Corsair 350D Water Cooling questions!

Jimbo832

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I am looking into watercooling a Corsair 350D, and before anyone asks no unfourtunately I cannot acquire a Arc mini R2 as they are not available in New Zealand :( So the 350D is from what I can tell the next best M-ATX water cooling Case. If anyone has any better suggestions just tell me. So the setup I am thinking is 2 Radiators, a RX 240 in the front and a Ax or Ex 240 in the top, cooling a CPU, probabltya i5 4690k or i7 4690k or whatever intel releases anytime soon (Broadwell?) And probabaly a R9 290/X or again, whatever AMD or Nvidia release anytime soon
So anyway With a XSPC D5 dual bay Res can I fit the Radiators still? And if 5 1/4" bay Combo's aren't recommended then what? the D5 Photon. Sorry for only mentioning XSPC Parts I know there lineup the best so if you know any other companys (EKWB, Alphacool?) parts that would work better pls tell me. So I have attached a photo which shows my prefered layout, pls judge :) http://imageshack.com/i/f09UVelBp Oh and the order I was thiniking was Pump>Rad>CPU>GPU>RAD>Pump. If you have a better Idea once again... tell me :)

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I just drew the Tube res one incase anyone wants to know what it will look like https://imageshack.com/i/pd2Hgx1tp
 
I prefer the Tube Res style myself, as Bay-Res Combo can be hard to bleed the air out from what I've read. I can't actually comment on the the parts you've listed as fitting correctly inside the 350D, but your layout looks fine to me from both pics you provided. Also, w/ 2 240 rads for both a CPU and GPU, depending on the components, you may have to decide on better temps or higher noise. I had a single 480 Rad in my previous cooling setup for CPU and a 2X GPU card. My temps were fine, but my fans were quite loud(kinda defeating one of the reasons for WC). With my newer setup, I went for more Radiators and lower speed fans. Any plans on overclocking?
 

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So do you recommend less rads? will 1 240 be okay? I think you can do 1 280 in the front? And yes I will probably OC the CPU