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Project Sapphire [On-going]

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It's my first time modding a case. Base on Blue and Silver theme therefore the name Sapphire and not based on the Brand itself.

 

 

Case: Corsair 540 Air Silver Edition Received

Motherboard: Z87 Asus Sabertooth Received
Processor: Intel Core i5 4670K Received

Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHZ Changed  2x 4GB Avexir Core Series 1866Mhz Blue Dynamic LED Received

VGA: Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB  Asus GTX 780 3GB Received

SSD: Samsung EVO 250GB Received

HDD: Seagate 7200RPM 2TB WD Blue 1TB Received
PSU: Seasonic X 750 80+GOLD Received

Cooling: Corsair H100i Received

Fans: Corsair AF 120 LED Blue x 5 Received

           Corsair AF 140 LED Blue x 1 Received

 

 

 

 

this are the parts that I have on hand + 540 air silver case

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was surprised from how nicely seasonic psu X series packed their PSU. Very nice. Thumbs up to whoever recommend me to get seasonic and to seasonic themselves!

 

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Got a 5.25" bay adapter for my old slot loading drive that is sitting around collecting dust

 

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Removed fan grill to prepare for spray!

 

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Removing mesh from front and top panel

 

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Even the PCI slot cover are getting sprayed

 

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First layer of coating

 

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this is for the 5.25" bay adapter which is sprayed Metallic Silver

 

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Metallic Blue(I don't think you can tell, looks like normal blue from pics)

 

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That's all for Day One, Will update again. I'll be coating matt coat on all the spray painted items tomorrow. I might not be doing update/build often as I have work commitment. Love any comment along the way. Might change my idea. :)

Chassis: Corsair 540 AIR | CPU: i5 4670k @ 4.5Ghz | Motherboard: Z87 Sabertooth | GPU: Asus GTX 780 Direct CU II | RAM: 16GB Avexir Core Series 1866mhz Blue LED | SSD: Samsung EVO 250GB | HDD: Western Digital 1TB Blue | Coolers: Corsair H100i

 

Build Log: Project Sapphire

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Dem feet doe

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Oeeeh looks nice! :) can't wait to see more! 

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Looks awesome!

The first step to insanity is believing in your sanity.

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Looking good :)

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looking forward to future posts. 

AMD FX-8350 OC to 4.5ghz      Evga gtx 660       SilverStone FT03      Samsung 840 128gb  

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Should be a nice looking build when its dome mate, looking forward to some updates :)

And then you realize your shoes are filled with peanut butter, what then?! >:L

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Along the way while spraying, had some incident happened. But all when well now. Also, all sprayed parts are done and assembled. *looks freaking nice* from my point of view.

 

Right now from a GTX 770 4Gb, I have decided to change it to GTX 780 3GB from Asus. In the future(around next year), i'll be adding one more 780 to it. Currently still waiting for my product to arrive from Amazon.

 

What is going to happen next is I'll be putting in all my stuff i have in hand and see how it goes.

 

*I've completed a "stand" for my SSD too.*

 

So.. stay tuned. Pics will be uploaded soon.

Chassis: Corsair 540 AIR | CPU: i5 4670k @ 4.5Ghz | Motherboard: Z87 Sabertooth | GPU: Asus GTX 780 Direct CU II | RAM: 16GB Avexir Core Series 1866mhz Blue LED | SSD: Samsung EVO 250GB | HDD: Western Digital 1TB Blue | Coolers: Corsair H100i

 

Build Log: Project Sapphire

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It's done. Only left with GTX 780 to arrive and I came put in up. I'm planning to upgrade to sli 780's with custom watercooled loop. but fore now will be like this.

 

 

 

 

 

The blue mesh~ soooo nice. Also, getting ready with all my stuff to build it.

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Working area

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After some time..... H100i with push pull. Top is stock fan where I heard its good enough. If its bad i'll change. Seems it is running faster than SP High Performance fan. Which also means its gonna be louder. hmm..

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Testing out the Stock fans just to see how the mesh looks with the new paint job

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The SSD! I saw someone did something like this as well. Thanks for the idea~

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This is the semi-final look. Can't wait for the GTX 780 to reach!!!

 

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Now all i'm short is the GTX 780 and i'm done. Had many plans initially but called off because I did AIO watercooling. What I wanted to do was spray the armor to silver with Blue UV waterlooped and UV led around the case. Guess all this will have to wait till I get the second GTX 780!

