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I had to repaint 4 times.  Because of....GLOSS.  Its the bane of my existence.  Gloss black especially. I am kind of a perfectionist though.  Other people would have been fine with my paint jobs, but I like PERFECT EVEN SHEEN and gloss is so hard to get perfect.  But nice job

did you have to submit drawings or plans to MSI?  Or just describe the idea? 
 
 Looking forward to seeing more!

Dude....that setup...is in MY LIVING ROOM!! My roomate HATES me right now.  HAHA, I dont have a garage, and NOWHERE to do this build, so everything is strewn all over my kitchen and living room.  So I feel your pain, but you cant let that stop you! And that dremel scroll saw was $80, that table saw was only $120, and that drill press was $140, so for under $300, I purchased a whole little powertool shop. 
 
Its only been up about a week.   thanks though, i just wish i had more time, life keeps taking me away from the build, but this weekend, im devoting ALL of it to the build

thanks man! it sure did, i bet if i did it again, it wouldnt take 4 months, i learned alot on the way to the end

Ok here are the final pics, i think it came out great, but I built it how i wanted it, so of course im going to like it..... I hope others do to, remember I went for cleanliniess first, no cables, transistors, cap banks etc. to be visible, and I wanted hidden lights and skulls. Thats what i wanted.

Unfortunately I had to use an iphone....No DSLR. But I did go to alot of trouble to buy diffusers for some LEDs and also bought blackout paper for background. I did the best I could, and it sucks using iphone because the shots with NO outside light, all came out crappy, so I included only 1 shot with no room lighting...
 
My fav part, the floor, you can see it in the second pic, or the mobo armor, that took forevor and day.























 

So I ran an LED Test and turned on my system for the first time! I mentioned previously, I wanted to do that before watercooling in case there was any problems.

It ALMOST went off without a hitch, ALL CORSAIR STRIPS/FANS WORKED FLAWLESSLY. 
The one cablemod LED strip I had running on AURA SYNC of course did not work.....ughh, i had to literally break my arcylic armor to get behind the LED bracket and remove the LED......... Now I have to fix that.....

The Reservoir mount looked great!
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Skull came out great, this isnt what the finished product will look like though.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 

Ok here are the final pics, i think it came out great, but I built it how i wanted it, so of course im going to like it..... I hope others do to, remember I went for cleanliniess first, no cables, transistors, cap banks etc. to be visible, and I wanted hidden lights and skulls. Thats what i wanted.

Unfortunately I had to use an iphone....No DSLR. But I did go to alot of trouble to buy diffusers for some LEDs and also bought blackout paper for background. I did the best I could, and it sucks using iphone because the shots with NO outside light, all came out crappy, so I included only 1 shot with no room lighting...
 
My fav part, the floor, you can see it in the second pic, or the mobo armor, that took forevor and day.























 

Ok here are the final pics, i think it came out great, but I built it how i wanted it, so of course im going to like it..... I hope others do to, remember I went for cleanliniess first, no cables, transistors, cap banks etc. to be visible, and I wanted hidden lights and skulls. Thats what i wanted.

Unfortunately I had to use an iphone....No DSLR. But I did go to alot of trouble to buy diffusers for some LEDs and also bought blackout paper for background. I did the best I could, and it sucks using iphone because the shots with NO outside light, all came out crappy, so I included only 1 shot with no room lighting...
 
My fav part, the floor, you can see it in the second pic, or the mobo armor, that took forevor and day.























 

thanks, yea I had to make a custom rad mount, but you can buy one cheap 
https://www.amazon.com/XSPC-Universal-RadStand-Radiator-Mounting/dp/B004KO9DA0
it fits any size, then you can move the fans to the front like I did

Ok here are the final pics, i think it came out great, but I built it how i wanted it, so of course im going to like it..... I hope others do to, remember I went for cleanliniess first, no cables, transistors, cap banks etc. to be visible, and I wanted hidden lights and skulls. Thats what i wanted.

Unfortunately I had to use an iphone....No DSLR. But I did go to alot of trouble to buy diffusers for some LEDs and also bought blackout paper for background. I did the best I could, and it sucks using iphone because the shots with NO outside light, all came out crappy, so I included only 1 shot with no room lighting...
 
My fav part, the floor, you can see it in the second pic, or the mobo armor, that took forevor and day.























