Post your gaming setup!

[Drunkenvalley]

Looks pretty darn good, Eschbach.

[Marest]

Looks pretty darn good, Eschbach.

I have to agree, the black/blue colour scheme looks extremely sleek. Well done!

[Drunkenvalley]

I don't see what you're asking for input on, so I have to agree with mods on merging it here tbf. Looks like an interesting build though, although I don't know if the H100 or the NH-D14 fits in the 550D.

EDIT: Post I replied to has been deleted. :<

[joepesci]

Did you pull the "armor" off? Even then it's hard to tell besides the covered USB plugins.

Yes, I had to remove it, to my surprise, the Sabertooth Z77 is NOT compatible with the Prolimatech Armageddon CPU cooler.
I had to remove the armor and I also had to break off 3 teeth of one of the mainboard coolers in order to be able to mount the CPU cooler.

On the right side of the image you can see the 3 broken (removed) teeth of the cooler:



On this image you can see the position where the outer heatpipe collides with the mainboard cooler (and the thermal armor, if not removed):



So yeah, this is just a warning to those who intend to buy the ASUS Z77 Sabertooth... check first if it works with the CPU cooler you want to use. I didn't even want to buy this, but my old PC died so I had to act fast... and the ASUS high end boards for the Z77 aren't available yet, some of them aren't even announced. So the Sabertooth Z77 was the best I could get at the moment.

[Drunkenvalley]

Most of them are out, or announced. There's another ROG board coming out in particular.

[joepesci]

Most of them are out, or announced. There's another ROG board coming out in particular.

ASUS maximus V formula Z77 --> announced, not available
ASUS maximus V extreme Z77 --> haven't heard anything of this one yet

[Rickz]

Well here it finally is, got my last extension cables in today and finished everything

Specs:
ASRock Z77 Extreme 4
Intel i5 3570k @ 4.5 GHz
MSI Twin Frozr II 560ti ( soon to be replaced by a 670 )
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
Corsair H100 with 2x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1450RPM
Corsair HX650W
Corsair 500R case

Replaced all fans with Scythe fans ( except for the exhaust fan, that one works fine ) and hooked them up to a Scythe Kaze Master II.

PICS!




Had no other way to these two power cables unfortunately:




Fits like this:

[noteworthynerd]

Looks really good, Rickz! The more Corsair cases I see, the more I like them... I'm just not sure if my radiator will fit in any of their mid-towers.

[Rickz]

Looks really good, Rickz! The more Corsair cases I see, the more I like them... I'm just not sure if my radiator will fit in any of their mid-towers.

Thanks!

It's a great case for the price, and I imagine it can house a radiator just fine, especially considering you can even remove the bottom hard drive cage.

[Drunkenvalley]

Off the top of my head, fairly few of Corsair's smaller cases actually allow mounting the H100 even. The 300R and 400R don't, if I recall correct, but the 500R does. Sadly, I can't recall what the 550D is based off of.

The Corsair Vengeance C70, if I don't recall wrong, aims to be able to fit two 240mm radiators.

[DeltrusDisc]

To be fair - Sabertooth is one of Asus' higher end boards/lines, imho. Also, looks great Rickz!!

[Rennadrel]

Looks really good, Rickz! The more Corsair cases I see, the more I like them... I'm just not sure if my radiator will fit in any of their mid-towers.

I am 100% positive all of the Corsair ATX cases can fit a 240 radiator. The 400R that I have has enough room up top for either a dual 120mm radiator like the H100 or possibly a 2x140mm radiator. Clearance might not be an issue if you use standard size fans, not the really thick fat 38mm fans. If you were doing a push/pull setup, you'd probably have to use 12mm fans (like the Scythe SY1212SL12H fans) on one side of the radiator in order to avoid hitting your CPU waterblock. However the 600TM which even as a mid tower is bigger then the 400R or 500R, but all of those should fit radiators without too much difficulty. Heck, I am sure you could mount a 240 radiator in the front, the Corsair cases are very very roomy.

---------- Post added 2012-05-10 at 05:17 PM ----------

Off the top of my head, fairly few of Corsair's smaller cases actually allow mounting the H100 even. The 300R and 400R don't, if I recall correct, but the 500R does. Sadly, I can't recall what the 550D is based off of.

The Corsair Vengeance C70, if I don't recall wrong, aims to be able to fit two 240mm radiators.

The 400R does mount an H100 in the top, however I don't think you can do push/pull without 12mm fans on it.

[Cyanotical]

To be fair - Sabertooth is one of Asus' higher end boards/lines, imho. Also, looks great Rickz!!

the sabertooths are built with the same quality and binning as the RoG boards, but lack the multitude of enthusiast features

[Drunkenvalley]

---------- Post added 2012-05-11 at 10:40 AM ----------

Someone asked on a different forum what fluid I use, so I took a picture of that as well, lol.

[Butler Log]

Is that Anti-freeze and distilled water for car batteries?

[Djinni]

Nice RAT :-)

[Drunkenvalley]

Is that Anti-freeze and distilled water for car batteries?

Yes, it is indeed.

[nocturnus]

Well here it finally is, got my last extension cables in today and finished everything

Specs:
ASRock Z77 Extreme 4
Intel i5 3570k @ 4.5 GHz
MSI Twin Frozr II 560ti ( soon to be replaced by a 670 )
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
Corsair H100 with 2x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1450RPM
Corsair HX650W
Corsair 500R case

Replaced all fans with Scythe fans ( except for the exhaust fan, that one works fine ) and hooked them up to a Scythe Kaze Master II.
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Is you H100 blowing internal air out, or pulling external air in?

[Drunkenvalley]

They're on top, but in push config. So that's intake.

[nocturnus]

They're on top, but in push config. So that's intake.

Thought so, that best since you seem to have good airflow from the front to the back. That way the air passes through the radiator and gets pushed out of the back. Same setup here.