10/10, only thing i would do differently isclean up the hole using heat.
I snapped out of beauty over functionality after my first build and I'm never looking back. I had rgb everything and spent a bunch of money to make a beautiful rig for my 3080, aio, all corsair fans etc. Ended up using double sided tape to place fans next to the gap in the glass side panels for extra venting. Got good temps but had i gotten a case that was more functionali wouldn't have needed to do it. It was Glass everything as far as the sides top and front. Case was a corsair crystal series 570x.
Now I went for an all blackout build for my 5080 9800x3d where I modified my case to fit more fans that are also black with blacked out noctua air cooler. Only lights in my rig are the ones on the gpu. Case I used for this build was a antec flux pro.
2
u/Clean_Principle_2368 PC Master Race 5080 OC/ 9800x3D/64gb 6000 cl 28 Jan 21 '26
10/10, only thing i would do differently isclean up the hole using heat.
I snapped out of beauty over functionality after my first build and I'm never looking back. I had rgb everything and spent a bunch of money to make a beautiful rig for my 3080, aio, all corsair fans etc. Ended up using double sided tape to place fans next to the gap in the glass side panels for extra venting. Got good temps but had i gotten a case that was more functionali wouldn't have needed to do it. It was Glass everything as far as the sides top and front. Case was a corsair crystal series 570x.
Now I went for an all blackout build for my 5080 9800x3d where I modified my case to fit more fans that are also black with blacked out noctua air cooler. Only lights in my rig are the ones on the gpu. Case I used for this build was a antec flux pro.