I did a stupid and bought this without checking if it will fit my NCase M1. It doesn't. Tubes get in the way.
OC & Modding Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 A-RGB won't fit my NCase M1
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Harsh Todi
Apprentice
Ouch. An issue already known in SFF forum. Sadly, Arctic never fit in Ncase m1. Of course, Arctic freeze II is the best AIO. In alternative, I used NZXT X52, side bracket is perfect, 2 slim + 2 thick fans and bend the dual tubes at the top instead of bottom. - great temperature. In later, I swapped to noctua u9s chromax (easy clean...hahaha). Ncase m1 is legendary SFF case!!! Do PM me if you have any question.
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enthusiast29
Juggernaut
Sorry to post again a bit OT maybe but I wanna understand configuring airflow with this rad in a case. What could be best config?
Take my case as an example, I have 3 front intakes and 1-1 exhausts on back and top of the case. The case is one of those where mounting the rad is only supported in front, up to 240mm.
If I mount this in front which is the only option, I make the inside of the case hot because front fans will intake air and going through the rad it'll heat up the inside of the case. This scenario will suffocate/heat up the GPU as well which is air cooled.
If I rotate the front fans to be an exhaust then I have very little intake, thus suffocating the GPU again.
In any case my GPU will suffer. Is my understanding wrong or what?
Take my case as an example, I have 3 front intakes and 1-1 exhausts on back and top of the case. The case is one of those where mounting the rad is only supported in front, up to 240mm.
If I mount this in front which is the only option, I make the inside of the case hot because front fans will intake air and going through the rad it'll heat up the inside of the case. This scenario will suffocate/heat up the GPU as well which is air cooled.
If I rotate the front fans to be an exhaust then I have very little intake, thus suffocating the GPU again.
In any case my GPU will suffer. Is my understanding wrong or what?
raydialseeker
Discoverer
what you do is mount this on the upper 2 slots on intake and mount a 120mm fan in the remaining slot if you can. make sure you have 2 on exhaust, and make sure that the intake fans are at 1400rpm while exhausts are at 1000. This way you allow the airflow to stabilize as the intake pressure approx equalizes to the exhaust.
Harsh Todi
Apprentice
Intake front fan is better, as top and back exhaust are always use. 240mm Radiator wont toast it. if you have bottom space, then add fans to exhaust or intake it. Just monitoring the temperature which good is either intake or exhaust.