 

So I ran an LED Test and turned on my system for the first time! I mentioned previously, I wanted to do that before watercooling in case there was any problems.

It ALMOST went off without a hitch, ALL CORSAIR STRIPS/FANS WORKED FLAWLESSLY. 
The one cablemod LED strip I had running on AURA SYNC of course did not work.....ughh, i had to literally break my arcylic armor to get behind the LED bracket and remove the LED......... Now I have to fix that.....

The Reservoir mount looked great!
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Skull came out great, this isnt what the finished product will look like though.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 

I have 3 goals in this build.  1st, include skulls.  2nd, bring interior design elements into a PC, like clean hidden lighting, recessed lighting, cove lighting, and just have a super clean RGB build.  3rd, HAVE NOTHING SHOWING LIKE CABLES, TRANSISTORS, CAPACITORS, NOTHING.  Trying to have the cleanest build ever.  I am just now doing my build log here, but I have been working on this build for 4 months, and i am about 3/5ths complete.   I have over 300 hours into this build so far.  The motherboard armor alone took 60 hours or more.  
 

 
 
 
 
 
I had to buy all my powertools new for this build.  I purchased 3 saws.  A circular saw, a moto scroll saw for detail work, and a table saw for long straight cuts. I also bought a dremel.  (I love the dremel and table saw so much).  
I also bought a new cordless drill, and then I was like drilling passthroughs sucks with a cordless.  So I bought a drill Press as well.  All of that just for this build.  (And i thought it would be nice to have.)


 
 
 

 
 
By far the two hardest things, was the motherboard armor and suprisingly enough the painting which im still working on now, I have most of it done, but still working on a couple more pieces.  The motherboard armor was so hard because there is no "template to follow", I had to make one, printing out a pic of the motherboard and cutting it out of semi hard thin plastic.  But once I put the CPU block on it got way harder because it had to be close enough to not leave even a mm size gap, but far enough to let it slide on and off no problem.  And I used a dremel and moto saw and it took 60 hours plus, because if you cut too much off your screwed.  
 


 
 

 
 

 
 
 
At least I thought that if you cut too much you were screwed, when i changed my radiator size, I needed to fix a small 3mm by 40mm gap and another 15 mm gap at the top, and once i discovered plastic putty and weld on 4, I found I could fix it and leave no gaps because of that putty.  See the black, thats black acrylic, ( i should have kept it clear but who cares, its getting painted)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I also had to make my own radiator mount.  Because of the way the case is, unless your rocking a fat 60mm thick rad, the fans wont sit flush to the front of the case.  SO I made my own.
 
 
 

 
 
 
Only when someone pointed out that I have to drill holes in it for the Rad to breathe.  (omg im so dumb to overlook that)
 

 
 
 
Then I realized that it still wasnt enough so i just cut it up.  And it worked and held fine!
 

 
 
 
I also made a TON of modifications to the case to fit everything nicely the way I designed it. 
 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Then I made the floor.  Realized the tubes just didnt look right lined up the way they were, and I didnt take into consideration once I screwed down the reservoir back plate, the whole thing shifted a few mm, so my passthroughs no longer lined up right.  And I had to completely redo the floor again.
 
 

 
 
 
I also custom made some lights and borders to hold the lights.  I wanted to hide the LED's under the floor, but light up a punisher light above the floor.  But I had to have a frame, just slapping it up didnt look clean enough. 
 

 
 
 
 
Oh and I stopped to buy my first delid tool, i had not previously ever delidded.
 

 
 
 
 
Oh they said a 480 wouldnt fit up there, but it DOES FIT.  You just have to drill a couple holes in the top of the case, and buy some longer screws.  But because this had never been done with fans on top before, I had to buy a TON of screws as I didnt know which was the right size.  Ended up being 40mm long.  
 
 

 
 
To find the correct spot to drill, I put a fan on top, used a nail to scratch the spot, and then drilled through.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here is a shot of beginning tubing my all vertical design, and a sneak peak of what it looks like with the motherboard armor on as well.  It looks so awesome having the tubing/passthroughs end in the armor itself. 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
So this brings me to where i am today.  Painting. I have been STRUGGLING.  I have painted then sanded it all off, then painted then sanded it all off, then repeat, then repeat a dozen times.  Been doing it for 2 weeks.  I FINALLY gave up on gloss black with a gloss clear.  Its impossible with spray paint without a pro gun.  When I say impossible I mean to get every piece identical and FLAWLESS.  Yea i can get some to come out ok, but some minor flaw always happens and I just could never get them all without either, orange peel in clear, or sheen problems or what.  I even ended up taking weather and humidity out of the equation with a home made spray booth and heaters and ventillation and dehumidifiers.
 

