So, due to 2020 and home office time, i am currently building a computer that is a bit more modern than my old fx6400 or something.
But i did run into a problem with some hardware. I currently have a b550 mainboard with a ryzen 7 3700x on top. It ran pretty hot with the cooler that was included (although it looked neat). So i went to my local retailer and we browsed the web for a good cooling alternative and got some advice from YouTube (mainly Gamers Nexus i think) who suggested the "Arctic Liquid Freezer AIO" ...
Long story short, i bought it and spend maybe 2 hours trying to install it in my old case (a mid tower Dell something) .. only to figure out that it would not fit .. also, my friend told me that my case had no air intakes anyway.
So i went back to the shop and bought a NZXT-h510 .. mainly because it looked clean and the description said it could do a 280 AIO in the front. - So i dragged this case home and my friend and i swapped the components over to the new case ... only to realize that the radiator STILL would not fit?!?
Do we do things wrong? or is the AIO incompatible with the case? I actually looked up the compatibility charts .. and it did say NZXT-h510 .. well, but it said "Elite" but when i went to NZXT homepage, it stated that the Elite had exactly the same dimensions as the "i" version. So it "should" fit into the case.
- to be clear, i can screw the radiator to the mount (the tray that can be pulled out) easily .. but i cannot slide it in. On the web page it says .. "60mm clearance" .. which explains why it does not work .. because the whole assmebly is 65mm deep .. . But is there another method to mount it? After all, it says it can be mounted on the h-510 elite.
Or should i just return the case and get a bigger one...
Maybe someone here has a NZXT 510 and an Arctic freezer .. and has managed to put it in?
But i did run into a problem with some hardware. I currently have a b550 mainboard with a ryzen 7 3700x on top. It ran pretty hot with the cooler that was included (although it looked neat). So i went to my local retailer and we browsed the web for a good cooling alternative and got some advice from YouTube (mainly Gamers Nexus i think) who suggested the "Arctic Liquid Freezer AIO" ...
Long story short, i bought it and spend maybe 2 hours trying to install it in my old case (a mid tower Dell something) .. only to figure out that it would not fit .. also, my friend told me that my case had no air intakes anyway.
So i went back to the shop and bought a NZXT-h510 .. mainly because it looked clean and the description said it could do a 280 AIO in the front. - So i dragged this case home and my friend and i swapped the components over to the new case ... only to realize that the radiator STILL would not fit?!?
Do we do things wrong? or is the AIO incompatible with the case? I actually looked up the compatibility charts .. and it did say NZXT-h510 .. well, but it said "Elite" but when i went to NZXT homepage, it stated that the Elite had exactly the same dimensions as the "i" version. So it "should" fit into the case.
- to be clear, i can screw the radiator to the mount (the tray that can be pulled out) easily .. but i cannot slide it in. On the web page it says .. "60mm clearance" .. which explains why it does not work .. because the whole assmebly is 65mm deep .. . But is there another method to mount it? After all, it says it can be mounted on the h-510 elite.
Or should i just return the case and get a bigger one...
Maybe someone here has a NZXT 510 and an Arctic freezer .. and has managed to put it in?