fat tower

[AD]

given the current crop of 170mm+ coolers
I got to ask what are my choices for a mid to full tower
that can fit the new monsters (and close the lid on them)?

conservative (non gamer) design would be a plus

tnx

[Flasherly]

Have an aluminum Antec with a Coolermaster 212, a big cooler running
the idle CPU 88F-88F ambient, but it wouldn't fit any bigger, 170mm.
It's a game case (LanBoy) for conservative looking. Amazingly light,
just not as well designed for its age for airflow as newer cases,
horrible 3.5" drive cage pre-inserts, but, with some lite mods, it's
still best/classiest case I've ever owned.

[Bob H]

My tower case is 200mm wide , made by NZXT and it has a Zigmatek cooler
in now, but I used to have a Titan Fenrir which also fitted quite easily.

[Yousuf Khan]

My Coolermaster Haf X is 230mm wide.

Yousuf Khan

[peter]

have a look at this
http://www.corsair.com/en/pc-cases/carbide-series-pc-case/carbide-series-air-540-high-airflow-atx-cube-case.html

I have an older Lian-Li V1020 with a Thermalright HR02 cooler with fan and
there is lots of room for
a taller than 170mm Cooler.Most of the time it is the Air Moving thru the
case as well as the right Fan on
an excellent cooler that makes the difference in OCing. I have my I-7 2600k
overclocked to 4300 and even under
stress for 2 or 3 hrs it never gets above 75c..normal everyday temp is mid
30's

And of course it depends what chipset/CPU your thinking of and the end use
of the unit

pk

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[Flasherly]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:48:23 -0600, "peter" <pete...@nowhere.net>
wrote:

>I have an older Lian-Li V1020 with a Thermalright HR02 cooler with fan and
>there is lots of room for
>a taller than 170mm Cooler.Most of the time it is the Air Moving thru the
>case as well as the right Fan on
>an excellent cooler that makes the difference in OCing. I have my I-7 2600k
>overclocked to 4300 and even under
>stress for 2 or 3 hrs it never gets above 75c..normal everyday temp is mid
>30's
>
>And of course it depends what chipset/CPU your thinking of and the end use
>of the unit

My 170mm in an all aluminum case, both old, runs ambient room for the
summer temps, so far. Stress for a measly first generation Intel
dual-core, tops out what the HDs run - 109F.

There's also a new generation of 170mm coolers running sideways,
linearly over the MB - not upwards and across the width of the case -
with two assemblies, instead my one, core heatwick and supportive
fins, which also supposes, instead my two possible fin-mounted fans,
another one for a total of three CPU cooler fans. Looks, actually,
damn strange with a big-butted empty slot, with no 3rd fan in there,
or oddly off-balance, I suppose were either end-fan missing.

Just doesn't add up. That 170mm 2-stage fin-block, 3fan CPU cooler
costs $100US whereas my 1 (of two possible) fan 170mm Coolermaster, 1
fin-mass, I got for under $20 (rather I kept it on a returned/broken
CPU/MB deal and filed a credit card dispute on return shipping to keep
it that way, as I was in the right, and it's semi-standard practice to
absorb out-of-pocket expenses when the card-carrying customer can
prove dickery).

[ti...@thsu.org]

I went with a Fractal Design uATX Silent PC case. It only supports a 165mm fan though (I used a Noctua CPU cooler with a 140mm horizontal mounted fan to get around the height limit). But if you can live with that, it's a great case. Even with it's smallish size, there's enough room to work, plenty of drive space, good cable management, good heat flow, and with replacement Noctua fans, you can barely hear it, due to all the sound proofing.