Boleyn1895

ArtahI will verify the top and front.

Looking forward to it.
 
Thanks Artah.

as ManBearPig said it's around 60mm on the top and 70mm on the front.  I have a sabertooth x99 motherboard on there and the top can probably be pushed to 65mm with some creative wire routing using that motherboard and the front you can probably push it to 90mm where it slams into the reservoir holder but you would be blocking some parts of the fan.  The top part looks like around 25mm fans only, maybe 30mm thick.  The top mount plate is actually around 2-3mm only with the way it is shaped not 4mm as I previously mentioned.

chiefo0306
So can you do a push pull on the top with say an h115?
 

easily.

HardwareCanuks DG-87- Jumbo Case of your Dream
 

 
From big, full tower cases no better option for similar price.
 

HardwareCanuk did a review on it, but I disagreed with a lot of his stupid remarks..
 
He claims the top should have had 4 fans, though apparently he doesn't seem to realize that last fan would be going through the back panel into the I/O compartment. Apart from that being an airflow nightmare, it would probably screw up the case a bit structurally as well.
 
The mirror is too mirrory, and hed rather see tempered glass (which is also quite reflective, so..??).
 
He then proceeds to display the case sitting on a desk in a traditional manner, with the wire grommet sticking out on the "side", complaining about how this is not the best way to manage cables. I guess Dimitri's lightbulb never lit up about the fact that this case is supposed to go broad side backed to a wall, and that THAT is why the grommet is even there in the first place? If he really insisted on putting the case on a desk like that, he could just as well let the wires come out under the door. I mean, thats what the gap is for, isnt it?
 
And apparently he is also not fond of the fact that it has no 5.25" bays, and that one could somehow still fit somewhere in the basement. He does not point out where exactly this would be though, as the basement is completely stuffed with fan controllers, HDD/Pump cages, and a PSU which can get pretty sizable. Shame on EVGA for not making it a tardis! He goes on about how this would be useful for reservoirs and fan controllers... (..right??)
 
I hate how people minge on about the size of this thing. Monstertrucks are big too, but they sure are cool. And if your garage is big enough, why not. :p

nowadays if one HAS TO HAVE a CD/DVD/BD drive simply buy a usb slim external drive. laptops have been making people do this for YEARS so why are desktop people complaining? all i know is that on my last build i bought a DVD drive to install windows and then years later tried to use it for a second time to make system restore disk to find out it somehow died from never being used....  whatever, i for one am never buying another internal 5.25" drive bay device again.

Yes that will work easily. Plan for the correct screw length for the top though.

Vlada011
I looked case and I didn't found any flaw.
Except maybe floor between first and second part...

Aha, so im not alone on that one!
I plan on putting in a floorboard that covers the PSU and drive cages entirely,
but I worry for the airflow on my HDDs if I do that.
 
EVGA doesn't have a distribution point near or in Servia?

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evga.tech_guyI would like to know If I remove all the PCI back plates can I mount my GPU vertically in this case as I hate looking at back plates,  when the front of the GPU is so much better.

I asked this question a while ago in this topic,
and I think I saw Slimshiesty muttering something about making custom back plates.
So howbout it, Slimshiesty? Two customers already, right here. :P

Roger that !  
First things first.  Optical drive caddy mod... then SLI mounts.
gimme 2 to 3 weeks for the caddy, then 2 to 3 weeks on the mount, give or take a few days.

Haha, why do people keep insisting on optical drives.
They have become so useless in every possible way.
Where are you even going to stick that thing?

Antoine_RProfessionals use optical drives all the time. Ever heard of a photographer giving a CD with all the edited pictures on it after a photo shoot? Freelance pros give a CD/Bluray disc copy of commercials, credits, effects, etc. when handing their work over to clients; and since hard drives degrade much faster than CDs, CDs are the best choice when it comes to digital record keeping. There's millions of parents who like to burn photos and home movies on to DVDs/Blurays. Now I understand that if those are the kinds of things you're doing, then maybe this case isn't the one for you. I get that. I was just making a point to all the people who think that optical drives are completely out of date and antiqued. Maybe for the gaming community that's true, but for the majority of everyone else, it's just not.

