I looked at your parts list & didn't notice the reservoirs. Though I'm not familiar with the EK parts. I'll show you what I'm doing if it helps with ideas. I'm going with two separate loops. The bay res shown is actually for sale on ebay right now and i'm going to replace it with a Monsoon unit. I'm going to use the bay res for the CPU loop, & and the cylinder one for the GPUs. As you can see I had to cut a recess into the top for proper mounting and I have to use the extended top. Again best of luck with your build, I can't wait to see how it ends up.

I have read complaints about people using the side radiator hits the usb connections. how much room do you have with your PE? can you fit push pull on it?

Can't wait to see your finished build!

Speechless!

Pathfindercod, this is shaping up to be a nice build. Have a few questions, if you can please answer them. Does the Corsair Dominator attach directly to the EK Monarch? Also on your side 360mm radiator there were people complaining that their radiators would hit the USB 3.0 on the inside, is there enough room for your radiator and would there be enough room for push/pull with the EK PE radiator there? Thank you, I want to get a s8 but the side reservoir worries me if my idea can fit.

Small update... and please excuse the crappy iphone pics. Didn't have time to drag out all the dslr stuff.   Was home form work yesterday and spend all day working on the build.
Got the two SSD's mounted inside the hidden hard drive tray and my two mechanicals underneath.

After staring at the motherboard and trying my box of fittings for 2-3 hours I found a combination that fits, yay! 


I will post pics of the video cards next. But being the first time cutting acrylic and using the monsoon hardline kit I bought.  I spent probably 2 hours getting the sli links cut and edges shaved.  I did learn a  few things along the way. The most important thing learned was its much easier to cut acrylic if you have tape around the area your cutting. I do have the triple sli ek fc bridge but decided to do acrylic tubing with fitting instead.
The next big issue was the stupid rubber cord in the monsoon kit for inserting in tube for bending does not fit. I bought the 16mm (red monsoon kit) but it will NOT fit in the ek 16mm acrylic tube. I even tried lube! :)
The next thing I learned was you cannot bend acrylic without a tube in it. I pretty much knew that but I wanted to try anyway. So ANOTHER order to the online watercooling gods for more bending tools. The mosoon hardline kit is not worth the money in my opinion. waste of a hundred bucks.  I bought the primochill bender, much better, portable and easier.

This is a tough case for me to work with while trying to keep it looking good. Soft tubing would have definatley been a lot easier. But no!!!! I had to decide to do acrylic... Anyways I got my EK acrylic kit today so now I did my first bend. So far so good.. Man I wish I got the little ek kit before the monsoon. Anyway, my first bend was beautiful. Something said make sure the bottom radiator will firing I go straight down in the opening. Well, hell no. Another road block and decision to make... Ugh..



The tube bend goes down into the hole in front of the motherboard. The issue is when the rad is in the bottom there it closes off half the hole so it doesn't line up with the pipe straight over from the gpu. So I have to try to bend a slight angle over and then down again. Or I might just bend it 90 over towards the 24pin motherboard connector just before the hole and then bend it down in the opening behind the flex bays.

 
After a long 3 weeks of fixing some tubing issues and a couple leaks and changing some acrylic tubing fittings to the new EK acrylic compression fittings I now have it up and running. 
ALWAYS ALWAYS leak test with just pump/pumps plugged into PSU and jumper your PSU to come on and leave all other components unplugged.  Anyway start filling with distilled water for the first time to leak test with and got it 90% full and soon as the pressure form my two ddc pumps buily water sprayed out of the tube coming up out of my pump tot he first memory water block. DAMN!!!!!  got to test my drain vavles I put in place.  Got it all drained.  Discovered that acrylic run form the pump tot he first memory water block was slightly short and wasn't seated all the way down in the fitting coming out of the pump. Tried of it for the day. Took me a couple days and got a new piece bent and cut.
Started filling with distilled water again.  Got it all full and it ran beautifully.. Ran leak test for 4 hours.  Decided to go ahead and drain and put my blood red coolant in.  Got it all filled rand for a few minutes, shook pc around, turned pumps on and off a few times, AWESOME no bubbles.  WARNING and thank god I was on the dinning room table with hard wood floor.  I was sitting on the couch, system leak testing for 5'ish hours, I hear a pop and gush of water! I YELL F%^k and flew of the couch.  Caught it before res tubes ran dry so the pumps never got dry, thank goodness. !!!!!!!
The same tube I just replaced popped out on the top this time form the memory water block. It just popped out like someone grabbed a hold of it and pulled it out. The tube was cut perfect and beveled just right. My only guess is have the original EK acrylic fittings they are just double o-rings and theming straight out of the dual ddc pump top was to much pressure. At this point my wife is like get this the hell out of here. Off to the garage I go with my tail between my legs. :(
At this point I am just tired of looking at this thing, want to start using this again, contemplating putting it all back on air and just having fun with it. Bright idea, ill just switch over the main runs to soft tubing.  Spend 6 hours switching it. Absolutely hated the way it looked.

About this time, Performance-PCs emails me with new products in stock, low and behold 16mmm EK acrylic compression fittings. So another $500 order for fittings and few other things I needed a order was placed.  LUCKY I kept all my acrylic tubes I spent hours on bending. I pulled them out, cleaned them up stuck it all back together. Flushed all the blood red coolant you see out and leak tested with distilled water for 5 days straight in the 115 degree garage, NO LEAKS!
Discovered that blood red coolant just wasn't going to match anything, cables or fans. Bing another light goes off, Mayhems pastel red!  Performance-PC's here I come again! But wait have to order other stuff to so another few hudred more for demciflex filters, tools, cooland and led lights I decided to do.
Drained the distilled and filled with pastel red, leak test another 4-5 days.
Week and a half vacation inserted here. Jet lag, recovery time, get back in to the swing of things..
Brings us to the next post:

Well, dang that is beautiful! I am not a fan of red (personal preference, not knocking anyone that likes it) but that is very clean and extremely pleasing to the eyes.

Thank you :)

Well damn, EK put by rig on their FB page and I didn't even know!

Thanks EK!


https://www.facebook.com/EKWaterBlocks/photos/a.288479541206084.77684.182927101761329/721000411287326/?type=1

Nice!!

OMG!!!!!
Just today I watch this Case.... A pity not to have seen it before ... my worklog box would have been chosen.
Very good job. I like it !!!
Plan B? jijiji