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So with a rather lousy photo, this is where I'm at. I might try to route the power cable for the Kraken X52 behind the PSU as it's going to be blocking airflow onto the NVME/PCH sink from the radiator. It's such a long cable with multiple fan ports to only be plugged in via SATA for power, it feels like a pretty clunky piece.

Even though the air will be warm from the radiator, at least it will be some airflow blowing unimpeded onto the CPU area. The stock heatsink on the Corsair M600 seemed a lot more capable, I'm guessing I'm going to get some overheating in the PCH cooling as experienced elsewhere, but time will tell.

I also tried the PSU rotated from this photo, pulling air from the side of the case, but the extension lead to the IEC outlet on the back of the case wouldn't fit into the port on the PSU in that orientation. I'm concerned about the PSU pulling air from inside the case, but I suppose at least the air current from the fan is filtered from the radiator side and the PSU then exhausting out the top of the case.

There is a substantial amount of flex on the card which is a bit of a worry. It actually doesn't look that bad when I'm looking at it with my eyes and not at this photo, but it's certainly there. It might be nice to find something to wedge under the video card to stop it sagging so much, but I can't seem to find anything ideal. A small piece of rubber comes to mind.

Question: Is it fine to power the GPU with a single PCI-E power line? It had two plugs on the one cable and seemed to fit just right, this feels a little dodgy to me but saved me a PCI-E power line.

With the stock fan assembly on the GPU, I had to remove all of the front IO ports for it to fit. I initially tried with just the two USB-A style ports, but there was no way to get the GPU lined up correctly with the ports in place. Without the GPU fan assembly, it looks like it could fit depending on case bottom mounted fan clearance. Anyway, should do the power on test after work to make sure it's all functioning as expected before closing it up. Wish me luck.

