TheBluePotato

Heyho!
 
After 4 years of in the work time I am finally at a point where I can consider my gaming setup finished and want to show off a bit!
 
Main Specs:
 
 
Cooling Gear:
 
Peripherals:
 
Desk:
 
Additional comment:
 

The Monitor arm allows me to some some pretty funky stuff, like rotating this monster vertical, for rediculous LTT Forum Browsing lol
 
It has a pretty large range of motion, going from having the monitor resting ontop of my table all the way to the roof, swinging everywhere and rotating and tilting the monitor, even upside down rotation or tilting it flat (as in so you could use it as a table)

 
Super happy with everything right now. The only thing that will be improved in the near future, when I renovate my room, is that I will make a cable passthrough in the wall so there is no cable visible coming from the pc.

Everyone is showing off their super duper fancy expensive rigs here so I thought I might mix it up a bit.
 
Say hello to my old gaming PC! (or, the parts at least)
 
It inhabits a neat Intel Core 2 Duo @2,4Ghz with 4 threads, My first ever graphics card, a GTX660ti (best choice of my life), ontop of a noname, whatever motherboard.
Powered by a Thermaltake Berlin 630W, which has all leftover cables simply cut off - to make cable management easier ? and its fan replaced by a - also noname- fan from another power supply.
 
But here comes the best part!
 
Its cooled by a custom waterloop!
 
The Mainboard chipset has always been getting incredibly hot so that needed a cooler and the CPU?
 
How about a PELTIER module on it? Thats right.
 
The CPU is cooled with a peltier module, which in turn is cooled by a waterblock! What waterblock you may ask?
The kind you get when you go to amazon.com, type in "pc waterblock", sort cheapest first and select the one that looks most like it would actually maybe work.
 
The radiator is a 240mm, 30mm thick rad, aquired by the same technique, the pump is a simple small 12V pump, also from Amazon, and the tubing is some garden hose, which we actually sell in our shop (gardening center)
All of that glory is held down by a piece of wood, some zipties and a burned pencil, of course!
 
I did throw in a 18$ 120GB SSD just to spice it up as well.
Its running Linux Ubuntu (cause I didn't have a Windows licence on hand, want win 10 tho)
 
All of that is in my first Case, the Zalman Z11+ (don't buy it please)
 
 
TEMPS! PICS!
 
 
 
As you can see, the temps dropped drastically, from 42 degrees down to just 5 on the first core!
Unfortunately, the sensor seems to be only able to go down to 5 and 10 degrees for the 4 cores, since they have been staying down there, not fluctuating at all, for almost 20 minutes. So we might very well be in the negative digits here!
 
PS: No the water is not green, the tubing is, by standart
PPS: The rig to the left is my actual, proper gaming rig, soon (6 weeks) to be upgraded, will post pics here once finished as well And yes, the parts in there are proper, unlike this joke-rig ?
 

Heyho!
 
I really would like to have a nice way of seeing Temps in my Waterloop (Not necessarily flow, but would be nice)
 
Ideally I would like a medium size display, which I would inlet into my Plexi-Panel (I have a Core P5).
 
Same thing with a fan controller for my 4 Fans on the Quad-Rad.
 
I've seen some people just use a tin screen and actually connect it to the GPU and have the Data display on there like that, which I might do.
 
Are there any all-in-one solutions? And If not, what flow/temp meter + fan controller would you guys recommend?
Edit: I'm thinking about something like this: https://www.amazon.de/Waveshare-Resistive-Resolution-Interface-Raspberry/dp/B01HPV7OEG/ref=sr_1_10?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&keywords=mini%2Bmonitor&qid=1563028892&s=gateway&sr=8-10&th=1

Heyho!
 
I currently got a decent full waterloop made entirely from Alphacool parts. 80mm thick X-Flow Quad Radiator, D5 with tall reservoir, GPU Cooler and a Supremacy EVO for my CPU
 
I am planning on upgrading my CPU (which involves Board and RAM) in about 4-6 Months with whatever Hardware is fastest at this point in time.
Its gonna be changed from Soft to Hardtubing as well.
 
Point of this post is:
 
MY 1070ti is the AMP! Version from Zotac and therefore has a different layout. The only Cooler I currently know of which fits is the one I have installed right now. The Generic, Boring Looking Alphacool one.
 
Are there any Transparent, somewhat sexy looking coolers aviable for the 1070ti Amp?
 
Even the one I have now from Alphacool isn't strictly for the 1070, its the one for the 1080, because it has the same layout. Kinda bummer, cause it even says 1080 on the cooler now, although it isn't a 1080.
 
Suggestions? I do want to keep the card tho. I am also Considering adding a second one just for kicks. And of course also watercooling it.

Alright! Its working!
 
Well thank you ever so much for your input!
I would have probably never tried control panel again, after trying it numerous times and not working. Seems a re-install was all I needed. Classic.
 
Now I get full 75 hz, even after booting up fresh, without needing to do anything.
Very interesting that it now "supports" freesync although it "isn't supported"
 
Thanks!

ATM you will not get a 1080 below 700€. Maybe in the future prices will drop, but now you have no chance. I'd personally switch the cpu too but I'd take a look at some benchmarks. The reason why I'm saying this, is that the fx8xxx (which is basically the bigger brother of your chip) already has an performance impact in games on the titan x. As the 1080 is quite a bit faster than the titan x, the cpu might bottleneck your 1080 quite a bit. So it would be worth upgrading to z170, 6600k/6700k and then watercooling would be useful, not only a waste of money.