Corsair Carbide Air 540 Builds

Uncle Petey · 14 Mar 2015 at 01:01

Cheers guys

Th0nt, let's just say there's a reason I haven't been brave enough to show the dark side on this build yet

Danny75 · 14 Mar 2015 at 01:19

Beautiful, Pete. Thanks for sharing. Some pics in the dark with the case lighting on would be nice?

Uncle Petey · 14 Mar 2015 at 01:27

Thanks Danny.
I'll see what I can do, but it's a bit tricky balancing the lighting with a phone cam tbh. It's just a UV cathode illuminating the fluid btw.
In hindsight, I would've put a short led strip behind the plexi on each card. That would've looked pretty nice...

Aston998 · 14 Mar 2015 at 11:49

Wow!!! An amazing and awesome case/build!

Divine Pain · 14 Mar 2015 at 14:23

I like it but...

I hate you because of jealous.

Uncle Petey · 14 Mar 2015 at 14:54

Aston998 said:
Wow!!! An amazing and awesome case/build!

Thank you very much

Divine Pain said:
I like it but...

I hate you because of jealous.

LOL

I managed to get a couple of ropey night pics, but they're only a rough approximation of how it looks :/ It's more mellow in reality and the ram isn't lit up in purple.

And a dayight pic I forgot to post yesterday.

Dark side pic later when I've managed to man up

Oh, and a couple of notes for anyone interested: The interior panels are made from 1.2mm aluminium sheet, cut with a jigsaw, bent with a basic Black and Decker workbench and wrapped in matte black vinyl.

Those Barrow acrylic compression fittings are really nice and hold the tube tightly. DO use either Barrow tubing or perhaps EK if using 16mm OD.
I used Monsoon 16mm tubing at first and it was slightly too small, which resulted in leaks :eek:

foster grant · 14 Mar 2015 at 15:41

That is very very nice

Dempsey22 · 20 Mar 2015 at 14:05

Mine as it stands, build on hold for quite some time

I couldn't find the remote control to change the brightness/colours at the time of taking the pic either :rolleyes:

Andreas.96 · 20 Mar 2015 at 14:58

Some of the builds on here are crazy good

dhallam · 20 Mar 2015 at 16:26

Ive just started my 540 Build gone for 3 white Aerocool DS fans in the front they look excellent. Just need to wait for my rad push and pull fans to turn up then my build can start.

Dempsey22 · 20 Mar 2015 at 16:36

dhallam said:
Ive just started my 540 Build gone for 3 white Aerocool DS fans in the front they look excellent. Just need to wait for my rad push and pull fans to turn up then my build can start.

White fans in a black 540 look great, I have 3 SP120s up top and 3 in the front!

Greybeard · 20 Mar 2015 at 19:42

** Rule 10 **

Nuff said! This is stunning

I've just sent you a reply.

andy_mk3 · 20 Mar 2015 at 20:53

That is most definitely stunning

dhallam · 21 Mar 2015 at 12:17

Dempsey22 said:
White fans in a black 540 look great, I have 3 SP120s up top and 3 in the front!

Mine is still boxed as only just brought back from work, didn't think the top would take 3 120mm .. If it does decisions 2 140mm or 3 120 the same as the front.

Dempsey22 · 22 Mar 2015 at 18:37

dhallam said:
Mine is still boxed as only just brought back from work, didn't think the top would take 3 120mm .. If it does decisions 2 140mm or 3 120 the same as the front.

It doesnt take 3x120mm at all, only 2x120mm. But having 3 in the front and 2 in the top looked odd to me to chopped the case up 5 days after buying it

I like this pic

Wilko_Dog · 22 Mar 2015 at 19:16

dhallam · 22 Mar 2015 at 20:41

Dempsey22 said:
It doesnt take 3x120mm at all, only 2x120mm. But having 3 in the front and 2 in the top looked odd to me to chopped the case up 5 days after buying it

I like that option

canuseemygrapes · 22 Mar 2015 at 23:12

took about 10 minutes after un-boxing my 540 before I was cutting, drilling and grinding it.

Dempsey22 · 22 Mar 2015 at 23:35

canuseemygrapes said:
took about 10 minutes after un-boxing my 540 before I was cutting, drilling and grinding it.

Not living on the edge until you take a dremel to a brand new case

dhallam · 23 Mar 2015 at 09:42

Its too new to dremel i would give it a week before modding.