How about the phantom 820? It certainly has space for a fan or 2: Top: 2x 200mm (One included) or 2x 140mm or 3x 120mm Front: 1x 200mm (Included) Bottom: 2x 140mm or 2x 120mm Rear: 1x 140mm (included) or 1x 120mm height adjustable Side: 1x 200mm (included) Pivot: 1x 140mm or 1x 120mm internal pivot fan But the styling certainly isn't for everyone
Is this collective forumites for a new build that is going to go up on the ROG site? As I see you've asked to use some other forum members Pic's for this.
I have the Switch 810 and I wouldn't recommend it for running more than 2 cards on air. I know it can have quite a few fans fitted but the graphics cards do run hot as I find at the moment with my 810.
With the switch 810 you can have 4 fans drawing air in from the bottom and front. 2 fans inside directing air at the cards and 6 fans as an exhaust in the roof. You can also probably mount 1 by the I/o panel as well. Did I mention most of these are 140mm fans with optional 120mm mounts. The only issue is the lack of side panel mounted fans... Nothing a few well place mods couldn't sort. It's a good case. I'm not biased at all
4 vid cards on air is a bit nuts if you want them to function as intended. 4 670 - 680s will declock themselves as soon as they pass 70c and its impossible to keep them cooler than that under any load with no gaps in between. Most cases would struggle with 2 let alone 4. 4 7970ghz edition cards will likely melt as they already run hotter than the 670-680 series. plenty of cases will let you fit them in but id say close to 0 will let you run them as intended. switch 810 820 tj07 would be the 3 cases id choose for the task at hand but id be looking to watercool them. Even under water sub 70c for 4 way cfx or sli is difficult to cool.
Take a look at the Cooler Master Stacker series. http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=17 I have the Stacker 832 and have been really happy with it. It is a bit on the large size but has so much room inside it makes building really easy and allows for a neat job. I have 10x 120mm fans fitted and the overall temperature always remains very cool in the summer. 2x in the front bays, 1 x top, 2 x bottom, 1 x rear exhaust, 4 x side door. The side door fan tray with 4x high flow fans would help with Qaud Sli somewhat I think.
I've had tri sli in a stacker 830 but you need to modify the bottom bracket on the mobo tray to use the bottom slot, The case in my sig will take quad sli with no problems I have three 480's on air in there and have no cooling problems at all
Old 480s don't declock at all. Nvidia 6 series does and the max temp is only 70c before it does this. Amd boost + ghz card suffers from this also.
True but in my case the 480's don't reach 70c with the fans set at 60% the air flow is the best I've ever had in any case
I have a Thermaktake Armor+ case, 3x260GTX and a 9600 for Physx and still have a few open slots. I can get you temps and pics when I get home if you need.
My latest build: Quad SLI, 2 PSU's, Watercooled and all house in a.... Only Place to mount the sound card... The hidden snake pit from 2 PSU's. As tidy as you will ever get ti!
Simon your computer is one of my favourite computers. I used to run dual cheesecake psu's about 9 years ago, but that was a ghetto mod, and they were computer fair (god I can't believe they used to be a thriving thing) specials, where I connected pin 14 and 15 (from memory, green and black ones) from one psu to the ones on the other. Was amazing! I can't remember why I did that though, i think the psu's were pansy and one was running computer and one was running the drives.
I did it with 3850s in a PC-60, seeing as I used its tray in Mithril. Probably not what you meant, though.
