I'll stick with 3 pin fans if those are easier then. I probably don't need a card reader because my wife does most of the camera stuff, but I did want to make it easier for her if possible. Guess she's out of luck hah.

I really like that reservoir. That holds the pump I like, so two of those and I'm set for a dual loop system then. It'll take up four bays for two loops.... which is exactly how many bays I have that aren't being used by my lone optical drive, if I remember right. Sounds like a winner. That will leave me with no bays for a fan controller, but I plan to buy reasonably low speed fans and just leave them running at normal speed, so I probably don't need a fan controller all that much anyways. Maybe I can mod a hard drive bay to hold a fan controller someday, who knows. I'll have to look at the case again and see how much space it has.

I'm assuming that the bay mount reservoir would function as a custom pump top and I wouldn't need to buy another one? Or would I still get some kind of aftermarket pump top?

Cold cathode lighting sounds nice, I can put one across the bottom of the case perhaps. And maybe some LED fans, not sure on that yet. Guess I'll play around with fan options after I get the basics done first.

I ordered some thermal paste and thermal paste remover / cleaner from Newegg today, just the basic arctic silver. I figure I can switch later if I don't like that paste. Well that and I ordered it earlier this morning before I saw your post, in hopes to get it by Friday when I want to start putting things together.