Antec p160

[XeroHouR]

This sorta belongs in case modding, sorta in cooling...but I have a friend who wants to build a water cooling case, but doesn't want to cut it. He also demands top cooling(guess he liked my system temps ). We wanted a case with 2 places to mount 120mm fan radiators. In searching for these I saw some cases I really liked, so I found this Antec p160, every review I've seen they've gone nuts for this thing. It has dual 120mm (front and back) fans.
My question is does anyone have this(or just willing to venture an educated guess) that I could indeed mount a radiator and 120mm fan to the fron AND back of this case? Would there be sufficent room for a pump at the bottom somewhere, and the res would be a 5 /12 bay res(or are these bad??). We both want to run a rad in the front for CPU(after pump) then to NB, back to the back rad for cooling again, then to the GPU block, back to the res. Is this a bad idea for a setup, should we reconsider them?

[XeroHouR]

no one with any experience here!! bah!

[Gizmo]

Dunno about the case, but consider this:

You are going to be running warm air from inside the case across your radiator on the back side (because the rear fan will be exhausting air). Does this seem like a good idea if the goal is to cool the water before returning it to the CPU, GPU, chipset or other water block?

[XeroHouR]

yea i've considered this but I can feel the one side of my radiator (external) now and it doesn't feel all that much warmer, and the second(in the back) would be cooling the GPU, which isn't as hot as the CPU so I think slightly warmer air wouldn't be all that bad for it. With 3 120mm fans on my case(2 on front rad and 1 on the back) there will be gallons() of air going through my case, spreading the heat from the first rad out over a greater amount of air, which would allow cooler air across the back one. Also I was considering one of those 5.25" bay coolers to flood the case with cooler air, above the rad. If this isn't too hot(or is too hot...) of an idea I was going to get a dual 80mmfan radiator in the back and do what koolance does and make a curved plastic dome and set one fan to intake the other to exhaust, that way it has cool air from the outside looping down, in, and back up out. With any luck ONE of these two ideas will prove better after trial and error =-O