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Installing a $900 (USD) custom hardline water cooling loop in my all-new computer

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Water Cooling: The Result

After breaking in and tuning the system to be extremely quiet for a week, I can now say that my first custom water cooling loop is preforming well and is quieter than expected. The only thing that really makes noise at lower speed is the pump. Thankfully the ASUS motherboard lets me have complete control over the speed of the fans and I can keep the pump running at its lowest setting even as the CPU warms up.   I have not noticed a temperature difference when the pump is running full speed or
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Water Cooling: The Build

Now that the water cooling components have arrived, the building has really begun. First out of the boxes were the heat sinks. The CPU water block was the easiest I have installed to date, while the GPU predictably took some time. The overall GPU size shrank significantly, reveling the nice lower motherboard heat sink once again (Yay!). Next step was to build the custom cables and rework the wiring through the case. I think these white/blue accents add quite a bit of style to this buil
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Water Cooling: The Arrival

The computer parts have arrived, being picked up during a quick vacation to Southern California. You can probably guess from that alone where the purchase was made. All the water cooling components are in transit and should be here in the next day or two. The boxes of the computer components looked rather good themselves, so I couldn't resist taking a few glamour shots of them. There are very few components in this build, which will help keep the computer interior clean. I took this chance t
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Water Cooling: The Design

With the justifications/excuses for building a computer with a custom water cooling loop out of the way, I move on to the design of the computer in this entry. For this first water cooling computer build, as with all my previous personal builds, it needs to be built of components to be low maintenance and last at least 5 years. To achieve that enthusiast components are to be used, namely an x99 motherboard, lga 2011-v3 CPU, and a GTX 900 series graphics card. The exact components were selected
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Water Cooling: The Idea

This entry is a bit of a story. If you are looking for something about designing and building a water cooling loop, future entries will cover that. As I write this, $900 worth of water cooling components and custom cables have been ordered and will be packed and shipped in the next week. That amount could easily build a decent gaming computer, especially if secondhand components are involved. Having built dozens of computers over the past 14 years I know how far $900 USD could go towards better
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