dmcmillen
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Hi all,
Doing a ground up rebuild of my PC starting with the X299 Dark and two 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrids that are on their way. I'd also like to pick up a CLC 240 or 280 for CPU cooling. Any recommendations on chassis to fit all this goodness? Installing a top radiator in mid-towers may difficult due to the VRM fan clearance, as I understand. Also I'm a little concerned about the length of the cooling tubes, this is my first AIO water-cooled build.
Thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks!
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Re: Best chassis for X299 Dark + 2x 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrids?
Saturday, April 28, 2018 3:27 PM
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If you need a full tower chassis and want to stick with EVGA then the DG-8X series full towers should work fine. If you like Corsair their full towers are very good. I have the Corsair 780T white and it has a lot of room. My X399 ASRock Taichi Threadripper motherboard fits just fine.
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Re: Best chassis for X299 Dark + 2x 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrids?
Saturday, April 28, 2018 3:49 PM
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dmcmillen
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Re: Best chassis for X299 Dark + 2x 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrids?
Saturday, April 28, 2018 9:58 PM
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rjohnson11
If you need a full tower chassis and want to stick with EVGA then the DG-8X series full towers should work fine. If you like Corsair their full towers are very good. I have the Corsair 780T white and it has a lot of room. My X399 ASRock Taichi Threadripper motherboard fits just fine.
I have looked at the DG-87; do you know if the EVGA CLC 280 will clear the X299 Dark when top mounted? I did find that the FTW3 Hybrid can be mounted to the rear/left swing out panel, which seems ideal.
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Re: Best chassis for X299 Dark + 2x 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrids?
Sunday, April 29, 2018 9:03 AM
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yeah it should clear heres a pic of my DG-87 with a classky K Z270 inside with a top mounted CLC 280. The CLC is mounted using the centre and right 140mm spaces and the left is the standard fan that comes with the case in place. Only posting in here as I have a X299 Dark going into this setup
post edited by Knightviper - Sunday, April 29, 2018 9:07 AM
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EVGA Z270 Classified K, Intel core i7 7700k , EVGA CLC 280 AIO, 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB @3200MHz, 250GB Samsung Evo SSD, Samsung Evo 840 250 SSD, 1TB WD Caviar Green EVGA 1070Ti FTW 2 EVGA 1300w G2 Windows 10 64-bit Evga DG-87 
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Re: Best chassis for X299 Dark + 2x 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrids?
Sunday, April 29, 2018 1:12 PM
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dmcmillen
rjohnson11
If you need a full tower chassis and want to stick with EVGA then the DG-8X series full towers should work fine. If you like Corsair their full towers are very good. I have the Corsair 780T white and it has a lot of room. My X399 ASRock Taichi Threadripper motherboard fits just fine.
I have looked at the DG-87; do you know if the EVGA CLC 280 will clear the X299 Dark when top mounted? I did find that the FTW3 Hybrid can be mounted to the rear/left swing out panel, which seems ideal.
as you can see it was close but worked good the 2- 8 pin cpu connectors was kinda tricky but made it work good case though! 
post edited by jeffro66 - Monday, April 30, 2018 8:05 AM
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dmcmillen
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Re: Best chassis for X299 Dark + 2x 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrids?
Sunday, April 29, 2018 8:45 PM
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Great pictures, thanks for the help!
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