Ideas Water Cooling Help!

[alichowdry]

Hi guys,
so basically I have the dilemma of picking the colour of my coolant for my very first custom water cooling loop, I have included a picture of my case:
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm195/alichowry1998/635685504532651822_zpssthc4zeh.jpg

it is a fractal design core 1000 (I'm on a budget here!) and so basically I painted the inside of the case a bright white to give it a bit of colour and originally I was going to use Mayhems Pastel White coolant to match the paint I did inside the case, but once I painted it and put all my components back into it I feel as though if I go for a white coolant it might be just a bit too much, so I have four choices that I am struggling to choose from, the first is white, the second is black but obviously you might argue black will also look overused since I braided all my cables black, a light baby blue solid coolant also by mayhems pastel and last a darker blue UV coolant

I have included links to other peoples builds with all these colours:

the white one
http://cdn.overclock.net/1/13/350x700px-LL-1328568d_DSC_8160.jpeg

the black one
http://cdn.overclock.net/a/ad/500x1000px-LL-ad90cefe_IMG_1976.jpeg

the light blue one
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://img.tapatalk.com/31b023e6-9db5-55f1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.overclock.net/t/1286896/mayhems-users-club&h=612&w=816&tbnid=EnL5ma67slr2CM:&zoom=1&docid=EFn8UBSrmHdh1M&ei=eYlpVcziJcyV7Abj7oKoBg&tbm=isch&ved=0CB8QMygAMAA

the darker blue one
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--OoJYmD3G--/18mq8l27f1hspjpg.jpg


Hope you can help! Thanks!

 

[Ok Go]

i'm sorry, since i have bad taste about computer styling so i cant help you with that. i just want to ask you about your GPU heatsink clearence to the bottom of your casing. i think it's scary close to the bottom of your casing and that'll hinder the airflow and might damage your card in the long run.

 

[alichowdry]

i'm sorry, since i have bad taste about computer styling so i cant help you with that. i just want to ask you about your GPU heatsink clearence to the bottom of your casing. i think it's scary close to the bottom of your casing and that'll hinder the airflow and might damage your card in the long run.

Hi, I know dont worry I was also very very worried when I originally purchased it, because it is a triple slot gpu rather than the traditional 2 slot gpu leaving it with not even an inch to the bottom of the case, but before I even put it in my pc I changed the thermal paste on it to arctic silver 5, I changed the front intake fan to a high quality corsair one and believe it or not the normal temps for a hd 7970 are between 70-80 under load, this stays under 70 degrees!! If you look at the pic, I have made sure nothing blocks the front intake, keeping cables clear making sure that the front intake fan can bring in as much air as possible and so far 1 and a half years down the line it's still running very quiet and below 70 degrees still with a regular 6 month thermal paste change, but hopefully I will be adding a water block to the gpu as well!

Hope this helps, because I was definitely scared when I initially bought the card also!!