I just recently purchased a Swiftech H220 APEX ULTRA PLUS CPU water cooling kit; it's the one with 2x 120 fans, a 240 mm rad and CPU, GPU and chipset water blocks. Even though it comes with a radbox from the factory, I am looking into finding a case that will mount it all internally.

If that's not feasible then I currently have an Antec Lanboy and an older SLK3700 case available. The Lanboy has the gear that I will water cooling already installed in it; the SLK is in use as a file server with a P4 2.6 inside it.

Any suggestions, advice or horror stories?

"First they took my money, installation sucked, it ate my 7800 and now no refund. BASTARDS!!! I hope they get a seat in Hell next to that *sshole that invented speed bumps!!!!!!"

Hopefully, with your kind intervention, that will not be me ranting away as illustrated above.

The Gigabyte Aurora cases are designed for watercooling.

If your going to watercool, and your going to do it right i.e at least 3 blocks, dont mess around with small. Get a beast of burden thatll get all your gear inside. I myself use the PC-767 by Lian Li, this case may be a huge bitch, but its perfect imo for alot of gear. Ive mounted my rad on the outside due to my rad being to large to be inside any conventional case but i think you get the idea. You can grab it for 175 from the Pimps at moddersmart HERE



At one time i had a Black Ice Xtreme 2 mounted in the bottom of the case so that everything would be internal.

The case is all aluminum, but it will definately take up some real estate under your desk.....mines a good foot rest hahaha.

Other cases to consider is pretty much anything made by Lian Li, the Thermaltake Armor, and pretty much anything that has some room to improve on as long as your open to makein some cuts.

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Check out MountainMods.com - Home of the U2-UFO & Twice7 aluminum cube computer case for the best cases IMO. Also the original Coolermaster stacker is great. You can mount a black ice II in the bottom with ease.