Best Custom Water cooling Loop Case?

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So basically I'm building a Custom Loop for my system and I'm going to be cooling the CPU and 2 GTX 970s. For this I'm guessing I need about 240mm of radiator for each component. The problems is I'v been looking at the H440 and 450D to fit these loops in and I'm just not too sure if either are big enough. The H440 can handle a 360 and 240 rad while the 450D in my case will be able to do the same since I'll be using the drive cages on the bottom. This leaves me with not quite enough radiator space for what I want to cool and also everything will be kind of camped in there wont it?

So basically I'm asking if I'm making a mistake and either of these will actually be okay or if there are any larger options that don't cost too much, have lots of radiator support and still look nice?
 
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If you can swing it, you will definitely love the primo.... and it does save you with $50 worth of fans fan controller, pump mount, res mount build in ..... be prepared however for a "serving of baked beans" ..... my euphemism for Bi*ching and Moaning (after B & M Baked beans) .... when the wife / GF sees what UPS brought :)

YA see the ledge behind the lower radiator ..... the PSU is in there and installed from the back. See 0.35 of 1st video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ppwqUNIppY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU1yMvkdsyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1RzXMZ8BNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIpoC65bpX4

The Pro and Luxe are basically the same thing...l you can see it doesn't fit all the goodies that the Primo does from my...
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For two GFX cards, you are gonna want something like the Enthoo Primo. It won the Case of the Year award at Computex in 2013 .... Available on black or white, built in fan controller, 5 of the best fans on the market, built in SSD mounts, built in LED control, built in pump and reservoir mounts, best cable management I have seen, can't see PSU / cables.... essentially nothing else comes close feature / performance wise in it's price range.

$219 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811854002

Recommendations for your build:

D5 Pump
(1) 420mm radiator on top
(1) 280 radiator on bottom
EX RS-250 reservoir

It's big tho..... if ya want smaller / less expensive the Luxe adds switchable LED colors

The Enthoo Pro ($100) followed winning the award in 2014 and the Enthoo Luxe was just released ($150) with the same features as above

Enthoo Pro / Luxe recommendations
Top - 420mm
Bottom or front - 240mm

Here's my last year's build with 4.6GHz Haswell / twin water cooled 780s in SLI and WB on MoBo in the Black Primo

20ded621_002.jpeg


And no, I still haven't gotten around to sleeving the cables :)
 
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I feel your pain. Cases are an overlooked item with PC building, lots of them meet 90% of what you want, but the 10% they don't is what you really need!

I know you mentioned "don't cost too much", however, have you looked at www.mountainmods.com? Yeah, they do cost a bit more, and, depending on your tastes, may not look that nice - but they are absolutley awesome when it comes to room to be able to do whatever you want! I have the ascension cas and have both mine and my wife's in the one case.

Just a thought anyway =)
 
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Thanks for the suggestion but these a quite a bit over my kind of budget! Thanks again though!
 
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Now that is a sexy build! I do like the big primo A LOT but it's also quite a long way out of my budget but there is a possibility I could get it. Also where the hell is the PSU?!?!?! Can it really fit next to that radiator?!?!

Since it is quite expensive would the Ethoo Pro have enough room for everything still or not quite the same? Also can you change the LEDs because I'm looking for a green build at the moment.

Basically I'm looking for your opinion, is it worth the extra money for the amount of space and rad mounts or would the Pro still work do you think? I do want to be able to see a lot of my loop like the res and stuff.

Also thanks for the pump and loop parts ideas, I really am new to this so those helped a lot too!


 
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If you can swing it, you will definitely love the primo.... and it does save you with $50 worth of fans fan controller, pump mount, res mount build in ..... be prepared however for a "serving of baked beans" ..... my euphemism for Bi*ching and Moaning (after B & M Baked beans) .... when the wife / GF sees what UPS brought :)

YA see the ledge behind the lower radiator ..... the PSU is in there and installed from the back. See 0.35 of 1st video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ppwqUNIppY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU1yMvkdsyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1RzXMZ8BNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIpoC65bpX4

The Pro and Luxe are basically the same thing...l you can see it doesn't fit all the goodies that the Primo does from my previous post\

Id encourage you to watch the videos on Phanteks youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/Phanteks

And the Phantels reviews by super modder Bill Owen
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Phanteks+owen

That was Asus MoBo, Optical, GFX cards .... next one will be all MSI in white case
 
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