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@VSG I did already, the only things I liked were the air 540, and r4 for what I have in mind, but the air 540 won't work, because I have to mount the res inbetween the GPU and sidepanel. Fry's near my house has nearly zero cases, and most of them are crappy corsair low-end crap.

Ah that sucks!

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A word from my sponsor:

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His usual prices are not inflated so this would be a good deal. Definitely check it out!

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Dude! You seem like som sinnister villain, are you trying to make some sort of nuke with those PSUs?

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The replacement battery charger is here and so this should hopefully be the last phone camera picture I will have to take  :lol:

 

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Compensating for much?

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So I had some thumbscrews at the front that were getting stripped and no matter which screwdriver I tried or how much WD-40 I added it did nothing. In the spirit of the US independence day, since finesse didn't work I resorted to brute force to get what I wanted :P

 

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Dremel + metal cutting blade + WD-40 on the screws equals:

 

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I cut a large, flat hole in each of the stripped screws so I could then use a flathead screwdriver with increased torque. 30 minutes later, all of them were out and I can now play with the front of the case as I wish:

 

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There is enough space for a 5x120mm rad in the front on each side if I want. Bitspower had promised such a rad (600mm rad) last year but nothing came of it so far:

 

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Oh well! I am doing some radiator cleaning now, I had to remove all the fans off that Mo.Ra though and it will be a real pain to put them back on :(

 

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Used Part 1 of the Mayhems Blitz Pro cleaning kit on the Alphacool Monsta 480, Phobya G-Changer 120 and Swiftech MCR120-XP. No prizes for guessing where most of that gunk came from. The amount that came out was pretty shocking though, as I had the monsta in a loop before for ~ 2 months and had the Primochill SysPrep running through it initially. Guess now we know that does absolutely nothing! For the rest of the rads, I had a 1:10 by volume solution of distilled white vinegar and distilled water in them for 6 hours followed by flushing with regular tap water and then distilled water. The effluent from these was much better which goes to show XSPC, HardwareLabs and Watercool really clean their rads before shipping them. Now on to Part 2 of the kit to do a general scrub and neutralize the pH back to 6.5-7 after the acid bath. For this I set up a rad only loop which took up most of my my table downstairs:

 

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The loop is still running (24 hours recommended) as I write this. Tomorrow morning I drain it, run just distilled water to clean it up and we are all ready to go!

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The loop is still running (24 hours recommended) as I write this. Tomorrow morning I drain it, run just distilled water to clean it up and we are all ready to go!

And then we get more pics? :)

No No No

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I'm so jealous right now...

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And then we get more pics? :)

 

Of course, I got the drop-in mounts ready so I can assemble all the big rads and put them in place.

 

I'm so jealous right now...

 

I was in your place an year back, just save your money and do the best you can :)

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hi

 

all dem radiators lol

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lol xD

 

 

I ordered my z97 m power + dominator platinums + r4 yesterday

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It'll match the koolance block :^)

 

Yeah I didn't get the m power with the crappy barbs, hate barbs so much. Compressions are so much prettier and easy lol

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I just wanna do this already, i love building & watercooling tbh.

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All those rads *unzips*

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Of course, I got the drop-in mounts ready so I can assemble all the big rads and put them in place.

 

 

I was in your place an year back, just save your money and do the best you can :)

 

Your positivity isn't helping my jealously, you could make a donation to the AEA Fund if you like :P

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Can I request suggestions on colors for the exterior of the case? I am considering getting it powdercoated in a color/texture of my choice if the price is right. Interiors are black (as is the exterior for now):

 

Here is a picture of the samples (didn't realize till later that I have #34 in there twice). I reduced it to a 5 MP picture to retain detail and yet not overwhelm the page so please excuse the size if it is too big for your screen:

 

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They got many more colors obviously, I was thinking of something in the brown-grey family so got more of those. The rest are just an indication of the other color families available. Not in there is a copper strain that they had run out of samples for. Now I currently have everything in black and am planning to keep the interior black for now due to their single color minimum charge policies. So now I am requesting suggestions from everyone here and elsewhere. I currently have no preference, so will definitely weigh in suggestions before making my decision. Please bear in mind that I still need to give the place a test sample to see if they can do a good job so nothing is guaranteed.Thanks!

 

Edit: Resized it, it was too big for this forum. Here is a link to the 5 MP image: http://imgur.com/2pJQ2yX

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I just imagined the caselabs case with the orange..OMG!!!!

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