[First WC] Rampage Crampage

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This is my first WC Build. I ordered blood red coolant instead OC send me Clear UV, which I tested is not UV at all. Can I mix in a coolant dye in to this and is it worth it? Anyway here is the pics: (taken on phone sorry)

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Water cooling experience:
Make sure you leak test!! I had 3 leaks from the bay/res one barb was not tight enough and the drain port cap was loose. Leaked all over my HDD and SSD. Overall not too hard and enjoyable.

Specs:
Intel i7 3820 @ 3.8ghz
Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79
Kingston HyperX Beast 16gb 2400mhz Quad Channel
Corsair Force 3 120 SSD
2x WD Cavier 500gb
EVGA GTX 680 Superclocked
Creative X-fi Titanium PCI-E
Corsair AX850
Antec 1100
XSPC Raystrom RS240 Kit
Samsung Syncmaster SA350 27" 1920x1080

Temps:
CPU Idle@ 30oC
Prime 95 Load@ 48oC

Questions:
How do I do RAID 0 on the ASMedia Sata Ports? Kind of lame only 2 x79 sata ports on such high end board.

Looking at current temps how high can I overclock this system?

In GPU-Z it says the card supports PCI-E 2.0 but currently running at PCI-E 1.1? what is going on here?? I thought PCI-E 3.0 was possible?
 
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I'm interested to see why you went for barbs on a first watercooling build, but more interestingly why you haven't at least cable tied them?

I use compression fittings and have _never_ had a leak!

I used barbs that came with the kit, I did use clamps that came with the kit I never had a leak from the tube fitting. Just the barb was not screwed into the thread of the pump/res hard enough if you understand what I am saying. No leak from actual tube/barb fitting.
 
OK I re-sized the images and thanks for the comments and tips but to me the clamps do not look bad they sort of blend in with the CPU block. Later I will do modifications to this kit but for now I am happy. Also I fixed the PCI-E 3.0 issue just needed to download a Nvidia patch.
 
Here is a pic of temps @ full load prime 95 for half an hour:

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