What are size limitations for the aio?

[Kardamonius]

Hey Buddy. First of all - perfect design and thank you for your work. I'm currently at the building process of my bc250, and now I've built the nexus case from makerworld with the air-cooling. but it is too loudy and hot so i decided to try and build with the aio water cooling and your project is the only one which provide completed case for lc. After research your project i have some questions about choosing aio. I have flex psu and you wrote that the only option of aio for the redux case is the thermalright aqua elit, which unfortunately is no available in my country or at very high price. What the point of taking only this one aio, is it something about dimensions or about special pimp mounts? I wanna try find some similar aio on my market and build this case. Also I know that you already dropped v2 here. Could you please tell me which case will be better for my setup and what should i pay attention for while choosing the aio

[NexGen-3D-Printing]

Its the height mainly, cant be any higher than 48mm from cold plate to the top of the pump, many others will fit in my mount, most that use a proper 4 bolt LGA1700 mounting arrangement will fit, no more than 74.5mm diameter pump/block, but its the height that is the biggest issue, I haven't seen any others as low profile as the Thermalright.

Now if your going to use the FSP500-30AS PSU, then you might be okay, but I need to confirm this when I do my next build, but the the below image is based on the Metalfish 550M and similar Flex-ATX, and the Server PSU are even worse and sit right over the top:

Below shows you the limitations on the diameter of the pump:

[Kardamonius]

Alright, get it. I'm working at the PC store and i have a lot of different AIOs which are 48mm pump height regarding to manufacture's, so i can test different of them and maybe will find new models which can fit to your design.

Few more questions. Which case should I choose for thus testing? Pro v1, or pro v2?

And about your design of the aio mount - as i can see v2 is developed specially for thermalright mounts. V1 is more flexible in case different mounts, or no? And what socket mounts it uses? 1700/1851/am4/am5?

And can I use other adapters for coolers mounting from the bc250 community, or it wouldn't fit with your case?

Thanks for your response

[NexGen-3D-Printing]

I forgot to say, I did make this one for an oddball AIO:

#50

Its not as good as my proper mount, but it gets the job done just fine, you can find the file here: https://github.com/NexGen-3D-Printing/SteamMachine/tree/main/Custom_AIO_Mounts

Just use the the same hardware as my V2 mount, thumb nuts, and the back plate mounting bracket, this AIO was quite chunky, but the metal LGA1700 bracket was really low set near the cold plate, so it required a different approach to mounting it up.

Also, if you find one that nearly fits, but requires a desing change, let me know, and I will make one you can test, and I will drop it in the repo for alternative mounts, just stick with LGA1700 and avoid the 2 bolt AMD setups, I dont really like them they apply pressure in the wrong location for a 3D printed mount, if it was metal, then it would be different.

[NexGen-3D-Printing]

Alright, get it. I'm working at the PC store and i have a lot of different AIOs which are 48mm pump height regarding to manufacture's, so i can test different of them and maybe will find new models which can fit to your design -> This would be very helpful for others.

Few more questions. Which case should I choose for thus testing? Pro v1, or pro v2? -> PRO-V2, dont bother with the first one.

And about your design of the aio mount - as i can see v2 is developed specially for thermalright mounts. V1 is more flexible in case different mounts, or no? And what socket mounts it uses? 1700/1851/am4/am5? -> They both support the same, just the version 2 is more refined, it uses LGA-1700

And can I use other adapters for coolers mounting from the bc250 community, or it wouldn't fit with your case? -> No idea, I have never even looked at anyone elses mounting systems, the only ones I have seen were pretty average, I wouldn't use them, mine is designed to last, its extemely durable.

Thanks for your response