I bought a new rig last September along with all the watercooling goodies to go with it and went with the antec 900 case. However, much to my demise, the case fell far short of having enough room for my water cooling, the 8800 GTX Ultra barely left me with enough room to run my power cables let alone any water cooling setup.
I was thinking when I got it that I'd be able to fit it all, but where I'm standing at now I had to move the hard drive bays out about a 1/4 of an inch out further from the furthest you should have to set them just in order to get my SATA hard drive cables to plug into my mobo (nforce 680i SLI), let alone trying to squeeze the water tubing or radiators in there.
So now I am here again and ready to buy a new case.
I was looking over at mountain mods at their custom cases, was suggested when I first got the case and was looking for solutions to my problem but was short on cash at the time, and was going to through articmod.com and get their one of their prebuilt mountain mod cases, mainly so I don't have to worry about putting the case together as sturdy as it should.
Questions are: Should I go for the duality or the horizon, as they are the only 2 that articmod has prebuilt, and is there anything else I need to add to the case? Was leaning towards the duality.
Looking at the mountain mod website the setup seems VERY bare boned, but not sure from the prebuilt website, damn the flashy pictures.
It seems like I won't have any easy access front panel usbs or any of the digital fan controllers or anything of that sort. Any recommendations on what I should toss in to cover the basics?
Also, I'm assuming it doesn't come with the fans either and would any 120x120x25 case fan with grill work?
I just don't want to order everything to find out I missed out one item and have to not only wait to get it in but pay the extra S&H.
Oh, and if any of you have experience with mtn mods and would suggest I go with a different case and wouldn't have any problems with assembly then I'm open for suggestions there.
System specs that might affect room:
Evga GeForce 8800GTX Ultra
Evga Nforce 680i SLI mobo
1 Dvd Burner and HD atm
Silence 750w PSU
Watercooling setup:
Standard Resevoir
2 x Thermochill 1203 Radiators (might just use 1 atm instead of doubling up on them)
Nice pump
Blocks for CPU and GPU
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