Silverstone FT02 + XSPC Rasa 750 water cooling

[Dovin]

Does anyone know if you can fit the XSPC RS360 rad at the bottom of the FT02 case WITHOUT removing the hdd bay (i use quite a lot of hdds). I have the case but i don't have anything to measure with so i don't really know if i could fit it. Logically it would since 2x180mm = 360mm which the amount of fans you can put on it (120mm x3), but the rad itself is 397mm long, the plan would be to put the rad on top of the two 180mm fans (and over the end of the last 180mm fan) and put two 120mm fans over for push/pull on 2/3 of the rad. The reason i'm only planing to put 2 fans on the top is so that i can fit larger graphics cards in it.

Not sure if i'm going to do it anyway, it would just be nice if anyone actually knew how big of a rad you could fit.

Thanks, and sorry if my English is a little bad ^^

Edit: The reason i want water cooling is not because i need it, it's because i generally like building things and finding out how things work and i would honestly think it would be a lot of fun to make a water cooled rig. I want the XSPC Rasa 750 kit, because i think it's cheap and it is exactly what i need and since i'm not going to do the most insane overclocking on my rig i don't need every last °C, it would be nice to have water cooling for the fun of it and the esthetic aspect of it. (Not sure about the grammar in that last sentence, sorry it's the bad English again^^). So basically i don't want the best cooling i just want better cooling then i would with an air cooled rig, (if i'm not going for water cooling i'm going for the NH-D14 since it seems to be the best of the air coolers)

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

Two things you need to bare in mind here are 1, will you have enough room for your graphics cards with the rad fitted and 2, a 360 rad is actually bigger than 360mm.

There's two things I recommend doing if your seriously considering this and that's to firstly to google "FT02 watercooled" and see what others have done to get some ideas and then secondly, go buy a tape measure and/or ruler because you really cannot plan out sticking water cooling into a case designed for air cooling without one mate

P.S. You English is spot on so don't worry about it

EDIT: RS360 Dimensions = 397 x 121 x 35mm

 

[Dovin]

Success i went and bought myself a ruler, measured from end to end, you can if you really cram it in there get a 410mm long rad without removing the HDD bay. When it comes to graphics card i had about 41mm clearance between the graphics card and the fan (i got a 275 GTX in there, which should be just as big as a 580 GTX). So if i buy a 580 and mount the rad on the mounting brackets that came with the case (10mm high) i would not be able to fit the rad, so i'll just fit the rad directly to the fans and i should have 6mm of clearance. Cheers.

Another thing, would you be able to fit a 580 GTX cooling block on a MSI 580 GTX Lightning, due to the non reference PCB (it's a little taller)?

Thanks.

 

[ShortAlieN]

post some pictures of your rig if you can. I'm working on a similar project and am looking for as much info as I can get. I dont think that a water block will work with the lightning pcb, most likely the larger PCB will block the fittings. If you found a company that made one specific for it, that's probably the only way.