Doh! Ninja does NOT fit in a Silverstone LC16M

damien · Post by **damien** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:15 pm

I just found this out the hard way.

The Scythe Ninja does NOT fit in a Silverstone LC16M. You have been warned!

aburgard · Post by **aburgard** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:13 am

I've been looking for a tower cooler to route past those 2 80mm fans in the back. What did you end up using?

Cerberus · Post by **Cerberus** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:56 am

The Mini Ninja is on the market now; perhaps that will work.

aburgard · Post by **aburgard** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:04 am

I looked into this some more today. I think I'm going to try the Silverstone NT01 in there.

NyteOwl · Post by **NyteOwl** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:21 pm

Not sure how the cases compare in height, but I wrote Silverstone about the clearance in the CW01 and they indicated the heatsink clearance was 120mm so the mini-ninja (115mm) will fit in that case though with a scant 5mm clearance.

damien · Post by **damien** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:14 pm

I wound up using an Thermalright SI-128, which does the job beautifully on my AMD X2 3800+, but does not leave enough room to fit the HDDs in the left-hand bay at the front. They do fit, but you'll need infinitely small fingers to get the sata connectors in.

I have therefore ordered it's little brother, the XP-90C, and that should do the job nicely.

truckman · Post by **truckman** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:41 pm

This weekend I'm planning to do a motherboard swap on my PVR, which resides in an LC16M. The new motherboard is an Abit M2-HD and I'll be using the Zerotherm BTF90 hsf. According to my measurements, there will be between 1/16" and 1/8" of clearance between the top of the heat pipes and the lid.

I hadn't considered the clearance between the drive bay and the heat sink. It looks like I won't be able to use the drive bay on that side, unless I remove the fan and slide the drive all the way to the front of the bay. This may not be an issue for me because I'll be limited to three hard drives. All of the drives that I'm installing in this box are SATA, including the DVD drive, and the motherboard only has four SATA connectors.

BTW, I wish this case had provisions for soft-mounting the drives. I suspect that I'm going to have a problem with drive vibration being coupled to the case.