Chimera Industries Cerberus: The 18L, mATX, USA-made enclosure
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Sure this setup should be compatible with Cerberus-x except front 240aio with 25mm noctua fans as radeon vii, at least is measuring 305mm in length..as far as I remembered you have 329mm depth inside cerberus case.
Front radiator setup is only viable while using standard 10.5" / 26.67cm graphic cards.
Alternatives are simple :
- Get a 120/140mm aio and keep same gpu
- Use standard GPU length and keep 240mm front radiator
The RTX card seems it would be too big for the dimensions you've posted https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=11G-P4-2382-KR
No RTX is good for cerberus-x and front radiator.
RTX evga 2080ti is 269.83mm length.
Radiator is 30mm thick
Fans are 25mm thick
Leading to a total of 324,83...let's say 325mm.
vs 329mm case lenght/depth it's a tight fit...but it fits.
After you can ease clearance by using noctua 120mm and 15mm thick. They have been used succesfully on several crammed setup like one from @fabio
Thank you for the great reply! For AIO I'll probably opt for NZXT Kraken X52, which seems compatible (height wise) with the PSU. I might even go for a SFX-L PSU with a single card to start with.
So...i "modded" my Cerberus build and it dropped 5C on the GPU LOL
If you go on sfx-l, i advice you to put it on front position.
Thus you can opt for apogee drive ii + your choice of tube and radiator..
full customed watercooling (powerful and quiet ddc pump, efficient and copper radiator.. in aio size..Check this option with my setup..
I guess you can use apogee drive ii with side sfx/sfx l psu but maybe without top radiator (easy to remove)
Correct on next week!
But USB C is delayed. Again. Thanks China.
I would like to mention several air cpu cooler from Thermalright that should be compatible with Cerberus family :
- Silver Arrow 130 : dual tower, 120mm fan, however difficult or not yet available on market
- Silver Arrow ITX-R : 147mm tall dual tower, black nickel (i must admit, it's beautiful..
Silver arrow ITX-R should be similar to Syche Fuma rev B : you could mount inside Cerberus, but without side bracket.
Best orientation should be towards top of the case to exhaust hot air from gpu and cpu.
i still wonder how such 120mm dual towers cpu cooler perform vs noctua c14s, either a cpu cooler or gpu hot air exhaust..
If we can gather up a good number of the compatible coolers I am happy to put them as recommended on the CPU cooler part of the Cerberus spec sheet. I will start adding up ones I find.
If you go on sfx-l, i advice you to put it on front position.
Thus you can opt for apogee drive ii + your choice of tube and radiator..
Check this option with my setup..
I guess you can use apogee drive ii with side sfx/sfx l psu but maybe without top radiator (easy to remove)
I'd prefer to use an AIO or air cooling system, custom watercooling solutions aren't for me.
Dislike most sff, there are a lot of compatible cpu cooler..
Maybe you should give some examples : c14s with front sfx, fuma scythe oriented to the top (intel) with front sfx psu, aio with side atx psu, etc...
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Will be using their shipping rates, so should be way better. Do not have any quotes or estimates right now, but shipping for an H200 should be around the same.
That looks like it may knock NZ$60 off the shipping, which is helpful
My "little X"
Ryzen 2700X + Corsair H100i Pro
Asus ROG Crosshair VII
2x8GB TrindentZ 3600 C16
EVGA RTX 2080 XC
Samsung 970 EVO + 850 EVO
Corsair SF600
Ryzen 2700X + Corsair H100i Pro
Asus ROG Crosshair VII
2x8GB TrindentZ 3600 C16
EVGA RTX 2080 XC
Samsung 970 EVO + 850 EVO
Corsair SF600
good news for me: Coolermaster is adapting their Masterliquid AIO for TR4!
http://www.coolermaster.com/cooling/cpu-liquid-cooler/masterliquid-ml240-rgb-tr4/
checking pumpblock dimensions now...
EDIT: Fiiiiiiiits! back to Plan A now!
http://www.coolermaster.com/cooling/cpu-liquid-cooler/masterliquid-ml240-rgb-tr4/
checking pumpblock dimensions now...
EDIT: Fiiiiiiiits! back to Plan A now!
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This is indeed exciting.
I was considering a Cerberus to upgrade from my ncase (so I can have a bit more air flow for my radiators really and because I love the look of both), but the shipping was making it not viable for me. I could buy 2 itx cases (albeit not nice ones) for the price of shipping to Australia haha.
So...i "modded" my Cerberus build and it dropped 5C on the GPU LOL
I had plans to 3D print a bunch of parts to route air inside the case, in particular shrouds for the GPU and C14S to exhaust hot air from the case rather than dumping it to mix inside. And maybe some ducting to get nice flow over secondary heat sources like VRMs, drives etc.
I also wanted to create a concertina air filter to get much more surface area = low restriction and long cleaning intervals.
Unfortunately I thought about it a bit too long and now the project has got waaay out of hand.
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