Fan controller is mainly just because of the geek in me I also was going to 7V mod the fans, but still wanted to run them on full blast if the fancy takes me, and the controller provides this with the minimum of messing about.

The watercooling was mainly just for the challenge as I've done loads of air-cooled rigs now; partly for the noise (my current rig has 5 80mm fans, 2 40mm ones in a drive-bay, plus the CPU, northbridge and graphics card and sounds like a helicopter) and partly so I can see how far I can push the overclock. This also makes the fan controller handy as I can switch between 'for the power' and 'for the noise'.

It will always mainly be 'for the lulz' though

Hmm, yeah, I guess when geeks get old, a job and money it always ends up silly. For lolz eh?

All plumbed in and ready for filling:

Flash git!!

Windows Vista! Hide from annoying system questions everyone!

You can just turn those off you know.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Feser One Cooling Fluid - UV RED

Was just going to ask, seeing as theres no pics with water in there, figured i'd go back and look and see and... oh noes its Feser One and its rather Pink looking UV red
The pic of the bottle doesnt look too bad, but it doesnt look clear (the plastic) so could easily be hiding the pinkness thats inside if they havent changed the formula to a red red, rather than hot pink.

At least the tygon hose doesnt stain, the cheaper stuff does, clouds up and looks really horrible after a while.
If you've swapped the water out yet, which im guessing you probably have because it took me a few weeks to do just that, let me know what you've tried to get a proper red water cos there doesnt appear to be anything out there Theres a £30/ltr 'Blood Red' which apparently is quite thick like gravy sorta consisancy rather than water, and performance wise wasnt great either. I've gone to Feser orange though atm, looks like my rig is watercooled with irn bru

Havent decided on the case though, easily the nicest on the market IMO, but pimped it looks horrible.... but together with the black im torn, the bits peeking through do look quite nice.

Did you not consider Danger Den for the block? Very nice peices, not the easiest to get hold of in the UK but well worth shopping with 2-3 stores to get what you want and buy items from whichever is cheapest.

Anyway... get some finished pics of it up for hecks sake, inc the monitors, got my dual arm wall mounted and tempted to go with 3 for racing and more desktop space to work on, but at the same time dont want to be stuck with 3x 19" old monitors (and i'd want to get a matching one, not something that doesnt fit) and 2x 22" 19x10 would be cheaper overall and far more pixels to look at.

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

My advice is get that CPU returned for a retail one, you lose alot of warranty with OEM. And i bet you only saved a few quid ?

Appart from that damn nice build

Makes little difference if your lapping the CPU, dunno if thats the case here but once you've stress-tested it to make sure its a good un, you can kiss goodbye to the warranty if you lap it. I cant say ive ever had a CPU problem though, in ~16 years. HDD's on the other hand