ShiftyFella

Looks like R7 1700 is star of the show. Pls, don't you dare to drop ECC ram support AMD

Spec: i7-6700k, Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7, 32GB Avexir Core RAM (White LED), Asus 1070 ROG Strix Gaming OC, Samsung 961 512GB, Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SSD, Samsung EVO 2TB SSD. Loop consists of the Alphacool Eisbecher D5 150mm Acetal reservoir and Alphacool VPP655 pump, with EK Supremacy Evo CPU block and mostly EK fittings. I used a Bitspower drain valve, located at the bottom of the rad.
 
The Phanteks Evolv ATX Glass is wrapped in 3M Di-Noc Black Carbon Fibre vinyl, with a custom acrylic shroud wrapped in the same vinyl.
 
More pics over at my pcpartpicker page: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/RHxG3C
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks man. Yeah there is a 420mm Radiator from Hardware Labs. All 420mm Radiators under 460mm can fit in these case with a little modification. And HW LABS have the shortest Rads.
 I cut only the gap bigger under the Front I/O Panel 


 

Well even if the chipset/CPU only natively supported 16 PCIe lanes, they could always increase the cost of a motherboard massively and add chips that give it more PCIe lanes  

Users of 990fx boards might notice reduction of lanes, especially those like me, who bought amd system as cheaper alternative to x79\99, where you need cores, ecc and lanes for other stuff. I'm still salty that there is no word on ecc ram support, even cheap 760g boards had support for it. I've seen some quotes from MSI and Gigabyte reps that for launch they only target mainstream and midrange segments, with true enthusiast boards coming up later, I don't have link to them but I'm sure hope they're right and there will be boards with better lane setup.

Hi
I want to represent my Revision 3 Custom Loop of my Mastercase  Maker 5 
I used UV leds and uv clear coolant this time.
 
HW Labs 480mm Radiator
HW Labs 280mm Radiator
D5 Dual Pump in Series
EKWB CPU, GPU, RAM Waterblocks
i7 6700k
gtx 1080
32Gb Ram 
5xNoctua NF-A14 PWM Fans
 


There is a few rest of orange pastel coolant, have to flush the loop again....  


Cheers

YASSS, was just about to post some pics of it, even inside it's super purty

 and backplate

 

Looking at the doc makes me sad not seeing enough team red on 1440p page. My system is nothing fancy but it should be enough to end up there
 
1440p:
i5 4570
Sapphire Tri-X OC 290X 4GB
Avg 45.7
Score 1913
 

Nothing wrong with using cardboard for custom case construction. I made an ITX case a few years ago (2009 shit is was a long time ago) and have been using it on and off since then + various upgrades.
Originaly built using some 2009-era i5 with a nasty PSU (was previously owned by a heavy smoker) and a Radeon 5990.
 
It's had a few different hearts over the years (including a stint as a HTPC.) But now is doing duty as my main desktop. Unfortunately since swapping out the GTX295 for a GTX590 I've had to use an eternal PSU with 2x8-pin PCI-E, as my mini-Silverstone 450W unit just doesn't have enough berries, and was about on its limit running real hot (as it was doing double duty as the CPS exhaust) with the 295 overclocked.
 
It doesn't catch fire, plastic is a larger fire hazard. The mobo back plane is scavenged from an old AOpen case. It's made form the following
-Various cardboard kindly stolen from the local fruit and veg shop
-Black Race-Tape
-String
-Glue
-Plastic food wrap for the case window
-Some Velcro (to hold the lid down and in place.
 
Has been a great Lan rig (won a couple of awards) and truly unique. Best bit is the graphics card runs cool and is isolated from the rest of the case heat wise due to it's semi-external nature.
 
From when it was built.






