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fabafaba

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  1. der8auer used diluted EKWB CryoFuel Solid in his latest build, you can see it pretty well in this video
  2. Most boards won't post without graphics, and the 3600 doesn't have internal graphics. Throw the card in there and see if you get a boot.
  3. I'd go for hard in the front, soft in the back. While PVC-softtubing doesn't hold up as long as acrylic hardtubing and needs to be changed more often, it's easier and cheaper to swap out. It also makes work on other parts of the cooling loop easier.
  4. Well I'll run SLI, so... ? With two GPUs and triple slot spacing there's just barely enough room for a 30mm radiator in the bottom. With two slot spacing and a motherboard that has a pcie slot at the absolute top I could have fit the 60mm in the bottom, but the only X470/X570 board with that slot arrangement is the MSI MEG X570 Godlike and that one was too expensive.
  5. Well, I kinda ran out of space for my second 60mm radiator, so I had to mount it externally under my desk. The sode mount still has space for a 45, but since I don't already have one, i just covered the hole with the printed plates. And a quick update on the OC'ing: Holy friggin' crap! On X99 the fastest I got out of my HyperX Fury (2133 stock, the cheapest 32GB kit at the time) was 2800 at 1.2V and nothing more, not even hat higher volateges. On X470 I pushed that kit to 3200-16-18-18-35 at 1.35. My new TimeSpy score is 11190, an almost 1300 point difference.
  6. Alrighty, today I built the CPU loop as I'm still waiting for the second 1080Ti to arrive. Let's start of with all the hardare and what's new: CPU: Ryzen 9 3900X (new, superceeds an i7 6850K) MoBo: AsRoch X470 Taichi (new superceeds a MSI X99A SLI Plus) RAM: 4x8GB HyperX Fury (old) GPU: 2x GTX 1080Ti (one old, one new) PSU: Corsair RM100x (new, superceeds a Seasonic M12II 850W) Drives: Samsung 970 Evo M.2, Crucial MX300, Kingston A400, 4x2TB SSeagate IronWolf (all old) The watercooling is mostly stuff I already had, except for a second pump-res-combo, a second GPU block and a monoblock for the Taichi. And oh boy do these chips look sexy Time for a quick test, and everything seems to work just fine: After confirming that everything works I started by tidying up my fan wireing and mounted the components in the case. To mount the two reservoirs in the front, I 3d printed a new frontplate that's mounted to the case with the same mounting points as the glass one, as well as some duble sided tape to take out the sag caused by the Heatkillers heavy glass tubes. I also printed some plates to cover up the radiator mount on the side and some brackets to mount up to 8 2.5" drives in the back of the case. The CPU loop uses the top mounted 360x60mm radiator and the front reservoir and is connected by tubes with two bends each and a short straight tube, making for a clean loop. The coolant is just over 1L of EKs CryoFuel Solid in Cloud White. With the CPU and RAM at stock and about 30°C for the water the 3900X reached a maximum of 77°C in a CinebenchR20 run and absolutely smoked my 6850K with 6888 vs 2888 points. Once I've installed the second GPU and did some overclocking I'll post again, see you next time!
  7. So, after months of not a lot happening, things are starting to move again. Yesterday I received some stuff from EKWB and over the next couple days I should get the rest of my hardware. What hardware? I was thinking about going TRX40 when there was nothing but rumors about the 3000 series Threadripper chips, and when they finally arrived and the prices where final, I quickly noped outta' there. Instead I'll replace my long suffering 6850K with a 3900X and my 1080Ti will get a twin for that sweet, sweet CUDA performance. To top things off, I 3D printed a custom replacement for my O11 dynamics front glass panel and will use that to finally stuff two sepeprate water loops in the case, finally putting an end to my journey of trying to fill every last qubic inch with hardware. Keep your eyes peeled, because I will actually try to document my build this time, instead of just taking some before and after pics and calling it a day.
  8. The Heatkiller Tube D5 also has a glass tube, though it is a pretty thick one. There's also a multiport top available for it, or, if you buy it from Watercool directly, you can get it with the top preinstalled at no additional cost.
  9. Yup, that looks weird. I can't tell you what's going on there, but Steam customer support might. I don't know if Steam is keeping logs, but if it does customer support will tell you where you can find the logfile and will ask you to send it to them.
  10. What exactly do you mean by "goes down"? No connection at all or just low speeds or high packet loss? You also have to be careful not to mix up megabytes and megabits, as 250mbit/s is about 30mbyte/s and at least in Steam, you're getting what you're paying for. It's just that Steam is really good at saturating internet connections, leaving other devices or programms starving for bandwidth.
  11. I've been thinking about how to do a dual loop in an O11 with three radiators and tinkered around in CAD. I came up with these loops, please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions on how I could improve it. The GPU loop isn't planned fully yet, but the bottom radiator will be connected to the pump and the side radiator once I get around to modelling the tubes for that. Oh, and here's a revolving view of the whole thing:
  12. So here's the good pictures, little PC for the little brother, bigger PC for me . My favourite thing about the two is how close the cases match in color and the fans are identical, making kind of a theme for systems in our house. And here's a little peak at what's about to become my server. Right now it's just a Define R5 with casters instead of the regular feet, four hard drives and a CPU cooler, but it will get my current CPU and motherboard once I upgrade them later this or early next year. It will become a NAS, a Jupyter Notebook host and maybe a game and TeamSpeak or Mattermost server.
