Thanks!Beautifully planned. Just mind the power cord. It's centered to the Slot #2 tab at the bottom of the GPU.
As for the power cord, could you give us the dimension referenced in the image below?
Thanks!Beautifully planned. Just mind the power cord. It's centered to the Slot #2 tab at the bottom of the GPU.
Full scale production very soon.Damn I am so looking forward to this, it is mine and I guess a lot of peoples first foray into the ITX watercooling space, and I am excited to see what we can all come up with. Got a lot of things on the shopping list but have yet to pull the trigger until my case is shipped.
While moving the PSU lower isn't an option in the case, there is about 2 cm of room above the PSU before you hit a fan / radiator. You should be able to cheekily route some G1/4 tubing through there
Oh.What would stop one from flipping the bracket on the front cover?
That's exactly what I did. I bought 10 of those fittings, plus a pack of g/14 O-rings from basically every manufacturer on PPCS. It was good enough at several points in my loop.A little warning regarding those Koolance fittings: the paint comes off black ones very easily, they stained my GPU block...
I'd buy a bunch of Barrow/Bykski non-rotary elbow fittings instead and find one which would face the right direction when screwed in. On AliExpress they cost like 1/8 of Koolance elbow fittings.
You were supposed to pretend as though that was an intentional design feature.Oh.
I didn't even think about that.
Absolutely nothing.
You were supposed to pretend as though that was an intentional design feature.
Thanks!
As for the power cord, could you give us the dimension referenced in the image below?
Yes, you can have a look here.I dont think this occurred to me until now but the feet attach through the vent holes. Does that mean you can mount on the vented side panels for a horizontal orientation?
I guess Batch 2 will come in early march ?Full scale production very soon.
Could you give some background as to why the power entry is here, rather than central (so missing the tubing?).
A 90 degree angled power cable (as used in the T1) might have avoided this inconvenience?
Could you give some background as to why the power entry is here, rather than central (so missing the tubing?).
A 90 degree angled power cable (as used in the T1) might have avoided this inconvenience?
Thanks!
As for the power cord, could you give us the dimension referenced in the image below?
90º PSU cable wouldn't have solved this problem. It would still block the tubing, and would block even more tubing area against one side. With a straight cable, you have the option of routing around it on either side. With an L-connector, you would block one of those sides, too.
Because of the density of this case when it's fully packed, It's tough to move it elsewhere. Putting it to the side of Motherboard I/O was considered, but I worried it would interfere with various CPU heat sinks, and/or mess with routing tubing around the large motherboard I/O blocks and VRM heatsinks that are commonplace now.
Ultimately, above or below the GPU seemed like the best choice. Above the GPU has the same problem as below the GPU, but also blocks off GPU removal, unless you unscrew the power cable... so below the GPU was chosen.
So, that looks good in theory, but isn't practical when you consider the tradeoff.Sorry I was unclear, I was asking if moving the power entry port to either location in red (awesome model @nikfloyd)
And using a 90 degree (something like this) to allow routing of the power cable to the PSU.
Makes complete sense, it came to mind (theory) so I asked.So, that looks good in theory, but isn't practical when you consider the tradeoff.
The T1 is able to do this by working with 240mm radiators, and making the case 8mm longer than the Winter One. If you used a 280mm radiator, and 2 x 140mm fans, it would have barely enough room on the ported side, and the L connector would still need to contend with having to route around against or over the fans, and potentially interfere with tubing on one side. So, not ideal.
Then, come the other issues: doing this introduces a flexibility problem as well -- It would completely discount rotating either the bottom or top 280mm radiator to have an outlet port at the front, because then there is not enough space between where a 140mm fan mounts, and the (non-ported) end of the radiator touches the wall, for that L-shaped power connector. It would also completely discount any setup where the fans and radiators are flipped for bottom >> top airflow, or side panel intake + pull configuration.
That's a lot of important choices and layout flexibility removed if you place the cable in such a way that there is only one "correct" configuration for the bottom (or top) radiator. I think the addition of "you may need 1 or 2 90º fittings" was worth it, because it opens up much more radiator configuration flexibility.
In its current form, the power connector can be unscrewed from the rear panel, and moved out of the way of straight line tubing by using the rectangle cutout to run it at a very sharp angle, if you're okay with it dangling out the back a bit. There is enough slack in the cable to allow for this (as a planned configuration option). I could create a 3D printable bracket to make this an officially supported configuration, if that puts people's minds at ease in making an "officially supported" configuration. That's probably the best solution, until we get to the point where custom wiring can be created.
Do you plan to put them on Amazon for selling in US?Full scale production very soon.
I think this is just letting us know that batch #1 is entering full production (after a brief pre-production period that had to get validated). Batch #2 will come later, then sales for future batches.Do you plan to put them on Amazon for selling in US?