Thermaltake 37 Fans

rocklad · Sep 21, 2018

Thinking of buying the thermal-take 37 RGB which comes with 3 fans. 2 front 1 rear . There are no upward vents as its gull wing glass. Love the look of the case and will buy an extra HDD holder so I can run 6 HDD off it.

My question is there is no top to it as its glass. Do you think i can swap the included rear fan to the front and use an exhaust radiator from this as my rear fan

https://uae.microless.com/product/thermaltake-water-3-0-x120-sync-rgb-static-pressure-fans-120-aio-sync-edition-with-120mm-lga-2066-ready-liquid-cooler-cl-w223-pl12sw-a/

i have a intel core 7 3770k on an asus p8z68 16gb ram with 6Hdd and 1 ssd with a gtx 1050.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Aeacus · Sep 22, 2018

I don't see any reason why you couldn't mount TT AIO at the rear. Case comes with stock 140mm rear fan and it also supports 120mm fan at the rear, which is also the size of the fan on AIO.

rocklad · Sep 22, 2018

Hi thanks for your answer Aeacus, I was wondering if I could mount the

https://uae.microless.com/product/thermaltake-water-3-0-x120-sync-rgb-static-pressure-fans-120-aio-sync-edition-with-120mm-lga-2066-ready-liquid-cooler-cl-w223-pl12sw-a/

at the front joining the 2 pre-installed fans to give 3 rings at the front. Do you think it can be mounted and its configuration changed so the fan is at the front pushing air through the rad and leaving enough space for a 7 disk HDD tower stacked from the bottom.

Aeacus · Sep 22, 2018

You're welcome.

Here, things get iffy. I can't tell if you'd have few mm to spare or you'd be few mm short when you have rad at top front position with 2x HDD cages on top of each other. You need to test it out by yourself once case and AIO arrives.

But as far as mounting the fan on the rad goes, rad doesn't care on which side the fan is. Either at the front (push configuration) or at the rear (pull configuration), cooling performance is still the same.

rocklad · Sep 22, 2018

Thanks for info. My main 2 main concerns is that
1) I do not want to mount the HDD behind the the rear of the case and have them getting hot without the front fans actually on them, and
2) the water leads from the radiator are long enough to stretch from the front ventilation to the rear where the CPU is

Aeacus · Sep 22, 2018

1st concern would be solved if you buy bigger HDD to replace the ones you currently have.
E.g if you have 6x 500GB HDDs, buy 1x 2TB HDD. With this, you can retire 3x 500GB HDDs you have while gaining extra 500GB of space. And it would also negate the need of using 2nd HDD cage on top of the 1st one.

As far as your 2nd concern goes, TT Water 3.0 X120 has 320mm long tubes. 32cm is quite a lot and it should reach just fine.
For example, on this image here, there's Corsair H150i Pro in use and it has 35cm long tubes,
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rocklad · Sep 22, 2018

Thanks Aeacus for you help and advice, I am off to buy the new case and cooler now. I will post some pictures when sorted.

I recently upgraded my i3 series 2 (running fine until i started playing with light room and Photoshop) so i bought an i7 3770k which is the fastest my motherboard will support, the i7 is running a bit hot (idle 40 under load 78) room, I do not play games but have a dual monitor setup so i have a 1050 graphics card.

It was a mistake to upgrading the cpu and ram to a series 3 i7 and ddr3 ram, i should have just upgraded the motherboard to something newer and bought a modern cpu and ram but once you start along a path...

BTW I already have a lot of big hard drives, running drive pool which duplicates date in case of a failure and rebuilds automatically when you put a new hard drives in- I would recommend this software for anyone who wants file duplication in case of hardware failure.

I have had HDD failure before and the reason was overheating which is the main reason why i want to mount the HDDs in front on the front fans rather than bolted on to the enclosed rear side panel.

Aeacus · Sep 22, 2018

You're welcome.

While HDDs have died on me too, it never was due to the overheating. My drives died due to their age and dying was gradual. I knew well in advance that my drives were dying and i was able to copy all the data from them to a new drive.

As far as running drive pool goes, i'd use a PC case which is more suited to the task, rather than looking fancy with considerable handicap in airflow.
For example, i have Corsair 760T V2 case in use with my Skylake build, full specs with pics in my sig. If i want, i can put 12x 3.5" HDDs into my PC no questions asked since it supports 4x HDD cages (3x 3.5" bays per cage). And that's not all, even when i'd have 4x HDD cages, i'd have 2x 140mm front fans, 3x 140mm top fans and 1x 140mm rear fan as well to cool my entire PC. Or when going with AIO, i can mount 280mm or 360mm rad as top exhaust.
Besides 12x 3.5" bays which also support 2.5" drives, my case also has 4x dedicated bays for 2.5" drives and 3x 5.25" external bays as well. One 5.25" bay can be converted to hold 1x 3.5" or 2x 2.5" drives. So, if i were to convert all possible bays to hold 3.5" drives, i can put 15x 3.5" drives into my PC or when going with 2.5" drives, 22x 2.5" drives can fit into my PC.
Corsair 760T is one of the best (if not the best) full-tower ATX case ever made and i'm very pleased with mine.
760T video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOt8h8-kNY

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