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Old 10-01-2009, 06:58 AM   #1
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Raven Rv02 watercooling help

Hey guys first post. I have the raven rv02 case. im quite happy with it. now i am considering going to water cooling coz here in australia it gets pretty hot and i have never done it before so im keen to try it out and see how i go.
I have heard alot of poeple asking whether a 360 rad would fit on the bottom. i havent really seen an answer, nor have i really seen any builds of this case being water cooled. So my idea was to completely remove the 3x180mm fans along the bottom to fit the rad in and just use 3x120mm fans mounted to the rad(as i doubt i would have the clearence from my video cards to sit the rad on top)
My question is. currently the bottom fans suck up into the case. if i was to keep this set up after changing the fans my concern would be that it would be pushing hot air from the rad into the case. so i was considering reversing all the fans in the case. So the top fan would be the intake, and all 3 bottom fans would be the exhaust fans and there for blowing the hot air out of the case. Can anyone see there being an issue with this? or if im completely off track maybe lead me in the right direction to watercool my system.

Forgot to mention: i want to keep the watercooling all internal.
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Old 10-01-2009, 11:45 AM   #2
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I think putting a rad on the bottom will be a tight squeeze. If you buy the newer gpus i dont think they will fit with the rad+fan on the bottom. But i am not sure about that. You should keep the fans on the bottom to intake. This way your rad is getting the coldest air.
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Old 10-01-2009, 08:28 PM   #3
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watercooling is only going to be of any benefit if the room is of a low temperature .

If the room sits at 40 degrees then you will see no benefit from it
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Old 10-01-2009, 08:51 PM   #4
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well there is some benefit overall but much less in comparison to spending some money and cooling the room down ^^;;
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