We Mighty Ape monkeys like to play, and when it comes to custom gaming rigs, we play hard.

Nothing says this more than the latest Gorilla in the Mist which pushed the hardware so far we had to install over $1000 worth of water cooling to keep temperatures and acoustics down. Which let us enjoy a spot of 4K gaming.

Of course, we're all about showing off, so we figured we'd give you all a run down of the main components and how we cooled them to give you a bit of inspiration for your own rigs…

First of all, we didn't make it easy on ourselves. Installing water cooling requires a bit of space – not just for the piping and parts, but for you to manoeuvre and install as well. Enjoying a challenge, we went with the Fractal Design Node 804 Case – an awesomely compact little cube case with fairly impressive water cooling options available.

Packed inside is the ASUS Maximus GENE Z97 mATX motherboard, running an Intel Core i7 4790K with a typical speed of 4.0GHz – which we proceeded to overclock to 4.7GHz.

You may have guessed by now, but you don't typically get away with doing that without either keeping the CPU very cold or watching your rig catch on fire. We chose to keep the CPU cool by installing an EK-Supremacy Acetal plate directly over it, taking out the need for a big bulky, loud heatsink.

Meanwhile, pushing dual Gigabyte GTX 780 TI Graphics cards to their limit can have similar consequences, so we clamped EK-FC780 GTX Acetal front and back plates to both of them and included them in the cooling loop by connecting them with a EK-FC Dual Parallel Terminal.

The loop is linked together by PrimoChill Tube in a sleek Onyx Black, and runs a loop between each component and the EK-D5 Vario Reservoir Pump.

The final element in this cooling loop is of course the most important. To ensure the actual cooling part of this water cooling system, we ran the loop through not just a 280mm EK CoolStream RAD XTC, but a 240mmEK CoolStream PE as well.

You may think of that as overkill, but it really needed that much cooling. It was hot. Seriously.

The final result was an awesomely unique Gorilla Rig with a premium system that optimized getting the cooling to where it was needed, and getting the heat out!

This was definitely one of the more obscure of the Gorilla in the Mist rigs we've built, but that was also what made it so much fun to build! We're always up for the challenge, so no matter the rig you want, we want to build it for you!

Be sure to swing by our Mighty Gorilla Rigs and order your Gorilla in the Mist today!