Case Question

[trickster34]

Hi I was thinking about ordering The PCS Maelstrom T900 Case with a Titan Fenrir CPU cooler, but I read that due to the size I would loose the 220mm Fan and LED's can anyone confirm this?

And would the SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER have the same problem?

I wander because it's one of the main attractions of the case for me.

Thanks

 

[Tom DWC]

It's just the Titan Fenrir that's affected due to the size of the cooler unit.

 

[trickster34]

So the SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER is smaller then?

Thanks for the help

 

[Tom DWC]

Yeah much. It's hard to tell from the pictures but in comparison the Titan Fenrir is massive.

 

[trickster34]

Thanks for your help,

extremley appreciated.

 

[pengipete]

I have the Maelstrom T900 and the Titan Fenrir. It's a tight fit - in fact the tips of the heat-pipes were just catching on the fan's housing when the side panel was slid into place and I was worried that it would tilt the heatsink or maybe even twist the board. I filed a small notch into the fan housing and that sorted it.

 

[trickster34]

How small of a notch did you make?

 

[pengipete]

It was difficult to get the exact point where it contacted so I gradually filed down an area about the size of a fingernail in width and maybe a milimetre or so deep at the middle. It was just a matter of filing, checking the fit then filing again until it was clearing the pipes. The thing to watch is that the plastic is the hard, brittle sort - you have to use very fine files (and a fair bit of patience). I used a needle file to cut a groove and then filed outwards from there to give a V shape with the wider part towards the front of the case.

What I should say is that the ends of the pipes on the Fenrir are crimped so there's likely to be quite a variation from one cooler to the next. You may find that one fits with no problem and another doesn't. I did consider filing the end of the heatpipe but I decided that it was asking for trouble plus - worse case scenario - a new fan would only cost a tenner or so. I may even swap the original fan out - for a thinner one with a motherboard connector (for speed control) rather than the fixed speed MOLEX one.

 

[trickster34]

Alrighty cheers, plan on ordering over the weekend so will do a bit more research into parts and stuff.

Thanks again for your input