2 * 240 radiators for 1 980ti and i7 6700k plus motherboard?

Husseo19

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Hey guys!
I recently got introduced to water cooling :)
I went with best stuff so far
I7 6700k, 32gb Gskillstridentz, asus Maximus bio formula motherboard. Samsung Evo 500gb, plus 4tb, and 2tb. Evga 980ti Sc2.0 .
My case is CM storm trooper!
By default the case allows 240 rads on bottom, 240/ 280 on top and 120/140 on rear!
I wanted to do a 360 on front and 240 on top that way I can still get place for my harddisks! But I can't find any tutorials on the web and I am not capable of doing myself!
So I was thinking of doing a 140 on rear, 240 on both bottom and top!
Will this be enough to cool down the system if ever over clocked! I got the D5 pump.
I have 3 components to cool, the motherboard, cpu, and gpu.
Help really appreciated and I would prefer the 360 rad setup. If you know how that is :) I have seen many people do it in their mods :)
I really like the trooper design and wouldn't want to leave for another case :)
First time into modding, water cooling 😀
 
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This is not the best case for watercooling as mounting area for rads, reservoir, and a pump are scarce. You could try to mount a thin 240 rad on the bottom and another on the top, but you'd have to go for a pretty thin rad and only one set of fans per rad. As for cooling performance this should suffice for a single CPU and GPU (mobo doesn't produce that much heat, so it's good to cool it but doesn't really matter for your rad setup). I don't know how you'd go about mounting a 360 on the front, but that would definitely mean cutting off the HDD cages, and perhaps drilling new mounting holes on the case. The case's specs say only 2x120 mm fans on the front, and I'll bet to get even a 240mm rad there you'd have to let go of the HDD cages...
This is not the best case for watercooling as mounting area for rads, reservoir, and a pump are scarce. You could try to mount a thin 240 rad on the bottom and another on the top, but you'd have to go for a pretty thin rad and only one set of fans per rad. As for cooling performance this should suffice for a single CPU and GPU (mobo doesn't produce that much heat, so it's good to cool it but doesn't really matter for your rad setup). I don't know how you'd go about mounting a 360 on the front, but that would definitely mean cutting off the HDD cages, and perhaps drilling new mounting holes on the case. The case's specs say only 2x120 mm fans on the front, and I'll bet to get even a 240mm rad there you'd have to let go of the HDD cages.
My advice is either get a more watercooling oriented case like the Fractal Design Define S, or just try and fit the 2x240 in your current case, and it should give you decent cooling for your components.
 
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