Chris Stout

Seasonic and Antec are very reputable companies. (I'm surprised you have never seen any of their products)

I've made some good progess and had some setbacks
 
First the progress:
I've received and assembled waterblocks, I had a small problem with the GPU waterblock but you can read that a little later in this post.
I also assembled and tested the complete system, for 2 days....
 
Here is an overview photo of the assembled system, all that is missing is the case and the HD-Plex board.

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It seems the GPU has given up on me. I was in the middle of stress testing the system when all of a sudden the screen went black.
Systems seems to be running okay with the video output on the IGP, but no video output from the GTX970. Windows/BIOS also doesn't see the GPU.
 
I'm going to have to disassemble the system and remount the air cooler to test in on a secondary system. If it's dead I will have to RMA it.
 
Also a slight problem with the GPU block itself.
The micro-channel design I made has not been implemented correctly. This is leading to higher then expected temperatures on the GPU Core and imbalanced flow between GPU and VRM.
My supplier is going to look into it, where they made the translation error and send me a new block free of charge, that's some good service
To give an indication of what has happened, here are some Computational Simulations I've run.
The differences do seem very small but it is enough to make the GPU throttle the Boost clock because it is getting to warm.
 
CAD Drawing

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CFD Difference in Flow, This shows a highlight of all the parts where the Velocity of the Water is 1 meter/s you can see that the velocity in the original design is smaller around the VRM

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CFD Copper Temperatures: Here you can see the difference in Temperature of the Copper where it touches the RAM/VRM and GPU the Original Design has slightly darker colours, which means it is cooler. Especially the GPU Core is visibly cooler

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CFD Core Temperature: Here I samples the average temperature of the GPU core. You can see the average has gone up by about 2C. Again the colour shows that the temperatures are higher.

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I'm expecting the case to be done this week.

Hello LTTF
 
I have had a build in planing for a couple of months now (while I scrounge up the money for it), and I've run into a predicament with the motherboard.  This is the build so far. I will be using the PC for daily productivity (CAD, Word,Outlook, YouTube, and what ever the future holds), and gaming (The Division, Modded Skyrim, DayZ, Insurgency, and Witcher 3).  The question at hand is should I by the Asus H97I-PLUS and a proprietary wireless AC adapter; or should i go with its Z97 counterpart that includes a AC adapter.  In regards to suggestions for the motherboard, I prefer Asus for their UEFI and fan control, yes I understand the Z97 chipset is "unnecessary" for a locked processor, and I will be adding more case fans eventually.  Input on the rest of the build is appreciated as well.
 
Thank you for you time and help.

that is what I was amusing, but I wanted another opinion.  

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