Love the look of the build. 2 possible, minor tweaks. Have you tried reversing the flow? Leave everything where it is, but reverse the fan directions so you are pulling cool air into the case, through the radiator, and then out the top - while I get you want to keep the mobo/RAM cool, it is almost always better to feed to coolest air into your radiator to cool the major components. Also, is the riser cable flexible enough to route behind the case? Would look much cleaner if you dropped it to the back of the case (where the rest of the wiring is hidden) and then had it pop out at the GPU.
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the "warm" air is in the case for a very short time so the overall case temp between your air downwards and out the bottom and air in from the bottom and out of the top is almost certainly negligible plus the upwards direction is "better" as it's pushing the warmed air in the direction it wants to go.
im not saying its better the reason i have it like this is the lcd fans if i flip them i wont see the lcd
Pushing the air in the direction it wants to go (as in hot air rises) won't really factor in much. Mechanical circulation over rides it to the point that it wanting to rise is negligible. It's only really worth worrying about when passively cooling or having very very low airflow.
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