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I think it's just because I painted one of my stock fans and sleeved the cable and it looks very similar to the ap123 tbh lol.

Thanks! I put a lot of time and effort into this project it was my first time doing something like this too, I'm fairly happy with the results

I looked at those before I got the SP120's I just didn't like how "cheap" they looked to me. If I had to purchase again I'd probably go with the non LED version of the SP120s like I have for my rear exhaust fan. That blue ring matches perfectly with color scheme also. Honestly I can't hear any of my fans above my mechanical drive.

Just an update to this thread, finally got around to replacing my PSU and the fans, I went with Corsair SP120s LED version (this gets expensive lol). I've yet to replace the LED strips, it's on my "to-do list" along with sleeving my cables. I experimented with my old PSU and I finally think I'm comfortable enough to tackle it. Just waiting on the sleeving to arrive. Here's what it looks like atm. PS, ignore the stray sata cable I'm sadly having some issues atm with a dying 1 tb mechanical drive (long live SSDs!)

Wow, that is awesome! I love the sleeving on the tubing that's something I've never seen before amazing. I wish I had the patience to sleeve more than just a few fan and pump cables lol.

I'm actually going to add another 16GB of patriot ram. Overkill I know but I wanted to keep it blue and black lol. This is what I'll be using for the other 2 DIMM slots

Yeah, this was my first time with LED lighting and I went with something safe haha. I leave mine on 24/7 also but I could easily wire a quick push button PCI bracket for the bitfinix I'm sure I did that with my cold cathode after the cheap one they sent with it was broken before it even got installed. Thanks! My friend actually helped convince me of the color lol. I was going to go with a uv blue but he said he liked the pastel blueberry blue better. I'm so glad I decided to go with it, looks so much nicer in person than I thought it would and it really stands out against the black with my blue/black color scheme. If anyone else has Mayhems blueberry blue and you want to color match other parts go with rust-oleum satin oasis blue. It took me a lot of trial and error to match up the coolant with a paint color as it's quite a unique blue. The oasis blue really is a good match for it though I'm extremely happy with the results.

Yeah I actually removed the covers the the heatsinks and removed them from the MB and painted them. Talk about being nervous! Lol Thanks! I was actually thinking about going with the bitfenix before I got the NZXT but I figured it'd be better than what it turned out to be. I'll put that on my "to-do list" after I get my new PSU and fans in. I originally had cold cathode lighting but it's so hard to hide the inverter and wiring in the 650D it's full as it is now lol.

This is my first attempt at any modding/custom painting. Also this is just my second time doing a liquid cooling loop. I'm quite proud of what I've accomplished I know it's not much and I still have a few ghetto things I need to address. I'm getting new rad fans and a new PSU next week. (Corsair SP120s and EVGA 1,000 watt PSU) My specs are as follows, Corsair 650D case MSI Z77 MPower Motherboard Intel i5 3570K Ivy Bridge (stock for now yet to OC) 16 GB Patriot Vier 3 DDR3 1600mhz RAM 120GB Samsung 840 SSD Western Digital 1TB mechanical drive 1 old DVR-RW drive Raidmax 530 watt PSU (soon to be replaced by EVGA G1 1,000 watt PSU) XSPC dual 120mm rad Phobia 250 res black nickel EK black nickle compression fittings EVGA GTX770 ACX SC with EK full cover nickle plexi EK backplate custom painted with a blue stripe EK Supreme LTX CSQ CPU block 3/8"ID x 1/2"OD primochill LTR tubing Swiftech MCP350 pump Mayhems Blueberry Blue coolant 2 Antec 120mm fans for the rad (soon to be replaced with Corsair SP120s) 1 Corsair SP120 1 stock Corsair 200mm fan Thanks for taking the time to look! If you had any advice or anything feel free to comment and let me know!

I'm not sure what I was looking at lol I feel really dumb. The 770 even acx version doesn't have any vram chips, in my dark case it looked like it did and I didn't want to take my card out until I was prepared to install everything. Went to take a pic to post to EK to submit a ticket and found this out. Thanks fringie certainly a doh! moment :blush:

I just got my waterblock and the backplate in for my EVGA GTX770 ACX the waterblock looks fairly straight forward to put on so I shouldn't have any issues with that. I was looking at EK's instructions for the backplate installation and it states to only use the thermal pads with the titian. It also shows a reference card without any vram chips on the back for the other compatible cards. I'm wondering do I indeed need to use the thermal pads since I had vram chips on the back of my 770 or do I forgo using them since it states it's only for the titan? Thanks in advance guys I appreciate your help!

I have the same issue except I have an EVGA 770 acx I was wondering if I just had a corrupt install of windows. I'm on 7 though. Thanks for the info I'll see if EVGA has anything.

Yeah, I could do that I was so focused on the res being close to the in/out of the rad I forgot about that lol. I'll switch it around once I get my new card and waterblock for it, thanks.

I'm not sure I could get it much higher not a ton of room in the case to mount the res I was under the impression it should be at the bottom of the case though I'll see if I can squeeze a bit more room to move the res and pump up a bit.

This is my first attempt at watercooling. Thankfully everything went smoothly the first time with no leaks. I'm going to replace the PSU with a Corsair AX850 and the graphics card with a EVGA GTX780 in the upcoming weeks (funds didn't stretch quite far enough so I had to salvage some parts from my previous build). I think I did ok but I'd always welcome more tips or suggestions as to what I can improve, thanks!