Rik's Elite 430

Key features

AMD CPU NVIDIA Graphics Water-cooled

The build

Water Cooling Parts Used Ocz Hydroflow CPU Waterblock(AM2) Swiftech MCR-120QPRES Thermaltake P500 Zalman GBW3 GPU Waterblock MasterKleer 3/8" Clear Tube FeserOne UV Pink Coolant

System specs

CPU
AMD Phenom X4 9500 @ 2.5 GHz
Motherboard
ASRock K10N78
RAM
OCZ SLI-Ready 3 GB DDR2 800 MHz
GPU
GeForce 9600 GT
GPU Waterblock
Zalman GWB3
Storage
500 GB SATA RAID 0 x2
Case
Cooler Master Elite 430
Tubes
3/8" Clear Tubing
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
other
Feser One UV Pink Coolant

Performed mods

Removed top 240mm dust filter and cut down to 2 x 120mm filters as the bottom didn't have an intake filter
Akasa Apache pwm fan for the rad set to pull
Fractal design for bottom intake
thermaltake 120mm green led fan for vga intake to help cool the ram
added 4 x UV cathodes

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