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Here is the photo log of my upgrade to a full custom loop.
 
Part 1



















 
 
Part 2 - I decided to re-do the tube that was in front of the reservoir.






 
 
The whole setup

The desk is a black Galant with chrome legs from Ikea. All the water cooling stuff is EK purchased from a local Micro Center.
Much cooler. Before my 1080 would peak in the low to mid 80s with the default fan profile and my CPU would push up into the low 90s (at 4.4 GHz 1.26v). Now my GPU stays in the 40s and my CPU stays under 70 under full stress testing. Idle is way down too, the GPU idles at 31/32 and the CPU idles in the high 20s. And it does all that with a fan curve that peaks my Noctuas at a cap of 70%.

Here is the photo log of my upgrade to a full custom loop.
 
Part 1



















 
 
Part 2 - I decided to re-do the tube that was in front of the reservoir.






 
 
The whole setup

Here is the photo log of my upgrade to a full custom loop.
 
Part 1



















 
 
Part 2 - I decided to re-do the tube that was in front of the reservoir.






 
 
The whole setup

That's one hell of a badass first build. Good job! How are you liking it so far?

So Pretty! Love the clear tubing and the runs you have. 

I would never buy a Titan for gaming and anytime anyone does they are justifying the legitimacy of a $1200 GPU which further firms up the $700 price mark of an 80 series GPU. Not to even get into the price game they played with rebranding reference as Founders and charging a premium for a worse card motivating AIBs to easily exceed the MSRP. Rant aside, if I had that kind of money to throw into GPUs I'd buy two 1080s and dominate the majority of games I play that support SLI and not exactly rough in the few games I play that don't support it.