New case for Watercooling

[jrenzo]

Hey guys!

I'm currently in the process over the next few weeks, 6 weeks, of upgrading my current setup and I was wondering if I should pickup a new case to go along with this?

My current case is an antect 1200 that I got sometime in 2010ish and its a great case that has held up, plenty of room and whatnot. I was looking to install a new fx-8370 cpu and wanted to water cool it and I'm unsure if there is enough room in the case to support it. At some point as well I was thinking of maybe watercooling the GPU block and thus space would be greatly needed.

Does anyone have a suggestions for a great case that can handle the watercooling or do you guys think the antect 1200 would be ok? Thanks for your reply guys and as far as my budget if its worth it I always value quality, so the high end would be $350ish.

 

[guskline]

My Thermaltake Core X9 is huge with PLENTY of room for water cooling and is way below $350.

 

[Aristotelian]

And I bought my Thermaltake Core X9 based on other posts made by guskline in this sub-forum. It is very roomy, and a cube style case. It has plenty of room for watercooling options as well. And, perhaps most importantly, it was rather cheap (comparatively) to many other options I was looking at. Allowing me to allocate budgeted funds for a more extreme build in the performance gear.

 

[jrenzo]

Hey guys thanks for the replys those were great suggestions. This case just came out and it seems to fit my needs, do you guys think its a good case? It hasn't been out for a month yet and was curious to get it. Thermaltake Core X71 Black ATX Gaming Full Tower.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133299

 

[Socio]

I have the MountianMod Pinnacle 24 has a lot of room and expandability with a tower pedestal addon that can hold two 360 radiators and pumps on the bottom keeping their heat out of the main case.

Or supersize it with a pedestal on top and bottom and have room for four.

 

[bleucharm28]

Hey guys thanks for the replys those were great suggestions. This case just came out and it seems to fit my needs, do you guys think its a good case? It hasn't been out for a month yet and was curious to get it. Thermaltake Core X71 Black ATX Gaming Full Tower.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133299

I just got mine. Is going to be fun build.

 

[thilanliyan]

I have 1 CPU block, 2 GPU blocks, a 1x280 rad, a 1x240 thick rad, and a 1x120 rad, along with a bay-res and 1/2" ID tubing in my Fractal Design XL2. It's a bit cramped but if you're trying to keep things relatively compact that is an option as well.