Corsair Series Air 540

[mkessler9]

This will be my 1st Thread on this forum so i hope i do it right 1st go.

Lets go:

 

          -- My old PC Build --

The Antec DF 30 - Dark Fleet Series

 

--Specs for it was--

 

LGA - 775 Q9450 @3.2ghz

Asus GTX 460 1gb

2X2gb Ram .

After 2-3 yrs with it ,cable management with crappy to do with this case .

Zero Grommets was a pain .

 

*************************Upgrade Needed***************************

 

This is what i upgraded to ** Pics Of Products 1st **

 

 

 

*************Now To See How It Looks**************

 

 

 

 

 

 

*********************Specs For The Build*********************

 

*Carbide Series® Air 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case

*Asus P8Z77-V_LK

*Intel I5 3570K

*Corsair Vengeance 4gb 1600MHZ DDR3 (x2)

*Asus GTX 660 2GB (x2)

*Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series - 64MB of X-Ram

*Ion2 620w

*Bitfenix 120mm fan (x3)

*Bitfenix Alchemy White LED chain able

*NZXT Sentry LXE

*Samsung 1TB (x2)

*Seagate 1TB (x1)

*Plextor M5 Pro 128gb Sata 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD

*Cooler Master ic-essential e1 Thermal Compound

*SpinQ VT - CPU Cooler

 

*********************Still Need To Get The Following*********************

 

* Corsair Vengeance 4gb 1600MHZ DDR3 (x2) = 4x4gb to complete.

*Bitfenix Alchemy White LED chain able for the side ,as you can see some areas are dark.

*H110 CPU Cooler.

*Kraken G10 x2.

*Or Water cooling.

*New PSU.

*Cable sleeving kit with all the bits ,then learn to do it ,shouldn't be to hard to do.

 

*********************Benchmark Scores*********************

 

*3D MARK 11 Entry: E14179 Link:http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7656826

*Ice Storm Extreme: 169310 Link: http://www.3dmark.com/is/1410041

*Heaven Benchmark v2.1:

FPS: 111.0

Scores: 2796

Min FPS: 30.1

Max FPS: 267.7

*CINEBENCH Release 11.5:

OpenGL: 32.33 fps

CPU: 6.15 pts

 

*****Thanks for looking*****

Updates will come as new stuff comes in & am thinking of Water cooling tho not sure yet .

Also if you guys want to give this build a name - Im up for ideas .

Dude that is a epic looking cpu cooler!

[loony979]

Just a friendly note Stop Quoting the Entire thread ,my god it makes it look so Daft it's ridiculous ...

That makes it Twice now ... :o

Big thanks to Moderators for fixing that up for me looks much better.

[loony979]

74 oC not bad at all @ that clock . when i get the chance ill do some more OC to see how far i can really push the CPU

with the H110 ...

Pics will come over the week end ...

[loony979]

Ok guys another update for yas

got some pics .

 

But 1st 4.8hgz Stable with the H110 . i am more

than happy with that clock ...

 

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[iTalkTech376]

apparently the h110 doesnt fit in the air 540

[loony979]

apparently the h110 doesnt fit in the air 540

To be quite honest with you it may not say it does with case capability on the corsair site under h110 .

But it does ,the case has pre cut holes for 2x 140mm fans .ive seen others use this cooler with not a single issue

for installation .

 

The only thing i wish was a bit better with the case design among some others is that it was a bit taller so i could install push pull configs.

But ,with all that said it does fit quite nice & easly - Just not listed ,witch is a shame .

Im sure many other people have thought crap it's not listed all well ill go with the H100 .

[ArumanBE]

To be quite honest with you it may not say it does with case capability on the corsair site under h110 .

But it does ,the case has pre cut holes for 2x 140mm fans .ive seen others use this cooler with not a single issue

for installation .

 

The only thing i wish was a bit better with the case design among some others is that it was a bit taller so i could install push pull configs.

But ,with all that said it does fit quite nice & easly - Just not listed ,witch is a shame .

Im sure many other people have thought crap it's not listed all well ill go with the H100 .

don't know if it's true but apparently if you install the H110 in push config (rad mounted to case fans underneath them) the tubing is to short to route them to the front side of the case and if you route it to the back a 140 fan is in the way.

If you install it in pull config (fans on top rad underneath) it does fit. thats why it's not listed as compatible. As i said don't know if this is true but it sounds plausible.

 

[loony979]

rrr i see ,well they could atleast mention that on the site .Bit lazy if you ask me .

Thanks for the info .

[loony979]

New addition to the build a new TV ,to use for the screen ...

SONY KDL55-W800B - it was the FIFA Edition .had to get it ,not for that reason but my old TV is getting old ...

Amazingly outstanding build quality ...

Input lag is 23 ms .Works great for the games ...

& has DINA ,as some people use that ...

 

 

 

 

 

So as you can see everything is working great gonna sus out the 3D as 1 does with a 3D TV ,see how it

all looks and check out nvidia's 3D aswell ,may even get the BLU-RAY player external to go with the build .

 

Not much but that on this build log guys ...

[loony979]

Got a new upgrade ,RM1000

[loony979]

Small updates again :

Windows 10 home 64bit.

& a new receiver Sony STR-DH750 - 7.2 AV Receiver.

Nothing mind blowing but it does the job well