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Howsit All,
Basically no one loves 420mm AIO's and I'm now resisting going mATX since these cases are really interesting for hardware compatibility.
My conundrum is psu mostly, You'll see the AP201 has a vertical PSU mount in the front & there's the first problem
GPU is 340mm length, gpu supported is 338mm, it does fit when psu shroud is in the top spot, but I want to feed a 120mm intake fan from the front which can be achieved when using an sfx PSU & 3D printed bracket, which also give gpu clearance to 360mm (Asus SFX1000w platinum). I also need a 12vhpwr cable for which brand of psu it is. I currently have an HX1200i which can't be side mounted in the front because the case is 205mm wide, psu is 200mm & just the cable housing bits on psu cables is 5cm, leaving now room to actually do any cable routing.
So my question is if there are any AP201 owners in the wild please can I pick your brain around the case and see if I can do anything with my current components because I am not spending R7k on a 1300w sfx psu just for a R1500 case. As sick as it looks.
Examples:
(bigboi psu but air cooling & gpu clearance)
(endgame look that I'd want to achieve with how clean this one is)
As for the Thermaltake tower 200, I essentially just want to see which mATX boards actually fit (& AIO) & what thermals are like for you as this will fit everything I need (AP201 doesn't take many 3.5" drives & I could do with 2) but this fits atx psu's which I then don't have to swop out
TIA
Basically no one loves 420mm AIO's and I'm now resisting going mATX since these cases are really interesting for hardware compatibility.
My conundrum is psu mostly, You'll see the AP201 has a vertical PSU mount in the front & there's the first problem
GPU is 340mm length, gpu supported is 338mm, it does fit when psu shroud is in the top spot, but I want to feed a 120mm intake fan from the front which can be achieved when using an sfx PSU & 3D printed bracket, which also give gpu clearance to 360mm (Asus SFX1000w platinum). I also need a 12vhpwr cable for which brand of psu it is. I currently have an HX1200i which can't be side mounted in the front because the case is 205mm wide, psu is 200mm & just the cable housing bits on psu cables is 5cm, leaving now room to actually do any cable routing.
So my question is if there are any AP201 owners in the wild please can I pick your brain around the case and see if I can do anything with my current components because I am not spending R7k on a 1300w sfx psu just for a R1500 case. As sick as it looks.
Examples:
(bigboi psu but air cooling & gpu clearance)
(endgame look that I'd want to achieve with how clean this one is)
As for the Thermaltake tower 200, I essentially just want to see which mATX boards actually fit (& AIO) & what thermals are like for you as this will fit everything I need (AP201 doesn't take many 3.5" drives & I could do with 2) but this fits atx psu's which I then don't have to swop out
TIA
