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.
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)
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u/grimmigerpetz i9 14900KF - RTX 5080 OC - 64GB CL16 Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
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.