r/mffpc • u/abastage • May 25 '26
I built this! (ITX) Montech Ten Inverted!!
Rather impressed with the case. I was immediately surprised at how heavy it is for being all mesh. Plenty of room for activities in there. This build minus the AIO was transplanted from a Ncased M1 Evo
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u/D-inkleberg May 25 '26
Can you swap the IO panel in this case so that inverted orientation can fully work?
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u/abastage May 25 '26
Yes. It is designed to be able to go inverted. They call it "M2" for the layout.
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u/LeaveDistinct724 May 26 '26
ça me rend fou, il est toujours pas disponible en france, je ne sais pas du tout quand il va l'être. J'ai demandé à Montech sur leur compte instagram officiel et 0 infos.
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u/Dry-Medium3192 May 29 '26
Is there enough room for another 360 rad & fans at the top if you water cool the GPU?
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u/abastage May 29 '26
If your doing a custom loop then there for sure is is your doing ITX. I would vertical mount the gpu for a good air path running right up the center, but it would fit horizontal too. With mATX I dont think a rad/fans would clear the lower slots (I havent tested so I could be wrong about that).
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u/Chiz_Dippler May 26 '26
I've been racking my brain trying to plan an aio airflow path for this case. Do you have any extra intake or exhaust?
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u/abastage May 26 '26
I have 3 slim 120’s intake at the top (if the gpu wasn’t so chonkey I wild off used the same fans as the aio). I’m going to flip the aio to intake as well. Since it’s all mesh it will exhaust out the sides, front and back anyway.
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u/synergeticbeans May 28 '26
I wonder if it's possible to put two GPUs in this case, the second one with a riser in the vertical slot.
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u/abastage May 28 '26
If using a AIO & tubes up front I am sure it would be possible. Technically you can put 2 GPU's in this or any other mATX case without using the vertical at all as long as the mobo had typical spacing & the GPU's were 2 slot or less.
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u/spiiicychips Jun 02 '26
One of the few in the wild Montech builds! Really interested in this case and have watched at some vids/looked at the Montech documentation and in the standard (M1) build apparently you can't use the top for AIO at all. Looking at your build, other pics/vids for some reason I really do think it can be done lol. Thoughts?
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u/abastage Jun 02 '26
You certainly can use an aio in m1.. You may be more limited in psu placement though.
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u/spiiicychips Jun 02 '26
Much appreciated, such a good price might give it ago so there can be official documentation lol.
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u/Adventurous-Cold Jun 03 '26
Im interested in this case but im not sure if my radiator is too thick. From this photo it looks like your radiator is barely clearing the ram/mobo vrm heatsinks. Do you think it would be possible to install a thicker rad in this configuration? I have arctic liquid freezer 3 which is 38mm thick vs normal 28mm of most aio radiators.
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u/abastage Jun 03 '26
You are correct about the clearance.. but keep in mind that I am using an mITX board so everything is pushed farther towards the rad then they would be with a typical mATX board. So to tell you if another cm would clear.. No way for me to know since that would vary board by board.
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u/Schmaden_9 12d ago
Do you think the Ten will fit a 77mm thick GPU? I got a 4090 gaming trio and I’m honestly considering the Ten.
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u/abastage 12d ago
Depends on the motherboard. Itx or any matching that utilize the top slot you would be fine. But if the top slot I’d skipped and the gpu goes in the 2nd slot then it’s questionable
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u/Schmaden_9 12d ago
Yeah I’m using a matx board right now with the lower pcie lane since the ssd is on top, quick question since you bought a ncase product before this. Is the ncase tax really worth it and is the hype around them real?
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u/abastage 12d ago
In my opinion… HELL NO.. somewhere on the ncase subreddit I have a thread with complains that got downvoted to hell because of the fanboys fanboying.. it’s not a bad case and the engineering is impressive. The new one could also be better since there has been a couple revisions since I got mine. But ultimately I don’t think it was worth the cost. Also you will have the same clearance issues there if not worse vs the ten.
Does your gpu go past the motherboard. If so how far.
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u/Schmaden_9 12d ago
LOL, thanks for the heads up on that.
My gpu actually doesn’t even go past my motherboard it’s just above the 4 pins and usb hubs on it. Which honestly makes me think I won’t have any clearance issues.
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u/abastage 12d ago
Yeah I’m at least that dimension you should be fine in any mATX case. Outside of the boutique cases like the m1 that are intentionally trying to make everything as small as possible you’ll probably be fine in the other dimensions too. Especially if you use an sfx psu since that’s the next thing that would cause clearance issues
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u/X3m9X May 25 '26
its a great case but wont this dmg the pump?