First Time Watercooling

[PrettySlyForaWiFi]

The specs of my current PC:

Case: Corsair Air 540 (I spray painted the mesh white)

CPU: i54670K

Graphics Card: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970

RAM: Corsair XMS3 1600MHz 4x4gb

MB: MSI SLI Krait Edition

Power Supply: Corsair RM 850 with a black and white set of cablemod cables

Storage: 120gb Intel 530 Series SSD + 1Tb Seagate Barracuda HDD

 

It is fairly cold in Western Australia right now so I have it sitting on my desk with the side panel off and it kind of acts as a heater. When the gpu is under 100% load it gets to 70 degrees. I figured I probably won't be a fan of this temperature when it starts to get hotter so I've decided to do my first watercooling build! I'm pretty excited. I have the 2x 240mm rads, EK Supremacy CPU block, EK Nickel GPU block, and the EK res. I haven't got the CPU overclocked because my CPU cooler is the Cryorig R1 Universal without any fans. The GPU is overclocked to +150 MHz (Whatever that is) and that is the main heat distributor that I need to fix. As you can probably imagine I am going for a black and white themed build. What I should have realised before ordering the rads was that the 240mm rad on the front either sits displaced to the top or the bottom not the middle. It looks weird and I'm not sure if I should get a 280 and leave the 240 for another build or just deal with it. The problem with getting a 280 though is the EK Coolstream PE Series (Both of my current 240s) doesn't contain a 280 and it would be nice if they were matching rads. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures but I will probably upload some tomorrow. I am mounting the res on the rear vents in front of the graphics card. Yeah it isn't the best place if I want to do a gpu swap later but I really wanted to display the res and inbetween the motherboard and the front rad isn't going to fit. I'm also wondering whether I should be doing hard or soft tubing. I really want to give hard a go but some people say it is hard and others say it is worth giving it a go and it isn't that hard. Oh yeah the bottom looks uncentered at the moment because there is 1 3.5in hdd on the left and none on the right so I am going to get a 4tb barracuda for media storage. And a 140mm fan without a rad will be on the back as well. Give me some ideas as to what you guys think I should do! Your help would be greatly appreciated