Frozenn
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specs:
i7 3820 4.7 ghz
corsair veangeance pro 16gb 4x4 1866 mhz
gigabyte ga-x79-up4
EVGA GTX 680 SC+ (soon to be SLI once mail arrives)
Asus xonar DX sound card
2 x 120 gb ssd RAID0 for boot drive. (hyperx + mushkin)
WD 600 gb Velociraptor, 1 tb wd green
xfx pro 1050w black
sp120 x 5 and af140 x 2
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watercooling part list
XSPC Raystorm waterblock
Xspc RX240 rad
xspc razor gtx 680 waterblock x2
xspc X20 750 pump res combo
xspc EX360 rad
tubing is 1/2" OD 3/4" ID Primochill blue
coolant is koolance UV blue
fittings: 45 angle x 3, 90 angle x2, SLI fitting, compression fitting x 4, barb fitting x6
I built this baby myself. all ive gotta say is custom water cooling is a lot harder to do than it seems. stuff leaks. a lot. a lot more often then i would of expected. my bottom rad leaked a whole bottle of coolant on the floor... Learning!
1 roll of bounty later and the blue coolant was gone. Retightened my fittings and fixed up the tubing so it was cut straighter. I did a terrible cutting job some places, needs to be cleaned up. Anyways I retightened the fittings on the bottom rad. I later figured out that it got loosened when i was tightening the 90 angle fitting.
Fill attempt #2
Palms sweaty and shaking I proceeded to fill my reservoir. No leaks to my surprise anywhere else in the loop. One of the GTX 680 fittings had 1 dropplette of coolant fall down onto some paper towel, I tightened the g1/4" plug a little which fixed it. That's all she wrote on the loop, havnt had any leaks or issues. Took about 12 hours to get rid of all the air bubbles.
It was really fun and took a ton of work, Id recommend custom water cooling to anyone who wants a silent system with insanely high clocks. only trade off is $$$$
P.S
A few changes coming, other than the 2nd gtx 680 the ssds are getting replaced with a single adata sx900 256 gb, and Ill have the NZXT Sentry LX fan controller in the front below the xspc res.
some of the photos were taken during leak testing some were after.
i7 3820 4.7 ghz
corsair veangeance pro 16gb 4x4 1866 mhz
gigabyte ga-x79-up4
EVGA GTX 680 SC+ (soon to be SLI once mail arrives)
Asus xonar DX sound card
2 x 120 gb ssd RAID0 for boot drive. (hyperx + mushkin)
WD 600 gb Velociraptor, 1 tb wd green
xfx pro 1050w black
sp120 x 5 and af140 x 2
--------------------------------
watercooling part list
XSPC Raystorm waterblock
Xspc RX240 rad
xspc razor gtx 680 waterblock x2
xspc X20 750 pump res combo
xspc EX360 rad
tubing is 1/2" OD 3/4" ID Primochill blue
coolant is koolance UV blue
fittings: 45 angle x 3, 90 angle x2, SLI fitting, compression fitting x 4, barb fitting x6
I built this baby myself. all ive gotta say is custom water cooling is a lot harder to do than it seems. stuff leaks. a lot. a lot more often then i would of expected. my bottom rad leaked a whole bottle of coolant on the floor... Learning!
1 roll of bounty later and the blue coolant was gone. Retightened my fittings and fixed up the tubing so it was cut straighter. I did a terrible cutting job some places, needs to be cleaned up. Anyways I retightened the fittings on the bottom rad. I later figured out that it got loosened when i was tightening the 90 angle fitting.
Fill attempt #2
Palms sweaty and shaking I proceeded to fill my reservoir. No leaks to my surprise anywhere else in the loop. One of the GTX 680 fittings had 1 dropplette of coolant fall down onto some paper towel, I tightened the g1/4" plug a little which fixed it. That's all she wrote on the loop, havnt had any leaks or issues. Took about 12 hours to get rid of all the air bubbles.
It was really fun and took a ton of work, Id recommend custom water cooling to anyone who wants a silent system with insanely high clocks. only trade off is $$$$
P.S
A few changes coming, other than the 2nd gtx 680 the ssds are getting replaced with a single adata sx900 256 gb, and Ill have the NZXT Sentry LX fan controller in the front below the xspc res.
some of the photos were taken during leak testing some were after.
This case looks its best when it has a dual CPU motherboard, and a dual/tri/quad SLI/Crossfire Setup. You've done well, but I still think your hardware really dwarfs the case and makes it looks kinda empty and lonely 
But once again, youve done well! 
Once you have all the parts that you need, I'm pretty sure you'll have a better look on how you'd route those tubes.. keep it up!