Hello there everyone. I currently own a Fractal Design R5 and plan on upgrading very soon and want an AIO Liquid Cooler but am wondering about sizing and dimensions and hard drive placements. I currently have one HDD in the 3-stack HDD bay in the bottom of the case, I have one CD drive in the CD drive bay.
So I don't want to put the Kraken X61 in the top because I don't want to remove the moduvents for the noise cancelling. I wanted to put it in the front which leaves me with two options as I see it.
Option 1: I can move the 3-stack HDD bay back a bit and run push/pull - 1, where the front has both fans and then one fan on the back because there isn't enough space inbetween the HDD bay and the radiator to fit a fan.
Option 2: I can put the HDD in the bottom of the two open CD drive bay, below the CD drive. This would let me remove the HDD bays totally. My only qualm with that is I don't believe the CD drive bay has the rubber stoppers to handle vibration noise like the HDD mounting cages. Does anyone do this and is it noticeable amount of noise from vibrations?
If I decide against a X61, I could go with a kraken X41 and mount it in the back in push/pull. My concern with this is will it fit push/pull on the back without intruding on the motherboard. Does anyone do this? I'm open to suggestions of other things of course. Thanks all!
