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OK, I've got a Silverstone TJ-07 set up with watercooling via dual DDC2 pumps, a Thermochill 120.3 and Feser 240 radiators in series, and an HK 3.0 cpu block.
Hardware consists of an Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z motherboard with a 2600K cpu, 16GB Corsair Venegence RAM (the low volt 1.35V white sticks), an MSI 6970 Lightning with the Twin Frozer III cooler, an Intel 510 250GB SSD, a WD Black 1TB and a WD Green 1TB hard drives, Corsair HX850 ps.
Here's a pic of the interior when I had it set up with an i7 920 cpu, looks a lot like it does today---same size motherboard, different memory and video card, etc.:
Not running:
Running:
Front of case:
I'm just bored with the case....damned hard to clean the radiators (both are mounted in the bottom section where the ps resides) and it really isn't as large as it appears once it was assembled, interior space-wise anyway.
So, toying with going back to air cooling.....just lost interest in trying to keep up with the watercooling. Not that it needs a lot of maintenance, it doesn't, but it is a lot more work when draining/refilling/purging vs. just blasting off the dust from an air cooler heat sink.
Then again, hate to waste the watercool setup. Did spend a few dollars to assemble it.
So, alternatives to the TJ-07 that'd be "better"? Don't have a problem with very large cases as I have the space, but I am NOT a fan of Lian-Li at all, after suffering through two towers from them with their peculiarities. Prefer Silverstone and have been looking at Corsair, esp. the white Corsair cases, but have heard some of the Corsair cases are terrible for air cooling and limited with watercooling.
Other suggestions?
Hardware consists of an Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z motherboard with a 2600K cpu, 16GB Corsair Venegence RAM (the low volt 1.35V white sticks), an MSI 6970 Lightning with the Twin Frozer III cooler, an Intel 510 250GB SSD, a WD Black 1TB and a WD Green 1TB hard drives, Corsair HX850 ps.
Here's a pic of the interior when I had it set up with an i7 920 cpu, looks a lot like it does today---same size motherboard, different memory and video card, etc.:
Not running:
Running:
Front of case:
I'm just bored with the case....damned hard to clean the radiators (both are mounted in the bottom section where the ps resides) and it really isn't as large as it appears once it was assembled, interior space-wise anyway.
So, toying with going back to air cooling.....just lost interest in trying to keep up with the watercooling. Not that it needs a lot of maintenance, it doesn't, but it is a lot more work when draining/refilling/purging vs. just blasting off the dust from an air cooler heat sink.
Then again, hate to waste the watercool setup. Did spend a few dollars to assemble it.
So, alternatives to the TJ-07 that'd be "better"? Don't have a problem with very large cases as I have the space, but I am NOT a fan of Lian-Li at all, after suffering through two towers from them with their peculiarities. Prefer Silverstone and have been looking at Corsair, esp. the white Corsair cases, but have heard some of the Corsair cases are terrible for air cooling and limited with watercooling.
Other suggestions?
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