Chujitsu

Ryzen 7 3700X is what I'd suggest and def over the 3800X.

looks awesome!

When I saw this case, I thought to myself, okay I have to build in it. After building it, I was questioned by friends why would I build such a rig? For what reason? My response "I have no clue I just wanted to build in this case becuase this Phanteks case is calling to me". I also reused some parts from my previous build such as the lg ultra wide monitor, the logitech mouse, my headphones, the microphone, Samsung 850 EVO SSDs and the PSU. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card Phanteks Enthoo Luxe 2 ATX Full Tower Case EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 1000 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Link to complete build parts https://pcpartpicker.com/b/tMsZxr Custom rigid tube water loop. (First time using rigid tubing) 2 - Black Ice Nemesis 480GTS Radiator. 1 - Black Ice Nemesis 360GTS Radiator. 1 - EKWB EK-CoolStream XE 360 Radiator. 1- Maelstrom D5 V2 Series with X300 reservoir. I used PrimoChill 1/2in. Rigid RevolverSX Series Fittings and mix in with a bunch of Bitspower fittings also. And yes the EK XE 360 radiator is in push pull configuration. The Cables are from CableMod the pro series. And yes there are 18 fans in there the cable management was a quite overwhelming. (RBG cables and PWM cables for each fan.. smh) My thoughts on the build I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. First looking at the Phanteks Case I thought man, that's a lot of room. But now that it's built seems pretty tight in there. I initially wanted to vertically mount the Maelstrom Reservoir/pump combo (I assume it would because the case was so massive), but turned out IT didn't FIT and a then it was suggested that I mount it laying down (Thanks Brainless906). Thank goodness that fit and with the LED strip running on the inside of the case on the corner of the PSU shroud, it actually lights up the reservoir and I decided not to use the ARGB that came with the reservoir/pump. Thoughts on the Fan choice. So I intially priced out for 18 Noctua NF-F12 industrialPPC-2000 PWM. But I thought to myself do I need that much airflow, with all these rads it could maybe passively cool or just need fans at low RPMs to just help it along. After further research (ie watching fan reviews on youtube) I came across a video by Bitwit promoting these "china made fans" by PCCooler. I gave it a try and to be honest I was quite surprised. Initial impressions was that it was quite sturdy and the RGB was not "overwhelming" ( I was fearful that this build would get too "rainbow puke" like). When I powered it on for the first time it was like a having noisy box fan blowing at full blast. But once I got into the bios and turned them down to 25% power they we quite quiet. Not as quiet as Noctua's (my old build used 140mm 2000 rpm industrial fans) but not enough to make a you cringe. So all in all, as far as budget fans go for 13 bucks and change per fan, I'm really glad I went with these fans. Not overbearing RGB with decent performance. Bitwit Video link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipfb3YZiWkc (sorry LTT) Lastly I'm not too fond of the bracket for the base that Phanteks added in to make it "easier" for builders. The bracket I feel somewhat restricts the airflow a little when you're trying to adjust it and if you put a anything 360mm (3 fans, or a rad with 3 fans) it butts right up against the the front rad/fans. So essentially you're blocking airflow at the bottom (because of the bracket) and on the front (because it's soo close). I was concerned with airflow so I did some adjustments to move the fat boy 360mm EK rad as far to the rear as I can but with that bracket it didn't help much and had to drill holes of my own. Sorry if this was TL:DR but all in all I'm pleased with the way it turned out and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to share and I will answer it a promptly as I can. 3D mark Spy bench results: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/8829660 First Time rigid Tubing Installing the Radiators and the fans and planning out how to run my hard lines. 1 This was a bit tricky, I ending up using a double rotary 90 fitting, extension fitting, a non rotary 90 fitting and lastly a "sli adjustable" fitting to make this work. So I had to be a little creative here. At first I thought I could bend a 90 rigid tube to make it fit but that was failure so I ended up using a 90 rotary fitting and a "double rotary extension so I could tighten it. (Thank God my fingers fit in there to tighten it) The EK block on the RTX 2080ti The sought after hard to find Ryzen 9 3900X Rigid Tubing! For a first time ever bender I think I did well (all free hand too) The END RESULT enjoy really bad video quality of the system running (sorry) videoplayback.mp4 Complete setup (Bleed green Go birds!)

well if that's the case I would use the other two connectors for the stock fans so you can control that using the front panel switch.. and I assume you water cooling the CPU so use the CPU fan header for the fans on the water cooler. You should be in good shape.

gonna assume that is fractal r4 or r5 case. That's a fan connector for the front panel sata powered fan controller. Do you need it? not really.. but it's useful if you have a ton of fans on your case.

gtx 970 would be the wiser decision. It would give you a better gaming experience than a custom loop would.

Thanks! Fractal Define S

I have SLI 980 ti's under water =D

AWESOME!

if you plan to update in the future then yes 1 stick of 8 gb is fine. But personally i'd take of 2 x 4gb of ram so you can take advantage of dual channel.

try updating this driver if you have not already http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3694/~/geforce-hotfix-driver-353.38

Medium Rare

You should be fine with your current build. A 2nd 980 ti wouldn't hurt.. but to be honest.. is your gaming experience of GTA 5 and Witcher 3 that big of difference if it "might" drop below 60 fps at 1440p? If you're willing to drop another 980 ti in there (i am in my current build whenever EVGA sends me my 2nd 980 ti from the step up program) then I'm all for it... but I really don't think it'll "improve" your gaming experience all that much. My personal thoughts anyway.