Dripping with style or floody disaster?

Well my dad came in and said he got me the 5820k and the Gigabyte board, still, nothing to cry over hehe :p
I am sure she will, kinda glad i got the extra cores, but still 50/50 haha!

That's a cool looking board mate, and pretty sure it would be just as fast if not faster than my setup, especially once you overclock it a bit! :)

It's definitely a case of swings and roundabouts when choosing between 2011 & 1151, seen good arguments for both so don't think it's possible to be disappointed with either!

Can't wait to see more

Cheers Xenon, DPD are delivering more goodies between 13:30 & 14:30 today, so hopefully do it a bit more later if I get time :D
 
Damn, that is one sexy mobo and I agree the black RAM looks awesome in situ.

Lucky I chose the black RAM aye Luggs, regardless of the cost :D

Even better than getting lucky on the RAM, Santa (Jeff from DPD) has been again, and he brought more toys! Will hopefully have em installed in the next day or 2 :)

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Right, so I've made a start.

Phanteks fans and XSPC radiator are in :)
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Some good news, fairly nicely lined up with the rad above so should be a short / tidy bit of tubing. Would have been even better but had to push the top rad further forward to clear the rear fan :(
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BUT... It's looking like the pump / reservoir could be a right PITA. Not exactly a lot of room, and nothing flat to mount it on. Oh well, will have to make a new bracket for it when I get some spare time :)
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Well, I guess you could call that progress :p Looks like mounting the pump / res could be fun though...
 
good looking build!

would this help your mounting worries...

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ek-water-blocks-ek-uni-pump-bracket-120mm-fan-vertical-wc-890-ek.html

I'm using the same pump/res and have just ordered this bracket for myself. You could mount on the back of teh 120 rad there, provided there's space between that and the gpu!

Cheers mate, it's coming along slowly :)

Unfortunately not, going to need to mount the pump quite low down and all the fan mounts I've seen are too high up :(

As a rough guess I need the mounting holes to be somewhere around the red dots on the pic below, so was thinking mount the right hand ones properly, then make an L shape bracket so I can screw the left ones to the floor instead, which should hopefully have the added benefit of making it even more stable than standard... IF it goes to plan :p Biggest problem is trying to do it without making it look crap!
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I'm sure it will look great, a bit of a shame that the pre-designed mounts aren't in the right place though. I had a similar issue in the Enthoo Luxe and had to resort to a radiator pump mount. It seems my system and yours fall into the percentage not covered by the current mounting positions :D

Still though, the system looks fantastic with the red ring Corsiar fans and radiators fitted :)
 
I'm sure it will look great, a bit of a shame that the pre-designed mounts aren't in the right place though. I had a similar issue in the Enthoo Luxe and had to resort to a radiator pump mount. It seems my system and yours fall into the percentage not covered by the current mounting positions :D

Still though, the system looks fantastic with the red ring Corsiar fans and radiators fitted :)

It's extremely easy to fit a 240 rad in the front and have room for the pump and reservoir in this case mate, but the trouble is you have to remove the HDD cage to do it... No biggie for a lot of people I know, but I've got 2 x 2TB HDD's to go in it and definitely can't afford to replace them with 4TB's of SSD's! Oh well, there's always next years Black Friday :D

Which reservoir/pump combo is that mate?

It's an EK-XRES 140 REVO D5 PWM mate, I wanted the Vario rather than PWM but couldn't find one so this will have to do, and this one does look nicer... :)
 
Well I mounted the pump & reservoir in temporarily to check it would fit OK...

...And SUCCESS! Not a massive amount of room to play with but enough to get it mounted somewhere almost flat, and also makes it easy enough to botch a bracket for the other side :)
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A finger, to show how tight she is :p
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Would have liked to have mounted it nearer the radiator to get it more central, but those cut-outs where extra drives can be mounted killed that one off!
 
Excellent stuff, glad to see that it fits reasonably well :)
However I think you can rule out cable management round the side of the card as I think the cables may have to go down with such a tight gap :D
 
Hoping the cables will do a 180 under the card and then exit through the hole where my finger is, never like the look when they go straight down unless there's a couple of cards in SLI to close the gap a bit... Sooooo, if you want to send me another 980ti as a free sample OcUK?! :p
 
She's in! Reckon those cables will look alright once I get a comb to tidy the GPU ones up a bit :)
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A 90° off the top of the reservoir and a 45° off the far radiator top and she'll be sorted :) (This was taken before I'd washed out the radiators, fan cables are now hidden)
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Always look so messy when they're WIP, but will definitely have to tidy this side up even if it doesn't show :p
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Looking good, can't wait to see the tubing runs fitted in :)
For a watercooling case it definitely is a tight fit but I think it adds to the looks due to the lack of visible cables and open gaps. It also allows the red accents to stand out more. :D

Keep the updates coming as the system looks great :)
 
Cheers mate, must admit it has actually turned out better than I was expecting... At least until I attempt the tubing runs :p

Unfortunately it's looking like another delay before the next update as I'm waiting on parts that are out of stock again :( I'm getting impatient now, want to get it finished and put it to use! Never mind, as long as it's up and running before new year :)
 
Well the new tubing arrived and I must say a massive thanks to those who said to ditch the XSPC and go with PrimoChill instead. Not only does it look better, it's also a LOT tighter on the barbs and also tighter to get the compression fitting on, so I'm a lot happier with it :)

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Definitely made the right choice sticking with white tubing I think, not sure the fittings would look right with anything darker. I've tried to keep all the tubing runs as short as possible using the X-Flow in the top and a multi port top on the reservoir for the inlet, now just need to wait for the 90° and 45° angles to get it finished and see what it looks like :)

Also need to decide whether to leave the water clear, or to go with a red dye to make the reservoir look a bit more interesting... Leaning towards red atm :)
 
The system looks great, the white tubing offers a nice contrast to the dark case and the red accents :D
Since you have white tubing though I'd be inclined to leave the water clear as the red might stain the tubing even though it's opaque. :)
Also, on the top of the reservoir are they the plastic blanking plugs? I'm sure they aren't but if my eyes aren't deceiving me then you need to get them replaced with some stop fittings :D
 
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That's one thing that was worrying me with the white tubing, don't want it going pink a week after I've finished it and have to drain the system to re-do it all. Might chuck some red dyed fluid in an offcut and plug the ends, see if it shows through or not :)
Good news: Your eyes are working fine! I've just stuck the plastic plugs in as a temporary dust blocker, will have proper stop fittings in when it's finished... As long as I don't forget to swap them :D
 
Damn, I need to get some cable combs as they look much cleaner and tidier when fitted and you can barely see the comb. You're definitely right about the little tweaks making the build look much better :)
 
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