Chassis: Corsair 540 AIR | CPU: i5 4670k @ 4.5Ghz | Motherboard: Z87 Sabertooth | GPU: Asus GTX 780 Direct CU II | RAM: 16GB Avexir Core Series 1866mhz Blue LED | SSD: Samsung EVO 250GB | HDD: Western Digital 1TB Blue | Coolers: Corsair H100i

 

Build Log: Project Sapphire

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Nice. I was just saying, "This needs to have some custom painting!"

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Looking good so far!

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PSU: CORSAIR AX860 W/ RED BRAIDED CABLES | SSD: SAMSUNG 840 EVO 250 GB | HDD: WD BLACK 1 TB | FANS: 3x NOCTUA NF-A14 | MONITOR: HP W2371D

KEYBOARD: CM STORM QFR MX BLUES W/  PBT KEYCAPS  |  MOUSE: LOGITECH G502 | MIC: AUDIO TECHNICA AT2020 | HEADPHONES: SENNHEISER HD 558

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Nice choice of colors for your rig. It looks insane! I'm lovin' the way you mounted the Samsung SSD!

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 - 3900x @ 4.4GHz with a Custom Loop | MBO: ASUS Crosshair VI Extreme | RAM: 4x4GB Apacer 2666MHz overclocked to 3933MHz with OCZ Reaper HPC Heatsinks | GPU: PowerColor Red Devil 6900XT | SSDs: Intel 660P 512GB SSD and Intel 660P 1TB SSD | HDD: 2x WD Black 6TB and Seagate Backup Plus 8TB External Drive | PSU: Corsair RM1000i | Case: Cooler Master C700P Black Edition | Build Log: here

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Tested out my new stuff. Changed Corsair Ram with Avexir Core series Ram with has LED on it. 
 
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FINALLY!
 
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This is how it is looks like
 
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Will post more pics on the lighted up shots next time.
 
What i have done so far is to overclock the CPU to 4.5ghz and trying to overclock the 780 as well. And i'm loving the ram so much to the point where i will buy another pair and put it in just for the sake of the looks.  :D
 
Next, I'll be getting custom watercooling on my rig using Mayhem's coolent *drools*. Drillings will be done on the case! Stay tune....
 
In the comments , let me know where can I place my reservoir in the 540 AIR. I like it to be at the windowed compartment

Chassis: Corsair 540 AIR | CPU: i5 4670k @ 4.5Ghz | Motherboard: Z87 Sabertooth | GPU: Asus GTX 780 Direct CU II | RAM: 16GB Avexir Core Series 1866mhz Blue LED | SSD: Samsung EVO 250GB | HDD: Western Digital 1TB Blue | Coolers: Corsair H100i

 

Build Log: Project Sapphire

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I rarely say this but I think a 5.25" drive res would look good if you had blue coolant

i5 4670k| Asrock H81M-ITX| EVGA Nex 650g| WD Black 500Gb| H100 with SP120s| ASUS Matrix 7970 Platinum (just sold)| Patriot Venom 1600Mhz 8Gb| Bitfenix Prodigy. Build log in progress 

Build Log here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/119926-yin-yang-prodigy-update-2-26-14/

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I rarely say this but I think a 5.25" drive res would look good if you had blue coolant

 

that's what I had in mind. A dual bay res. Still keeping my options open on that. and was thinking of UV blue coolant

Chassis: Corsair 540 AIR | CPU: i5 4670k @ 4.5Ghz | Motherboard: Z87 Sabertooth | GPU: Asus GTX 780 Direct CU II | RAM: 16GB Avexir Core Series 1866mhz Blue LED | SSD: Samsung EVO 250GB | HDD: Western Digital 1TB Blue | Coolers: Corsair H100i

 

Build Log: Project Sapphire

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Hey you have the same Case and Cooler I bought. How did you setup your airflow?

H100i as an Input or Output?

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I did it in Push Pull config. I did a 2x AF in push and 2x SP in pull. 

Chassis: Corsair 540 AIR | CPU: i5 4670k @ 4.5Ghz | Motherboard: Z87 Sabertooth | GPU: Asus GTX 780 Direct CU II | RAM: 16GB Avexir Core Series 1866mhz Blue LED | SSD: Samsung EVO 250GB | HDD: Western Digital 1TB Blue | Coolers: Corsair H100i

 

Build Log: Project Sapphire

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