I am looking at water-cooling my rig, which is currently housed by a corsair 650D. I know this case is somewhat restrictive in terms of W/C potential. I do love this case so will use it for my server build. Anyway, I cannot afford a water-cooling setup until a couple of months but was wondering would the air cooling for the 800D be sufficient short term? I will need to upgrade the fans but I wanted to upgrade them so they will be useable for when I do W/C.
I've seen a couple of people use it for air, but even they say it's not great... Consider the Elysium...?
Funny you should say that, was just watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICPvEjUDgz0 Cannot believe this case is £140.
I've seen it for £125 on Eclipse computers... P.S. I have one sitting across the room from me, there are pics in my thread of it... It's a really great case!
The Elysium completes the full-tower package all at a very attractive price tag. Those grommets for cable management are also amazing, something that I thought only Corsair offered The side panel for additional fan mounting options is also pretty nice and you don't get anything like that on the 800D.
^ only ever had one order from them so can't say much but did exactly as they said with no hassle. also the Elysium looks amazing for watercooling specially a that price xigmatek seem to be owning the chassis market atm first with Utgard now Elysium.
And when talking about a case, they would really have to BLOW to screw something up It's not like you'll have to deal with warranty, anyway.
I run an air cooled 800D, and the posts above are correct. With stock fans and no extra fans installed, the airflow is less than acceptable; however, if you upgrade the fans and install fans in the 3x roof mounts, then yes, it's OK. Not great by any stretch but OK. It doesn't affect me too much because my office is AC'd at 18 degrees 24/7 so I can live with higher Delta temps. It also depends what hardware you're going to put in. I'm running X58 S1366 gear which is way hotter than Sandybridge, and you could get away with a more compact watercooling case for Sandy and pocket a lot of change too.
The Corsair 700/800d are both aimed at Watercoolers, which is where it excels. I did install 3 Gentle Typhoon 1800rpm fans to the roof, which are controlled at 50%, and my CPU temp is 46c under a Corsair H50. My GTX580 is currently at 46c too. Sam