Corsair Air 540 build - i7 4770k - ASUS Gene VI - EVGA 780Ti Kingpin

Etherton

Etherton

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Pretty well complete - for now - with the exception of some wire management in the back compartment. Going to clean it up a little bit when I can find my soldering iron :p Huge thanks to everyone who helped me get all the stuff together I needed for this build! Temps in the mid 20's idle.

Coming soon:
  • Adding a second watercooled 780Ti Kingpin
  • Bumping the power from the 850w BeQuiet! to the 1200w BeQuiet! PSU
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Build:
  • Corsair Air 540 Case - I custom painted the red motherboard tray and front/top grill's
  • Intel Core i7-4770K (delidded)
  • Asus MAXIMUS VI GENE Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified K|NGP|N
  • BeQuiet! Dark Power 10 850w PSU
  • 16gb - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
  • Intel 525 Series Lincoln Crest mSATA 240GB SATA III
  • 2 - 1TB WD HDDs
  • LG Bluray drive

Water-cooling system:
  • 10 x XSPC G1/4" to 3/8" ID, 5/8" OD Compression Fitting - Black Chrome Finish
  • 1 x XSPC RayStorm Intel Faceplate - Red
  • 1 x XSPC RX360 Triple-Fan Radiator V3 - Black
  • 1 x Laing DDC-pump 12V DDC-1T
  • 1 x XSPC Raystorm CPU/APU Copper Waterblock - Intel
  • 1 x Monsoon Series Two DDC Premium Dual 5.25” Reservoir - Red
  • 1 x PrimoFlex Advanced LRT 10ft Tubing - 3/8in. ID X 5/8in. OD - Pearl UV Orange
  • 1 x EK-FC780 GTX Classy - Acetal + Nickel GPU block
  • 1 x EK-FC780 GTX Classy Backplate - Black Rev2.0
  • 3 x Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition High Airflow Fan
  • 1 x PrimoFlex Advanced LRT 3/8in. x 5/8in. Tubing (10ft pack) - Bloodshed Red
  • 1 x Koolance G1/4" Brass Inline Drain Valve Fitting - 4 Port
  • 2 x XSPC G1/4" Thread 3/8" ID x 5/8" OD Low Profile Compression Fitting - Black Chrome
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Temps:

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Photos:

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I removed the top and bottom grills to paint them red.

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Back compartment view - I drilled out the motherboard tray pop rivets and gave it two coats of red paint.

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Front view

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Motherboard and CPU block mounted.

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Painted the PCI covers as well. Starting to assemble it together.

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I placed a 12" True Red Logisys True-Color CCFL Light Bar across the top for lighting.

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You can see the Koolance drain valve in the bottom of the case/loop. I am not real crazy about how the loop looks though.

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Blue PCI-e connectors!? Why blue!? I might swap them out at some point with black or red ones.

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Close up of the EK-FC780 GPU block and the backplate (MUST be revision 2.0 for Kingpin owners)

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Back compartment - I am glad I went ahead and painted the back too. I cut a vertical slot for an additional 5.25 drive (LG Bluray). Monsoon was mounted vertical as well.

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Close up of back of the reservoir - Upper left is the fill port, which was a pain to use because it kept getting air locked.
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What kind of screws are holding the motherboard tray, when you drilled it out to paint it?
 
Purchased a pop-rivet gun from Harbor Freight for $5 and it has been riveted back in.
 
Updated photo showing my SLI KPE's:

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Also rerouted the drain to the back.
 
Thanks for the fast reply and your build looks amazing, hope my modded one works out as good as yours.
 
Thanks!

Keep us posted. Take some build shots and share them with us when your working on it. :)
 
Weeee! Just ordered mine yesterday! You have some great ideas on the paint, imma steal em!
 
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