  13. My brother and I built his PC like three months ago, here's the specs: Gigabyte Aorus B450I AMD Ryzen 5 2600X EVGA RTX 2070 Gaming Black 16GB G-Skill TridentZ RGB 1TB Intel 660p NVMe SSD Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo Black Edition Corsair ML120 and 140 Fans Seasonic M12II Evo 520W PSU Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX TG Because the 2600X really doesn't need all that much cooling and the 212 was more than sufficient,custom water cooling was really unnecessary. But I already had all of the parts lying around and building a loop is always fun, we decided to take his PC to the next level. Here it is in its air cooled before state. While being a pretty clean build, the RAM makes it impossible to mount the CPU fan to the front of the cooler, which in turn makes it really hard to put in an exhaust fan resulting in an suboptimal airflow. After replacing the aircooler with a water block, things are looking much better. Unfortunately the reservoir didn't quite fit in between the GPU and the front intake fans, so we had to mout it horizontally to a fan bracket. After that, it was just a matter of cutting the tubes to length, testing and filling the loop, and making the cable management even neater. Temperatures didn't improve, but that's because we could now turn down the fans to the absolute minimum, making the system inaudible from more than a foot away for everything that's not loading up the GPU. GPU clock speeds also improved because there's just more airflow now and the GPU can boost higher before reaching 75-80°C. And please excuse the horrible image quality, all pictures were taken with my phone and usually with either bad lighting in my room or the sun coming in from the front. The next post will have some nice shots of both PCs.
  14. Let's get to replacing the DDC pump with a D5 in my rig. Quick spoiler in the beginning: my flowrate is even worse than what it was before, I guess dual loops exist for a reason. And that will be the next big thing to do next year. On the plus side, the D5 is quieter at 4500rpm than the DDC was at 3000, and the reservoir looks a whole lot better. So let's start by draining the loop, trying to remember in which order I mounted everything around the pump so as to not wreck the seals in the fittings while removing it again. And.... success, the pump is out without any problems. Also, the Watercool Heatkiller Tube has to be the pinnacle of German engineering and machining, this thing wheighs a ton, is built like a tank, all tolerances are neither tot loose nor too tight and everything fits perfectly. The surface finish is a dream, the threads are cut just right, I could go on and on about it. Just look at it! The pump in there is an Alphacool VPP755 Rev. 3. After doing some testfitting and planning the tubeing runs, I realized that what I had in mind would be a giant paint in the ass to bend, especially with the 24, 8 and 6 pin cables being quite close to the res. Putting the tubes in would also be nearly impossible, so I decided to keep it close to my original layout. The stack of fittings the between the pump and the lower radiator didn't quite fit and tended to leak when it was off by just a fraction of a millimeter and was replaced by a simple offset bend tube. Some more preassure testing, in the mean time I made a quick Molex Cable for the pump, having ATX-connectors and crimps is always great if you need a specific cable. After a final preassure test while I was at university, I started filling the loop and was basically done. Because I have reached the 20MB max and I still have to cover water cooling my brothers PC, this post ends here.
  15. The most enjoyable videos are the ones that don't (seem to) follow a script, like x somethings one CPU, the stuff that went into the server room, the construction videos about Linus' carcharger or the wireing of the LAN center, etc.
  16. Quick update: I'm either too stupid to read measurements of calipers or do simple maths, or some of the dimesnions/CAD models I found online were incorrect because the Heatkiller 150 is just a few mm too tall. So I had to return it and now I'm waiting for the Heatkiller 100. I'm also kind of a cheapass, I simplified the mess of 90° fittings and will replace them with more bends to save some money and to reduce the flow restrictions by making the turns a little smoother.
  17. In your case it won't. If you don't want to replace your mainboard, it makes more sense to go for aircooling with a ton of airflow over the board.
  18. The sheet is about the cooling for the VRMs, not the CPU itself. The VRMs are the parts marked on this picture and they require cooling (airflow) too. If you just swap out your current (presumably) air cooler for an AIO, they can easily end up getting even less airflow, making them run even hotter. If you need a bigger cooler, get one of the fat ones from Noctua or BeQuiet and make sure that you have a fan where it blows air over the VRMs
  19. The VRMs are the voltage regulation modules on the mainboard, the electrical components that step down the 12V the board gets from the power supply to around 1V for the CPU. These VRMs can only handle a certain load before they overheat or outright fail, and a 3800X will get them close to their limits
  20. That totally depends on your current cooler. But you should check out this post, your VRMs might not like 3rd gen Ryzen that much
  21. What mainboard and CPU are you looking at? There's some incompability with the 3xx chipsets.
  22. I think it would be simpler to do what I said first, fans on the outside and rad on the inside, that doesn't require drilling any holes
  23. The block comes with two jetplates, one that's preinstalled for the 1151 socket and one extra that's larger for the 2011 and 2066 sockets.
  24. Then you'll have to mount the fans on the outside and the radiator on the inside with the ports on the bottom. But also take a look at this thread on overclock.net, someone modded their O11 to fit a vertical GPU with a radiator in the bottom.
  25. I used to use one of those metal-bumper-frame-thingys, but after that broke and I could't find any new ones (for the Oneplus 2, came out 4 years ago) I stopped using cases. The OP2 is built like a tank, so it's really not a problem to go caseless. Would't do that with a glass back phone tho
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