Hello,
Looking around, there seems to be a lack of cases designed for serious water cooling.
There are cases like the 7/800D, but the way the radiator is mounted means it's either exhausting into or drawing air out of the case innards, reducing the overall effectiveness of the cooling setup.
Products like the TJ07 don't have this issue, but even then only one large radiator can be installed in the ideal way.
I think there are cases out there which wouldn't have either issue (mountain mods?), but they don't seem to be of great build quality and I would therefore worry about issues such as acoustics due to vibrations, which the more mainstream commercial cases don't suffer as badly from.
There was a case in the recent Bit-tech/Phobya competition, the "Proteus", and this seems like an ideal solution.
It seems to have the potential to be of solid construction, allows for multiple large radiators to be installed in the ideal "duct" position (so that airflow is seperate from the case compartment containing the system components) with plenty of space for mounting parts such as pumps and reservoirs.
Are there any cases out there like this?
I understand water cooling is still a pretty small "market", hardly what you'd call mainstream and therefore the lack of competition or variety of products is not surprising. Still, I thought it'd be worth asking in case I overlooked something.
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