I mean, if there was more room, it would be indicated with a higher number.
“cable management”
I made my graphics card watercooled because I couldn’t fit it in my case with the bigass extra long heatsink. It’s complicated. I used a universal gpu water block, some small heatsinks for the mosfets and vram and thermal glue to hold the heatsinks on but I fucked up because that fucking glue is like 75% as strong as epoxy. Now that I have an actual proper gpu waterblock, I can’t install it because of this shit. I guess the takeaway from this is to not do dumb stuff like I did, so at least you didn’t do that.
Please buy a bigger case😂
This is the way.
I’ve usually used a big case so that I don’t need to worry about practical things like this.
Building a computer in a tiny case would be an interesting challenge, but it wouldn’t be very practical or fun in the long term. Designing and building could be fun, but once it’s time to upgrade anything, it’s also the time to sell the whole box and let someone else deal with it.
From what I see or just my personal preference, itx cases seems to be more focused on asthetics than functionality. I do like the looks of it and would like to switch to some open itx builds at some point but idk if it’s worth it with all the drawbacks.
Depends what you consider its function. A small case is much more convenient for some people than a hulking mass of steel.
I remember when giant Antec towers were popular. Now people only have NVME drives instead of 3.5" disks, and most modern PCs don’t even have optical drives anymore. The biggest thing nowadays is these enormous GPU coolers.
I bought a case with enough GPU clearance, without realising the radiator for a liquid cooling kit I got was much thicker than standard (Arctic Freezer II), so I had to get a new case for that.
It’s good practise to measure everything with measuring tape, I reckon.
I just bought a 420mm AF II and plopped it on top of my case. Problem solved.
My first case didn’t even give that option lol. Was a rather odd design. I’m using a Corsair case now and decided to front mount, with fans at the top for exhaust. My room gets a bit hot, probably from all the weed, so when I’m gaming it helps exhaust the air from the GPU.
I didnt say I mounted I “plopped” it on top. It is only attached to not fall off, but it moves. And there is a huge ass hole beside it so the tubes have room to get into the case. Welp, too lazy to get a new case for now so that is how it is going to be.
haha the GPU I’ve had before having to RMA it was like this. had about 2mms of space between it and my fans