 
 
 
With that horrible PSU and a 5990 under full load it didn't crash, but it smelt like death itself. There is nothing quite like the smell of roasting capacitors covered in years of nicotine, ash, and who knows what else from years of abuse
 
Here it is in all its glory today:

 
But like the old axe in the shed, it'll live on different handles, different heads, but still the same axe
 
regards
Jordan
 
P.S: I have plans for a new one, likely to be built late this year once Kraby Lake is out
 
 

What model is your 290x?
*edit= ah i saw that its a tri-x OC as well (same as me)
What are your OCs and how are your load temps?
Mine are 1075/1400 hovering around ~78c load temps (33c ambient)

16.7.3 been pretty solid for me on my 290x and oc works fine, I usually turn off oc before driver update and then reapply those in sapphire trixx. Din't really notice any performance increase as 1-2 fps difference is hardly an improvement and can easily be affected by what I have in background. I had one single soft driver crash that recovered when launching Ark but this can easily be Ark issue, as its still far from perfect or optimized and didn't have any driver crashes after that one.

You really going to need a christmas miracle lel

I wonder if there a review that tested this card with undevolting, as reference 480 performed more consistent and touch better when undervolted and power consumption, heat was in check, sure this card should not have such issues but it would nice if you can undervolt this card and keep same clocks. 
 
All this Nitro stuff is great but gimme Vapor X Tri-X version of that

YASSS, was just about to post some pics of it, even inside it's super purty

 and backplate

 

YASSS, was just about to post some pics of it, even inside it's super purty

 and backplate

 

oh yes

That actually looks quite tasteful.

Watercooling on a laptop, Why not

Using dual pumps in series can do wonders for a loop and mixing different pumps is not an issue as long as you stay withing flow\head pressure range of either pump but I would not use S36 in combination with something like D5. Looking at specs on fractal site, head pressure and flow rate is not that great, so most likely what will happen is that you will reach the limit of s36 capabilities.  If this happens, you would need to artificially drop your flow rate to stay withing s36 range, if you exceed s36 max head pressure pump will just stop and D5 will be doing all the work but this kind of operation might damage components inside s36 pump.
 
You just better off selling s36 and building custom loop or maybe build 2nd loop for your gpu\vrms etc. and add external rad to s36 to make it pretty and bleed easier. Also, you can try adding components to your loop using only s36 and when flow rate is not enough to keep your components cool\push though the loop just add d5 and turn s36 off. Personally, I would just use s36 as is until you have enough to make your own full custom loop that will replace s36 and sell s36 once you get that loop figured out and working not before

Looking at the doc makes me sad not seeing enough team red on 1440p page. My system is nothing fancy but it should be enough to end up there
 
1440p:
i5 4570
Sapphire Tri-X OC 290X 4GB
Avg 45.7
Score 1913
 

If you have those cuda specific benchmarks results, I would like to see those, where it's a fact that 1060's less cuda cores and reduced memory bandwidth with slightly lower fp32 performance compared to 970 is better. Newer architecture does not always means it's better, as butt old gtx 780 to this day is better for rendering then something like 980 because of higher memory bandwidth, better fp64 performance and higher cuda core count. Here is something more relevant to this thread, an actual real word performance testing in premiere https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/Premiere-Benchmark.htm but I would really like to look at those cuda benchmarks you mentioned

Better in gaming not always means better in video editing and other specific application because floating performance is where it matters most and on that front RX480 is better but I would go with good ol' 390x or 970\980 over 1060 because compared to it's older nvidia brothers it's gimped. Adobe's opencl implementation is improved but not as good as cuda, so you should try looking for 980 on sale or something
 

 

 
Raw OpenCL performance 

 

If you go witk EK pump-res combo, just get the smallest res combo version like and buy separate replacement tube as they're interchangeable. EK only offers 400 and 250 high res tubes tho
 
Alphacool offers 300mm tube that is same OD as EK but I'm not sure if you can fit it on EK top, most likely you would need to buy Alphacools own combo

You don't want to use regular wood screws, L brackets are fine and good for beginners but what you really want to use is eccentric joints, maybe even in combination with dowel. They make for nice, strong and hidden joint, plus you can easy disassemble whole thing and move table somewhere but if you're not sure you can make precise holes then I would stick with something easier like euro screw that only requires special drill bit for it that you can get almost in any wood\hardware store
 
btw, Pro 100 is nice an easy tool to design your own furniture and if you put costs of materials etc. it can generate some nice reports with cost estimate, cutting templates and such but free version is little limited I believe

Pelican case with some foam cut out to size will be the best thing to keep it safe