SR-1 560 in 800D

[1adad1]

Could I fit HW Labs Black Ice SR-1 560 on the top of the corsair 800D case?

[Makymaco]

case length or height : 609 mm
sr1 : 605 mm

Without cuting the case = no

[Church]

My take (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?261898-Lazylog-Nigredo-%28Obsidian-800D-560-280%29) on it.
Verdict: imho not worth all the pain.

[aerial]

There is not many cases that can fit it without heavy modding. SS FT02 is one of them. You need to remove stock large fans, remove hdd tray (remove few rivets), and remove some foam on the back side of the case. All these things are relatively easy to do, you don't need to cut anything, so it is pretty much no real modding. And as long as you will not use super long video cards, you have case that fits 560mm rad out of box.

[Church]

Wasn't about the only case (i don't take into account half custom cases like those from MM/DD/XSPC and alike) that could take with no mods 4x140 rads - TJ11? At insanely high price sticker though.
As for "with heavy moding", there was also project in Lian-Li X2000 alongside 800D & FT02. From all three FT02 probably was relatively least painful. For example X2000 project involved making custom front frame.

As very good 140mm fan choice is scarce too, i probably would go least resistance route and use just 120mm rads.

[CedricFP]

Or great 120mm fans push/pulling through a shrouded 140mm radiator... I think that could work well.

[aerial]

480mm rad sure fits there, but there is lot of space left. I saw examples with thin radiator, such as koolance, and it could easily fit even without removal of stock 180mm fans.
But to be honest, a 560 radiator, SR1, seems like it was designed to fit in FT02, it fills entire case, no space if "wasted". Too bad there is so few examples of this configuration, it could be more popular solution for water cooling setup.

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/8117/ft02sr1.jpg

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

480mm rad sure fits there, but there is lot of space left. I saw examples with thin radiator, such as koolance, and it could easily fit even without removal of stock 180mm fans.
But to be honest, a 560 radiator, SR1, seems like it was designed to fit in FT02, it fills entire case, no space if "wasted". Too bad there is so few examples of this configuration, it could be more popular solution for water cooling setup.

QFT.

The FT02 set up seems ideal. You can run an entire system on just that radiator.

Another plus about going FT02 vs 800D is that the air is all intake, making the case positive pressure. With the 800D, you'll be fighting for cooler intake air and you'll have more of a dust issue onhand.

I have a triple rad in mine and without filters, there's barely any dust.

What fans are you going to use for this? 140mm fan selection is just not as robust as 120mm.

[aerial]

As for fans I really wouldn't be worried, pretty much random good quality fans that run @ 600RPM would work for me. Even if they are less efficient than same speed gentle typhoon, size of the rad makes up for that difference.

[1adad1]

Raven 2 is almost same as ft02, yes?

i think pk1 or pk2 from noiseblocker could be fine

[Church]

Problem with FT02 & RV02 might be limits of case height imposed on max gpu length by thickness of rad+fan(or even x2 fan thickness, if push-pull).
Another problem .. there is almost nowhere to put even more rads internally in sensible way if one needs to. Another 1x120 at most, and even then that rad will be cooled by preheated air by bottom rad. Some multi top gpu SLI/CF setups & cpu l/c-ed .. even monster like 560 rad sometimes might not be enough.