Question 1

after researching this a lot, it seems the only option on water cooling is out the back and no mounting for it. so if you watercool why bother with the back panel? or is there another way?

Accepted Answer

If I understood your question correctly it depends what are you water cooling.I've seen some custom water looping done in this case with the reservior on the inside. Not entirely sure on where it was mounted but it looked like it was above the intake fan slot. For CPU only cooling you can mount it Inbetween the back plate and the inner plate if your radiator isn't a think one like the corsair h80i GT. My radiator was too think so o mounted it on the outside of the back plate.

My brother ran a kraken CPU cooler on the outside of his case mounted to the back plate and a gtx 980 hybrid radiator over the intake fan slot of this case.

You have some options but it'll be sorta difficult.

Question 2

Does this product handle heat well?

Accepted Answer

I have all 5 HD  bays full video card and air cooled CPU all runs cool in this case with two fans one in one out nothing fancy about them the whole thing stay nice and cool.

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