Darkw1sh

Old lady out still looks good... Ages like wine 

It's alive 

It's alive 

I will once I have the CPU and Mobo in 
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I will once I have the CPU and Mobo in 
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Correct, once on the CPU and once on every DIMM slot. ?

So this is something i came across, and immediately began to marvel at what it required to build this and the really good price he is selling the rig for.
I mean a 1080ti is still pretty expensive, not to mention the rest of the rig is not half bad. I also like the honesty in the post seems like an honest computer guy.
Obviously this is not for everyone but it seems like something crazy Alex would come up with and Linus would approve.
 
So his post is here. 
 
but I also understand not everyone wants to go to an external hyperlink so i will post what he has below
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1080 Ti Aquarium Gaming PC - $740 (Palmetto Bay)

Priced to sell ASAP, make an offer. Crazy one-of-a-kind mad scientist gaming build.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700x, heatsink replaced with copper foam boiler surface
ASRock AB350
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB
Samsung 960 EVO 500GB
Zotac GTX 1080 Ti Mini, heatsink replaced with copper foam boiler surface
SilverStone SST-SX550 80+ Gold PSU
Alphacool NexXxoS XT45 Full Copper used as a condenser

All components have heatsinks replaced with boilers and immersed in an aquarium of hundreds of dollars worth of MPE (methylperfluorobutyl ether, a solvent used in bubbling face masks and other cosmetics). This is a nonconductive fluid with a low boiling point. The fluid boils up off the surface of the components, passively carrying the heat from the phase change with it. The hot vapors then condense on a radiator at the top, dripping back down into the tank.

To account for changes in air pressure while maintaining a sealed tank, it has expandable bags like an accordion that fill up as the temperature rises. If the condenser is turned off, then the computer can be run 100% silently until the bags fill up with hot vapor. However, this may lead to a small loss of fluid as the only perfectly sealed part is the glass tank. With the condenser on, the saturated vapor goes no higher than the condenser and virtually no loss occurs.

The radiator needs to be connected to a cool water source. In this case, the computer comes with an industrial water chiller. The industrial chiller is loud, so if sound is a problem, it may be a good idea to hook it up to a normal radiator/fans/reservoir/pump.

Boiler plates are permanently affixed to the CPU and GPU with thermal epoxy, so it would be hard to return to normal air cooling with those components.

In terms of performance, the GPU is cooled nicely and it will automatically clock itself well above stock. However, the CPU boiler plate is not as good as a proper boiling coating and the CPU will throttle down to 2 GHz if all cores are at full load. For normal gameplay, the CPU runs fine. If you can somehow find someone to apply a microporous boiling enhancement coating to a new Ryzen, this PC should be good for years to come.

I am selling it because my room gets too hot while running it and I don't want to put holes in my window just to move the chiller outside. Aside from that, it is also priced so cheaply because it was a proof of concept project I won't be using any longer and it takes way too much space. I need to get rid of it quickly.

Lol -- "the industrial chiller is loud" . . . notices ear protection in photo.  

I have already been to the depths of hell, so I am not too worried about touching it. lol

Hello everyone, 
 
I am a longtime fan of LTT and well i lost everything I had ever owned a little while back in a horrible accident. 
 
I was pronounced dead 3 times by the doctors, and well i made it out alive. 
 
Computers and cars make me happy, and having over 10 million dollars in bills and everything either frozen or  ot available i have been screwed. 
 
The accident was a fire and i was burned alive. It sucked, and worse of all the halucinations in the coma were so real that to this day I know i lived another life for 6 months time, although i was only under for 13 days. It was so real i went to school and work but things got really bad quick. I dont want to go into detail but i was tortured many times and i still feel the pain. On top of all that i have a lot of other problems. 
 
Prior to the accident, i loved computers i had an amazing build and helped many people build amazing rigs!
 
As a surprise i received some parts as a gift from some of my friends and i found a promotion and got a free samsung 850 pro 512gb.
 
I am into building high end custom stuff, but since i am on a budget, or well lack of a budget, i have no money at all. I have helped a lot of people in my life. I would rather do something for someone else and spend my money on them then soend on myself. Recently i have been very depressed and need to occupy my time and with my amazong friends I hope i can put something together. 
 
THE QUESTION FOR ALL OF YOU THAT DONT CARE ABOUTBACK STORY.
 
Many of my friends pitched in and bought me an amazing video card, with the moeny spent i could have built an entire system but i love them and i would not trade this card if my life depended on it as those were the people that were there for me when the docs said to say goodbye. They got me an Asus 980ti Strix OC3.
 
Since i have some time on my hands i will be making something very custom and needed your help. I am bad at asking for help.
 
I noticed the strix logo is illuminated by a white light. I was wondering if i could remove the red on the logo and paint it with a translucent green paint? Also of i were to do this i would incorporate the strix logo in the green and that would be white. By the strix logo i mean the owl face thing.(photo attached) Or was thinking of doing it visa versa owl green logo white. 
 
Would this be possible? Any help woukd be greatly appreciated.
 
Also i was thinking of anodizing the red plate around the gpu in the middle of the back plate to green. Again when I was in good health i helped these two cool guys that are painters of very high end stuff, and they told me they would be glad to help me out whenever i needed it. They were so cool they even came by the hospital.
 
Also on the fan shroud the red would be repainted to green, and i am still on the boarder of either making it semi-gloss, gloss or matte. I think semi-gloss would match the rest of the paint best but gloss would really make it pop.
 
I added a few more photos of the card so you can get a grasp for where i am going with this.
 
I got a pretty sweet mother board from everyone as well its a asus z170 deluxe.
 
I still need the cpu, and i have some memory but its not exactly what i wanted for this vuild but beggers cannot be choosers. O thought maybe i can save up a little bit of money and get heat sinks for the ram modules.
 
I also do not have a modular power supply but that is something i will need to live with. I might again try to sell some of the stuff that i had left at my parents house to try to sleeve the cables myself.
 
Also i was thinking of maybe gaving 2 accent colors and thise being green and purple, and annodize things purple?
 
I have been very depressed lately and comouters really make me happy. 
 
I also attached a photo of myself from when i was in the hospital.
 
For those of you that actually read this thank you very much.