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As I wrote on Wednesday, I did some rads cleaning. I cleaned up SE120, PE480 and CE560 in the following way (I will do the same with PE240 and PE360 soon). I mixed the Mayhems Blitz Part 1 with distilled water and kept it in radiator for about 8 hours. On the last photo you can see how the fluid change after the time period. Equal outcome was from all of the radiators - they were all new and never used. In the meantime, I took the pump apart, shortened the cables, flexed them, change white connectors to black. And as well I mounted TOP on the pump. Another TOP will come shortly. [

Alright, so, that day, when suddenly the delivery guy called me that he has a package for me, I was totally surprised.. I literally forgot about it. It was a package from Mayhems I ordered, for some people it may seem as useless things, I am not gonna argue with that. Anyway, I want to construct this build in my own way, with everyhing I consider necessary. Everybody knows what has happened to some users, which were using pastel fluids, changing colors etc., so I want to prevent this and if it happens to me I don't want to hypothesise if I should have used it. I will use Mayhems Blitz Kit and we'll see what will happen. Honestly, I did not use it in previous build and I did not have a single problem with color change of fluid, but since in this build there will be much more fluid I just want to be on the safe side. Of course, I will take apart every single block in my current rig and clean them by hand, but after that I want to sweep over the new water circuit Mayhems Blitz Part 2. Since in my current build I have a some plasticiser from soft tubes, which are placed in the rear part of the case - even though I used Promochill advanced LRT therefore I do not understand - however, this is the reason why I will use in this build only hard tubes. Even though it will be more difficult. I will be able to prevent potential problems and I do not want to waste my time by trial and erroring another type of tubes before I find the correct ones. I will start with this kit - young chemist, probably today on EK rads and after that I will take some photos with result. In the meantime is here someone who used it ? And what is your experience ?

Another day passed by and I was able to do something that looks not like a big deal, but it still took me significant amount of time to finish. The majority of time I was vacuuming since I hate when there is mess all around me when I try to work EKWB shiny extenders, which I painted yesterday, were already dry, therefore I started with work on tubings - but really just a bit. Since the tubes from reservoirs are going through lightbox, I drilled the passage holes for fittings from Alphacool (I used them for their length). I was considering to do inlet/outlet from reservoir, in case I do it with some bend, or use 90° fitting. I tried both and I have to admit that I like it more with the fitting. I have deliberately ripped the protective foil around the fittings, so I can put the protective foil itself down more easily. Full gallery is here: https://goo.gl/photos/1hxiqSgptocUDtM89

So lets start with something. Today I mounted top radiator and reveservoirs. Later I will be moving this radiator one more time outside from case, because I need to flush him. The reason why I mounted him now was because of easiest measurement for mounting reservoirs. EKWB shiny extenders, was not my taste so I painted them to black. (still dries) Full gallery is here: https://goo.gl/photos/1hxiqSgptocUDtM89 Into this gallery I will add all others photos from actual building project.

I did one little change from what I planed, I replaced 2x Alphacool Eisbecher 250mm with 2x EK-RES X4 250mm. And today I received them with some other parts. What you guys think about these reservoirs ?

Update #1.1.1 After long waiting, today, I have received the LED strip. I have therefore immediately added the strip into the lightbox, and... there was light! If anyone's interested as to what kind of LED strip it is, it is cold white LED strip assembled by 5730 SMD LEDs. I did not have much time today, but I still wanted to see how it's gonna look and I also wanted to show it to you guys. I did it in a hurry (I still need to extend the cable, flex it, etc..). Perhaps in the future I will add dimmer for the possibility of dimming (it shines more than I expected), since it won't be any problem to install it anytime. On the top there is still the protective film. Full gallery is here: https://goo.gl/photos/RXxajuhLFLC3wZSE9

I know. Like I said, I am now doing WC stuff and after Ryzen and Skylake come out I am going for upgrade. I am here with a little upgrade - I received a package from DEMCiflex. DEMCiflex manufactured some custom filters for me, since they only have filters for SMA8 and Flex-Bays, which, after some measurements, edges would be visible in both lower and upper chambers. They were really nice to create those dimensions for me, which I asked for. Quality of those filters is pretty good. I have no idea what kind of mesh they are using, but it's much better compared to dust filters on my Corsair Air 540. Don't be confused, Corsair works perfectly fine, but you can still find some particles of dust in the case. Density of mesh on DEMCiflex filter is better, at least from the first look. As soon as I put them in working state, it would be even easier to compare it. I order filters for every hole in my case and also for the outtake of fans, since I don't want dust in radiators. Someone can think it's stupid, but we all know that dust is being spread also only by the natural flow of air in the room and since this case is much bigger than most of other "classic" cases, I want to prevent any unnecessary cleaning of dust. As of now, I have quite some dust in the back side of my case and there is no fan, if I don't count the one on PSU - it was never spinning up. And as well, there wasn't such a high price difference whether I ordered filters for intake or outtake as well. Since the filters are not as expensive, I decided to buy them for every place in my case. What was concerning me is the way the front filter will look, but in the end it looked much better than what I hoped for. And in real it look even better (on photo is strong light reflection). All the other filters are from the inside, so they are not visible at all. Some photos: https://goo.gl/photos/yej74fhGss6TpLCL9

Thank you. Another day: Today after I received Steel Grey PLX from Gosumodz I started with flexing cables. Most parts for flexing I had from previous build, where I was doing some extension. In this build I will do full new cables from PSU up to components, thus no extensions. Flexing is very time-cosuming so for today I end with 24pin only - lenght of this cable (with connectors) is about 120cm.

