If you are looking at purchasing this case and considering top mounting an AIO radiator I would strongly advise looking at some low-profile RAM sticks, such as Corsair Vengeance LPX or HyperX Fury.įurthermore, there is not enough room for front mounting a liquid cooler radiator if you have a 2-fan graphics card (using my MSI Gaming Pro X GTX 1060 for reference), and the case definitely would not fit a 3-fan card, but if you have a smaller 1-fan card you should be able to mount a radiator in the front without any issues. I have top mounted an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240mm radiator and it is sitting right up against my Corsair Vengeance RGB RAM - there is no space between the fan and the ram, and I wasn't even able to fully screw in the right fan on the radiator because of this (see second image). I've just refitted all my components into this case today and it's absolutely fantastic the only thing I would advise you to be wary of is the amount of room for an AIO liquid cooler radiator. Loads of spaces to run your wires so for my first build this was the best experience ever. The glass panel is fantastic, the back panel is also amazingly easy to remove. Overall fantastic case just please note this is possible with 3 fans and a 3070ti there are just some complications. You wont fit 3 fans on top for outake, only 2, and 1 on the back. That is the only bad design I can give with this. Please note you are able to remove the cage it is screwed in with 2 tiny screws, however 1 of the screws you cannot fit a driver in as the front casing of the case is in the way, so i used a very thin and long screwdriver and managed to unscrew it. This is all to be expected as this isnt a super huge case its meant to be mid tower. 1 went in fine right infront of the card, the other, again please be aware when buying this case and you want 3 intake fans, the hardrive cage is in the way of the third fan. However, in order to get 2 more fans for intake, I had to buy 15mm fans. I had to move the already installed fan all the way to the top, and was able to install the card no bigge. Please note, it does, however you will not be able to fit 2 fans on the front for intake. I got this case for my first build and made sure it would fit a 3070ti. Overall, I love this case, I can't stop admiring it, it was well worth re-building my PC. It has little rubber pads on the tray which the drive sits on and they work great. But in this case I can only hear my drives when I'm holding my ears up to the case which is a crazy difference to the tooth-grating sound I had to deal with before. One of the things I love about it the most are the hard drive trays - my last case had my 7200 drives rumbling like crazy, I even replaced one because I thought it was faulty. I also had to arrange my power supply cables carefully because the cables are round and very thick, but overall I found managing cables to be quite easy. The reduced space does make certain things more difficult, for example fitting the SATA cables into my ATX motherboard was difficult because there wasn't much room at the side for me to access the slots. One of the reasons I swapped is because I wanted a smaller, lighter case, and this one is a nice size and weight without being cramped or flimsy. Visually I think it's gorgeous, I have the white version and it looks very sleek and elegant with the mesh front panel. Highly recommend it for newbie builders as it comes with a manual and all screws are labelled inside which you may not find in cheap cases. I did a case swap into this case (previous case was a GameMax Vanguard VR2 and my first PC build), and this case was such a pleasure to build in in comparison. Main advice chhose parts to go in this wisely. I should have got the Meshify 2 but everything is in place now and cooling is excellent aith all temps on cpu and gpu staying low. The case specs say it will take a long GPU but not if you are front mounting a AIO. A smaller GPU would eliminate this issue. This was mainly because my GPU is three fanhned at quite long. The the fands had to be put in a push through configuration and even then because of space they pushed the front silter out so it only clips in a top and bottom. a great AIO but woulds not fit in top mount position so have to put it in front. The AIO is question is the Arctic Freezer II. The problem came though when trying to top mount the AIO. I put a Asus Tuf Gaming B550 Plus in it which fitted perfectly. It does take an ATX card but to be honest think mATX would be better. However the C stands for Compact so bare this in mind when using for ATX build. This is a great case and bought off back of reviews. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2021
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