Chimera Industries Cerberus: The 18L, mATX, USA-made enclosure
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Good stuff - for the bottom filter, did you use the V2 with cutouts for the feet, or did you use the normal rectangle version?
Hello everyone! I'm new here.
I'd like to purchase a Cerberus mATX case. I live in Poland and I suppose I can stomach the overall cost. Problem is, I wrote to Sliger with a few questions, but they have not answered me. Makes it kind of suspicious. I'd be grateful if someone could answer these questions for me:
1. Are there any plans on releasing the KI Cerberus to retailers in Europe? I guess many more people would buy the case if the delivery cost wasn't half the case's price.
2. Does the case come with any SSD brackets, or do I have to add them for 10$? I am going to mount 2 SSD drives.
3. What's the biggest fan diameter I can mount on the rear exhaust vent?
4. Could you recommend an air cooler for CPU that would fit in Cerberus? I intend to air cool for maximum silence. 2x 140mm bottom intakes for GPU + 1x 140mm side intake for CPU with a passive exhaust on top and active exhaust at the rear. But any tips are welcome.
5. The most important: How long will it take from placing an order for me to receive the case? Say, I order it this week - When can I expect it to arrive at my doorstep?
Greetings, SFF community!
I'd like to purchase a Cerberus mATX case. I live in Poland and I suppose I can stomach the overall cost. Problem is, I wrote to Sliger with a few questions, but they have not answered me. Makes it kind of suspicious. I'd be grateful if someone could answer these questions for me:
1. Are there any plans on releasing the KI Cerberus to retailers in Europe? I guess many more people would buy the case if the delivery cost wasn't half the case's price.
2. Does the case come with any SSD brackets, or do I have to add them for 10$? I am going to mount 2 SSD drives.
3. What's the biggest fan diameter I can mount on the rear exhaust vent?
4. Could you recommend an air cooler for CPU that would fit in Cerberus? I intend to air cool for maximum silence. 2x 140mm bottom intakes for GPU + 1x 140mm side intake for CPU with a passive exhaust on top and active exhaust at the rear. But any tips are welcome.
5. The most important: How long will it take from placing an order for me to receive the case? Say, I order it this week - When can I expect it to arrive at my doorstep?
Greetings, SFF community!
Welcome
They're occasionally slow on responses, but don't be concerned, they are a trustworthy company. Lots of people have received their case and Sliger seem to be good about resolving any issues people have.
I seem to recall talk of plans to have the case stocked in Europe somewhere in the thread. Also talk of improving the shipping options. Can't say anything about when those things might happen though.
It does not come with SSD brackets because they aren't strictly needed. Two 2.5" drives can be mounted directly to the chassis. I'm not sure where those mounting locations are so you should check they don't conflict with something else you're installing.
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Noctua C14S is a pretty good option. With two 140 fans in push/pull drawing air in through the side vent you'll also have plenty of downdraft moving air around the VRMs and RAM. Check Marc Paris' build (in a Cerb-X but still relevant) for some variations he tried and the results.
Mine took 2 weeks but that was in the last half of December so surely worse than normal.
If you want to use the side fan brackets, the C14s is the best cooler for the job. If you're want to make some sort of side panel window or do something that would remove the side fan bracket, you can fit up to 149mm tall cpu coolers. The Cryorig H7 or the H7 Quad Lumi would work well, but if you want the absolute best, the Scythe FUMA is perfect as it's a dual tower cooler that is 149mm tall exactly. I have a FUMA inside the Cerberus X and it fits, if just barely. You'll want good fans for bottom intake if you choose to drop the side fan bracket as your main intake fans are the bottom mounted fans. Do make sure you have good vrm heatsinks on your motherboard as tower coolers tend to not do a good job with vrm cooling as they mostly pass air above them, not at them.
Will definitely check it out, thanks!
Also, where are you from?
Actually, I was looking at Shadow Rock TF2, as my CPU is i7-8700 which obviously I will not overclock. I like the look of it - copper pipes + when the fan spins it looks like a phonograph record. I will not have a window, because I absolutely hate windowed cases with a passion, but I still like to have a bad-ass PC "under the hood".
Another question - does Cerberus come with a top fan bracket?
Also, the case in my config is 235$ plus shipping 130$ (ugh). Will there be more payments? Like do I need to also pay tax or some custom duty, or is it all included in the shipping cost?
Also, the case in my config is 235$ plus shipping 130$ (ugh). Will there be more payments? Like do I need to also pay tax or some custom duty, or is it all included in the shipping cost?
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Email or PM me and I will see what we can do to get the fan bracket added without handle.
Customs varies by country, would check with customs for your country under "8473.30.90.00 - Other"
Also window pre-orders are shipping out starting on Monday! Wood panels unfortunately will be postponed a few weeks - will update when I know more. We will message the people that ordered wood panels individually to work out a plan.
I just got the green case with the black top. I'm loving it but I experienced the "missing screws" issue like some others in this post. I'm looking to get an X model as well for my threadripper build. I was tempted to grab that new ASRock MATX x399 board for my regular Cerberus case but I decided I *MAY* need the extra PCIE and ram slots in the future.
I was a bit surprised to see the handle bracket is symmetrical. Surely the fan mounting should be offset as far toward the open side of the case as possible to increase chances of clearing stuff on the motherboard?
Unfortunately no, is it related an issue with radiator mounting you're having?
Would make sense, I had this same issue on my build - slim 120mm worked for me. In far future we might change the top fan bracket layout but no plans as of now.
Screws are the 440 flat head, apologies you did not get them - but you do have the only Army Green case!
Please resend, I thought tariffs would slow things down but instead every one of our customers panic bought stuff and is building inventory - been bombarded over last few weeks.
Yeah, it was my mistake in buying the h115i Pro which interferes with my motherboard if I mount the fans inside the case. I currently have it resting on top of the rubber feet on the fan corners. Do you have the diameter and thread pitch of the rod so I can try and fabricate a solution?
They protrude about 6mm and have an OD of 5mm but I didn't check the thread type.
They can't be easily substituted as they are a pressed in fitting but I suppose you could work out some kind of adapter / spacer that screws on over them.
Yeah the idea I had was to make something to join a new segment of threaded rod to it to get the extra length. Thank you for the info.
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