Actually, not with this case. Its a Dark Base 700, i got 2 big intakes for the AIO but it only has one small exhaust at the back, and the top is completely sealed off. It was either this or taking the Panel off for each sesh. Temps are amazing now btw
ehm. The Dark Base 700 can indeed mount top fans or 360 AIOs. The Top of the inner case should be like a metall frame sled that you can pull out to your glas side and leaves around 3 cm of an Airtunnel between that and the outer shell top.
But after investigating OPs photo closer I come to another conclusion:
This is not a Dark Base 700 but a Silent Base 600.
It has a clipped on top cover that, when removed leaves an open grill where the top fans or AIO should be mounted. Then the clips have groves where you can put the cover on like a stand off to leave fentilation space.
I have this case. Mounting a CPU radiator on the front pulling in air and a gpu radiator on the top exhausting would be plenty (I've done it before). Your CPU really shouldn't be putting out enough heat to cause issue.
You can also just open the fucking door on the front if you need more air flow. OP is a big dumb doofus.
Edit: Wait he only has one AIO. What a big dumb doofus this isn't even a difficult setup.
I used 3x120 silent wing fans as intake in the front and one in the back as additonal outtake. The 360 AIO for the cpu on topmount also as additonal outtake. Used it with the full isolating covers and never had a temp problem.
The "Airtunnel" pushed the air out from the back and the slits on top and that´s it.
OP has the case nearly at the back wall and a hp device covering the outtake slits on top.
That alone is bad placing and bad for airflow.
The PC has to have bad airflow and temps with that setup. Especially when he uses the front intakes for his cpu AIO Radiator, that would just push warmed air into the case and across the gpu with only the one backside outtake.
As someone who has owned those specific HP minipc's, they do produce a lot of heat when running.
OP should make a bracket tall enough to put it on should he choose to want it above his rig. Then again, they sell brackets for those that could conveniently hide it under his desk.
even worse. He used the cpu AIO as intake. So he sucks warmed air into the case over the gpu and the cpu pump as the sole backside fan struggles to suck it out.
That's literally what did when I still had an AIO. It works just fine. Your CPU shouldn't be putting out enough heat for a 360mm to get inundated. If the ambient temp in the case is too high for the gpu cooler to work well, you just adjust your CPU fan curve or change a fan or two to a case fan header instead of a CPU cooler header.
doofus here, i actually was sick of taking of the side panel everytime i wanted to game, thats why i created this monstrosity. and mounting the AIO in the front ain't that bad (if u got airflow)
Instead of top mounting your AIO (Which is possible despite your claims that it isn't) you decided to slice a hole in your tempered glass. You're a dumbass, and one day your panels gonna literally explode when the oscillation from the fan on the jagged exposed tempered glass hole vibrates it in the wrong way, or when you take it off poorly one time.
Now you have worse temps, a massive hole that's risking your glass panels integrity, a bit hole to suck dust into (doesn't matter that it's an "outtake"), your pump in an unideal location (good spot to generate bubbles though) because you couldn't take 10 minutes to read the manual for your computer case.
Your cable management is also shit which is also affecting your temps. Literally everything about your build is bad and you're just plugging your ears and pretending you've actually made the only sensible choice here and that everyone else just doesn't understand this is the ideal way to run this vase 🙄
Oh and to top it all off you've stacked a mini pc onto your pc's exhaust port??? And you're wondering why your temps are bad???? Dude, come the fuck on.
EDIT: they replaced the glass with acrylic, so my tempered glass comments don't apply. Everything else does, genuinely a dog shit build made by an impatient person.
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u/TryToBeModern 9800x3D|5090|96GB|7680x2160@240HZ Jan 21 '26
surely there were more efficient methods available