The Sharkoon Rev300 Case Review – A different design with plenty of space for a custom Water Cooling

1 - Einführung und technische Daten 2 - Das Gehäuse stellt sich vor 3 - Die restlichen Komponenten 4 - Einbau der Wasserkühlung 5 - Testsetup, Temperaturen und Lautstärke 6 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit

The case content

I could have gone for the latest high-speed Gucci stuff from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel right now. But I wanted to include something that you could still kind of afford. Therefore, please understand my choice of components correctly and rather as one – of many – possibilities. Thus, I opted for the Intel Core i5-12400F. Price-performance ratio really great and I even bought it for the project. The Intel was cheaper than the AMD competitor!

(The Liquid Devil is quasi only available via the secondary market = officially no longer available)

The whole thing comes on a “cheap” but good B660 motherboard from MSI. The MSI MAG B660M Mortar WIFI DDR4. Why not an ATX board? You can’t see it anyway because of the vertical GPU installation. A matter of taste, as always. I got the board from MSI for testing purposes and it served as a replacement board in case my Z690 on the testbench gave up the ghost. You never know…

The graphics card used is the AMD Radeon RX 6900XT from PowerColor in the Liquid Devil Edition. Also from my private stock. So you can already see where the journey is going. We put the system under water: figuratively speaking. A 16 GB DDR4 kit is used for the working memory. The Patriot Viper Steel RGB with 3600 MHz CL 20. Not the fastest Ram, but solid and currently available at a low price. I also install a 250 GB M.2 NVMe from Toshiba, a Crucial P2 1 TB, and two S-ATA SSDs from Samsung. This exhausts my private stock, but somehow I still need to install cooling. My 240 AiO would go down here and somehow everyone can….

The cooling

Here, Alphacool supported me and provided me with a custom water cooler – including fans etc. – for the project. Installing such a cooling system is almost decadent, but somehow also nice to have. I wanted to try what really goes into the Sharkoon REV300 and most importantly, what does it look like in the end. Visually and especially in terms of volume and temperatures.

Alles was man so braucht

780 mm Kühlfläche bei 30 mm Dicke

Die können sich sehen lassen und performen auch!

The motherboard from MSI and the Liquid Devil already give the look a bit. Black-silver (Chrome at Alphacool) it should be. So it’s best to take EPDM hoses, they are insensitive and easy to handle. An ice block and the ice ball, plus silver fittings and connectors, etc. (depending on your own needs). For this reason, you should make a sketch in advance, for example, to plan the need for 45 ° and 90 ° angle pieces.

Here’s what my plan looked like. Quite simple actually, so I planned: 12 classic fittings, 6x 90 ° elbow, 2x 45 ° elbow, 4x extension 20 mm, a drain cock + connection manifold and double nipple pieces 4x (one must eventually drain the water again). Plus three meters of EPDM hose, an ice ball with pump and the radiators. The Rise fans were basically unnecessary. But since I sent a 140 and a 120 to Pascal for fan testing, the Rise fans came in handy.

(Preliminary test regarding push-pull with the RX 5700XT Nitro+ SE 306 mm length. The card is already tight in vertical shoring. A current RX 6900 XT could become scarce – even in horizontal installation)

I still had a 360 X-Flow radiator lying around with me, which no longer has any screws, etc.. But is perfectly suitable as a test object. So I had to realize that my plan – to go for push-pull in the front – unfortunately won’t work. But a 420 X-Flow would fit much better into the overall picture. Thus, fewer hoses run over the GPU, which is supposed to be put in the limelight. An X-Flow would also fit better in the back.

In other words, if you’ve made your plan, try testing that. You can also use an old AiO radiator and old fans. The rest is up to your imagination. The rule here is: you can’t miscalculate as much as you can miscalculate! Continue on the next page…