Watercooling Case Suggestions

bgibbons

Suffering from "paralysis by analysis" when choosing a new case for my upcoming PC. My current PC does not have enough "horsepower" for the new Star Wars Squadrons game. My old rig is powered by i7-6700k with no overclocking since I could only find a B250 motherboard because my old power supply fried z170 motherboard.

Here my partial part list as I would watercooler the CPU and possibliy GPU.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zGWW27

Performance is paramount but I also want it to be centerpiece for my desktop.

Here are the cases, I am considering:

• Be Quiet PureBase 
• 500 DX Fractal Design 
• Meshify S2 
• Lian-Li LanCool II-X 
• Lian-Li LanCool II-Mesh 
• Phanteks P400A 
• Phanteks Evolv-X

Open to any other suggested as well. One my favorite cases ever was Cooler Master CM690 II.

TSPhillipT

Hello @bgibbons

Just to check, are you doing Custom Waterlooping or just looking to use an All In One Closed Loop? 

bgibbons

Most likely a custom loop, put have not decide if will be hardline or flexible tubing

PowerSpec_MikeW

Greetings,

I'm a big fan of the Lancool II Mesh. There's a plate you can remove to slip a 360MM rad in the front of the chassis. None of these cases would be bad choices for a custom loop though.