Cool view through the front rad without the dust filter in place.
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.