 
 
 
And even the heat sinks were SUPER HARD to get perfect with High heat engine paint and gloss.  
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
I finally just went all matte EVERYWHERE and gave up gloss.   Same with tubing I really wanted those gloss
 

 
 
 
 
I even wetsanded and polished
 

 
 
 
But always a problem.  Yesterday I finally, after the 5th tubing painting try, got a good outcome and when i went to polish, I ate through the clear in a coule spots, as that polish is pretty abrasive for a thin clear coat.   So today I ordered some black acrylic tubing.  They dont make black PETG tubing ANYWHERE.  But I have never used acrylic tubing so im kinda nervous.  
 
 
Lastly, Im also vinyl wrapping a few pieces so everything isnt matte black.  From the get go I wanted to match the brushed metal look on the front of the case.
 
 
So my hand made acrylic GPU backplate got wrapped.
 

 
 

 
 
 
I made that by hand!  And thats where i am at today.  Waiting for new tubing, and vinyl wrapping tonight!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ok here are the final pics, i think it came out great, but I built it how i wanted it, so of course im going to like it..... I hope others do to, remember I went for cleanliniess first, no cables, transistors, cap banks etc. to be visible, and I wanted hidden lights and skulls. Thats what i wanted.

Unfortunately I had to use an iphone....No DSLR. But I did go to alot of trouble to buy diffusers for some LEDs and also bought blackout paper for background. I did the best I could, and it sucks using iphone because the shots with NO outside light, all came out crappy, so I included only 1 shot with no room lighting...
 
My fav part, the floor, you can see it in the second pic, or the mobo armor, that took forevor and day.























 

Ok here are the final pics, i think it came out great, but I built it how i wanted it, so of course im going to like it..... I hope others do to, remember I went for cleanliniess first, no cables, transistors, cap banks etc. to be visible, and I wanted hidden lights and skulls. Thats what i wanted.

Unfortunately I had to use an iphone....No DSLR. But I did go to alot of trouble to buy diffusers for some LEDs and also bought blackout paper for background. I did the best I could, and it sucks using iphone because the shots with NO outside light, all came out crappy, so I included only 1 shot with no room lighting...
 
My fav part, the floor, you can see it in the second pic, or the mobo armor, that took forevor and day.























 

Ok here are the final pics, i think it came out great, but I built it how i wanted it, so of course im going to like it..... I hope others do to, remember I went for cleanliniess first, no cables, transistors, cap banks etc. to be visible, and I wanted hidden lights and skulls. Thats what i wanted.

Unfortunately I had to use an iphone....No DSLR. But I did go to alot of trouble to buy diffusers for some LEDs and also bought blackout paper for background. I did the best I could, and it sucks using iphone because the shots with NO outside light, all came out crappy, so I included only 1 shot with no room lighting...
 
My fav part, the floor, you can see it in the second pic, or the mobo armor, that took forevor and day.























 

Hmmmm very few comments/views here, not sure if I'm too new here, or maybe just no one thinks this will turn out good?

Whatever the reason, I am going to either make this my last update, or I will consider doing one more final update on monday maybe, of the tubing runs in back of case. (Although does anyone really want to see how I run the back and basement tubes? I doubt it... ) Then after the "potential" update on monday it will be a few added days more, while I take final pictures/video, and then It will be the final reveal. So hopefully I didn't lose everyone (or never gain anyone) before the reveal next week. Months of work coming to a close. 

Here are the last front of case pictures I will release. Did the CPU runs, in the all vertical runs I wanted. 
 



I mounted the pump with Tape only. Im super nervous about that, I really wanted to screw it in, I just couldnt do both screws and front facing, so I just went with super strong tape. I watched videos, it had a 100lbs shear strength, and a 250lb tactile strength. So I dont see why this wont hold it tight. 

 


If someone SPECIFICALLY asks for that final update, of basement and back of case tubing runs, Ill do that monday, otherwise, Im signing out untill the reveal sometime next week, after the final pictures are taken.

