just would have to do some adjustment to use smaller radiators since they come with those massive 180mm fans, though I could probably do a 4x120 in the bottom of that :)

edit: Maybe I'm wrong, did some checking, the 5970's are only like 12" long. Guess they just seem huge next to a 5870.
 
There are no cards that can't fit in the NZXT. It would have been a huge oversight for such a high end case to not support high end cards.
 
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