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Definitely not. The case is far too small. If I were you I'd watercool these xeon babies and get 4x7806gb and also watercool'em.... if you find waterblocks for them

or get 900d for air cooling

it's completely fine, just few tips:

* if You run Your GPUs on air, move those fans from bottom to top of the sink - just don't flip =DDD
* alternatively You could get two 120mm AIO liquid coolers for those CPUs - Xeons don't run that hot - 240s would be overkill (helped to build similar system - under load with 240mm AIO temps barely reach 50C)

* if You decide to get a full loop - You can buy waterblocks for CPUs too =)

* in any case, get some sort of a bracket to help mounting Your drives in optical bays..- this will allow You to get rid of drive cages that block the airflow from intake.
* change intake fans into something better - those silent cases are quite restrictive, so better fans are advisable, plus choose some good one (Noctuas, beQuiet or smth along those lines -don't save pennies..as that will influence performance)

as mentioned by Smicha - case is too small if You'd go watercooling & would like to have rads inside. However, I'd go for external rads, something like MoRa or bigger pieces from Aquacomputer - that would allow You not to change case =)

Oh... the external rad is perfect for this.


Yes - I missed it - moving noctua rads to top should give more extra space.

smicha wrote:Oh... the external rad is perfect for this. I just meant air cooling additional cards in this case.

I guess, the best, even on air, would be to get at least AIO for CPUs just to have more clearance as second CPU cooler (that is a bit lower) is clearly in a way & will make GPU compatability issues in first x8/x16 slot - You can get out with two/three cards, but not with four..

Thanks for all your advice so far guys, much appreciated.

I'm afraid my hardware knowledge isn't that good.

Rads are air based cooling fans?

So what do you guys mean with moving the Noctua rads to the top? Is it possible to get these Noctua's higher? Or do you mean removing them completely and go for another watercooling for the CPU's because they could have the outlets in the top of the case?

Removing the drive cages might be a good tip, but as I understands this has only sense if I would also upgrade the intake fans?

I think a full loop would be very cool, but it seems to me you also have to be sure about what you are doing and be quite tech savvy. I seems quite daunting, to me at least. But its probably a lot quieter then air cooling.

Man man man.. quite some work and knowledge needed haha I just want to have more render power!

Each of two nocta radiators has two fans - place the lower one on top of the radiator, not bottom. That's it.

Then you can insert 2 more graphics cards, keeping 1 slot distance between them. And it's all about air cooling, no extra costs.

See the photo.

Aaaaah ok! like that

Ok cool, that would be great

In your drawing I see you drew something underneath the titan black. I dont know if you meant that purely illustrative explaining it would have room for three cards, or that you mean it literal?

Because there is no slot underneath it. See photo.

Red slots shall be taken by gpus

Perfect, got it Thanks smicha!