Corsair Carbide Air 540 Builds

SimonMaltby · 8 Sep 2013 at 22:46

Ok been hard at work all weekend.
Not least because I brought loads of new hardware.
But did a rebuild in the 540 with some different water cooling.

Purchased some Promochill rigid Acrylic tube and fittings.
It is the same inner size as my old tube at 10mm but takes up much less space.
Looks really good. Its a shame I cant get water blocks for the new 780 Lightnings so its a bit overkill watercooling a single CPU via a 240 and a 360 rad. Hopefully blocks will become available so I can add them to the loop. Cards only just fit with my 360 rad.

The tube does make the back much neater and I found a good way of running the pipe behind the DVD cage

The stuff is really hard to work with and means draining even to reseat the CPU, but as I don't plan on altering this rig for quite a while that suits me fine.

Andybtsn · 8 Sep 2013 at 22:51

Looking good!

I will have an update soon, adding a third 7970 into mine. Overkill or what.

~>Dg<~ · 9 Sep 2013 at 00:22

very nice simon :cool:

COD4000 · 9 Sep 2013 at 08:43

To the people with SLI/crossfire cards with aftermarket coolers i.e twin frozr, windforce etc. How's this case handling temps with your cards ?

foster grant · 9 Sep 2013 at 09:04

The only thing that I don't like about the case is the noise from the front of it when you put the dust filter on , without the dust filter it's just about silent

faxfan · 9 Sep 2013 at 09:43

Simon - hows the temp? I assume all fans pull on the rads?

SimonMaltby · 9 Sep 2013 at 09:48

faxfan said:
Simon - hows the temp? I assume all fans pull on the rads?

CPU temps are excellent of course.
To early to tell on the graphics yet.
The front fans suck in through the 360. The 140 back and top pull out. So there is air flow and I made sure the CPU goes through the 240 first, so most of the heat gets sent out of the top.

Andybtsn · 9 Sep 2013 at 09:53

COD4000 said:
To the people with SLI/crossfire cards with aftermarket coolers i.e twin frozr, windforce etc. How's this case handling temps with your cards ?

Using eyeinfinity and everything on ultra I've never seen my card pass 65oC so pretty good.

COD4000 · 9 Sep 2013 at 10:23

Andybtsn said:
Using eyeinfinity and everything on ultra I've never seen my card pass 65oC so pretty good.

Awesome, cheers m8. Is that with 7970 lightnings ?

RetrogamerX · 9 Sep 2013 at 10:56

foster grant said:
The only thing that I don't like about the case is the noise from the front of it when you put the dust filter on , without the dust filter it's just about silent

I have no issue's with the noise of the air 540. Mine is super quiet. I put filter cloth on the bottom of my case and it's helped a lot. Extremely happy with my 540

Andybtsn · 9 Sep 2013 at 11:02

COD4000 said:
Awesome, cheers m8. Is that with 7970 lightnings ?

Yeah. I don't find it a quiet case but I wear headset or have music on so doesn't effect me. This is in games at load, idle I don't hear much tbh

foster grant · 9 Sep 2013 at 13:37

RetrogamerX said:
I have no issue's with the noise of the air 540. Mine is super quiet. I put filter cloth on the bottom of my case and it's helped a lot. Extremely happy with my 540

Well I love the case glad i got one

....but to be fair you have a rather lovely fan controller

lol

I think the noise is coming from the air being pulled through the filter , so I'm thinking ( it might sound a bit silly )...if i swapped the fans to the outside under the outer shell at the front and put the dust filter on the inside where the fans were, would that work ?...will the fans push the air through in the same way they pull air through the filter ?

vUNREALv · 9 Sep 2013 at 17:26

I've just tried mine with no filter and then with the filter and notice no difference in noise even at 12v.

maddog · 14 Sep 2013 at 19:20

Got mine today, absolutely love it but the inside of the window has dozens of scratches

RetrogamerX · 14 Sep 2013 at 19:38

foster grant said:
Well I love the case glad i got one ....but to be fair you have a rather lovely fan controller lol

It works very well too

Sorry to hear about your noise in your case. Hope you get it sorted quickly

pipson · 14 Sep 2013 at 19:43

Hey guys im thinking of either getting this case or the InWin GRone and i cant make up my mind. Im still in doubt simply because the InWIn GRone is cheaper by £10 and seems to have more room for future upgrades (thus making it future proof) however i love the look of this corsair case, can someone advice me in terms of any problems they had with it, set up, fans and etc??? I mainly only plan to add an H100. Also ive read somewhere that one of the cables you need to plug into the MB was a bit short?.

mcleish · 14 Sep 2013 at 20:43

This case was easy to build into. Loads of space and looks good with the main parts on show.
Its true, The reset switch, hard drive LED switch etc was a bit tough to insert, as they arent that long. Guess it depends on what board you have. Ive got a Extreme4 z77.

WuMyster · 14 Sep 2013 at 21:00

maddog said:
Got mine today, absolutely love it but the inside of the window has dozens of scratches

Post on the COrsair forums and submit an RMA. Theyll send you a new window side panel! Its happened to a lot of people.
My HDD trays were broken and they sent 3 new ones and a new SSD mount that is much better

SimonMaltby · 14 Sep 2013 at 21:28

Did a bit of colour work on my 540 build today.

Firstly my Graphics cards which had yellow highlights and are now red.
Next I replaced the PSU's black cables with red.
Finally I painted the silver thumb screws red.

Looking much better now

maddog · 15 Sep 2013 at 11:33

WuMyster said:
Post on the COrsair forums and submit an RMA. Theyll send you a new window side panel! Its happened to a lot of people.
My HDD trays were broken and they sent 3 new ones and a new SSD mount that is much better

Sorted it with a bit of elbow grease and T-cut

scratches weren't deep, the left drive cage wasn't slotted in, it must have been knocking against the window in transit.