After going through all the testing of hardware to see if a slim radiator would work (and it did), I decided that if I was going to do this mod, I’m going to go all the way with it. In this installment I will be working on getting my larger radiator fitting in to the case one way or another.
In this video I basically cut out the whole bottom panel of the case to make this thing fit.
I knew the slim GTS radiator would fit for sure, since I already used that one in the old not-really-modded setup. This is what that looked like.
When I switched to the Vega 56 nano’s instead of the GTX 760s, although my testing indicated it would be fine, it just didn’t feel right. I felt like if I just went with the slim radiator I was selling myself short, and we just can’t have that.
So as per the video above, I cut a giant hole in the bottom of the chassis so I could fit the GTR radiator. With the fans attached to the radiator through the original base, this made barely enough room for the radiator to fit. I might have to zip off the bottom half of the PCIe card retainer mechanism, as that may hit, but it does fit!
It may be a pretty tight fit, but it does fit! I don’t think I could make it work if it were any closer, so that’s good.
That concludes getting the radiator installed in here, next I’ll worry about getting the GPUs installed.
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