KyunG

If you have the knowledge and machinery to produce a custom waterblock, might as well go silver :P Out of all metals, silver has the highest thermal conductivity. And once you are done with using your computer, just take the waterblock off and remove the silver and sell it! Good investment since silver will be worth more in the future :P

- Aluminium - Build Quality - Features (modular, removable MB tray, spaces for multiple radiators, etc.) - Price

Like others have stated above, sleeving is always the best option (if you have time). But, trying to sleeve (especially individual sleeving) will take a LARGE amount of time and patience. The "lazy" man's way out is to buy pre-sleeved extension cables which there are many different brands of.

Not really. I guess you can just double check and make sure your SSD is connected on AHCI mode. TRIM should be enabled by default... but you can always double check that too.

For that price I would probably go for the M4 Crucial 128GB. Had an extremely good track record. I personally never used the GSkill Phoenix SSDs so I can't really tell you from personal experience. Not sure what the prices are on the M4s right now, but I think I saw one during the holiday season as low as 89.99

I'm sure there are others who might have shared a similar experience with me... I was in my dream doing random things when I suddenly realized I was in a dream. Then I begin to explore my dream while understanding that this was a dream. Then after a while I began to panic because I was afraid I would be stuck in this dream. Then I woke up with a cold sweat.

When you sign up on a tech forum to comment on a subject titled "You Know you're a geek when..."

Blasphemy! :P

I've always used EK WBs since I started using water cooling and LOVE how they look. One thing I don't like though is their VGA WBs because it doesn't cover the entire PCB :( It's a personal preference and I really hate seeing the PCB of the VGA just sticking out to the side. But for CPU and Motherboard WB, I have always used EK and will probably continue to do so. Also, the circle design in my opinion makes the WBs look extremely clean and uniformed which is what I like aesthetically.

Have you checked out the Caselabs SM8 and/or the Little Devil LD PC-V8? They can both easily fit any 280 rad and is full aluminum modular cases.

How about this case from Little Devil? http://www.ldcooling.com/shop/ld-pc-...d-280-420.html