So for this build my main intention was to downsize, I was sick of having it on the wall. Too much hassle to maintain it, also its fearful to ahve a 60lb computer filled with water hanging on a wall.
I wanted to really push my bending skills on this one so any spot I could go from point A to point B I chose to go to point Q. I really liked using the Monsoon freecenter fittings because i think it made measuring easier. I have also never setup bending guides like this. These helped for some bends, others I had to freehand. I am like 90% happy with these bends, i think each one could be better or cleaner but it was such a pain and i went through a ton of acrylic that I need to be happy with the outcome hahaha.
I went with putting my pump in the basement and used 2 pass through fittings with soft tubing underneath. I like the clean look of this.
I opted out of a reservoir to keep the bottom area open. I am considering some kind of Hyper m.2 card so I didn't want to take up the room. I've seen a few builds in this case that put a reservoir horizontal at the bottom. I didn't like that, so instead i put a "T" splitter off the outlet of the vertical radiator and a ball valve on one side of that to connect some soft tubing and a reservoir for filling and draining (still not an easy process).
Changes from V.1:
Thermaltake P5 case changed to Fractal Design Define Mini C
Asus Strix Z370-E changed to Asus Strix Z370-G (Wifi). I wanted to downscale to a microATX case.
1x Alphacool Nexxuss 540mm changed to 2x EKWB Coolstream slims
4x Corsair MPL 140mm changed to 4x Noctua NF-F12 Chromax and 1x Noctua NF-S12A Chromax
Monsoon fittings changed to Monsoon FreeCenter fittings
1 TB WD HDD changed to 1TB Samsung Evo 860 SSD (could not fit an HDD in this case)
Reservoir removed and replaced with a EKWB D5 pump top
Added 1x EKWB NVMe SSD Heatsink