The photographer I hired a couple months ago offered his work on a complimentary USB stick, so that may soon change too.
 
Harddrives degrade quicker than CDs? Absolutely not. The opposite is more likely. Ive had DVDs go corrupt in 5 years time.
 
Those millions of parents are as old as the technology and likely dont know any better, so thats no excuse.
My parents still like VHS, but that doesn't validate keeping VHS around.
 
Harddrives are more compact and cheaper by the gigabyte.
Bluray costs about 4.9ct per Gb, a harddrive can do it as cheap as 3.4ct per Gb.
Plus ofcourse a HDD is reusable countless times and more flexible.
 
I feel these feeble plastic disks only exist out of old habit..

Artah
as ManBearPig said it's around 60mm on the top and 70mm on the front.  I have a sabertooth x99 motherboard on there and the top can probably be pushed to 65mm with some creative wire routing using that motherboard and the front you can probably push it to 90mm where it slams into the reservoir holder but you would be blocking some parts of the fan.  The top part looks like around 25mm fans only, maybe 30mm thick.  The top mount plate is actually around 2-3mm only with the way it is shaped not 4mm as I previously mentioned.

Thanks Artah.
 
I'm probably looking to have 1 radiator at the top to start with. So that 60mm at the top, does that include the fans?
 
So say 25mm fans and 35mm Rad max?
 
Sorry, completely new at this, never even seen a water cooling rad before.
 
It would probably be easier to go with an AIO as I'm only going to cool the CPU for now but I would like a reservoir and some colour to show off through the window of this amazing looking case.

chaosminionx

Boleyn1895

Artah
as ManBearPig said it's around 60mm on the top and 70mm on the front.  I have a sabertooth x99 motherboard on there and the top can probably be pushed to 65mm with some creative wire routing using that motherboard and the front you can probably push it to 90mm where it slams into the reservoir holder but you would be blocking some parts of the fan.  The top part looks like around 25mm fans only, maybe 30mm thick.  The top mount plate is actually around 2-3mm only with the way it is shaped not 4mm as I previously mentioned.

Thanks Artah.
 
I'm probably looking to have 1 radiator at the top to start with. So that 60mm at the top, does that include the fans?
 
So say 25mm fans and 35mm Rad max?
 
Sorry, completely new at this, never even seen a water cooling rad before.
 
It would probably be easier to go with an AIO as I'm only going to cool the CPU for now but I would like a reservoir and some colour to show off through the window of this amazing looking case.

So the top cannot take a 60mm Radiator + 25mm fans, or it can? I have 2 60mm radiators that I need to mount, front wont be an issue, but question is, will the top take a total of 85mm with fan and radiator thickness?

For a 60 mm fan you will not be able to have a push fans just the 3 mounted on the top for pull only they have stated there is 65 mm clearance to the top of the motherboard so your only option is to have the pull only or get a different rad 40 mm or less. 

ipkhaFor optical drives, I just bought an external case for my Bluray burner. I could probably keep it in the case if I wanted. LOL

If you dont plan on using this case as intended, you sure could!
Not sure if there's gonna be space for it if you got all the plumbings in there though.
Radiators eat up space right quick.

ipkha

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ipkhaFor optical drives, I just bought an external case for my Bluray burner. I could probably keep it in the case if I wanted. LOL

If you dont plan on using this case as intended, you sure could!

It is designed to hold my computer. I need my bluray drive to fill my plex library. Just thinking I could put the drive and enclosure in the case behind the panel when not being used. I only really need it every so often.

Behind? Like, behind the motherboard? I suppose you could sneak in an emergency slimdrive? :P

I still use a Blu-ray drive because it has much better quality.  I guess if you still have a standard definition TV or have bad eye sight you wouldn't mind the sub par picture of streaming.  But for those that have a nice setup and good eye sight, Blu-ray is the only way to go.