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Up to you. :)

That being said, support for ivy bridge isn't going to be ending any time soon, and if by future compatibility, if you mean in terms of the socket, that's an absolute joke that haswell fanboys are coming up with. Intel changes sockets with every tick-tock, which means unless you think upgrading for 8% extra performance is worth it, LGA 1150 is just as dead as 1155.
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CFM actually doesn't matter as much for pushing air through a radiator as the static pressure does, which is why a whole bunch of us are using the SP 120s as opposed to the higher power, lower static pressure AF120s.

Also bear in mind that those fans are ONLY UV-reactive.... meaning you still have to have a cold cathode setup if you want them to be anything than an ugly purple-ish.
 
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Thanks for that, I'm replicating this build, I think it's damn beautiful
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He said those are the fans he used, and I've also got the same guy that does the custom uv leds which are brighter than any other I've seen, setting it up for my soon to be built rig. I just hope I won't lose any temperature for using cool looking fans, rather than using high grade corsair sp120s.

Only difference is I'm using UV Blue Coolant.
 
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You will lose some temperature benefits, yes. The radiator and fans are quite possibly the most important parts of the watercooling setup. That being said, since you're going for looks, go for it - it's not going to make a big enough difference to be worth scrapping the design.
 
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Thanks. I'm not going for any kind of crazy overclock, so it shouldn't be any big deal, but I'm hoping to achieve around 4.6 GHz on my 4670k keeping it under 70 degrees.

 
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Well if for some reason I get stuck around 4.0-4.3 GHz I'm willing to delid it and put some CLU under it.
 
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Yeah, it's probably not good seeing how you have to delid to hit a not crazy overclock, but I'd rather have Haswell, seeing how it's actually cheaper to go 1150 in my micro atx, and you get the support and future compatibility and all for it being newer. It actually doesn't look to be too difficult to delid. I'd be using the vice method, so I wouldn't be cutting into it or anything.
 
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Up to you. :)

That being said, support for ivy bridge isn't going to be ending any time soon, and if by future compatibility, if you mean in terms of the socket, that's an absolute joke that haswell fanboys are coming up with. Intel changes sockets with every tick-tock, which means unless you think upgrading for 8% extra performance is worth it, LGA 1150 is just as dead as 1155.
 
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Yeah, probably. If anything it will be for saving money, and the Asus Gryphon comes with the Armor Kit for free, which will match nicely in my rig.
 
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