Corsair 540 White - 2nd Built with previous parts

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1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x Asus Crosshair V Formula Z AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £169.99
1 x BenQ GW2450HM 24" Widescreen LED Professional Monitor - Black £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £143.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Arctic White (CC-9011048-WW) £104.99
1 x Seasonic G series 750w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00
1 x Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT240M500SSD1) £85.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £84.98
1 x Avexir Core White Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIW) - White Light £71.99
1 x NZXT HUE RGB LED Controller - Black £39.98
1 x Corsair Raptor K30 Gaming Keyboard (CH-9000043-UK) £37.99
1 x Corsair AF120 Quiet Edition Low Noise High Airflow - Dual Pack (CO-9050002-WW) £22.00
1 x Corsair SP120 Quiet Series High Pressure Low Noise - Dual Pack (CO-9050006-WW) £22.00
Total : £1,344.74 (includes shipping : £19.10).




Ive decided to do some shopping and use some of my old parts and I still need to get rid off some of my old stuff: MSi r9 270, Motherboard and etc.. but the above should be the final spec with the parts coming in tomorrow :D

As for the future ill probably add another r9 280 and change the PSU when the time is right, braided cables maybe white ones? Im still not sure whether to use my old fans as the corsair white one comes with nice af140 with white leds unless I can do push and pull. I also plan on adding storage and going dual monitor set up!

Anyways opinions and thoughts on the built, whats missing and etc is welcome - pictures should be taken tomorrow when I have everything
 
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I think ill give the fans a test and see how it goes but I already got the fans to replace them if im not happy with them, as for the Kingston and Samsung I was mainly going for speed/price and kinda fits the black/red/white color scheme
 
Rroff said:
As much as I like Kingston I'd reccomend looking at the Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO for the SSD.

The stock fans with the 540 are a bit noisy but they do push a ton of air so depends whats important to you.
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Shouldve taken this on board as im now going to return that Kingston ssd because the write speeds are nowhere near the 450. I will be getting the Crucial m500 now
 
Will remove it then. need to install the NZXT HUE now but gonna have to be creative as the cable is no longer sticky as i removed it from my bitfenix ronin. Also what you guys think of side fan? ive changed it from exhaust to intake. im so tempted to get 2x120 AF white leds and 1x 140 AF white leds - but then ill have 3 times 120 AF laying around and those fans aint cheap!

i still think they couldve been more creative with the bottom part of the cage... looks empty with ssds and being open just means dust inside the case, wouldve been nice if couldve set up bottom fans
 
I updated the basket but my PSU is not the correct one, also a few pictures before i add the hue led lights. Could use some input on the side fan set up and whether to get black and red braided cables or all white braided cables or white and black

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mumihp said:
Really nice build, the 540 is a nice case. I built my first PC using the Corsair 500R, but I hated the mesh so replaced it with acrylic plastic so I atleast have a 'window', but I'm a big fan of big window panel on this case. Can I ask, what made you choose the 540 over the cases that's out there right now???
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Well my previous built was a bitfenix ronin case and imo i still believe this is the best case at prices below £70 but my case got damaged (got 2 kids who like to damage my things!) so i needed a replacement and the case that i truly wanted was Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower Enthusiast Case with Window which i strongly believe this will be the best case for a long time especially at £89.99 but because it still on pre-order and by the looks of it probably wont even be here in july and i could not wait that long the only other good case that i could think off that has a side window (which im a big fan of) and easy to built with excellent air flow was the 540 and to be honest i have no complains about it apart from maybe the bottom part of the case - currently you can only add the SSDs there but i think that couldve been removable and add an option to for instance mount fans.

But if you get this case:

Its very good for cable management
looks
excellent cooling
easy to built in

negatives:
cant think of much apart from lack of creativity on bottom part of the case
 
i only currently have 120gb ssd and 250gb ssd and so far i have 97gb free on main and 169gb free on the other so as for now i have enough storage and i can never see myself ever again getting an HD. So as far as space for storage, ive used the 2 at the front and there is plenty at the back. IF i even come close to running out of space, my next one will either be a 250gb ssd or 512gb. No more HDs for me!
 
Jay85 said:
You are right, you only need it if the fans are pulling air into the case. By putting the filters there you'll only be restricting your airflow out of your case and trapping the heat in.
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I have removed it now guys, thank you for the advice.

Im considering moving into watercooling to max my crosshair v formula-z and fx8350 as i feel atm my h100 is holding me back. Any ideas on what i should get? so a sort of spec me? only for CPU tho. cant see the need for the GPU
 
Well i do want a 240 radiator and whatever else is needed for it.

Im not really aware of the prices. So maybe you could do 2 or 3 specs? 1 cheapest / 2 mid range / 3 expensive?
 
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