Thinking I will grab a high perorming one when the time comes and if it does not perform better than the stock one sellit for a small loss. This way I will have definative information for the final build spec. I think your are right though, from what I have been reading high flow will serve these temps better than high surface area

That case is a MONSTER!!!!!

WILL YOU BE TAKING THIS TO SMACKS :rofl

It is crazy .......... :Dizzy:
The online pictures are not indecation of how big this really is, Sent an e-mail to Jim at Case labs saying they need to put something in the pics to put some scale to this thing
But it is the ultimant weapon for a wacky build .......... :laughing:

No, my portable is the plywood rack ............. :thumbsup:

This thing will be home base as it will be to heavy to even lift with the amount of water it is going to take to fill it.

Although empty it is light as a feather, 100% Aluminum construction

Do you have a raid card or are you putting the Vertex3 on SATA 3Gbps ports?

Should be fine, will still hit 1GBps transfers and small file size wont be hindered.

Really not sure yet what platform I am going with yet. Fianacially if I want to expidite this I would have to use my current hardware and in that semario, 2 off them would have to roll on 3gb ports.

If I wait it out and that is the plan as of now possbly next gen boards will offer enough 6gb pots for what I hope to do.

No update :P

Which fans are you going to use on the rads ? I keep putting off getting some new fans need some but have no clue wut to get lol

No no updates here, should have fittings showing up to complte the testing on the Boreas, iin another thread. Being that is the first component to be installed in the case this thread is patciantly waiting ............. :blink:

Have not decided on fans, have to do some testing to confirm but it has been narrowed down to (2)

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=25284

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835181025

Can not seem to find the static pressure on the Yates fans though ??? so I will have to field test ........... :laughing:

What Rads do you have, I am sure we can comme iup with some fans that will work nicely.

I went with a low 8 FPI that will lend itself to these low noise low speed fans, if the fins on your rads are similar thse fans would work well, the tighter the fins the mir air/noise you need to max the efficincy of the rad as they will have a higher drag

I have a black ice gtx 480 radiator with x3 YATE LOON D12SH-12 on pull

Had x4 but kids broke one lol

That is a nice rad, Very tight FPI like 16

300 watt load / water temps above ambient

1000 RPM = 9.86C

1350 RPM = 6.39C

1550 RPM = 5.06C

2000 RPM = 3.3C

3000 RPM = 1.87C

You can see where the this tight fin design of this rad lends itself to High speed fans

This would be optimal for you set up, just make sure you have fan gaurds as these bad boys will cut a finger off and at 44db buy some noise canceling headphones :laughing:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835213005