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Will The Real Fortress Please Stand Up?

draemn said:
Looks like air is blown directly on to the CPU tower cooler, which means rotating your CPU cooler 90degress from normal (or moving the fans around) for it to work properly and then the two bottom fans exhaust the GPU out the case. Honestly, I'm confused how this is a good design for the cooling configuration, even though it is a pretty looking case. If you aren't looking to pack high(er) end enthusiast hardware, this looks like a pretty good case otherwise.
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Top is an exhaust and bottom 2 are intake. Blows cool air directly on the gpu and sucks the hot air from your CPU out the top (I would rotate the CPU cooler so it is exhausting up). My only concern would be the amount of air that gets blocked by the GPU, which would stop a portion of the MOB from getting air flow.
 
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Bond007 said:
Top is an exhaust and bottom 2 are intake. Blows cool air directly on the gpu and sucks the hot air from your CPU out the top (I would rotate the CPU cooler so it is exhausting up). My only concern would be the amount of air that gets blocked by the GPU, which would stop a portion of the MOB from getting air flow.
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My worries exactly.

You can see from the pictures that even the 120mm SS Argon is poking it's head out of the case so tower coolers are a no no. Either a lowprofile or a Liquid Cooler will do.

But I'm waiting for a review to see if any air will reach the top card -in an SLI/CF build- and the CPU. If the motherboard is rotated the problem will be solved theoretically.

The manual linked specified 2 80mm fan mounts but I couldn't find them......
 
enaberif said:
Thats REALLLLLLLY trying hard ot make the two look the same. They aren't even CLOSE.. Ok maybe the brushed metal but that is it.
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Really cos to me you make 2 changes (the "handles" curve front to back rather than side and non perforated front) and it's nearly identical to the image in the last page. The front panel, materials and style all scream mac pro to me.

Not saying it's bad.. just an observation.

Luay79 said:
My worries exactly.


The manual linked specified 2 80mm fan mounts but I couldn't find them......
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Back panel

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ill-real-fortress-please-stand-up-jonsbo3.jpg
 
It looks good, but typical of this type of design a lot of height is introduced by the "handle/stand". It's screaming for my Dremel :bananafunky:

I'd remove the handle, make a side window and put a Micro ATX board in there for some WC SLI action, including an addition of a 140mm fan hole for some 280mm radiator action at the top, because there SEEMS to be sufficient clearance for a 25mm thick fan plus 35mm radiator.

The case is very attractive IMHO and removing the bottom of that "loop stand" might cause some aesthetic friction though. For the price it's not bad. $219.00 for an all-alluminum case like this is somewhat par for the course.
 
Bond007 said:
Top is an exhaust and bottom 2 are intake. Blows cool air directly on the gpu and sucks the hot air from your CPU out the top (I would rotate the CPU cooler so it is exhausting up). My only concern would be the amount of air that gets blocked by the GPU, which would stop a portion of the MOB from getting air flow.
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I don't care if they say top is exhaust. It makes 0 sense for top to be exhaust when there is no other way to get air in over the motherboard/CPU. The GPU sucks/blocks all of the air coming in from the bottom AND doesn't the PSU exhaust under the case, so why are we sucking up PSU exhaust?

Sure, I bet this case wasn't designed with a real high end GPU in mind....
 
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