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Isn't it a bit too early to ask such a question? Come on, it's still October!
 
Christmas is kinda pointless holiday IMO. I don't know, but that's just me...

The other question is will we be seeing a V2 after they move?!?!

I'd go with the 1440p monitor over two 1080p monitors. The gaming experience at a higher resolution will be more worth it than having two lower-res matching monitors.
 
A 970 will be a great card for 1440p, as it's a bit better than the 780 which most people considered to be a great GPU for 1440p gaming. Maxwell OC's like crazy, so the 970 can perform really close to the 980 (not the same, but a lot closer than the price difference would suggest).
 
GtG time isn't really that important to your gaming experience (don't confuse GtG time with response time/latency). I have both a Korean 1440p  60hz (also 8 ms) and a Asus VG248QE (1080p, 144hz, 1ms), and the difference is somewhat minimal. The difference is definitely there, but I wind up playing most of my games on the 1440p monitor because the higher resolution does make things just look better.

http://www.e22.biz/ sells Lutro0 customs sleeving and all of the tools required if you want to sleeve the cables yourself
http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/home.php sells all sorts of modding equipment such as lighting
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/index.php sells pre-made braided cables and also sells lighting

http://www.e22.biz/ sells Lutro0 customs sleeving and all of the tools required if you want to sleeve the cables yourself
http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/home.php sells all sorts of modding equipment such as lighting
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/index.php sells pre-made braided cables and also sells lighting

Those look good. They are probably at the top of my list so far. Thank you

Cooler Master Blade Master 120mms.
 
These fans are incredible Static pressure fans.  They come in at your budget.  They are black, no LEDs, inexpensive compared to others, and perform very well at medium to high RPMs because of their 3.9mm/H20 Static pressure rating.  They do get loud at 1600rpm+, but I never have the need to run them higher than 1400rpm, and I typically have them at 1250rpm.  They max out at 2400rpm.  They are amazing radiator fans and don't get enough love.

Congrats on 1 million subsuscribers and thank you for this awesome giveaway

I have been in the process of modding my HAF 912+ to fit a 240/280mm rad in the front and then a 240mm rad in the top. There is room in the front if you remove the hard drive cages for a 240mm rad and if you then remove the 5.25" drive bays you can fit a 280mm and maybe a 360mm rad, I can't remember the exact measurements.
Here is my build log if you want to have a look, I haven't touched it in a while as i went away and since getting back I have no money to finish it at the moment:
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165963-project-viridis-water-cooled-haf-912/
Removing the hard drive cages was fairly simple, it just required removing a few rivets.

Cool I look forward to the update.

This shit is annoying, how is upgrading a desktop going to help someone who needs to do work when they aren't home.

I have come up with a second loop order that does not go behind the motherboard tray:

The loop order is:
pump/res --> 240/280mm rad --> GPU --> CPU --> 240mm rad --> pump/res
The main worry I have with this is if there is enough room under the psu cover for the tubing to come up directly under the GPU so I can use a straight line to the GPU, I would use soft tubing under the psu cover so it would be more flexible. Another issue maybe the tubing run from the 360mm rad to the top of the res as I would have to do 2 90 degree bends very close to each other which could be quite hard to do. Other than those two things I am quite happy with this order.

The new piece of steel came today and so I worked on the psu cover all day and I have finished it. I am very happy with the result and now just need to find a way of attaching it to the case, any one have any ideas? I was thinking of using some of the screws I had left over from 5.25" drive bay mod and using them in certain places but they were not long enough to use in the places I wanted to so I am open to any ideas. So this is what it looked after I had bent it but not painted it, the top was a little bit bent but I fixed that:

And then this is what it looked like after I had painted it:

As I said I am very happy with the results. I also plan on getting another steel sheet and placing it over the area under the 5.25" bays and where the current cable management holes are. I want to do this because if I were just to leave it you would be able to see all of the cables running behind there, it allows me to create new cable routing holes where I want them, and it gives me something to mount the reservoir/pump onto.
Also as no-one said anything about the paint on the RAM I am just going to leave it as it is for the moment.

