a question of case vs cooling

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I am down to my last component, the case and thought i knew what I wanted but started to wonder if I will have adequate cooling.

To list the major components:

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
MB:Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H ATX LGA1150
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Sandisk Extreme II 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
- (2) 4TB Seagate HDDs
- (2) 1 TB Seagate drives
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card
PSU:Corsair Professional 850W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: Lite-On IHBS312-98 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer

The case I want is the Lancool-PC9X It has 2, 140mm intake fans in the front and 1, 120mm exhaust in the back and that's it. With the CPU cooler and 2 GFX card fans though, will that be enough?

My other choice is the Lian-Li PC-7HX which has the same initial fan set up plus openings for 1 extra side and 2 top fans. Is this overkill?


 
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The two 140mm intakes and one exhaust (the PC9X) will be sufficient. No need to overkill.

If you plan to do some significant overclocking compounded with an ACX style cooler on the GPU then you will have quite a bit of case heat that will need to be dissipated and then you might want to start thinking about additional case fans.
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The two 140mm intakes and one exhaust (the PC9X) will be sufficient. No need to overkill.

If you plan to do some significant overclocking compounded with an ACX style cooler on the GPU then you will have quite a bit of case heat that will need to be dissipated and then you might want to start thinking about additional case fans.
 
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thank you for such a quick response!

As you can see with my set up, I did buy OCing options but am nothing more than an OCing dabbler, I like having the option for a few more bucks. I may try for a modest 10-15% but I will not be trying to push the system to its limits.
 
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2x4b

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Sounds like you have a good plan.
After you are up and running take some temperature measurements. If you do end up experiencing too much heat in the case, you could always switch from a fan and heatsink cpu cooler, to something with a radiator that would directly expel the heat outside (liquid cooling). But don't even worry unless you actually see some temps that you are uncomfortable with.
 
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