I am sorry for not updating guys, I am sick now. I glued lightbox together, well not exactly glued. I used two sided adhesive tape because it sticked together better than with UV glue ... and still waiting for ledstrip. In this moment I have most of parts in my hands so when LED Strip will come updates would be more often.

Update #1.1 added Yeah I know, it will be another story... And continuing - lol... Thanks for comment.

Hello LLT community, Today is the day. Well, not exactly today, but today I am starting this topic with my build into the best case (you might have a different opinion) in the world, the Caselabs SMA 8. Where to start ? Everything started approximately one year ago, when I bought Corsair 540 Air for my first build with watercooling. And it started as a complete disaster. I finished the build everything was perfect until one day. That day, reservoir start leaking from sides (XSPC Photon 170), I was unfortunate to have a broken one. Then I went to put the reservoir outside from the case, but somewhere there had to stay a little drop of liquid (I used Mayhems Pastel Blue) and this drop came to the motherboard, what I did not notice and the motherboard (as you can guess) - died. Anyway, it was good lesson and I ordered new motherboard, assembled parts together, and the build is still running without any problems. Here is some low quality photo (sorry for that). Watercooling HW which I have: CPU: 1x EK-Supremacy EVO - Nickel (Original CSQ) GPU: 1x Alphacool NexXxoS GPX RAM: 1x EK-RAM Monarch X4 - Nickel (Original CSQ) VRM & NB: 1x HEATKILLER® MB-SET Pump: 1x Alphacool VPP655 Reservoir: 1x Raijintek RAI-R20 Radiators: 1x EKWB PE360, 1x PE240 Fittings: Nanoxia Coolforce (Many) Fans: 2x Corsair SP120, 1x Corsair AF120, 3x Prolimatech ultra sleek vortex 12 (because of thickness) Coolant: Mayhems Pastel Blue Berry What will I add: Pump: 1x Alphacool VPP655 (dual loop system) Reservoir: 2x EK-RES X4 250 (current reservoir will go away) Radiators: 1x SE120, 1x PE480, 1x CE560 (+ current radiators) Fans: 4x AF140, 6x SP120, 1x Prolimatech ultra sleek vortex 12 (+ current fans) Coolant: Mayhems Pastel Blue Berry with Mayhems Pastel White together with filter with function to separate from each other (just kidding) And of course there will be more fittings, tubings, leds, lightbox, distribution PCB's, relay PCB's, custom sleeved cables etc etc.. Computer HW: CPU: AMD FX-8350 GPU: R9 270x RAM: Kingston 2x 4GB 1600 CL9 MB: Asus Crosshair Formula Z PSU: Corsair RM750 SSD: 1x OCZ ARC-100 120GB, 1x Samsung EVO-850 250GB HDD: 1x WD Black 1TB, 2x WD Green 2TB And now part dedicated to HW. Cooling system for this HW is absolute overkill, I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. I am building it for the hw, with which I will upgrade it, but as I already said, before I do that I want to wait for new CPUs. And of course other hw afterwards. The maximum in the future what I want to change is the water block. I already have most of the parts, therefore I am only expanding what I have so far. I am doing it for fun, as well for overclocking (not exactly with current hw), as well as for showcase. And last but not least, when I chose SMA8, I want to exploit full potential of this case, since this case can cool nearly everything in the future with nice temps. # 1.0 How I choosed Caselabs SMA 8 ? : I started considering new HW. Later, I refrained from doing so, I decided to wait for the new Kaby and Zen. Because putting anything else without new CPU, is in my opinion waste of money. I can get better performence for example with the GTX1070, but there will be always bottleneck from side of CPU, so I won't do any hw update up until then. But as I started, I was looking for the new HW - this searching made me consider new case, because I lacked space in my old one, and also I wanted to do some great project. During long search I found one case, it was Corsair 900D, until...... I found another one, Caselabs SMA 8. Let's be honest I liked 900D more, there was not a question of price, 900D just looked better for me. I followed Caselabs from time to time and I started to like it more and more. I was still wondering what to do, which way to go.. But BlackFriday convinced me. There was 15% off, so I ordered Caselabs SMA 8. There was still a large price difference between these two cases, so I was just like "nah man" closed one eye and clicked the finish order button. After about one month waiting, it came to me and I started putting parts of the case together. And I can say only one thing about this case, the quality is brilliant. Difficult to say if it's really worth the money, but just look at Apple, or Samsung and their inflated margins. I have to say Caselabs made a badass case, they did a wonderful job and the least is have to do is to recommend this case to anyone living this hobby - you're gonna love it. Cheers. Putting it together: # 1.1 Preparing lightbox for being put together: Today I received the lightbox, I was very curious because I made the whole design and drawing myself. Lightbox is made out of acrylic sheets (3mm), cut out by CO2 laser, by a company named Gravitech. As I already mentioned, I did all of the drawing myself, therefore I was curious if parts would actually fit into each other, without any problem - belive it or not, it worked like a charm. Now I gotta wait for UV LEDs, which I ordered from China in December, since the whole lightbox will be glued together (except for the bottom part - this will be screwed to the remainder in case there is a replacement necessary for the LED if it breaks or for whatever other reason there might be) with glue, which is only reactive to UV light. And as well I have to wait for the LED-strip before I finish the actual thing. I am providing some photos from the testing and also some with the actual looks. # 1.2 Working on cables: After I received Steel Grey PLX from Gosumodz I started with cable flexing. I had most of the parts for flexing from my previous build, where I was doing some extension. In this build I will create full new cables from PSU up to components, thus no extensions. Flexing is very time-consuming so today I finished with 24pin only - length of this cable (with connectors) is about 120cm. # 1.x To be continued