WireManageTheseHands

well for starters. I am not exhausting air from the AIO. Everyone knows you dont exhaust your AIO. you suck cold intake air through it. so my push pull via top mount was going to be fans in intake mode on the top of the AIO and then again intake mode on the bottom of the AIO. making a push-pull intake. 1. It's generally better to have the rad as an intake where it will be getting cooler outside air vs. using it as an exhaust where it will be fed warmer case air first. 2. because this is tempered glass, having constant air exhausting against it, (top or front) can actually cause stress fractures in the glass over time. This is a known thing. go blow hot air aginst tempured glass 7 days a week 365 and see what happens. This would leave us with side mount as the only option. with the radiator lines at the top. this makes everything else in the case extremely difficult to work around. Side mounting also presents the issue of potential air issues. I am not saying what is right or wrong. i am going off of the great majority of what people say on reddit and youtube. This is what i was referring to. I like your semi know-it-all response. but you don't even stop to think that I could be intaking air through my rad via top mount. but the whole point of this was that, i want to do push pull. so in your very helpful response you didn't stop to think that you cannot do push pull on the front or side. That is the entire point of this. Corsair tells you, you can do push pull via top mount. but then you get ready to set it up and you end up with this issue I have. so any tips you have for a solution. let me know haha.

I figured i cant be the only one with this issue. All of the videos that i have watched on builds with the 5000x seems to either side mount or front mount the AIO. But the law of physics says those are not the best places for the AIO. TOP MOUNT ALWAYS. Here is the issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ervXeVk0o -starting at 38:00- 38:40 There is what I would like to call a major design flaw/oversight by corsair, and I just don't know how to work around this. The issue is that the spacing /gap in the back side of the case for the CPU cables, are EXTREMELY close to the radiator. If you even think about adding fans under the radiator(inside the case), you will be very hard pressed to jam it in there. and when we are working with multiple thousand dollar rigs, I do not like needing to jam in my radiator, and have massive downward pressure on the CPU power cables. This becomes an issue because I really wanted to setup a push pull on my radiator- the only way that is possible is by top mounting the Rad. I am using a EVGA psu, and as we all know EVGA's psu cables with their single wrap (tube style) cords- can be a huge paid to deal with. The issue i am facing is that at the end of the the EVGA cables they have those big black tape wraps. which makes them even less bendable. Sadly i can only think of a couple options 1. find new psu cables that are not in one single sheath- this is what the guy does in the video. but even that is super tight. 2. find some type of 90 degree adapter- which is risky because i hate messing with aftermarket power adapters. and i cant really find anything like this. 3. find some psu cables that have a 90 degree plug on one end and standard on the other. 4. tear apart my rig, used a metal grinder, and remove like .5 inches of metal to make the opening deeper- the opening the CPU cables route through from the back. I've attached some pics to show what I mean. -here is the cable view. the red line represents my idea #4, by making that notch .5 inch deeper that should solve the problem- this is how corsair should have designed it in the first place. This is what it looks like in the case with the fan. I know it does not look like it but with my thumb i am pushing the fan in pretty hard, and that is as far as it will go. better view in the next pic see how far the fan is. and you can clearly see me pushing on it. So what I have discovered is its basically impossible to do a push pull AIO setup in this case- and the airflow version ( which is ironic). the 7000x does not have this issue at all. but I don't need a computer case the size of a mini fridge. Again this seems like a major oversight by corsair. as there should never ever be a reason things should be "super tight" with a lot of downward pressure on things like the CPU power cables. Does corsair think no one wants to do a push pull setup with the AIO? Its just super frustrating, to get this far in and figure out this issue. I don't really want to go have 100$ custom power cords made, to work around corsairs design flaw. I hate saying it but the more and more i think about this, the more it seems like the best easiest option is to get my metal grinder and grind down the slot. but i reallllly don't like the thought of metal shavings getting everywhere. so this will take a full tear down. grind it out, sand it down to get rid of sharp edges. mask the edge with a grommet or electrical tape. then spend A LOT of time cleaning out and dusting out all the metal shavings from the case. Or I try to get some custom PSU cables made from like mod-one or cableMod- which takes 6-8 weeks. Thus making me wait 2 months to add more RGB to my case. Do you really want a RGB fanboy to wait 2 months? I don't know if I will be able to survive. more RGB=more FPS. any suggestions from corsair or other members would be greatly appreciated. and don't get me wrong i am corsair fanboy. literally every component that corsair does make- is in this case. and this case is by far one of the cleanest looking cases I have ever seen. but someone really dropped the ball on this. I went to the store, with my little tape measure, and most other cases I have seen either have a much deeper slot for the CPU cables to come through.