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Brand new build and of course it’s in a Case Labs case! This time it’s the mighty S5!!
This new build is called « Alexstrasza’s Shrine » who is a character in my personnal favorite MMORPG World of Warcraft. I started playing in 2005 and i’m still playing it now. Of course it’s on and off since sometimes I stop playing but I always get back at it.
Alexstrasza is a powerful character in the lore of the game. She’s the protector of the people of the world of Azeroth. She present herself in two forms, one humanoid and one dragon. She’s call the Queen of all dragons!
Alexstrasza is neutral, she as no allegiance with any of the factions in the game. BUT me on the other hand, I do have one with the Alliance. So I decided to introduce the Alliance crest at some places in the build and therefore in the build banner you retreive the Alliance lion head crest.
The main reason for me to choose her as my main focus in the build is the colors of the character fits the color scheme I wanted to try which is red and « yellow-gold ». I always did my builds with MDPC sleeving for the high quality of this product but this time I go with the Darkside sleeving because I did fall in love with it’s Red and Yellow Sand colors. One thing will differ from my other builds is the fact that the coolant won’t be either red or yellowish/gold. I’m going with a third color for the coolant only. I know people usually don’t go with to many colors but I have to do it. If I fail I will be able to say « At least I did try it ». Once again i’m going with Mayhems coolant and the color will be a variation of Pastel Raspberry Purple. More dark!
A lot of custom painting, custom screws, some lighting and a few other gizmos (that I will keep as a secret for now) are implied in this build.
I hope you’ll like it so here we go!
Build setup/parts listing :
Case and accessories
- CaseLabs Mercury Black Matte S5
- CaseLabs 120.2 Flex-Bay Rad Mount
- Fan Controller still undecided!!!!!!
Components
- Asus Maximus VI Gene Z87 Motherboard
- Intel i5 4670K CPU
- G.SKILL TridentX 16GB DDR3-2400 RAM
- Corsair RM850 80PLUS Gold PSU
- EVGA GTX 690 Signature Edition
- SanDisk Extreme 240GB SSD
- OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD
- Samsung 840 Evo 120GB SSD
Cooling
- Swiftech Helix 120mm Fans (8x)
- EK-CoolStream PE 360 Radiator
- EK-CoolStream PE 240 Radiator
- Swiftech MCP35X DDC PWM Pump
- Koolance Pump Fitting & Reservoir Base (COV-RP400)
- Koolance Reservoir Body, 80x120mm (WxL)
- Koolance Heat Sink for DDC Pump
- Bitspower Deep Blood Red Crystal Links with an orgy of extenders, adapters and 90 degrees
- E22 Clear Extruded Acrylic Tubing - 12/10mm
- EK Supreme LTX Dazmode Special Edition CPU Waterblock - Plexi-Nickel Clean CSQ
- EK-MOSFET ASUS M6G - Nickel
- EK-FC690 GTX - Plexi Nickel GPU Waterblock
- EK-FC690 GTX Backplate Black CSQ
- Mayhems Pastel Raspberry Purple Coolant
- Mayhems Blue and/or Purple Dye
Sleeving
- Darkside Red
- Darkside Yellow Sand
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