Ok last update.  Sometime next week will be the reveal.  Trust me, it will look different than even what has been seen, it will look much cleaner.  As that was the goal, super super clean and lit up nicely.  
 
I kind of finished all the tube routing. There was only big problem that occured, ill explain below.


Here is an overview of the basement







Here is the first 3 tube runs I did, they went flawlessly, and fast and easy, even with the limited spatial access. Soft tubes way easier. Goes from res to pump.







Here is The rad to GPUs Top close up. This was some tight spaces, but only that 1-2 inch run gave me any trouble, I had to extend the fittings farther down to make it work. I hate short runs, there is no give, its hard with short or long tubes, when you only have an inch or two of tubing to use.







Here is where they connect to the rad for a bottom shot.






Ok here is where I encountered a problem. I spent 3 hours trying to get these tubes connected. They look connected, but there not secured tightly. For these 4 fittings, I used a different brand than XSPC. I used Touchaquana. I got them because they are DIRT cheap but you get what you pay for. I used some Touchaquana extenders, and they worked fine, but they suck at compression fittings. First they were hard to get the tube onto, but the main problem is the compression ring will not secure all the way on. I just cant have that, secure fittings is the main concern when looking for a good fitting. After hours of trying I only got 1 of the 4 to secure, so I just ordered some more XSPC fittings which worked great. I will have to redo these top runs. 




 
 
 


Dont buy these ever to save money, i mean get barrow if you want a cheaper fitting, at least barrow fittings work..
 
 
 

 
 

Ok last update.  Sometime next week will be the reveal.  Trust me, it will look different than even what has been seen, it will look much cleaner.  As that was the goal, super super clean and lit up nicely.  
 
I kind of finished all the tube routing. There was only big problem that occured, ill explain below.


Here is an overview of the basement







Here is the first 3 tube runs I did, they went flawlessly, and fast and easy, even with the limited spatial access. Soft tubes way easier. Goes from res to pump.







Here is The rad to GPUs Top close up. This was some tight spaces, but only that 1-2 inch run gave me any trouble, I had to extend the fittings farther down to make it work. I hate short runs, there is no give, its hard with short or long tubes, when you only have an inch or two of tubing to use.







Here is where they connect to the rad for a bottom shot.






Ok here is where I encountered a problem. I spent 3 hours trying to get these tubes connected. They look connected, but there not secured tightly. For these 4 fittings, I used a different brand than XSPC. I used Touchaquana. I got them because they are DIRT cheap but you get what you pay for. I used some Touchaquana extenders, and they worked fine, but they suck at compression fittings. First they were hard to get the tube onto, but the main problem is the compression ring will not secure all the way on. I just cant have that, secure fittings is the main concern when looking for a good fitting. After hours of trying I only got 1 of the 4 to secure, so I just ordered some more XSPC fittings which worked great. I will have to redo these top runs. 




 
 
 


Dont buy these ever to save money, i mean get barrow if you want a cheaper fitting, at least barrow fittings work..
 
 
 

 
 

I have 3 goals in this build.  1st, include skulls.  2nd, bring interior design elements into a PC, like clean hidden lighting, recessed lighting, cove lighting, and just have a super clean RGB build.  3rd, HAVE NOTHING SHOWING LIKE CABLES, TRANSISTORS, CAPACITORS, NOTHING.  Trying to have the cleanest build ever.  I am just now doing my build log here, but I have been working on this build for 4 months, and i am about 3/5ths complete.   I have over 300 hours into this build so far.  The motherboard armor alone took 60 hours or more.  
 

 
 
 
 
 
I had to buy all my powertools new for this build.  I purchased 3 saws.  A circular saw, a moto scroll saw for detail work, and a table saw for long straight cuts. I also bought a dremel.  (I love the dremel and table saw so much).  
I also bought a new cordless drill, and then I was like drilling passthroughs sucks with a cordless.  So I bought a drill Press as well.  All of that just for this build.  (And i thought it would be nice to have.)


 
 
 

 
 
By far the two hardest things, was the motherboard armor and suprisingly enough the painting which im still working on now, I have most of it done, but still working on a couple more pieces.  The motherboard armor was so hard because there is no "template to follow", I had to make one, printing out a pic of the motherboard and cutting it out of semi hard thin plastic.  But once I put the CPU block on it got way harder because it had to be close enough to not leave even a mm size gap, but far enough to let it slide on and off no problem.  And I used a dremel and moto saw and it took 60 hours plus, because if you cut too much off your screwed.  
 


