Hey guys,
Since the PC world has collectively gone mad and decided to throw all power/heat considerations out the window, I went ahead and snagged a 1000D. I've been doing custom loops for a lot of years and have always tried to figure out ways to cram more cooling in mid or full sized chassis, but I've never been overly satisfied with performance and heat. To keep it short, I'm going for pretty much silent with the best cooling possible. Since the new CPUs and 4090 are literal space heaters, I decided to give up the battle and just go with this behemoth.
Now onto planning my loop. Eventually I will move to 4x Nemesis GTS 480 radiators. The first iteration will most likely just include 2x 480s up front and a 420 on top, simply because I already have the 420 and just radiator and fan cost alone will surpass most rigs if I go all in at once. That said, me being me, I wouldn't be surprised if there's all 4 480s there before the power button gets hit the first time.
I've been doing this long enough to have a good idea what I want for most components, i.e. GTS 480 rads, Silent Wings 4 Pro fans, blocks, etc. However, I've always wanted to do a build based around a distro plate, but just haven't yet. This is a good opportunity to do so.
Obviously with the radiator setup, the front distro plate from EK is out of the equation. The other one I've seen that looks like it might fit the bill is the Bykski side plate found here:
https://www.bykski.com/page1000030?_l=en&product_id=4181.
It pretty much fits the bill in that it is going to have to be on the side and I want dual pumps for all those rads which are fairly restrictive. I've already got a dual ddc pump setup that I can rob the pumps out of if need be.
The only thing that concerns me is that in pictures, it looks like the plate tucks behind the front radiator(s), and I'm afraid it wouldn't allow for two rads up front.
Does anyone have any experience with this plate and can either confirm or deny that? Are there other plates I'm not coming across that would fit the bill and not interfere with radiators? The case is so huge that surely there's something out there. There should be plenty of room.
I have searched quite a bit and that plate seems to be the closest to what I'm looking for, but I know there's a lot of 1000d expertise on this forum, so I wanted to pick your brains! Thanks for any help in advance.
