surprisingly not, ran some smoke through the system to get an idea on the airflow and got good flow coming in and going out of the case

very true! I was getting a little worried I wasn't gonna be able to find any, but luckily I got enough of them. Even though the lighting on 2 of them were duds... Very happy with them nonetheless

Probably not in the immediate future at least. This is my first build, so I don't really wanna chance voiding the warranty on the CPU this early in. I probably would tho if I decide to do a custom water loop. As for now, I think I get pretty good cooling off the kraken

Thank you! Ya I'm thinking of either taking the mesh completely out since it is a slightly negative air pressure system anyways, or might back off the mounting bolts a little and remove the mag strips since they're kinda useless atm :p

I totally agree! In soon time I'll get around to actually picking up a 1080ti :)

Thanks! Good to know for future builds!