 
 

 
 

 
 
 
At least I thought that if you cut too much you were screwed, when i changed my radiator size, I needed to fix a small 3mm by 40mm gap and another 15 mm gap at the top, and once i discovered plastic putty and weld on 4, I found I could fix it and leave no gaps because of that putty.  See the black, thats black acrylic, ( i should have kept it clear but who cares, its getting painted)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I also had to make my own radiator mount.  Because of the way the case is, unless your rocking a fat 60mm thick rad, the fans wont sit flush to the front of the case.  SO I made my own.
 
 
 

 
 
 
Only when someone pointed out that I have to drill holes in it for the Rad to breathe.  (omg im so dumb to overlook that)
 

 
 
 
Then I realized that it still wasnt enough so i just cut it up.  And it worked and held fine!
 

 
 
 
I also made a TON of modifications to the case to fit everything nicely the way I designed it. 
 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Then I made the floor.  Realized the tubes just didnt look right lined up the way they were, and I didnt take into consideration once I screwed down the reservoir back plate, the whole thing shifted a few mm, so my passthroughs no longer lined up right.  And I had to completely redo the floor again.
 
 

 
 
 
I also custom made some lights and borders to hold the lights.  I wanted to hide the LED's under the floor, but light up a punisher light above the floor.  But I had to have a frame, just slapping it up didnt look clean enough. 
 

 
 
 
 
Oh and I stopped to buy my first delid tool, i had not previously ever delidded.
 

 
 
 
 
Oh they said a 480 wouldnt fit up there, but it DOES FIT.  You just have to drill a couple holes in the top of the case, and buy some longer screws.  But because this had never been done with fans on top before, I had to buy a TON of screws as I didnt know which was the right size.  Ended up being 40mm long.  
 
 

 
 
To find the correct spot to drill, I put a fan on top, used a nail to scratch the spot, and then drilled through.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here is a shot of beginning tubing my all vertical design, and a sneak peak of what it looks like with the motherboard armor on as well.  It looks so awesome having the tubing/passthroughs end in the armor itself. 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
So this brings me to where i am today.  Painting. I have been STRUGGLING.  I have painted then sanded it all off, then painted then sanded it all off, then repeat, then repeat a dozen times.  Been doing it for 2 weeks.  I FINALLY gave up on gloss black with a gloss clear.  Its impossible with spray paint without a pro gun.  When I say impossible I mean to get every piece identical and FLAWLESS.  Yea i can get some to come out ok, but some minor flaw always happens and I just could never get them all without either, orange peel in clear, or sheen problems or what.  I even ended up taking weather and humidity out of the equation with a home made spray booth and heaters and ventillation and dehumidifiers.
 

 
 
 
And even the heat sinks were SUPER HARD to get perfect with High heat engine paint and gloss.  
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
I finally just went all matte EVERYWHERE and gave up gloss.   Same with tubing I really wanted those gloss
 

 
 
 
 
I even wetsanded and polished
 

 
 
 
But always a problem.  Yesterday I finally, after the 5th tubing painting try, got a good outcome and when i went to polish, I ate through the clear in a coule spots, as that polish is pretty abrasive for a thin clear coat.   So today I ordered some black acrylic tubing.  They dont make black PETG tubing ANYWHERE.  But I have never used acrylic tubing so im kinda nervous.  
 
 
Lastly, Im also vinyl wrapping a few pieces so everything isnt matte black.  From the get go I wanted to match the brushed metal look on the front of the case.
 
 
So my hand made acrylic GPU backplate got wrapped.
 

 
 

 
 
 
I made that by hand!  And thats where i am at today.  Waiting for new tubing, and vinyl wrapping tonight!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dude yours looked great!  Mine, I had to redo over and over and over for almost 3 weeks.  Then do it again because of syran wrap.....
Ughhhhh I must have sanded it all off and redid it all like 6 times.
 
So that was initially a big concern of mine.  There was a problem 2 fold.  The first, the paint itself would hurt heatsinks temps.  But I bought a special high heat paint that is made up of ceramic particles, that is supposed to be really good for heat dissipation.  
 
