itx cooling question

[imported_poobie]

I am building a gaming maching in the sugo sg08 chassis. What would be the best air cooler and watercooling/AIO solutions don't seem to have a place there. Will need to fit a graphics card. Thanks!

 

[dma0991]

Not much except for very low profile heatsinks as there's a maximum of 117mm height clearance. Since they will perform somewhat similar to stock heatsinks with probably lower noise, I wouldn't bother getting a third party heatsink.

 

[aigomorla]

EDIT..

Cant you mount an AIO on the top?

Since it uses a front PSU, all that room in the CPU area should be available, which means u could roof mount the radiator for an AIO.

 

[Skott]

You can put a H60 in and I have seen H80 in a SG08 case as well. Antec's 620 will work too. Those would be the three hydro coolers (AIO) I would consider for it just off the top of my head. Are you wanting the optical drive installed? If not, taking that out opens up possibilities.

 

[_Rick_]

Almost all 92mm-fan based tower coolers are 125 mm high, exceeding the permissible hight somewhat.
The Inter-tech K-17 (potentially also called Dynatron K17) is the only tower-shaped HSF with 92mm fan that would fit.

Top-down blowers that are below 110 mm are aplenty - but they're often not ideal for case airflow. On the other hand, the 180mm fan is already blowing top-to-bottom onto the mainboard. If you remove that, you could install a more standard 92mm HSF probably, as the fan appears to be the vertically limiting structure.

Sadly, there are no 180mm radiators with all-in-one system, and I don't see any 180 to 140 adapters either, so your call that an AIO won't fit looks like it is accurate.

In the end I would probably go with the biggest top-down cooler that will allow you to still install the GPU -- but that depends more on the mainboard and socket placement, than the case.

 

[imported_poobie]

I guess I will go with the stock cooler for now on the i7 Haswell. I'll see how well it does. I don't prefer to downsize the only fan. Thanks all.