peoples opinons on the pinnacle 24 case

[Niqui]

What are your opinions on the Mountain Mods Pinnacle 24 case? It seems like it would be much better then an Antec 1200 for H2O.

$279 base price on it also

http://www.mountainmods.com/pinnacle-24-cyo-p-498.html

[NokiaNokia]

This case is for serious water cooling.

[AngelEyes]

meh, its nicer then the antec 1200 in some ways, but not in others... and its over $100 more then the Antec 1200. If I had the money to get it... and fill it with enough WC gear so it doesnt look like an school bus with only one student, then I might be tempted.

[Niqui]

Originally Posted by AngelEyes

meh, its nicer then the antec 1200 in some ways, but not in others... and its over $100 more then the Antec 1200. If I had the money to get it... and fill it with enough WC gear so it doesnt look like an school bus with only one student, then I might be tempted.

thats the only problem i really see also, is there is almost to much room but if you could have it so its filled then it wouldn't be as bad

[AngelEyes]

I am not a fan of mounting a radiator blowing into the case, as the front 3 fans seem to suggest on this case. HDD's and clear air channels are for the front IMHO and radiators should blow OUT of the case low near the bottom or have their own air channel.

Never did like the radiator on the top design, hottest air in my room is right there at the top of my case WTH would I want to cool my CPU with it?!?!

[Amish]

Originally Posted by AngelEyes

Never did like the radiator on the top design, hottest air in my room is right there at the top of my case WTH would I want to cool my CPU with it?!?!

Do you mount your PC above head level where the room temp is hotter?

[Niqui]

wonder how hot he keeps the room also? since height of where he mounted it and the room temp tend to affect the temps

[caraboose]

For the water cooling aspect, yes it would dominate the Antec 1200. Looks, the Antec 1200 works better.

[Niqui]

Originally Posted by caraboose

For the water cooling aspect, yes it would dominate the Antec 1200. Looks, the Antec 1200 works better.

yeah looks wise i definitly prefer the Antec 1200 but this would only be used for water so im pretty sure id be better off with this one over it

[AngelEyes]

Originally Posted by Amish

Do you mount your PC above head level where the room temp is hotter?

I could be wrong, but it sounds like you are suggesting that somewhere over my head in my room its hotter then inside my case. Thankfully the architect that designed this building thought ahead and put in windows and ventilation. The volume of air in my room allows the heat that is being generated in my case to dilute and then slowly circulate out of the room.

To be honest my water cooled rig has its hot spot right behind the radiator for the GPU loop. But my linux rig is more of a normal situation and for sure the hot spot is the area around the RAM and voltage regs, its water cooled as well so the CPU heat is exiting through the radiator mounted on top and from testing its the worst for cooling but most cool looking and conveniant to mount spot.

It is not all that hot up at the ceiling in my room I checked (and found another reason to love my IR thermometer).

[Niqui]

atleast your in a good room for it my buddys is in a room with no windows no ventalation nothing..he wont even use a typical standing fan for some air circulation his case has poor circulation also and they have no a/c his comp really feels the heat during the summer when its shutting off from overheating on him alot..

[Witchdoctor]

Looks like a sweet case

I would need more pics if I were going to purchase it though

[Niqui]

Originally Posted by Witchdoctor

Looks like a sweet case

I would need more pics if I were going to purchase it though

yeah theres more pictures on another forum i wont post the link cause idk if i can post links to other forums but it seems to be a sick case and if/when i get it i dont like it just return it within the 30 days lol

[Witchdoctor]

Originally Posted by Niqui

yeah theres more pictures on another forum i wont post the link cause idk if i can post links to other forums but it seems to be a sick case and if/when i get it i dont like it just return it within the 30 days lol

post some picks of your build
I would reverse the case flow and blow that rad out like mentioned above
if need be you can blow from the back and the top with a tri blowing out the front

I have mine going out the top and it seems to work fine
mid 50's under prime load
here is a pick to check out

Good luck with the new build

[Niqui]

i'll post pics once i get the case and get the rest of the parts from newegg and ncix should be by next thursday i just ordered them. then after that ill order the parts for water but ill make a thread about that t omake sure i get everything i need but ill post pics as i do everything for sure so i can get everyones opinions, as of right now i have the cpu, ram, hddm and psu the rest is in the mail

[AngelEyes]

The top of the box does not make a huge difference, its minor the heat that preloads from the NB/SB and RAM if they are running stock. Its when you start OCing the crap out of your DDR2 and have two glowing 45c sticks dumping heat at the top of your case, right next to the overvolted memory controller in the northbridge, then you start to see it if the rad is sucking the air from those components. of course the solution is to water cool those parts as well... getting around to that but it might be after I get an x58 mobo. I don't want to buy a new set of chipset blocks in 5 months...