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Nice overclock on that 4820k. Your X79 board does look nice in there. I like the H110 but at some point I would love to build my own WC loop. At least with a custom loop if you don't get too addicted to it you really only need to swap out GPU blocks every upgrade or so. It doesn't take long to start spending a ton if you're swapping out pumps, radiators and going through hoses and fittings like candy!

Some quick pictures here, MSI GTX 680 2gb http://i.imgur.com/Hg87MZFl.jpg MSI GTX 670 2gb OC http://i.imgur.com/sQFS81ll.jpg

Haha, well I got the 2nd 670 late last night and got it installed. This morning I was browsing the forums looking for a card for my brother and two GTX680s came up at 235 a piece with a discount for local pickup... He was literally 3-4 blocks away so we went down and paid $400 for the pair of MSI GTX680 2gb cards. I have the GTX680s in my system right now and I'm debating making an offer to my brother for a trade with my pair of 670s and some other stuff to sweeten the deal. I'll get some pictures up soon, just been busy swapping stuff around and I'm not entirely sure what cards will be staying. :roll: I want the 680s just because I would "appreciate" them more!

Haha, yes. Playing around with hardware so much means I don't always want to take the time to get everything looking pretty everytime I do something. Also having a lot of hardware can mean you do in fact have to use almost every cable! At one point I was using every cable I had for my HX520. I'll be installing a 2nd GTX 670 later this evening so I'll have to post a couple updated shots as I have also added a HX850 and Crucial m500 since the last picture!

From all I've read and have seen over the past 8 months or so the M500 is one of the top recommended drives alongside the 840 evo and 840 pro. The guy at Canada Computers that took it out of the case for me mentioned he uses the same drive and he loves it. So I guess opinions can differ all over the place. :P Until I have problems with it I'm happy with the purchase, and now I can get my other Corsair case built up and running with my old intel ssd and hx520 psu.

haha, yeah. I just came back from the store with a HX850 80+ gold psu and got a deal on a Crucial M500 240gb just to hold me over. It was $50 cheaper for the M500 right now in Canada compared to the 840 evo so I'm just going to put that towards some other stuff. Hopefully the next SSD I buy will be in the TB range a year or so from now! My next planned purchase is going to be another GTX 670 2gb as I found one for under $200. I'll be pairing it up with my current GTX 670 that I stole a month back for $100! For a total investment of $300 that will be hard to beat in raw performance.

Hehe, you're running four SSDs in that now? Nice! Your build is looking great by the way. I'm looking into adding a 840 evo 250gb to my build along with a new HX850 Gold over the next week. That will free my 80gb intel and hx520 up to toss into the other Corsair case build I'm working on. :biggrin: I'm tempted to go for one of the 500gb models but I just can't afford it along with a PSU right now. The fact that the 500gb class drives are now dipping below $300 means we are getting closer and closer to just having solid state storage all around.

I really like the black and gold theme going on but I agree with it being a bit silly to replace perfectly good faster specced ram just for the colour of the heat-spreaders. I do think that some gold ram would really look good in that build, maybe use the rest of that rattle can on the heatspreaders and just hope gskill still accepts them if they blow up. :P: I guess black would look good in there too, in a stealthy kind of way.

Here is a shot of my Air540 build I did recently. I really love the case, being able to stick the PSU in the backside and not having to do any real cable management to make it look clean is awesome. The airflow and ability to toss a couple of radiators in the front and top is a big plus. Adding a fan controller to it really helps being able to turn the fans down for everyday use and back up for more intensive use. It would be nice to have some SP140s for the radiator and front of the case. ;): One small issue is only having two 3.5" mounts but that's something relatively easy to deal with. I've already been thinking about a few ways to add more drives to the backside of the case and I've seen what a few people have came up with on other forums. The case did come with a small scratch in the middle of the panel, I didn't really fret too much over it until I moved desks around and now the lights in the room and case(I had a couple of old blue cold cathodes in it for fun) really highlight it. I had the window facing the wall so I wasn't constantly gazing at the window until the past few weeks. I filled out a RMA request for my H110 intel backplate with standoffs that spun and chewed away some plastic and added the windowed panel to the request in hopes that they would be able to deal with that too. I'm hoping they will take care of me like they've always done. ::pirate:: Corsair Air 540 with Corsair HX520w PSU i5 4670k at 4.4ghz 1.16v with Corsair H110 cooler Gigabyte Z87x UD3H 2x4gb of Patriot Viper 3 LP DDR3 9-9-9-24 1600 1.5v MSI GTX 670 2gb OC Asus Xonar Essence STX Intel 80gb X25m G2 2 x 2TB Western Digital Green EARX LG DVDRW Bitfenix Recon Fan controller http://i.imgur.com/YiWngrcl.jpg I'm no where near done with this build so I'll have to post some more pictures later on. I've since added an older aftermarket GPU cooler I had laying around onto my GTX670. I'm not really happy with the cooling results from it but the noise level is a lot lower. I'm planning on modding a closed loop cooler to the GTX 670 in the near future, thinking about something like the H55, H70 or maybe even the 140mm H90! When I do I'll be sure to post back with a few more pictures and the results. :D: