To answer the first question, yes you can put a 280 in the front and still have a tray. There's even a space to mount it in the very bottom of the case. As for the 5.25" bay pump...I can't really answer that for you just letting it sit loose down there.
NZXT H440 Case Review
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To answer the first question, yes you can put a 280 in the front and still have a tray. There's even a space to mount it in the very bottom of the case. As for the 5.25" bay pump...I can't really answer that for you just letting it sit loose down there.
Dunno if anybody else pointed it out, but the front intake looks kinda restricted. Actually you have intake vents only from one side of the case, while from the other you have curved angle and no intake at all. Well, I guess this is probably nit picking as you wont have any meaningful performance drop anyway with so much rad space. Otherwise, I think the design is godly and the case deserves yellow platinum award at least.
The thing I really like about this case is NZXT's decision to leave out the optical bays.
I've personally not had an optical drive in my computer for a number of years now and I download all the games I play and my other media.
I know that some watercoolers really like the bay reservoirs but I always find those are difficult to match to the front bezel of the case due to the differences in materials used so I tend to go with internal reservoirs instead.
I hope to see more cases like this. Also it looks pretty.
I've personally not had an optical drive in my computer for a number of years now and I download all the games I play and my other media.
I know that some watercoolers really like the bay reservoirs but I always find those are difficult to match to the front bezel of the case due to the differences in materials used so I tend to go with internal reservoirs instead.
I hope to see more cases like this. Also it looks pretty.
frozenwings
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For anyone concerned, the H105 does fit. If you're using a 120mm rad, the offset is 30-31mm between the motherboard standoffs and hitting the side of a thicker rad. So you could use even a 45mm thick rad assuming your motherboard has nothing protruding 30mm above the board itself. The H105 doesn't come down enough, but it looks like the offset would have no trouble clearing the RAM clips.
If you're using a 140mm rad, you're boned if you want a rad thicker than 30mm.
Here's a pic I took really quick with my phone while putting it together. As you can see, my heatsink is pretty tight. I had to shine a light through the bottom of the rad to see the space between.
If you're using a 140mm rad, you're boned if you want a rad thicker than 30mm.
Here's a pic I took really quick with my phone while putting it together. As you can see, my heatsink is pretty tight. I had to shine a light through the bottom of the rad to see the space between.
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NeverBackDown
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Should add more pictures to get different angles if possible. May help someone else in the future?
paulstung
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Indeed mate, I sat and watched a Bill Owen vid earlier, and I was quite interested in buying one, but have been put of a little now. It seems to be almost there, but not quite.
Hats of to NZXT for removing the drive bays, but a single/double removable option I think would have been more suitable, considering there isn't many ways of mounting a tube res, it will either have to be mounted on the front rad, or horizontally on the psu shroud, but then you loose the 2.5" drive mounts.
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Agost
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I'll be mounting mine vertically between the PCIE cards and side window, there's 74mm of room and I'll be removing the rear exhaust fan to fit a tall EK reservoir.
If there was just one or two more mm of room, I'd have gone with the XSPC Photon 270 / D5 combo
What about a Photon 170?
BIGGRIMTIM
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Got my case yesterday. It is very pretty, but it is much smaller than I realized. Also there is not enough room on the backside of the motherboard tray for cables. I had a hard time getting the panel on. Also I could not put my 2.5" mechanical drive on the bottom because it hit my second GPU. I had to put it in one of the trays, not a big deal i guess. I do not think I am going to keep the case. The build quality seems to be pretty good, not perfect. I was expecting a little too much from this case i think. It is a good case just not for my setup.
RickPlaysWarr
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Hi
Its constantly out of stock everywhere here in the states. I just got mine in red/black and will be building in it once I have the funds for the rest of the parts. It really is an awesome case. Just need more money to get going with it.
--Rick--
Agost
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Are you going to post the build in project logs section?
However NZXT is going to release other color schemes for this case ( they answered my question on a youtube comment ) but i don't know when and which combinations... i bet there will be a gunmetal edition, like other nzxt cases
RickPlaysWarr
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I will, once I have money for some new parts. Transfer of parts from my Corsair 250D mITX setup would leave the case empty. Hopefully within a month or so I will have enough parts to start.
Agost
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Great, have fun with that build
Davva2004
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Photon 170 and 270 are the same thickness, so still wouldn't fit. My plans have changed though to a Carbide Air 540 and a double bay reservoir.
Cru
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why exactly? i'm loving mine
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