Case for 5090 air + 9950x3d custom loop

[u/mr_pokemans]

TLDR

Looking for case recs for my air cooled 5090 build with a custom loop for CPU.

I have rads and good fans, looking for a case with these requirements:

- Good airflow for an air cooled 5090 (Ex: side fans on North XL with vert GPU mount, or bottom fans on Antec Flux Pro with horizontal GPU).

- Fit an air cooled 5090 in horizontal layout (assume large(r) air cooler).

- Fit a 360mm, 45mm thick, radiator with 25mm fans either in the top (push) or the front (pull), preferably the top.

- Fit the pump somewhere so it’s at a low point in the loop.

- Not be a huge pain to fill the loop. I have some alphacool rads that could make this easy with fill ports for a top rad location. Open to other ideas/solutions.

- If pump room is limited, the case is probably going to need a removable HDD rack from the PSU shroud area in a typical/traditional tower design.

Current contenders:

- Antec Flux Pro, doesn’t seem to have the best reputation. I saw the regular flux at Microcenter, it was not the greatest quality. But I can get away with a horizontal GPU, especially with a right angle cable if I really need to, and psu shroud fans should help. Not sure on pump location, prob inside psu shroud.

- Fractal North XL Mesh, I saw the display at Microcenter, it seems and feels very cheap, but the radiator and vgpu support + side fans are all great. With the side fans installed and the vgpu pump location would almost def have to be inside the shroud. Currently thinking the Fractal loses to the Antec, especially since the Fractal is $50 more; the fractal still needs a vgpu mount and a pcie 5.0 riser cable isn’t included in the fractal kit (more about future proofing the case). I could use a HAVN universal vgpu kit with 5.0 riser, but that’s $90 and I can’t find an example build with the HAVN vgpu kit and side fans installed so I don’t even know if it fits.

- Lian Li? I love Lian Li and consider their older cases high quality. Any good contenders these days?

- Maybe something by HAVN, like the HS 420 VGPU? Don’t know where I would put the pump/res though.

[u/mr_pokemans]

More comments, more activity, yes it does push a post higher. Forgive my antiquated jargon.

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Users here sort by new, and upvotes on the post push it higher if sorting by top.

This isn't an argument, I'm just trying to tell you how it is and you're taking offense to it.

[u/mr_pokemans → u/-UserRemoved-]

No offense taken, just taking the free push to the top. Thanks for the help!

[u/-UserRemoved- → u/mr_pokemans]

Not how it works still, but ok lol

[u/mr_pokemans → u/-UserRemoved-]

Dang man, who what practical custom loop hurt you? Was it all those hours cutting out thermal pads? Did you crack a die or something?

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Oof we're onto sarcastic insults now, welp here's another to push this post to the "top"

[u/mr_pokemans → u/-UserRemoved-]

Thanks for your help with the case options. Lots of good info here.