Awesome. thanks! Looking forward to the case. I'm in Australia as well, but I can appreciate it's not cheap slinging a 5kg+ case halfway round the world...
Chimera Industries Cerberus: The 18L, mATX, USA-made enclosure
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I'm sure this has already been asked in this thread (but I'm having a hard time finding it), but does anyone know if the Cerberus is wide enough to support EKWB reference 1080ti waterblocks? I have the acetal+nickle waterblock and am interested in doing a full custom loop in the cerberus. Thanks!
For ssd, 2.5’’ drives, best location is between front sfx-l and back of the case. There are 2 slots overthere..Thanks @MarcParis, I definitely will! Trigger.... pulled.
Do you have any advice for the best place to mount a 2.5" SSD? I'm using an M.2 SSD for boot but want a wee bit of mass storage.
I can't see why it wouldn't .if you're worried about the extra aesthetic piece that ek added to the blocks that's removeable if it doesn't fit you can just take it off.
the FC terminals add 25mm to the width of the card. you'll be fine with reference (founders edition) cards (111mm height stock). some of the bigger aftermarket cards won't work.
Came here to say i love the modular Rail system, We can essentially configure and mount the Hard drive cage, fans Radiators as we like.
But please make it even smaller. A vast majority of the world is not interested in SLI. So we dont need 5 Slots, 3 Slots Max is all we need!
But please make it even smaller. A vast majority of the world is not interested in SLI. So we dont need 5 Slots, 3 Slots Max is all we need!
Excellent!I suggest Chibi Keroberosu ...
Reminds me Chibi Moon in Sailor Moon..lol
Just one other question, if I have a 140mm fan as exhaust on the side bracket, 240mm AIO on bottom and front mount PSU, is a 120mm fan as intake on the rear infinity vent reasonable for VRM cooling, or would it be better at the front?
[EDIT] Should I just try and see?
[EDIT] Should I just try and see?
The rear plate accommodates a 92mm fan max so a 120mm is a no go. However I have not seen any issues with VRM temps on the x370 Taichi and a slightly OCed 1700 sitting at 3.8 1.275v 24-7. Highest VRM temps I’ve seen is 65c under stress tests.
Setup:
92mm rear intake
120mm side bracket exhaust
240mm Corsair h100i rad on bottom with 2x120 mm noctua setup as pull so as intake.
Works great!
Setup:
92mm rear intake
120mm side bracket exhaust
240mm Corsair h100i rad on bottom with 2x120 mm noctua setup as pull so as intake.
Works great!
I don't have any exhausts in my system at all, I have a 120mm 1080TI SC2 hybrid AIO intake on the side bracket, and a 240mm AIO in the bottom. Z370-G motherboard, 5.2ghz 1.425V overclock on 8700K.
VRM temps were really high in synthetic testing(105C+, measured via temp gun on the back of the motherboard) but as soon as I added the 120mm side bracket intake, even though a radiator is in the way, it brought them down to 80-90C. A tiny bit of airflow goes a long way I guess.
I would say as long as you have any fan airflow of any kind vaguely near the VRM it would probably be fine.
VRM temps were really high in synthetic testing(105C+, measured via temp gun on the back of the motherboard) but as soon as I added the 120mm side bracket intake, even though a radiator is in the way, it brought them down to 80-90C. A tiny bit of airflow goes a long way I guess.
I would say as long as you have any fan airflow of any kind vaguely near the VRM it would probably be fine.
What i appreciate with side 120/140 exhaust side fan that it’s removing hot air from my gpu pretty quickly.
That’s not really useful for vrm, but for global system (psu, ram, mb) as my gpu is usually dissipates like 320w.
In my setup, top exhaust fan is not so useful as 80-90% of hot air is exhausted through side.
That’s not really useful for vrm, but for global system (psu, ram, mb) as my gpu is usually dissipates like 320w.
In my setup, top exhaust fan is not so useful as 80-90% of hot air is exhausted through side.
I was curious if you've tried that setup with the side gpu AIO as exhaust instead of intake with a rear fan intake? And if so what was the vrm temps like? A fully utilized hybrid gpu dumps a lot of heat out of the rad, I always prefer to exhaust a hybrid gpu rather than use it as intake.
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I might do it as an experiment some time but I care more about GPU temps than VRM temps. They are rated to 125C, so even 100C is honestly fine, and those are all synthetic testing(prime95 avx or aida64 stress test) numbers. In normal usage it doesn't even hit 80C anymore so it's very safe.
Pushing warm case air through the GPU radiator would most likely increase GPU temps and thus required fan speed, and my main objective is to keep fan speeds as low as possible for noise reasons.
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