If you want to completely hide the cable, I recommend getting a shorter one which likely requires going 3rd party. Fortunately, it’s a nice looking cable and I’m still happy with the look. You end up having to bend it a lot so you end up being able to see the cable beneath the bottom of the card. This case doesn’t push the GPU out very far when going vertical. * The Corsair PCIe riser cable is really long at 300mm. And as a bonus you also get a RGB hub, Node, extension cables, etc. I bought my kits on sale so the fans had a lower per unit price. * It’s sometimes cheaper to buy the Corsair fan kit instead of individual fans. So 1 RGB hub splitter cable to 2 RGB hubs (each with 4 fans) and all set! I decided I wanted each column to be individually addressable, each fan in each row wasn’t necessary so the 8 fans could essentially be 4 fans in a sense. With each 8 fan tray you have 2 columns of 4. You could buy individual 3rd party RGB splitters, but it gets expensive fast. Each hub only supports 6 RGB connections. * Extensions - you need them! This case is huge! I ended up having to use a number of PWM, Corsair RGB (made by 3rd party), and analog RGB extension cables if I wanted to have enough length to do some level of cable management. I have a second RGB controller for those. Some components are still using 12v analog RGB, like with my res and GPU block. There are a bunch of 3rd party converters and adapters, but they’re all limited to 5v like the Corsair stuff. * Careful mixing and matching RGB components if you want to use only iCue. * RGB is much cooler than I thought it would be! The product description made it sound like you could use 2x 140 mm. * The rear fans support either 2x 120s or 1x 140. Most fittings require at least 10 mm to offset so these were a life saver. * Get some swiveling offset fittings! Life saver as 2 times I found that ports were misaligned by just 4-5 mm. I wanted 4x 480s so I could go low RPM on the fans. Also, all this is moot if you stick with the original top fan tray or put a 360 mm rad in the 8 fan tray. * You can go over 30 mm up top if you move the front rad ports to the bottom, but this setup is likely better for dual loops versus single loop. I wanted the rads in series and a clean connection (hence the straight run) so the front rad ports had to be up top. * With the rad ports on top, I could fit pretty much any thickness of rad in front (I used a 60 mm) but I could only fit a 30 mm up top without blocking the ports. Thanks for the compliments! Most definitely, here are some lessons learned: love that straight run from top rad to front rad!.Īny tips/tricks/lessons learnt to pass on?
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