Chujitsu

This is stunning ! O_O  

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!)

 

Hum20
 
Hello,
 
 
So all of this started about 12 years ago, a friend of my and myself started a project we thought was very cool, put a computer inside an RC Humvee.
The RC car we had laying around, motherboard tray was liberated from an old computer and with the help off duct tape and zip ties we made it work.
Here is the original build log from 2007 btw: (Warning, Norwegian) Original build log
 
After all this the Humvee was put in the attic and forgot, until a couple of of weeks ago, i stumble upon the project and old memories start bubbling up again and i think to myself it might be time to start this project over. There was a vacation here in Norway last week so i brought the RC car into work and started tearing it apart to see what i had to work with.
 
The plan is now to take my current gaming rig, mount the biggest radiator i can find (and that fits) on top of the Humvee and make an awesome case.
My speccs right now is:
Intel 6700k
Zotac 1080 mini
16GB ram
CPU and GPU on water today.
 
The Radiator i chose was the Magicool Hexa 720, this thing is massive ?

 
So, time to get to work:
This is what i had to work with, here i already started cutting the main "construction" of the RC car
 

 
Earlier this year i acquired a LianLi case with a removable motherboard tray, this would fit perfectly in the Humvee


 
To make the tray fit i removed all but 1cm of the plastic construction of the RC car, i hope the motherboard tray and all the other construction will stiffen it up again.
 
After that i modeled a PSU shroud:

 
This was modeled in Rhino and laser cut in 5mm plexi glas, then glued together with 5min epoxy,
 
 

 
Later the motherboard tray was slightly modified to fit the PSU shroud, and the shroud was epoxied on as well
 
 

 
 
Moving on i turned my attention to the undercarriage of the RC car, i choped of all of the motor and gears and attached a plate on the back to neaten things up a bit and stiffen it up in the back end. 
 

 
After that the time had come to make some frames inside, these frames will stiffen up the construction and also serve as a support for the mahoosive radiator with fans and all, these where laser cut in 3mm plexi then glued with 5 min epoxy to the rest of the construction.
 

 
A small testfit:

 
The entire thing (minus the tray) was painted in a lovely shade of black:

 
 
And thats where im at, ive modeled up a USB panel that is being 3D printed right now, and some holders for the "roof rack".
The Radiator is in the mail along with the fans and some bends. 
 
So, this is where i leave you, hope you all enjoyed, i will update you as soon as something happens, but until then, have a wonderful day
 
-Skrollan
 
 
oh, and please forgive me for the grammar mistakes and so on, English is my second language ?
 
 

 
 
 

GPU tray
So the GPU was one of the hardest to install. There is only one hole I can use to fasten a screw. I made use of the cooling blocks spacers.
The weight of the card sits on that, rubber strips prevent it from sliding around, and one screw at the top secures it from falling out.
Life on the edge !

 
 
The one screw to rule them all & make shift console.
It is a U-shaped aluminium profile with notches for the cooling block spacers.
All the hardware sits in what I call trays. Because they all have a frame to create a boxed look.

I attached the profiles with these sticky things, each is rated with 2 kg, so no worries.
 
 
 
 
 
And here the GPU was in the tray the first time. Looks good.

 
 
Next was the pump. It was hard to fix it to the frame without a normal case. So I banged together these brackets from spare aluminium profiles.
 
 
 
I screamed so many times trying to fit those cables in. Ahhh.
This is the middle tray with the MOBO and the two PSUs.

 

 
Progress… needed a solution to have access to both front and back at the same time.
So often I had to fish cables through holes.. at first I put it on some accoustic padding.
No good.


 
make shift scrap wood stand

 
Finally the insert with the three trays starts to look like something.

 
 
 
 
 
 

My new WIP Ryzen build:

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!)

 

im freaking jealus

Thats a lotta radiator, friend.

God damn that looks cool on the blue setting

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!)

 

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

AWESOME!

boosted the mem clock a bit.. yay!
 
GPU core 1512 Mhz
GPU Memory clock 2128 Mhz

jeez .. you have a Noctua NH-D15 and you don't OC your CPU.. just terrible =P  (j/p)

Okay, I've managed to figure out what was going on. The card were running so hot because they were not downclocking to the lowest speed. They should have been on 135Mhz but the top card was at 565Mhz and the second one on 1000Mhz- this was due to having "prefer maximum performance" in Nvidia control panel. After changing that do adaptive and doing a restart, they now hover at 135Mhz/145Mhz with 40C/33C I am a happy man now! This is the solution if you have the same problem.

jeez .. you have a Noctua NH-D15 and you don't OC your CPU.. just terrible =P  (j/p)

jeez .. you have a Noctua NH-D15 and you don't OC your CPU.. just terrible =P  (j/p)

So I'm gonna be installing win 8.1 soon with the Nvidia GPU for F@H cause I can run the 650ti boost via 1 6-pin and run it and max oc for it. Fresh install Valley bench will come

WooSAH..
both are good cards.. but I would have to agree right now and I say I'd give the sight edge to gigabyte G1 gtx 980 Ti over the MSI based on what I've seen online and reviews.  That being said... I'm wanna see what ASUS does. 
 
and seriously dude?  you gonna troll on someone build?  1490 aint all that great to brag about .. my reference EVGA is clocked at 1502 . 

Pretty much every benchmark out there will say the G1 is one of, if not the best 980 Ti you can currently buy. Gigabyte is a super reputable brand and in a more general sense the Gigabyte cards are extremely well rated, especially anything with Windforce on it. 
 
As far as running hotter than benchmarks the thing to remember is most benchmarks are run on open test benches so your results may very depending on your case and your airflow. 
 
That said as many have also pointed out if you dont feel comfortable with it then get a brand you personally can trust. MSI, EVGA and the like are all very reputable as well.  

The temps are within reason in my opinion.  Gigabyte is reputable company and I think you made a great choice as far as 980 ti.  I have an EVGA gtx 980 ti and it runs almost at full load on WoW too depending where I am so I think you're just over thinking it. The G1 overclocks great and it's great looking card.  I think you made a wise choice.  But that being said.  It's your money,  You do what you want with it... if you don't have confidence in it then go with what you know.

i5 4690k 4.5ghz OC

So, anyone else here besides me still waiting for the 980ti to become available? I entered it roughly two weeks ago although I'm not really that surprised about the wait.

The Fractal case is amazing for cooling purposes.. it come with two fans already in the front that are fairly decent that you can use for the intake.  I think really all you need is to add an exhaust 1 - 140mm fan in the on the back and  you can add up to 3 - 140mm fans on top.  Fans with good air flow you should be fine.  

Personally if you had the budget I'd do an AiO cooler for the GPU but to be honest it's not really that necessary.  I think you'd get a better performance boost if you put that money into like a 2 x 8 gb ram over the 2 x 4gb ram.  But that's just my opinion.  All in all you have a solid build.