Had a bit of a nightmare with this one.
My motherboard only came in stock Saturday, so i've been sat twiddling my thumbs for a fair while now ready to go.
So when I get the message I practically run up to the store to grab the mobo, and rush home to get cracking.
Strip the old system down, format the SSD's ready for a clean install, and start fiddling about to get the cable management right, I want this to look good after all.
So I mount the fans and the radiator on the front of the case (which is fiddly as all bloody hell) and then decide that I'd prefer the tubing to come in from a different direction..
Rewind, try again, much fiddling, many swearing, a lot of time later and the rad is back in, the fans are on and wired in, can get cracking on the actual pump/block.
And that's when it hits me... NZXT still haven't shipped me the *!%£#$@ AM4 bracket to fit the X62 kraken. Oh you mother.... BREATHE. COFFEE BREAK. BREATHE.
Thankfully I remembered I'd gotten my hands on a Wraith cooler off Ebay (for far too much :S bloody scalpers) so all i'd really lost was time and patience. So I've fitted the Wraith cooler and i've left the X62 Kraken installed, and left the block loose inside my case where it won't move far (with plastic protection on it).
Nevermind, we carry on. Finish the build, put the GPU in and wouldn't you know, dip$%@! forgot to plug the VGA connector into the PSU.. HUNNNNNGHHHH. Okay grab headtorch.. HNNNNGHHHGHHGHGHG headtorch batteries are dead. FINE, grab phone, hold phone in mouth half blinding myself to use it as a torch and get my arm stuffed so far up into this H440 that I feel like i'm violating a cow. Plug it in, move on. BREATHE.
Everything wired up. All good. Hit the power button and... HOLY CRAP IT ACTUALLY BOOTED. Normally something should have gone wrong at this point, but no.. It just works.. It's a miracle.
Aaaaand then I go to test out a game on steam and my brand new Corsair RM1000X has so much coil whine that I can't even hear the game music through my 5.1 surround system.
F. M. L
Going to wait until Vega release to see if the coil whine is just related to this specific GPU as the R9 290 is a thirsty mare. Managed to roughly halve the coil whine through power tweaking and bios updates, so it's livable with at this point, but we'll see...
So that's my rant so far.. Just got to keep waiting...And keep breathing...