Help: Best Case for Water-Cooling need's???

ANDEN10

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I'm having issues finding thread's and builds and cases for what I want to do to start off this is what my Build is.

Gigabyte G1 Gaming or EVGA Z170 Classified 4-Way
I7 6700K
TridentZ DDR4 3200mhz 32GB
2-Way SLI 1080 GTX x16 (when board members come out with GPU's and Water Blocks)
2 Samsung 950 Pro m.2 Raid 0
1 CD-Drive
1 Fan Controller

the plan was to use a HAF X case with Top mount 360mm Rad and a rear mounted 120/140mm Rad but what my concerns are is with only 1 Reservoir (dual 5.25 Bay) will it be enough to keep my GPU's/CPU/VRAM from running hot with OC?? If it doesn't then im good and I can use the case and then the problem remains how do I run my Loop? Res > 120/140 > VRAM > CPU > 360 > 2-Way SLI GTX 1080's > repeat.... cus to me that sounds bad without a 3rd Radiator in the loop to cool the heated coolant going from the GPU's to the pump/res back through a 120/140?? im really at a loss right now. idk what im going to do unless I can figure out a way to find a case that will let me have 2 independent pump's and reservoir's to feed to the CPU/VRAM and then the other to the GPU. The problem with the HAF X is if u have a 360mm Rad which for 2xSLI GTX 1080's you would need at a minimum for OC id need 4 5.25Bay's for just those as Single 5.25 reservoirs just don't hold enough coolant, and I would need 2 additional 5.25in bays for the Fan Controller and the CD Drive (no I don't want an external never have and never will so don't ask or suggest it) and I want the fan controller because ive got a metric fuck load of fan's. I like the HAF X cus of its Airflow. I've already looked at Corsair Obsidian's the only one I like is the Obsidian 900D However with an EATX Board and with the Length of the 1080's I wont be able to fit Pump's and Resiviors unless its under the Drive Bay's and form the looks of it I don't think I can fit any under there. ANY help/ pictures/ youtube video's would help as ive exhausted all resources. Google/youtube give me nothing.

Budget on a case is $400

P.S im going for a White Case and would prefer to stay with the HAF X (ill paint it if necessary) with Blue fan's and White Hard Tubing)

 

ANDEN10

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May 27, 2016
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I will be using it for dual 4k monitors for Gaming and streaming with xsplit via twitch. Ive chosen those to MoBo's because they are the only MoBo's for the z170 Chipset that has a PLX that supports enough lanes to run 2 m.2 drives at x4 and 2 Sli'd Gpu's at x16 without the Gpu's running at x8 (even if the difference is marginal frames are frames when it comes to 4k gaming.

Update: infact they are the ONLY two MoBo's that have a PLX that can feed enough PCIe lanes to the GPU's and m.2 drives without throttling any hardware.
Also, ive yet to find a Board that has the ability to run 2 m.2 drives 1 being on the Mobo and the 2nd being from a PCIe slot without it conflicting with the SLI. as most 2 way SLI motherboards will cover all the PCIe slots making it so id only be able to run 1 m.2 drive.
 

ANDEN10

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May 27, 2016
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i forgot to mention ill be running video editing software, and it will see a HUGE increase in rendering times.
 

ANDEN10

Commendable
May 27, 2016
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I ended up going with the case you posted NZXT Switch 810 White it offers more space allowing me the ability to have more Radiator's and more stylish and Visible build quality, ill be doing some Case modding to allow for more fluid cable management. But other then that I think its perfect and thank you for your help. ill Post a thread on my build log and such as I begin and finish the build.