Frosty a work in progress

NoobCase

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Here's my rig. I've named him Frosty due to the black and white color scheme. Here's the specs:

Corsair Air 240
I7 4770K
ASUS Z87-i Pro mITX
16 GB Kingston hyperX Beast
Samsung EVO 500 GB SSD
Samsung EVO 250 GB SSD
Gigabyte G1 Gaming Geforce GTX 960 (OC'ed of course.. that's a beast cooler for that chip...)
Corsair H105 AIO
RM650 PSU

The panels of the Air 240 scratch really easy as you can tell from the reflections on the window - i've only used a micro fiber cloth to polish it and this is how it looks after 3 times of gently polishing of finger prints... Other than that I really like the case. Great airflow and room for 2x240 rads.

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Night shot:

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Internals:

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Motherboard, ram and pump up close:

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So Frosty has a few customizations under the hood.

I delidded the 4770K as the temps and overclocking was just terrible when I got it. I practiced delidding on 4 old CPU's we had at work. Nerve wrecking as hell, but it did lower load temps with 12-15 degrees celsius - it is still a dud overclocking wise as I haven't been able to push it past 4.3 Ghz and that's not even on all cores - despite following ASUS's overclocking guides :(

I've painted the ram and some parts of the motherboard and the thingy on the H105 pump white to match the overall color scheme better. I was actually about to paint the 960 as well, but since it is just a placeholder card i decided not to.

I bought it when my H90 literally boiled, leaked and took out my 770 it was cooling with it. I had the rad of the H90 ghetto mounted with 2 screws and 3M double sided tape in the rear compartment of the Air 240. I sent the lot to Corsair who sent me a new H90 (currently unused) and compensated me the market value of the 770 which was almost enough to pay for the 960. Awesome customer service!

Frosty actually started his life in a Node 304, then moved to a Phenom mITX until he finally settled in the Air 240. (Pro tip: If you get the upgrade urge, but don't have the money, simply buy a new case. The move of hardware is almost as good a feeling as building a brand new rig..... but only almost)

But Frosty just won't have the horsepower to power my new triple monitor setup so he will be receiving and upgrade in the form of a Titan X and custom water cooling with acrylic tubing.

It will be my very first custom loop, so going hard tubing is really daunting, but I've been doing a lot of research and looked at a lot of custom loops to get ideas and knowledge on how to do it. All of this will be a separate build log when I get the parts.

The rest of my setup can be seen here
 
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Nice build. 1440p surround on a single GPU is quite a stretch even for a Titan X. Run on medium to high settings and you should be fine though.
 
Nice build it's a pitty you can't turn the windforce logo around so its the right way around

It is but one can't have it all, when I've chosen to put the Air 240 in the inverted position :)

Nice build. 1440p surround on a single GPU is quite a stretch even for a Titan X. Run on medium to high settings and you should be fine though.

I know but I don't feel that giving up a 240 rad (in the upcoming build) was worth the sacrifice of adding another Titan X -since I would not be able to adequately cool 2xTitan X with 240 + 120 rads. I'll be playing plenty of games on a single monitor as well.
 
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