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Also just thought I would mention a couple of things that I personally experienced while building this computer thus far and the components I used. The Cooler Master Glacial 240L has been reviewed by a lot of people as being one of the better AIO Liquid Cooling solutions out there. But some of the things that really bothered me are for one, the tubing. The tubing is great for not kinking because of how thick it is. But it also makes it very difficult to reshape the tubing in a way that looks presentable in your case. As it tends to want to stay formed the way it was stored in the box and is very reluctant to accepting different bends. Secondly the tubing is fairly long in most "Cases" this wouldn't be an issue, but in an mATX case it makes it that much harder to get the large stiff tubing to take a more desirable bend. I've used the Corsair 350D in the past for previous builds. But I experienced some new problems with the case this time around that I didn't really notice before. First is the front bezel. It is not removable like a typical case. Normally you can just grab the bottom and lift up and it will snap off. Not the "case" here. I ended up ripping out 3 of the tabs on the bottom right of the case with little force. Thankfully super glue is a thing. You may be able to force the tabs through from the inside of the case with pliers clamping them shut to fit threw the holes. But I didn't bother with it any more after that out of frustration. Also make sure that you do not lose any of the rubber grommets on the top of the case that are used as anti vibration mounting points for the fans. If you do then more than likely you will need to find some washers to be able to attach your fans to the top of the case as the holes are extremely large without the rubber anti vibration grommets in them, and most screws will just fall straight threw. I originally intended on Mounting the radiator in the front of the case as the dual 8 pin CPU power connectors right in the top center of the Motherboard made it difficult to squeeze the radiator into place. But found that it will not fit because the 5.25" Drive Bay gets in the way of the Tubing that comes out the end of the Radiator. And the Drive Bay is not removable without modification. And my last complaint with the case would have to be the Rubber Grommets for the cable management holes. They are nice quality. But I found when pushing cables through them from my PSU they would very easily slip out and then have to be put back into place. But as for everything else I cant really comment on as it would require me to be able to boot the computer up and have it running. But a small gripe on the Motherboard would be the Dual 8pin CPU power connectors. They are in the dead center at the top of the board making it a little odd and difficult for mounting radiators in the top of smaller cases like this.

Every thing ive read from multiple websites say December.

i actually went with the 350D because of size restraints and the fact its really easy to build in. But i personally like the minimalistic look over flashy lights and jagged edges. Plus build quality is great.

That's not to bad of a wait. I can manage lol.

Supposed to be released this month. If not I'll just grab the Maximus gtx 980ti that comes out on the 16th lol

I know lol. I'm just waiting for Radeon to release the furyx2 so I can get a good idea of how it will be. They need to hurry up so I can order a GPU already lol

Yea I knew they would and at the time of ordering them I didn't really care to much about color scheme. But I will be painting them myself at some point down the road for a more asthetically pleasing look.

Here is a pic of the current progress.

So my (roughly) $3500 workstation build is coming close to an end. All I'm missing now are the dual GPU's but I'm still indecisive about those. Although the new ASUS MAXIMUS 980ti looks epic and the Fury X2 will be releasing soon as well. So I'm sure it will come down to one of those. But anyways, here are the current specs. Case: Corsair 350D MOBO: ASUS WS-M X99 Memory: Corsair LPX DDR4 2666MHz 32GB (4x8GB) CPU: Intel Core i7 5820k Storage: 2 512gb Samsung 850 EVO Pros (will be in raid 0) PSU: Corsair RM1000i CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Glaciel 240L Case Cooling: 3x Noctua NF-S12A and 2x Noctua NF-F12 for the radiator GPU: Either 2 ASUS MATRIX Platinum GTX 980 Ti in SLI or single Radeon R9 FuryX2 (when released). Currently this is where it's at: Everything is installed and ready to go besides the lack of GPU's. I decided to go ahead and power up the system to do a quick check using the Q Code debug on the motherboard to see if anything irregular showed up. Code d6 pops up meaning there is a failure with the display output (obviously because there is no GPU). But the thing that is slightly concerning is the Diag_HDD LED that illuminates on the motherboard. I'm hoping it's just the fact that no OS is installed and that it doesn't really have an assigned boot device yet. But I'm uncertain. Anyway what does everyone think?

Yea i was reading into the fury x2 earlier today. Ive never been one for the "dual gpus on a single pcb". But depending on how it performs and its price point it could be a likely option. things i hope for is for it to have 8gb of hbm. An unlocked voltage to oc it past the 1100mhz that everyone else seems to be stuck around. And for it to keep the aio liquad cooler design. But i imagine thats a must because without it this card would probably be pretty toasty under load and thermal throttle a lot. They are boasting that it has an 80% gpu increase from the fury x. At least i think thats what i remember reading. But we shall see. The gpu will be the last purchase of my build around the end of december time frame. Oh. And if they keep the same sleek design if they go the aio liquad cooler route that would be great too. Id love to have the OpenCL AND the performance over the 980 ti's. Even if it is a lottle more costly.

sorry double post

The above mentioned system is good. But given you will be playing cpu intensive games as well as a lot of multitasking i would go with an intel i7 5820k 6 core and an x99 chipset motherboard. The extra processing power would really benifit your cpu performance needs. Slap a cooler master glacial 240L all in one liquad cooler on that cpu and you can easily oc to a very stable 4.5GHz and actually dominate the skylake in overall everyday performace. And you can usually get the 5820x for cheaper than the skylake 6700k simply because places are over charging for it because its new and keeps running out of stock

Thats understood. But then If i settle for 4k my GPU's fall to the test of time. Sure with this setup they would run games fine at 4k now. But a year or two from now the new tripple A titles will be harsh on them at 4k. Whilst at 1440p they will stand the test pf time much longer.

2. Aim I'll be using this build to play games on high/max settings, video editing and streaming. Games: Dota 2, CS:GO, and whatever else pops up. 3. Monitors At the current moment I'm only using 1 monitor. I plan on having 2 computer monitors when I get more money together. 1920x1080 FullHD 1080p You say you will be doing video editing? In that case if you are intending on using sony vegas pro i would highly recommend the 390 as OpenCL will help your core I5 out a lot on render times as its not to optimized for fast rendering. And in the mid range gpu market radeon does lead price to performance.

I really do like the air 540 as well. I used it for a build i made for a friend and he loves it. They did i great job on the layout of the case along with the two seperated chambers.