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Not sure about the mb choice, but higher clocked RAM does not matter

Went over my internet usage limit today. Then my parents asked me to fix their computer (which I made for them). Have to reinstall Windows and that means I have to download drivers. It is going to take a few hours because it's so slow. I'm doing this on my pc meaning I can't take any pictures today. Hopefully I can get some taken tomorrow

Ok so I just ordered the pump and the fittings. No getting out of it now, I have to do hard tubing. I will be connecting the res and the pump together with a male to male 12mm EK fitting and the rest of the fittings will be black EK HD 12/16mm adaptors. I will be able to start planning my loop once they arrive. I haven't got the fans yet, on the back I have an AF140 and on the radiators I will have 2 SP120s each (With the white trim inserts of course). Before the fans arrive I will mount the rads with some green bitfenix spectre pro led fans I have lying around. (The black and green build I made didn't turn out so well) I'm going out for a bit then when I get back it's time for a clean out so I can take some pictures for you Until the next post, cya! Edit: I gave in and ordered the fans leaving me with almost nothing. But at least I only have $230 AUD including shipping left to spend which means I can order the rest of the parts in a week I'm glad it isn't taking as long as I thought.

Best of luck to you

I will be uploading pictures in around 8 hours got to get some sleep now though. What I forgot to mention is that I painted the mesh on the case white. It definitely is not a great paint job but you can barely see the imperfections from a normal angle and distance. Still thinking about hiring a professional to paint it f or me. I have realised that this will be a fair bit more expensive than I thought. I have to order new ram because my current 4x4gb has a really bad black and white paint job on it (My fault). I have decided that I am getting another 970 as well. Including shipping this will cost $1651 AUD. I am moving cities in a few months so I am going without the extra 970 and ram until that happens. So for everything I need to finish this build log it will be $610 AUD including shipping. Hopefully I will have the money for all of this in 2 weeks. Man would a sponsor help with this Until the next update, cya!

Yeah I've never been a big fan of white led fans because they always seem to appear a little bit blue. I really like white led fans in a light-medium blue build though. Is it watercooled?

I made my first computer 3 years ago and I haven't changed the processor still because it's still going kinda strong. If I need to upgrade I will probably get the 4790K or just the 4790

This is my first watercooling project and I'm really excited. I'm doing it because I'm not a fan of the coil whine on my gigabyte gtx 970. Plus I think it would look really cool. I still have to decide on if I want another 970. I think I will although it will extend the project time by at least 2 weeks because of the cost of the card and an extra gpu block plus the backplate. I called it project penguin because of the black and white colour scheme. I will be using ek parts wherever I can for this build purely because of looks and quality. And I also like everything to match. Alright enough babbling the parts list is as follows: Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540 (Aqquired) CPU: Intel i5 4670K (Aqquired) CPU Block: EK Supremacy EVO Nickel (Acquired) MB: MSI Z97S Sli Krait Edition (Aqquired) Graphics card: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 x2 GPU Block: EK FC970 GTX WF3 Nickel x2 GPU Backplate: EK FC970 GTX WF3 Backplate Nickel x2 Radiator: EK Coolstream PE Series 240mm x2 (Acquired) Reservoir: EK Res X3 150 (Aqquired) Pump: EK Vario XTop Plexi Tubing: EK HD 12/16mm with EK HD fittings PSU: Corsair RM850 (With a Cablemod black and white kit) (Aqquired) SSD: Intel 530 Series 120gb (Aqquired) HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1Tb (Aqquired) HDD: Seagate Barracuda 4Tb I'm still deciding if I should do hard tubing or soft but I'm leaning more to hard simply because I think it will be a really rewarding experience. I also need some suggestions about something. On the air 540 the 240mm rad in the front sits either high or low not in the middle. The 280 does though. I'm thinking about getting a grill that has 280mm holes for mounting the grill but 240mm holes as well that mounts the rad to the grill. I don't know how stable this would be though. I could just get a 280mm rad but then it wouldn't match the other radiator which would annoy me. Anyway I'd really like some suggestions while I try and think of new ideas. Sorry no pictures yet but there will be some when I get money for more parts. I don't want to be without a computer for longer than 2 days. Thanks guys stay tuned!

Did you make sure to uninstall your old nvidia drivers and reinstall new ones? I had the same issue when upgrading to my gtx 970 and that fixed it

The specs of my current PC: Case: Corsair Air 540 (I spray painted the mesh white) CPU: i54670K Graphics Card: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 RAM: Corsair XMS3 1600MHz 4x4gb MB: MSI SLI Krait Edition Power Supply: Corsair RM 850 with a black and white set of cablemod cables Storage: 120gb Intel 530 Series SSD + 1Tb Seagate Barracuda HDD It is fairly cold in Western Australia right now so I have it sitting on my desk with the side panel off and it kind of acts as a heater. When the gpu is under 100% load it gets to 70 degrees. I figured I probably won't be a fan of this temperature when it starts to get hotter so I've decided to do my first watercooling build! I'm pretty excited. I have the 2x 240mm rads, EK Supremacy CPU block, EK Nickel GPU block, and the EK res. I haven't got the CPU overclocked because my CPU cooler is the Cryorig R1 Universal without any fans. The GPU is overclocked to +150 MHz (Whatever that is) and that is the main heat distributor that I need to fix. As you can probably imagine I am going for a black and white themed build. What I should have realised before ordering the rads was that the 240mm rad on the front either sits displaced to the top or the bottom not the middle. It looks weird and I'm not sure if I should get a 280 and leave the 240 for another build or just deal with it. The problem with getting a 280 though is the EK Coolstream PE Series (Both of my current 240s) doesn't contain a 280 and it would be nice if they were matching rads. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures but I will probably upload some tomorrow. I am mounting the res on the rear vents in front of the graphics card. Yeah it isn't the best place if I want to do a gpu swap later but I really wanted to display the res and inbetween the motherboard and the front rad isn't going to fit. I'm also wondering whether I should be doing hard or soft tubing. I really want to give hard a go but some people say it is hard and others say it is worth giving it a go and it isn't that hard. Oh yeah the bottom looks uncentered at the moment because there is 1 3.5in hdd on the left and none on the right so I am going to get a 4tb barracuda for media storage. And a 140mm fan without a rad will be on the back as well. Give me some ideas as to what you guys think I should do! Your help would be greatly appreciated

Yes I recently put that cooler into an itx build and it performs quite well. And the graphics card should fit fine. Good luck!

I have the reservoir mounted on the ventilation holes on the back. I know the tubing will come from the gpu to the res, then the pump, then across the bottom to the front rad. I'll probably just wait until I have all the parts then get the define if I think it will make for a cleaner loop. Until then I really want to use this case though

I bought the Corsair Air 540 case and I am slowly buying new parts as I earn the money to watercool it. I have 2 240mm radiators but the one on the front doesn't sit in the middle so it looks kinda weird and I'm trying to figure out a clean looking loop but everything is in the wrong place. It's a single gpu and cpu loop and I was wondering whether I should change to the define S or buy 2 280mm radiators and use the others for something else. I'm just using soft tubing.