Water cooled Corsair Carbide Series Air 540

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Pepe

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Hello OC3D,

My attempt to watercool Corsair Carbide Series Air 540.

Specs:
  • good old i5-750 OC-ed to 4.2Ghz 24/7 1.36V
  • gtx 670 asus direct CU II 2GB boost clock 1100MHz
  • ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe
  • Kingston Genesis 4 x 4Gb @1600
  • Koolance 380i, EK GPU block, bitspower fittings, 3 x Alphacool ST 240, Swiftech 655 PWM drive, XSPC D5 res combo, masterkleer 16/10 UV blue


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As kindly requested by TTL below, the cables are done. Well, probably not super tidy, but more or less tidy.

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didn't even try at the back lol ^_^ i did the same in my switch didn't see the point as no one but me will see it lol :P

awesome looking build, if i knew this case was coming out i would of waiting and got this and not the switch :/
 
you watercooled a case that is made for aircooling. lol.
yea get those cables fixed, other than that it's nice.
 
and ^^^^^^^
Looks really nice and clean in the side we can see :) needs all the fans to be the same tho. Will waite for updates
 
Haha, as soon as I saw those cables on the back side I was wondering if Tom had
already stopped by and mentioned them. :lol:

Anyway, I'd say this is a pretty good start. Aside from the things already mentioned,
maybe consider getting rid of those copper Alphacool stickers on the radiators? I love
copper, but together with that blue they just look a bit wrong. ;)
 
SeekaX said:
you watercooled a case that is made for aircooling. lol.
yea get those cables fixed, other than that it's nice.
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the first thing i thought about when i saw the unboxing, was thats a great place to hide the res.
Nice job at least the main view is tidy :)
loving the blue piping too :)
 
Looks great :) given the short amount of time building the rig. Were all the water cooling parts ready? I guess all you had to do was to put them all together.

I personally love this case.. post some pics once you have fixed the cables.
 
lol, I was looking through the photos and I'm thinking, yep, yep, yep that looks nice. Then the photo of the birds nest appeared.

Get on those cables asap!
 
very nice start but just me why spend money too have a great rig too have it look bad with wires like that wow no way would i show it off,but thats just me agin very nice start tom said it best......
 
Once the fans are all matching, I love how the front looks nice and clean, but I'd really consider making an aluminium panel or something for the bottom to cover those horrible HDD mounts, and then I'd velcro the SSDs on top of the panel
 
Pepe said:
Totally agree! I wish I could still show them off, like in my previous rig. With 3 rads it will be difficult. Any ideas?
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I'm not sure really, the best SSD display I've ever seen is the one on Tom's Orca, with the SSDs mounted on the back with a lit up window, I'm seriously tempted to pinch that idea lol.

It's a crappy idea, but I can't think of anything else: Would they fit over that bit of mesh to the left of the PCI brackets? You wouldn't see them from straight on to the side, but when you're sitting next to it you would see them
 
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