Radial9

Old FS simmer, new user id, long story, easier this way. Have spent last few weeks reading to come up to speed on new build. Getting back into FS after two year “pause”. Rebuilding my FS computer for FSX and future P3D. I’m desiring to use my five year old HAF932 tower case. Looking to put a Corsair H80i water cooler in it to overclock an Intel 4770K on a Sabertooth X79. Corsair site says mount the H80i double 120mm fan on either top or bottom of case. I’m in South Florida, Airflow will be a big issue. Bottom mount appears undesirable as PSU harness and wires come right out across the fan mount area. HAF932 manual says I can replace top default fan with three 120mm fans. But… it appears if I mount the H80i “forward” it looks to interfere with the front ports wiring. Can I mount the H80i in the center and mount one each 120mm fan behind and in front of the H80i? Anyone have any experience doing this? Want to make sure I will be able to mount everything where it should be, to include the back panel of the CPU mount as well as the fan/radiator assembly. Also… came across a post that said to ensure the Mobo has 3 pin USB sockets to accommodate the front case USB ports. All the USB sockets on the Mobo that accommodate existing front panel USB’s appear to be full 10 pin. Any help here would be most appreciated. Forum searches turned up nada…Would rather not buy a new HAF case if I can make this one work. Thank you for any help here, Cheers, Radial9

Good Day Gentlemen, I was a FS9 and FSX enthusiast for many years. Regular multiplayer and contributor at DC3 Airways. VATSIM too. I enjoyed our hobby for well over eight years. In early 2011 I had to set everything aside. We have relocated from Alaska to Florida and the wife is encouraging me to rebuild my setup, which included rudder, throttle and yoke controls as well as a small fortune in addons. I could not even remember my old Avsim logon. CRS disease at 58 Here's the rub. I have two old desktop computers that have been set aside that hard drives in them I used for FS. I also have my original FS9 and FSX with Accelerator disks. For the life of me I cannot find the disk paper covers with the software keys, but I do have the disks. I downloaded the AVSIM FSX software and hardware guide and looked it over. I'm pretty sure I can rescue the old drives that had all my old installs on them. I may even be able to rescue and restore the last desktop that is good intel core I7 and Windows 7. BUT... if I can't and I decide to rebuild the desktop (or build a new one) from scratch am I going to be able to use my FS9 and FSX disks if I can't find the keys? I'm fairly certain I put the original installs into a separate partition on the old desktop hard drive. But if I have to rebuild Windows 7 that partition may not function with the new rebuild and thus I would have to rebuilt FSX from scratch with original software disks that I don't have keys for. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Robert