I just went and got the paint that I am going to be using to paint the motherboard heatsinks, RAM heatsinks, and maybe the pci-e slots and RAM slots. The paint is Humbrol Enamel Matt 33 and Humbrol Enamel Met 50, I also bought some thinner to mix it in with if necessary. I will be using the green to paint the RAM and maybe the heatsinks on the motherboard, I am not sure yet, if not I will paint the motherboard heatsinks black, and then the pci-e slots and RAM slots black if I paint them. What colour do you think I should paint the motherboard heatsinks, black or green?

I may start painting the RAM soon but painting the motherboard will be one of the last things that I do once I have taken my computer apart because while I am painting it it will be unusable for a few days.

Just a small update. I am now done for summer so I have nothing to do over the next 3 months pretty much, apart from travelling for a bit of it. I managed to find a Draper, a mulitool thing pretty much the same as a Dremel, in my garage so I have been able to get back into the modding. I finished sanding down the edges of the 5.25" bays and have re-painted them as I got a few scratches on them.

I am happy with the sanding and the paint. I got the lines straight enough and because they will not be in sight it does not matter too much. I realised after I started cutting it this way that there was a much easier way of doing it and that was just to cut the bottom plate of the 5.25" bays and that woud have meant that I could have kept all of the drive bays but it does not matter too much as I will only ever need one.
I am still unsure of what shape to go for with the side panel window and the fact that the centre of the side panel actually sticks out makes it harder to work with because I either have to cut all of the part that sticks out, out, or stay within the part that sticks out because if I do not mounting the window will be impossible.

Welcome to my second build log on this forum. The aim of this build is not to improve the hardware, in fact the hardware will not change at all, the main aim of this build log is to update my water cooling loop and change to acrylic tubing, and change to a smaller case the HAF 912+. I have not seen many water cooling builds in this case and I had one sitting around next to my desk from an old build so I thought I would give it a go.

The name of this build log is build log is Project Viridis because it is the Latin word for green. So from that you may be able to guess that the colour scheme for this build is going to be emerald/green. This is mainly because I managed to get a free bottle of Mayhems X1 UV Emerald which I managed to get for free when a Mayhem's representative gave away a few bottles about a year ago on another forum. The parts list for this build log are down in my sig.

As the HAF 912+ does not lend itself to water cooling in its original form I will be modding the case. I am going to try and fit in one 280mm/240mm rad in the front and then another 240mm up top. This will mean removing all of the front hard drive cages and the 5.25" bays; however, I want one of the 5.25" bays to install a fan controller in so I am going to cut down the 5.25" so there is only one slot to put that in. To fit the rad up top I am most likely going to have to have to get a shroud as there is not much room up there once the motherboard is in. Another mod that I am going to be doing is cutting a new side panel window. The side panel with a window that you can order from Cooler Master is not a great shape in my opinion and they put a stupid space for a fan which means you cannot see most of the internals of your system. I am going to take the original side panel and cut a window into it. Now the original side panel is not perfect either because it has the ugly HAF logo on it. In order to get rid of this I will sand it down and repaint the side panel. I am also going to paint the mesh on the front panel emerald colour. I am also going to be repainting the heat sinks on motherboard and on my RAM to emerald instead of blue. As I said earlier I do not want to buy any new hardware and the hardware I have got currently was picked for a blue colour scheme so I need to change it. There are a few other blue parts on the motherboard which I would like to change but I do not want to ruin the motherboard trying to paint parts such as the PCI lanes and the RAM slots. The final mod I will be doing is one that most do these days and that is sleeving. I will be using Lutro0's Telios sleeving to sleeve all of my cables using the green and black sleeving.

Now I am going to be adventuring into acrylic tubing for the first time in this build after having built my first loop out of conventional tubing. This will be where all of my money is going to be spent, on new fittings, and tubing. I am going to try and avoid using angled fittings as much as possible and go for bends in the tubing as that is what I think looks best and it is the way I want to do it. Obviously I am going to have to use some angled fittings but I want to keep it down to a minimum.

