The Weekend Cruiser

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The Weekend Cruiser

I'm a huge car guy, and of course, I love building PC's. So for the 10k challenge, I decided to create a dashboard like experience on the front of the desk, and I was given the fantastic idea by a friend to use the glass panel on the case itself as a window out of the car. So the tower itself has a very bright blue and white color scheme to seem almost like a beautiful sky view while road-tripping. The dashboard unit has a 7" monitor mounted inside to act as a gauge cluster, I tend to leave afterburner running down there and it makes monitoring incredibly easy during gaming. Also in the dashboard is a Lepai amplifier connected to 2X3.5" 50w speakers. The sound quality isn't audiophile by any means, but most of the time I have the AKG's on anyways. Now, there is no point of creating this awesome dash to have no power to enjoy. So the tower includes a Z270 Taichi Motherboard, i5-7600k (OC'ed to 4.7ghz stable) with an EK Velocity RGB block, 24gb of corsair vengeance RAM, and an EK watercooled MSI DUKE GTX 1080 (OC'ed to 2155mhz stable). The hardline cooling loop was an absolute blast to do and I seriously recommend it to anyone who's sitting on the fence. I went for a single loop for both CPU and GPU, with two CoolStream SE 360mm radiators, and an EK XRES-140 pump/res combo. I currently have primochill vue in the system, it looks great and hasn't created any issues yet, however when I do maintenance in a couple months I think I may switch to distilled water, the blue is great I just feel like the clear could be cool as well. The build as a whole functions really well and I can peg pretty much any game at or above the 144hz monitor, mainly because its a 1080p setup and not 1440p or 4k where frames get painfully hard to push.
Color(s): Black Light Blue White
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Vehicle
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build

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Hardware

CPU
$ 170.00
Intel - Core i5-7600K
Socket: LGA 1151
Cores: 4
Integrated Graphics: Yes
Motherboard
$ 176.43
ASRock - Taichi
Chipset: Z270
CPU Socket: LGA 1151
Size: ATX
Memory
$ 37.99
Corsair - Vengeance LPX (2400MHz) (Black)
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 8 GB
Memory
$ 19.99
Corsair - Vengeance LPX (3000MHz) (Black)
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 8 GB
Graphics
MSI - Duke
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: GTX 1080
Interface: PCIe x16
Storage
$ 29.99
Kingston - A400
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 120 GB
Storage
$ 96.00
Western Digital - WD Blue
Form Factor: M.2
Interface: M.2 (M)
Capacity: 500 GB
PSU
$ 199.98
EVGA - SuperNOVA 750 G3
Wattage: 750
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: 80+ Gold
Case
$ 225.20
Fractal Design - Define R6, Black TG
Type: Mid-Tower
Side Panel: Tempered Glass
Cooling
Cooling
$ 70.00
EKWB - EK-Velocity RGB Intel Nickel/Plexi
Type: CPU Waterblock
Cooling
$ 219.00
Cooling
EKWB - Fittings
Type: Custom Loop
Cooling
EKWB - Radiators (discontinued)
Type: Custom Loop
Accessories
$ 64.50
Monitor
$ 321.99
Acer - XFA240
Size: 24 Inch
Panel: TN
Refresh Rate: 144 Hz
Keyboard
$ 139.97
Corsair - K95 Platinum (RGB)
Interface: Wired
Key Switch Type: Cherry MX Brown
Type: Full Size
Mouse
$ 42.31
Logitech - G502 Hero
Interface: Wired
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