NZXT Phantom

[Terodius]

Hi everybody.

So I recently moved my system to a new case, the NZXT Phantom full tower. My rig specs are in my profile. I recently bought 2 BenQ XL2420T monitors so that I could have surround 3D, but the AMD solutions suck and I realized I don't have enough GPU power or RAM so I'll be moving to 3 GTX 680 4GB. In my previous system I had air cooled cards and the 2600k with a corsair H100, but I want to go full watercooling now. I would really like to get a 400mm rad on top and a couple 200mm fans, and might get a 2x120mm in the front or on the side if I remove the hdd bays. However it seems the second fan socket in the top of the case doesn't have the proper holes and the fan controller gets a little in the way, so I'll have to do some drilling and cutting. Now my doubts are:

1. Will a 2x200mm and 2x120mm be enough to cool 3 680s and a 2600k?

2. What are the best 200mm fans out there?

3. Will my corsair AX1200 be enough to power the system?

4. (the most random one) should I wait out the GK110? the waterblocks alone will cost around half of the price of one card, so I was wondering if it might be better to wait for the top end nvidia GPUs before I watercool the system

Thanks and have a nice day!

 

[Ibanez81]

The 120mm rad's wont do you any favours with 3 GPU's . I had a phantom myself, its a big case but not watercooling friendly really, i had to bodge a 60mm thick 360mm rad in the roof which i ran a cpu and gpu off. Temps were reasonable (gpu would be about 55ish after some games) but it was super quiet, i dont know what kind of rads your gonna need for 3 GPU's and a cpu, 60mm thick at least id have thought.