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Corsair Air 240 Hardpipe Watercooled

LJPowell
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Hi all, thought I'd share my finished PC with you all.  This is my first ever build using acrylic tubing and I thought, "why not try acrylic tubing in a tiny case?"  I've always loved the Corsair Air 240 and so the challenged began, how to fit all this hardware in a small case with hardpipe water cooling...

 

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Case: Corsair Air 240

PSU: Corsair AX860i

Motherboard: Asus Gene VII

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790k

Ram: 32Gb Corsair Platinum Dominator

Graphics Card: MSI GTX970

System Disk: 2x Samsung 850 Pro 512Gb (Raid 0)

Storage: 4Tb Western Digital Black

CPU Waterblocks: EK-Supremacy EVO

Radiator: EK-CoolStream XE 240

Reservoir: XSPC Photon 170

Pump: EK-DCP 2.2 X-RES

Tubing: Monsoon Hardline Acrylic Tube

Fittings: Monsoon Chain Gun Hardline

Fluid: Mayhems Pastel - Ice White Coolant

 

I sadly lost all the images from my SLR Camera as I dropped the SD card in a glass of soft drink :(

 

However I was able to upload some of the images from my phone so sorry about the lack of quality of the actual build process :(

 

Anyway hope you like it guys, let me know what you think as I'm tempted to start my next hardpipe build... just don't know what colour theme I should use...I'm thinking either green or purple, yep, purple :P

 

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CPU: Intel® Core i7-3930K CPU @ 4.50GHz Motherboard: Asus Rampage 4 Extreme RAM: 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum GPU: 2x Asus Strix GeForce GTX 980's SLI Case: Cooler Master Cosmos 2 Storage: 1TB Raid 0 Samsung 850 Pro (System), 16TB Storage PSU: Corsair AX860i Display(s): 3x BenQ XL2720Z Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H110 Keyboard: Corsair Gaming K95 RGB Mouse: Corsair Vengeance M95 Sound: Asus Xonar Phoebus ROG OS: Windows 8.1 Enterprise

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4690K // 212 EVO // Z97-PRO // Vengeance 16GB // GTX 770 GTX 970 // MX100 128GB // Toshiba 1TB // Air 540 // HX650

Logitech G502 RGB // Corsair K65 RGB (MX Red)

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Looks real nice, although that glowing red ROG logo looks kind of out of place.

Intel Core i7-5820K (4.4 GHz) | Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming | Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB  | 2x 360mm Custom Loop (Noctua iPPC) | ASRock X99 Extreme6 | Samsung 840 EVO 250GB | Fractal Design Define S | Corsair HX750 | Windows 10 | Corsair M65 RGB PRO | Corsair K70 RGB LUX (CherryMX Brown) | Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro & Creative Sound Blaster Z | Nexus 6P (32GB Aluminium) | Check out my setup: Project Kalte Here!

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Very nice looking. Very clean looking tubing even though it is inside of a cube m-atx case

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i like how it sis done in such a small form factor yet it looks clean

Details separate people.

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If you can somehow convert that ROG LED to white (Might just be a sticker over) it will be damn near perfect.

I like good humans and good food

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I've seen some people are using steel pipe. What kind of steel that they're using? It looks so nice. Is it stainless?

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If you can somehow convert that ROG LED to white (Might just be a sticker over) it will be damn near perfect.

 

Already looking at building another one (but learning from this build), but looking to use the Asus Gene VIII as its mostly black with red and grey accents which I will spray paint to the theme.  Just looking for my next tiny case and what colour theme to use :P  Oh and I may throw a 6700k and 980 Ti in there for giggles :D

CPU: Intel® Core i7-3930K CPU @ 4.50GHz Motherboard: Asus Rampage 4 Extreme RAM: 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum GPU: 2x Asus Strix GeForce GTX 980's SLI Case: Cooler Master Cosmos 2 Storage: 1TB Raid 0 Samsung 850 Pro (System), 16TB Storage PSU: Corsair AX860i Display(s): 3x BenQ XL2720Z Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H110 Keyboard: Corsair Gaming K95 RGB Mouse: Corsair Vengeance M95 Sound: Asus Xonar Phoebus ROG OS: Windows 8.1 Enterprise

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