<blockquote data-quote="berglh" data-source="post: 182035" data-attributes="member: 16023"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CfsWpscfzAUlyIVkKosQG4wG0CUsDmlZI7zSNiRkAzMmvyVH5CekQqJy7QNw9nWaM165fC0pMwjQjOsEGSnHVaxw8wASKIfi1_NKEtpCT8SuFtxkbN3dcFGMKKi6AUi8uQQNKBfvcuH9yKF2DwtQ_EWzHMEb5YE4Zy1ocnozlMuodO96_e2UZyXjWqbtVwv8bUgqbxCC_BhJ8TSf_OTx6tcWgoWKn2DJ-WFBAu7vIxlAOYV2wl2725VxzgzXIzsG-Nw6frsN8VpRm8KxnIX840nR5EWUlJj6UheO62zgqWotEF_AZduOKTkBSTeRL0LCegU-mu1AfoIuxvUBmgxJRCpPwrmPStQnmB6tBLIUPWQA1QH_0mvF3oIPAJJy6psEixFooZFCpLQLuutWhIJig0CZtzajuG3uChfFzYGDnTlu9-HCO7BwnJMW4f0na9Kc9F2mZCumRvcTYHDO4Zcth51ceJHs3PobvfaOSIebAov6tNcQcIJWrCVByJW4JFTM3pM6M37-4ACRblU5Wf0rYQl_Fjqha7c5i9irl9_Ah7Jva2RGRO0BmsT8pqat5-DRx7qHc70vodjhT9qxEkwNuq9cbgzanp1TIL9JD2hfWg2JdBgIsDx0j6S4qdPhd_Pif4Xl0CgjypBQAkl-bsSC-raWVg9kEwFC1Qd8N-XYyEAqQdnGn9irUJeVC4U60Q=w2560-h1292-ft" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />So with a rather lousy photo, this is where I'm at. I might try to route the power cable for the Kraken X52 behind the PSU as it's going to be blocking airflow onto the NVME/PCH sink from the radiator. It's such a long cable with multiple fan ports to only be plugged in via SATA for power, it feels like a pretty clunky piece.Even though the air will be warm from the radiator, at least it will be some airflow blowing unimpeded onto the CPU area. The stock heatsink on the Corsair M600 seemed a lot more capable, I'm guessing I'm going to get some overheating in the PCH cooling as experienced elsewhere, but time will tell.I also tried the PSU rotated from this photo, pulling air from the side of the case, but the extension lead to the IEC outlet on the back of the case wouldn't fit into the port on the PSU in that orientation. I'm concerned about the PSU pulling air from inside the case, but I suppose at least the air current from the fan is filtered from the radiator side and the PSU then exhausting out the top of the case.There is a substantial amount of flex on the card which is a bit of a worry. It actually doesn't look that bad when I'm looking at it with my eyes and not at this photo, but it's certainly there. It might be nice to find something to wedge under the video card to stop it sagging so much, but I can't seem to find anything ideal. A small piece of rubber comes to mind.Question: Is it fine to power the GPU with a single PCI-E power line? It had two plugs on the one cable and seemed to fit just right, this feels a little dodgy to me but saved me a PCI-E power line.With the stock fan assembly on the GPU, I had to remove all of the front IO ports for it to fit. I initially tried with just the two USB-A style ports, but there was no way to get the GPU lined up correctly with the ports in place. Without the GPU fan assembly, it looks like it could fit depending on case bottom mounted fan clearance. Anyway, should do the power on test after work to make sure it's all functioning as expected before closing it up. Wish me luck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="berglh, post: 182035, member: 16023"] [IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CfsWpscfzAUlyIVkKosQG4wG0CUsDmlZI7zSNiRkAzMmvyVH5CekQqJy7QNw9nWaM165fC0pMwjQjOsEGSnHVaxw8wASKIfi1_NKEtpCT8SuFtxkbN3dcFGMKKi6AUi8uQQNKBfvcuH9yKF2DwtQ_EWzHMEb5YE4Zy1ocnozlMuodO96_e2UZyXjWqbtVwv8bUgqbxCC_BhJ8TSf_OTx6tcWgoWKn2DJ-WFBAu7vIxlAOYV2wl2725VxzgzXIzsG-Nw6frsN8VpRm8KxnIX840nR5EWUlJj6UheO62zgqWotEF_AZduOKTkBSTeRL0LCegU-mu1AfoIuxvUBmgxJRCpPwrmPStQnmB6tBLIUPWQA1QH_0mvF3oIPAJJy6psEixFooZFCpLQLuutWhIJig0CZtzajuG3uChfFzYGDnTlu9-HCO7BwnJMW4f0na9Kc9F2mZCumRvcTYHDO4Zcth51ceJHs3PobvfaOSIebAov6tNcQcIJWrCVByJW4JFTM3pM6M37-4ACRblU5Wf0rYQl_Fjqha7c5i9irl9_Ah7Jva2RGRO0BmsT8pqat5-DRx7qHc70vodjhT9qxEkwNuq9cbgzanp1TIL9JD2hfWg2JdBgIsDx0j6S4qdPhd_Pif4Xl0CgjypBQAkl-bsSC-raWVg9kEwFC1Qd8N-XYyEAqQdnGn9irUJeVC4U60Q=w2560-h1292-ft[/IMG] So with a rather lousy photo, this is where I'm at. I might try to route the power cable for the Kraken X52 behind the PSU as it's going to be blocking airflow onto the NVME/PCH sink from the radiator. It's such a long cable with multiple fan ports to only be plugged in via SATA for power, it feels like a pretty clunky piece. Even though the air will be warm from the radiator, at least it will be some airflow blowing unimpeded onto the CPU area. The stock heatsink on the Corsair M600 seemed a lot more capable, I'm guessing I'm going to get some overheating in the PCH cooling as experienced elsewhere, but time will tell. I also tried the PSU rotated from this photo, pulling air from the side of the case, but the extension lead to the IEC outlet on the back of the case wouldn't fit into the port on the PSU in that orientation. I'm concerned about the PSU pulling air from inside the case, but I suppose at least the air current from the fan is filtered from the radiator side and the PSU then exhausting out the top of the case. There is a substantial amount of flex on the card which is a bit of a worry. It actually doesn't look that bad when I'm looking at it with my eyes and not at this photo, but it's certainly there. It might be nice to find something to wedge under the video card to stop it sagging so much, but I can't seem to find anything ideal. A small piece of rubber comes to mind. [B]Question: [/B]Is it fine to power the GPU with a single PCI-E power line? It had two plugs on the one cable and seemed to fit just right, this feels a little dodgy to me but saved me a PCI-E power line. With the stock fan assembly on the GPU, [B]I had to remove all of the front IO ports for it to fit[/B]. I initially tried with just the two USB-A style ports, but there was no way to get the GPU lined up correctly with the ports in place. Without the GPU fan assembly, it looks like it could fit depending on case bottom mounted fan clearance. Anyway, should do the power on test after work to make sure it's all functioning as expected before closing it up. Wish me luck. [/QUOTE]

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