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Really appreciate the comments snef My motherboard temperatures have not been affected what so ever. still hovering around what they were before painting the heatsinks.

Thanks for the comments guys @superducky94 @FranktheDinosaur the Monitors are LG 27" IPS 27EA63, The monitor mount is a Arctic Cooling Z-2 dual mount. easily the cheapest dual mount i could find. (£55 in the UK) @Farncir that's the thing, i did have some XSPC white LED's for the blocks but they died in the space of a month. so if you know of some 3mm LED's that will last then i will get some. wouldn't disagree about the 24pin, but its due to the grommet positions. maybe i could just route it round the motherboard tray? @Jokrik @Rekhyt Just used the Primochill video they made on how to bend tubing. other thing i did was mark out some angles on some cardboard, so i had some sort of guide. then used something circular to bend the tube round. best advice i can give is buy more tubing than you need so you can experiment/pratice.

thanks guys @alpenwasser thanks for the tip @coen113, @JohnnyGrey I was originally going to do just a straight 90 angle run but thought i would try something a little harder, it is just for looks. again as i mentioned was inspired by @Hanoverfist Electric Orange build. That piece took longer to do than all the others put to together. so yea it isn't easy. @MoYo its a Res mount for radiators. not designed to be used over a fan but i made it work.

Hello All This is actually my first post, long time lurker (mainly of build logs) so thought its probably about time I contributed something to the forum. shout out to Snef and Hanoverfist, took a lot of inspiration from your builds. So here is my rig, completed a watercooling upgrade some 6 months ago with flexi tubing but as soon as I saw the Primochill Acrylic tubing I knew I had to use this in my build at some point. So finally got around to getting all the bits to complete an Acyclic tubing upgrade while also doing a bit of paint work as well. Don't normally give my rigs names but thought "Black Ice" worked given the colour scheme. Please note to others thinking of doing the same - fitting a 240 rad in the top of an R4 is extremely tight, only way i was able to do it was because the P67 Sabetooth has short heatsinks and low enough ram slots. So will completely depend on your motherboard. there's probably about 1mm between the fan and heatsink. The build is pretty much complete now which you'll see in the pictures, the only two remaining things to do now is put in a floor and panel to cover up the 5.25" bays/ mount SSD to. The question is do I go with Black Acrylic or Black brushed aluminium vinyl? opinions needed! second thing is to get an NZXT Grid fan PCB to clean up my fan cabling round the back. Component list: Intel 2500K Asus P67 Sabertooth (heatsinks painted white) 16GB Corsair Vengeance Low Profile White Zotac GTX 670 Corsair Force GT 120GB (painted white) Corsair AX850 (with White cable kit) Fractal Design Define R4 Black NZXT LED Lighting strip Watercooling gear: Alphacool Monsta 80mm 240 Rad Alphacool ST30 30mm 240 Rad XSPC Raystorm CPU Block (painted white) XSPC Raystorm GTX 670 GPU Block and backplate EK D5 X-Res Combo Alphacool D5 Pump Corsair Quiet SP120 Fans x 6 (1 x AF140) Bitspower Deluxe White Fittings Primochill Ghost white Rigid tubing fittings Primochill Rigid Acrylic Tubing Clear Mayhems Pastel Ice White Coolant What it looked like before Some of tubing runs complete All complete Filled and leaked tested. but decided to make a last minute change so drained and pulled apart again. naked board Heatsinks painted - wasn't sure whether i should do this but the green annoyed me a lot. by the way temperatures have hardly been affected. Back together My dual monitor mount So thats it. let me know what you like/don't like. also opinions on what i should use for the floor and 5.25" side panel.