Tropical Thunder

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Tropical Thunder

I started off with a Corsair 460x and have slowly been customizing it. I made accent pieces out of 1/4" clear Acrylic that go along the PSU shroud and along side the mother board on the right side. I added LED lighting to give them an edge lit effect along with a black and matte charcoal vinyl design and to a little more detail I scored through the vinyl to add some lit lines. I also wrapped the protruding part of the PSU shroud in matte charcoal vinyl to give it more interest along with trimming it so I could do a push/pull setup with my 360 radiator. For the cables, I used Phanteks extensions and moved the grey and white wires around to make a custom looking pattern. On the top of the case I made a vent cover out of 1/4" clear Acrylic and layered matte black, matte charcoal and frosted glass vinyl to give it a nice lighting effect and hiding the back of the fans. There are 1/4" spacers underneath the vent cover that allows the fans to exhaust the hot air.

Specs:
Delidded i7-7700k @ 4.9Ghz
Corsair h150i Pro AOI
Corsair Vengence Pro RGB Ram 16GB 3200Mhz with 2 Lighting Enhancement modules
Asus Maximus IX Hero z270 Motherboard
Asus Strix GTX 1080ti
Crucial MX500 500GB M.2 with EKWB Heatsink
HyperX Fury 120GB SSD
Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD
Seasonic Focus Plus 650W Gold PSU
Corsair 460x case
x6 Corsair LL120 Fans
Color(s): Black Silver White
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Color
Cooling: AIO Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build

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This build participated in 2 contests.

Hardware

CPU
$ 157.00
Intel - Core i7-7700K
Socket: LGA 1151
Cores: 4
Integrated Graphics: Yes
Motherboard
$ 168.80
ASUS - ROG Maximus IX Hero
Chipset: Z270
CPU Socket: LGA 1151
Size: ATX
Memory
$ 54.99
Corsair - Vengeance Pro (3200MHz) (Black/RGB)
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 8 GB
Graphics
$ 229.22
ASUS - ROG Strix Gaming
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: GTX 1080 Ti
Interface: PCIe x16
Storage
$ 54.99
Crucial - MX500
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 500 GB
Storage
Kingston - HyperX Fury
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 120 GB
Storage
$ 94.99
Seagate - Barracuda (ST2000DM006)
Form Factor: 3.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 2 TB
PSU
Seasonic - Focus Plus
Wattage: 650
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: 80+ Gold
Case
$ 749.76
Corsair - Crystal 460X
Type: Mid-Tower
Side Panel: Tempered Glass
Case Fan
$ 39.61
Corsair - LL120 (RGB) (Black)
Size: 120 mm
Cooling
$ 232.00
Monitor
$ 540.62
Acer - ED347CKR bmidphzx
Size: 34 Inch
Panel: IPS
Refresh Rate: 100 Hz
Keyboard
Corsair - K70 RGB
Interface: Wired
Key Switch Type: Cherry MX Red
Type: Full Size
Mouse
$ 39.99
EVGA - TORQ X10
Interface: Wired
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