PhantomHawk11

the cm240l. Its a 240 rad which is better than a 120 every day of the week. though if you are lolking to keep a budget I would go for a good aircooler

Honestly I would follow the principal of 3 intake, 3 exhaust. You can experiment if you want, but temp differences will most likely be a couple degrees so it won't really matter to much. Hardware Canucks goes into a pretty in depth analysis if you want to watch his video on it

Just sell the h115i, it probably won't work and you shouldn't try it

The one run that especially is annoying is the one that goes from the res to the bottom rad - the holes dont line up so I would have to do some kind of the bend to compensate

This is what I am planning to do. Any suggestions for improvements?

I'm kind of curious as to why you have 4 120 rads?

Couple things - when I first built my loop, I used EK's configurator to find roughly what I needed then bought from elsewhere. I recommend PPCS if you are in the US. HWlabs make great radiators, specifically their GTS and GTX series, I would go with two 360s. For fittings, Barrow makes affordable, good looking and well made fittings. Heatkiller and EK make great cpu/gpu waterblocks, and get a d5 pump. The rest of the components to really matter to which from company to company to company. I would avoid thermaltake as well

Honestly looking at stats like that isn't extremely helpful since they can be at different sound levels/rpms. If you arent happy with the fans you currently have becuase of performance, buy some Noctua or Be Quiet!. If you want the RGB, buy whatever RGB fan takes your fancy

Get the Cryorig H7 lumi/ Be Quiet! Dark rock 4

You should figure out what case you are building in before you figure out what parts you want. Also I would recommend buying from PPCS, not EK

they are supposed to match the dimensions, I actually have that exact fitting + tubes

People expected a sizable increase in performance, if not from ray tracing (since it is so hard in real time) then from normal rendering. What they got was RTX 2080 performance being similar to 1080ti performance for the same price, and the RTX 2080ti being so expensive that it's not viable for the majority of consumers.

It doesn't really matter if it's hard to render or not, when paying that much for a GPU people expect more than ~50 frames, and no amount of special shadows is going to change that. The fact is it's an exciting new development, but it hasn't been refined enough

I missed that, I don't have much experience with that, but I believe you would be encoding and using the other computer to handle the stream duties so your main computer can just game. Depending on how much the i7 9700k costs, you could go for that, but honestly I would probably get the 8700k, has two less cores, and but is hyperthreaded. Also should be more widely available for more reasonable costs. Asus Strix is pretty much the highest end for almost every component, there's a reason every youtuber uses Strix products for their "Ultimate Gaming Computer." There are tiers so you could go for the Maximus, but that's pretty overkill IMO.I would go with possibly the ASRock Taichi as an alternative though

Do you have these or are you trying to buy it, because that's not a great build to buy right now. They should be compatible, the mobo may need a bios update tho