Then there was the concern the acrylic armor would somehow trap in heat, or melt.  But I did alot of research and it seemed that the heatsinks should never get hot enough to melt it, at least I really hope it doesnt.  And as for trapping in the heat, I dont think it will.....I guess I will just have to wait and see......  I will montior temps VERY closely the first few weeks.  I will put a ton of load on them the first couple days and use a heat gun and sensors and just keep an eye on it.   But if people can cover them in freakin plastidip, and just regular ol paint, I dont see why ceramic paint on it, and acrylic a mm or two away from the edges, will make a big difference. No one has ever done a build like this before, so its kind of new territory.  
 
 I will keep ya updated.  

So I ran an LED Test and turned on my system for the first time! I mentioned previously, I wanted to do that before watercooling in case there was any problems.

It ALMOST went off without a hitch, ALL CORSAIR STRIPS/FANS WORKED FLAWLESSLY. 
The one cablemod LED strip I had running on AURA SYNC of course did not work.....ughh, i had to literally break my arcylic armor to get behind the LED bracket and remove the LED......... Now I have to fix that.....

The Reservoir mount looked great!
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Skull came out great, this isnt what the finished product will look like though.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 

So... I had a HORRIBLE weekend, build wise. As anyone who has read my previous posts know, I have struggled ALOT with painting. Spent weeks trying to perfect gloss black, then gave up and went to matte. Well, Matte scratched soooo easy without clear coat, so I protected it with Syran Wrap. 

Well, I went to take off the Syran Wrap, and to my suprise, apparently, the Syran Wrap has this slightly adhesive, super thin, glue type substance just ever so glazed on the sheets. I never even detected it on there. So when I pulled it off, It Left the UGLIEST glue marks on the paint, and ruined all my work. I spent all weekend REPAINTING EVERYTHING AGAIN!


You can see the honeycomb looking ugly sticky CRAP

 
 

 
 
 
So to try to clean it off, I first used windex, didnt work. So I stepped it up to label remover. It kind of worked for the already permanently in place, and piece i couldnt repaint anyways (the res holder piece), but when I wiped it on the heatsink, IT WIPED OFF ALL THE PAINT IN FIRST WIPE!!!!




So all the rest of the pieces, that didnt have vinyl wrap on it, or that I didnt permanently attach to case, I started to repaint. And of course ran into problems like usual.



I did get a little other work done, this weekend, the painting took about 7-8 hours of my time. Rest of time went to other fixes. Im almost glad to have redone the bottom mobo armor, and bracket, as the previous non corsair led had to be broken out, and fixed, but this one came out even better than before. I added a white piece of acrylic to diffuse to LED, so it didnt look as much like multiple bulbs, and more like a bar of light. 







I also worked on another LED diffuser, a bracket I bought online, it was the perfect size, and angled up in the direction I wanted!! It works great for PC builds.







And the last thing I did was prep the new acrylic tubes for watercooling this week. They look great, and I wanted to keep them clean and scratch free, so I wrapped them up. THIS TIME I USED PLAIN NEWSPAPER NOT SYRAN WRAP!  3 sets I went through so far in search for perfection......


 
 

So I ran an LED Test and turned on my system for the first time! I mentioned previously, I wanted to do that before watercooling in case there was any problems.

It ALMOST went off without a hitch, ALL CORSAIR STRIPS/FANS WORKED FLAWLESSLY. 
The one cablemod LED strip I had running on AURA SYNC of course did not work.....ughh, i had to literally break my arcylic armor to get behind the LED bracket and remove the LED......... Now I have to fix that.....

The Reservoir mount looked great!
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Skull came out great, this isnt what the finished product will look like though.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 

So I ran an LED Test and turned on my system for the first time! I mentioned previously, I wanted to do that before watercooling in case there was any problems.

It ALMOST went off without a hitch, ALL CORSAIR STRIPS/FANS WORKED FLAWLESSLY. 
The one cablemod LED strip I had running on AURA SYNC of course did not work.....ughh, i had to literally break my arcylic armor to get behind the LED bracket and remove the LED......... Now I have to fix that.....

The Reservoir mount looked great!
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Skull came out great, this isnt what the finished product will look like though.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 

I suppose you could be right, as long as you have the right tools, I dont have any tools for sheet metal, so I suppose thats why I had some issues with it the one time I worked with it.  But i guess thats true about anything in life, as long as your prepared and have the right tools, its shoudn't be too hard!