Corsair 540 Water Cooled Build

[Chann3l]

Corsair Air 540 water cooled build. I did some minor case modding : painting, carbon fiber vinyl etc. Log and pics below, enjoy.

Log:

Board:MSI z77 Mpower
CPU: Intell 3770k @ 4.8 Ghz
GPU: Asus R9 290
Memory: 12 Gb Corsair Dominator DDR (2x4 and 2x2 in dual channel)
2 vertex 3 120 Gb SSD and WD Blue 1TB HDD
Asus Xonar DX 7.1 sound card
Case : Corsair Air 540
PSU: XFX fully modular 850 watt gold rated

Cooling

EK 360 radiator
XSPC EX240 radiator
EK dazmode special edition Canadian supremacy CPU block
Aquacomputer kyrographics R9 290/290x GPU block
Bitspower 4 Dimm Dominator memory block
Ek CSQ Res mounted on DDC 3.25 pump
Compression fittings all round.
3x Koolance 2600RPM fans
2x XSPC 1600RPM fans
Stock corsair 140 as rear exhaust.

May have missed some stuff, in fact I know I did but I'm tired.

[DazMode]

Welcome to the forum!

I dont think we had this case here before, thank you for sharing.

[Hooded]

Love that blue

[gdesmo]

Welcome sir, glad to have you aboard. Blue looks great there !

[bungwirez]

Oh ya. there you go Chann3l

[Father Fuzzy]

ramblock does a nice job of tying it all together

[Chann3l]

Thanks for all the welcomes. This case was fun and easy to build in and of course all my watercooling and modding gear is from dazmode. I'll add some more pictures later 😊

[Chann3l]

ramblock does a nice job of tying it all together

Thanks, it was the easiest block I've ever had to install as well. Performance wise a doubt it will have much of an impact seeing how I was able to clock the ram to 2033mhz on air with no issues but it is aesthetically pleasing and not many people add ram to their loops.

[Chann3l]

Couple more pictures

[10e]

Excellent job. Nice to see a little tasteful modding on (what I think) is a pretty good looking case to start with.

I await the Carbide Air 240 which is the little brother version to this one.

Nice!

[Chann3l]

Thank you it's a great design easy to.manage cabling and reservoirs

[Chann3l]

Just a few additional pieces of information temperatures are amazing in this case, I previously had this build in a bitfenix ronin with a total of 360 rad space compared to my now 600mm rad space. I changed to the new dazmode special addition ek cpu block from an xspc raystorm and the ram was not previously under water. I delidded the cpu and lapped the ihs while it was in the old case as well. Even still temperatures have dropped by several degrees since switching to this build. The hottest cpu core doesn't exceed 65 degrees running Intel burn test at the maximum level at 4.8 ghz and while gaming my 290 core temperature does not exceed 45 degrees at 1100 core and 6000 memory with the vrm temperatures even lower.

[nass]

looks cool good job,, like the ram block , cool side window ...case looks good... nice overclock on that 3770k.

[Chann3l]

Thanks, Thanks and thanks lol. That's my 24 hour oc. The highest I have got it to was 5.2ghz lol

[Chann3l]

Decided to add a picture of the messy side....don't bother with cable management when I don't need to
Temp sensor plug doubles as a drain