cooling of wooden mITX case

[djtinxo]

Hi there!

I'm planning to build a wooden mini-itx case, being the MB horizontally set. Right know I'm not worried about the components (waiting for the gtx 1070), just want to know if the cooling of my build would be optimal. I'm attaching a couple of images of a (very basic) sketch I made.
Intake is: 2 x 120mm fans in the front
and exhaust: 240mm cpu watercooling kit at the top.

 

[sadams04]

If you aren't overclocking, then you don't have much to worry about, but..... Not sure you will be getting cool air across your components before being taken up toward the exhaust fans. You can have the front fans move more CFM than the exhaust fans to create a positive pressure environment (force more air in than the exhaust fans expel) to help compensate.. Do you plan on using a reference style GPU cooler that will exhaust air out the back of the case? If so, then that will help. Either way, try to get an exhaust fan to draw cool air through to the back of the case. Maybe divert the frontward 140mm fan exhaust fan to draw air from the rear with a piece of cardboard / plastic....

 

[djtinxo]

If you aren't overclocking, then you don't have much to worry about, but..... Not sure you will be getting cool air across your components before being taken up toward the exhaust fans. You can have the front fans move more CFM than the exhaust fans to create a positive pressure environment (force more air in than the exhaust fans expel) to help compensate.. Do you plan on using a reference style GPU cooler that will exhaust air out the back of the case? If so, then that will help. Either way, try to get an exhaust fan to draw cool air through to the back of the case. Maybe divert the frontward 140mm fan exhaust fan to draw air from the rear with a piece of cardboard / plastic....

Maybe would it be better to have a single 120 or 140 mm cpu water cooler at the back? just over the MB? This way it would be possitively cooled and the air would be sucked across all the MB and GPU.