After some measurements the clearance seems to be about 35mm. But this cooler, although not very large, just was about 2 cm's (or about an inch) too high. I used the default AMD cooler, a Wraith Stealth. The first thing I ran into was the clearance you have available between a vertical mounted PCI card and the ITX system. I really think that Corsair could have tested this a bit more and use the ample space available a bit better to give it a bit more wiggle room. The biggest problem I have had so far was mounting the GPU vertically, I use a Phanteks 220mm premium shielded high speed PCI-E X16 riser cable b.t.w. My 2080 ti and Noctua block are way more noissy. Running the silent profile and it is really quiet.

It looked really good when all fans are hooked up. Before mounting the radiators I had the fans hooked up and running on the Light Nodes with help of a Thermaltake 10-way PWM splitter. but I'm waiting on the non EK parts which will arrive at Thuesday hopefully. So far I have mounted the radiators and the fans. I will go for a dual loop, one for the CPU (top radiator) and one for the GPU two front radiators. I will use clear liquid, so no pastels or color additions, and clear tubing. But I must say that I have seen plenty of soft tubing loops which are very nice. I like the looks of hard tubing, but I'm not ready yet :confused: So maybe in a couple of years I will redo the loop in hard tubing. Since this will be my first custom water loop build I will start with soft tubing. A Heatkiller IV Pro Copper Ni CPU block.A Heatkiller RTX 2080 TI acryl Ni RGB GPU block.EK-ACF Black Nickel fittings/splitter/ball valves/extenders.two EK-CoolStream PE 480 Radiator (front mounted).I mainly use the rig for gaming, but when working from home, I use it as a workstation. Maybe the system is a bit overkill, but since my current system is 5 years old, I plan to use this for a long time as well. The memory I have already bought, since it seems the prices will start to climb again, so I got these cheap (I hope).

Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Formula (with EKWB waterblock integrated).

I will replace this system with an AMD build in September/October when the 3950X 16-core comes out. My main workstation/gaming rig (which is old): I think I'll use only three, bottom, top, and in the back of the case.Ĭurrently the only system that is in there to stay is a my FreeNAS consisting of: Although I'm not so sure where to put the LED strips yet. So I ordered 8 ML120 pro's for the front, 3 ML140 pro's for the top, and a Corsair RGB LED Lightning PRO expansion kit. Thanks to Zotty I knew what to do with the RGB lightning and how to connect all the stuff. Initially I had no clue what to do with it, I wanted a water cooled system for a very long time and as this case being way oversized, I now definitly needed something to fill up all that space :-) But holly, the size of the box it came in was huge :eek: But I never really used the space of that case. My previous case was a Phanteks Enthoo Primo, so the size of the Corsair didn't scare me that much. I fell in love with it in an instance, since I really dig the glass and brushed alu. I bought the case in May 2019 when I saw a build being done on Paul's Hardware (youtube). For my main system I even have to wait until September/October. Note that it is still work in progress since currently I'm awaiting parts. So I like to share my experience as well, since I ran in some trouble along the way. I learned a lot from the kind folks on this forum. I like to share my Corsair 1000D build with you guys.

Corsair 275r airflow vertical gpu