[Solved] H100 in a Cosmos II - Who designed this?

I'm assembling my brand new rig and I'm real excited but I've ran into a problem and don't want to screw anything up.

I've got a Cosmos II case and I'm installing an ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe in it.
I planned to put the H100 in the top of the case. The top is set up to take 3x120mm fans. There is one installed in the rearmost slot and the h100 would take up the other two but there are 2 bent up notches taken out of the case at the end of the row of fan spaces (just big enough to slide the edge of a case fan into) but I can't fit the h100 in with the fans set in a push configuration.

Alternatively I could attempt to install it on the door. That would be a huge pain any time I wanted to open the case. I would have to crack it open, undo 8 screws, then open the door. Putting the door on would be even harder.

The obvious solution is to move the existing fan to the other side and fit the h100 in the rearmost 2 slots. But the ATX connector on the motherboard is all the way up at the top and I won't be able to have the h100 there with the connector plugged in.

TLDR:
H100 won't fit in the case with a push configuration, should I:
A) Set it up with a pull
B) Put the h100 outside the case (there's a dust cover over that part) and keep the push setup
C) Deal with taking it on and off to be able to open the case
D) shove everything in the case and throw it out the window

Thanks.

Pictures of the offending case:

The three slots for fans at the top, note the ATX connector in light blue on the left.



Close-up of the tabs



EDIT: Fixed pictures, apparently [img] no likey https

The answer is...

E) return the case & replace it with CM HAF X if you're really looking for large size (full tower) PC case.

The inside of Cosmos II is pure waste if you're talking of it's huge size. Somehow the CM people who put this case in the drawing board failed to realize that those people that will buy this particular case will use the case for internal liquid cooling set up. Adding liquid cooling grommets doesn't make any sense hence the case is so huge putting an external liquid cooling set up on it sounds crazy. I'm surprise that you're using this case for hybrid liquid cooling as you don't really need this big of a case to cool your components. You cannot put even a slim radiator at the top of the case on a push & pull configuration.

Or Mountain Moods "Dream Machine" (same price as Cosmos II & way cooler)...

The case was reviewed & got the top award by Maximum PC last 2010. There's also a Black Edition of the case.

http://www.caselabs.net/

Scroll down and look.

http://caselabs-store.com/

Caselabs is a fairly new company and people didn't start noticing it until early / mid 2011

Don't SLI 590s. New GPUs are coming out right now and they are a pain to SLI. Even a Crossfire set up of 7970s will do the job.

Do you think you got a faulty Cosmos 2? I've seen people put H100s with no problem.

You don't need an extremely big case in the SLI 590s. You only need (2) 590s to max it to quad SLI as the video card is a dual GPU video card (you can't add more). If you like big cases with extreme performance & money to spare then go with (4) 580s. That's usually the preferred way of maxing things out by extreme overclockers as 580 has higher clock speed than the GPU in the 590. 590 is essentially a 580 with (2) same 580 GPUs at lower clock speed.

But if you're to ask me, I rather go with the SLI 590s hence you can save some bucks (not to mention the electric bills). You don't really need (4) SLI 580s if you only do gaming. Most of those people using this particular quad SLI set up are those people who likes to get to the top of the benchmark chart.

This is what I said. The case this big damands full liquid cooling solution. Not a hybrid liquid cooling solution.

Well then damnit I'll just have to start doing my research on building a full liquid cooling solution. Was looking for something to do with my mini-fridge from college.

For now I'll wait it out and see what's coming.

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