800D or wait or 900D?

MyNight

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Right OK I need advise as I'm having second thoughts.

I currently have a sabertooth x79 and a 3930k along with two MSI 7970 lightnings.

I have been looking at water cooling cases and settled on the 800D to fit a 360mm and a 240mm hardware labs sr1s which should provide enough cooling for my gpus/cpu.

Now of course I'm having second thoughts seeing the 900d but do you think its overkill for 600mm of rad and an ATX mobo? I don't really think ill need more in the way of water cooling just i don't want to end up in either position of;

1) Not having enough room for my kit
2) The case looking empty

Is it worth the wait and extra £60? Or just stay strong and go with the 800D?

Please help I'm currently in one of those minds of going over and over "Do I need it?/Dont I?"
 
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I have a Corsair 800D with a 360mm rad strapped to the top. It's a beautiful setup. The only problem that I had was that there wasn't enough room to fit a RIVE, two 7970s, a Swiftech MCP655 pump, and a Swiftech Maelstrom 5 resevoir comfortably. I moved my BluRay Drive from the top bay to the second bay to make room for the end of the 360mm radiator, and put the resevoir towards the bottom of the 5 inch bays with the pump set inward on a bit of a slant. It's a tighter fit than I'd like, but since the Obsidian cases draw their air from the bottom rather than the front, it didn't impact cooling performance.

The 900D looks to address this by adding more forward room, which would be nice to have with oversized motherboards. The one thing...
I have a Corsair 800D with a 360mm rad strapped to the top. It's a beautiful setup. The only problem that I had was that there wasn't enough room to fit a RIVE, two 7970s, a Swiftech MCP655 pump, and a Swiftech Maelstrom 5 resevoir comfortably. I moved my BluRay Drive from the top bay to the second bay to make room for the end of the 360mm radiator, and put the resevoir towards the bottom of the 5 inch bays with the pump set inward on a bit of a slant. It's a tighter fit than I'd like, but since the Obsidian cases draw their air from the bottom rather than the front, it didn't impact cooling performance.

The 900D looks to address this by adding more forward room, which would be nice to have with oversized motherboards. The one thing that I do not like about the 900D is that they reduced the number of hot swap bays from 4 to 3.

If I had the opportunity to change now, I'd go with the 900D
 
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MyNight

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Great responses. Haha yes I am strong enough for the 800d probably pushing my luck with a 900d.

Thats one of the things i have against the 900d i currently use 4SSDs for transporting large amounts of data between my home and office so hot swap is a necessity. (well cold swap technically just easy quick access)

You say the 360 rad up top takes up one of the 5.25 bays? Completely? Or is there enough room to utilize a fan controller in there(half depth one)?
 


The edge of the radiator just barely prevents me from fully inserting an Asus BW-12B1ST. That drive is 170mm deep (Asus spec, not my own measurements). If the fan controller is less than 150mm in depth you should have no issues inserting it in the top bay
 

MyNight

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Argh brilliant mines just shy at 148.5mm :)

Are you cooling your 7970s on water as well?

I'm really leaning towards the 900 now :/ Guess if it looks too barren in there I can fit another tube res or something. (have to start working out more as well I guess haha)

Thank you for your time :)
 


My 7970s are on air, but they use Windforce 3X coolers so the heat is ejected back into the case. Only my CPU is liquid cooled. I use 120mm Corsair SP fans (Static Pressure, good for radiators) which are the same ones featured in the Corsair 900D page so you can see what they look like.