Advice on dual rads in Phantom 530

[Highlander89]

Hello!

I'm soon getting a rig with my first ever wc loop using EK's H30 240HFX Kit with an additional EK Coolstream PE 360. This loop will cool i7-4770K @4,3-4,7 GHz and a single GTX770. Perhaps later also Corsair Dominators.

You can find my whole build here: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3Ent0

The radiators will both have push and pull, (if there's enough room in the Phantom 530) with the 360mm rad in the top, with the 2x200mm LED fans above (the steel case but under the plastic roof) and 3x120mm below. The 240mm rad in the bottom, next to the PSU with 2x120mm above and below. This makes a total of 5x120mm Arctic cooling fans, 2 x Coolermaster 200mm fans and 2x 120mm EK fans.

Have anyone done something like this in a Phantom 530?

There is place for a 240 rad in the front of the case, but if installing it there you are forced to remove all the HDD bays and also the air intake is partially obstructed.

How would you do it?
Thoughts on EK's kit and res?

Apreciate your thoughts and inputs

- Highlander

 

[paulstung]

If I were to do it, I'd loose the 200mm fans above the top 360 rad, and just buy 3 more of your chosen fan, or just use go push or pull, the 200mm fans will give a little extra cooling, but they will be loosing most of their performance, buy blowing most of the air down the rad sides.

For the 2nd rad, I'd move it to the front, and move the hard drive cage over to the next position next to the psu. or even better still put your drives in the un - used 5 1/4 bay.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Give this a look

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=44299

 

[Highlander89]

Wow that's an awesome build. Looks like a snug fit with the top rad above the mobo. Push&pull setup would be quite a challenge.

Putting the HDD at the backside of the 5,25" bays opens up alot more options as well.

Let's see what ideas pop up given some time. Back to the drawing board-->

Thanks for your help.

 

[paulstung]

You can get bay converters for the drive bays, for either 2 ssd's or 1 mech drive and 1 ssd.