This build log will most likely carry on over summer as I am away quite a lot of the summer and I do not have a lot of money so I will have to save up money for the few things I will have to buy. I have already started some of the mods and I will upload pictures with what I have done tomorrow.
 
Thank you to Rumikarimu for making the awesome banner for this build.

Welcome to my second build log on this forum. The aim of this build is not to improve the hardware, in fact the hardware will not change at all, the main aim of this build log is to update my water cooling loop and change to acrylic tubing, and change to a smaller case the HAF 912+. I have not seen many water cooling builds in this case and I had one sitting around next to my desk from an old build so I thought I would give it a go.

The name of this build log is build log is Project Viridis because it is the Latin word for green. So from that you may be able to guess that the colour scheme for this build is going to be emerald/green. This is mainly because I managed to get a free bottle of Mayhems X1 UV Emerald which I managed to get for free when a Mayhem's representative gave away a few bottles about a year ago on another forum. The parts list for this build log are down in my sig.

As the HAF 912+ does not lend itself to water cooling in its original form I will be modding the case. I am going to try and fit in one 280mm/240mm rad in the front and then another 240mm up top. This will mean removing all of the front hard drive cages and the 5.25" bays; however, I want one of the 5.25" bays to install a fan controller in so I am going to cut down the 5.25" so there is only one slot to put that in. To fit the rad up top I am most likely going to have to have to get a shroud as there is not much room up there once the motherboard is in. Another mod that I am going to be doing is cutting a new side panel window. The side panel with a window that you can order from Cooler Master is not a great shape in my opinion and they put a stupid space for a fan which means you cannot see most of the internals of your system. I am going to take the original side panel and cut a window into it. Now the original side panel is not perfect either because it has the ugly HAF logo on it. In order to get rid of this I will sand it down and repaint the side panel. I am also going to paint the mesh on the front panel emerald colour. I am also going to be repainting the heat sinks on motherboard and on my RAM to emerald instead of blue. As I said earlier I do not want to buy any new hardware and the hardware I have got currently was picked for a blue colour scheme so I need to change it. There are a few other blue parts on the motherboard which I would like to change but I do not want to ruin the motherboard trying to paint parts such as the PCI lanes and the RAM slots. The final mod I will be doing is one that most do these days and that is sleeving. I will be using Lutro0's Telios sleeving to sleeve all of my cables using the green and black sleeving.

Now I am going to be adventuring into acrylic tubing for the first time in this build after having built my first loop out of conventional tubing. This will be where all of my money is going to be spent, on new fittings, and tubing. I am going to try and avoid using angled fittings as much as possible and go for bends in the tubing as that is what I think looks best and it is the way I want to do it. Obviously I am going to have to use some angled fittings but I want to keep it down to a minimum.

This build log will most likely carry on over summer as I am away quite a lot of the summer and I do not have a lot of money so I will have to save up money for the few things I will have to buy. I have already started some of the mods and I will upload pictures with what I have done tomorrow.
 
Thank you to Rumikarimu for making the awesome banner for this build.

Thank you so much. I love it

REASON: Build log banner
TITLE: Project Viridis
SUBTITLE: Water Cooled HAF 912+
BACKGROUND: Emeralds on a black background
Sorry it is not much to go on. I would rather release your creativity a bit as I am not the most creative.

the only thing I could say if you want to try to get into programming is look online. My old java teacher more or less told our class that when trying to figure out most things just google it. there is one guy on youtube who is great at showing you the basics of most programming languages (c++, Java, python and more) thenewboston. he will show you the basics of programming plus there is also a resource online for most programming languages.

Well if you want to mine get that 280x

My custom loop. Feels more satisfying to me making my computer look better than perform better as I do not game that much.

Yes they have Pcper annonced it on twitter

Lots of Linus lovers licking Linus