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Nothing to do with your cooling loop, but just wanted to mention - love the quilted PSU shroud, very neat.

Fan speed & setup - which you didn't mention - will have a greater impact than pump speed. First guess is background tasks are running that you're not aware of; CPU not truly at idle. Second guess, is poor CPU Block contact, you could try a remount.

very interesting, thanks folks - appreciate your input. Marketing BS indeed, thanks Gigabyte... Not going to be too upset, I didn't buy the motherboard with watercooling in mind, and now I know something for the next mobo... but sheesh

Hi All, I'm getting ready to change some things up in my loop, and curious if anyone has experience with the subject, Gigabyte's Hybrid Fan Pin Headers? https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-AORUS-ELITE-rev-10#kf My motherboard is here, but I can't really find any clear information on what these pins mean. Anybody know if I can plug my 2-pin liquid temp sensor into one of them & base my fan curves off of the liquid temp? Thanks muchly!

iCue won't recognize your mobo's D-RGB headers. Try downloading your motherboard's RGB Software utility.

Yep - shorter GPU, or some custom work is required if you want to mount it sideways like I have while including a front rad. Good luck! make sure to share yours when it's built - I'm curious what you'll come up with.

In the second picture/against the glass you mean? Not right up against it - but close. It's only slightly overhanging the basement, probably 5mm or so from the glass. In the first photo, it's mounted to the back wall - almost but not quite, in contact with the front fans.

Agreed. Hopefully soon, I'll be upgrading my GPU and re-plumbing some things. just food for thought, I've contemplated two other options: Custom 3d printed bracket - thinking similar to the normal hardware, but will position the res closer to the glass, in front of the GPU, eliminating that conflict. Lay the res flat down - with the pump hanging down into the basement. Honestly not sure how this'll look, but an option none the less.

In the second photo, I've got a 360 on top, and a 280 in the front, in the first, only the 360 on top. ONLY potential pinch point in my build, as you can see in the first picture, the reservoir is quite close to the end of my graphics card. IF you're planning to mount it like this, just make sure you do some math on that. GPU Length + Reservoir Width + Rad Thickness.

Yep - plenty of room.

Not entirely sure what you're really asking for, but would think it'd be best practice to allow more than 14 minutes of time between your original post and your "OMG nobody's responding the sky is falling!!" bump.... 1; Afix adjustable height legs to a table top. 2; afix non-adjustable legs of preferable length to a table top.... Maybe you should be more clear regarding your question.

So something to think about, I didn't, but kinda lucked out imo. I have the FLT240, in a phanteks enthoo elite - similar case size I think. The fittings on the FLT res, can be placed on the front, or bottom of the res, if you use the bottom (which IMO looks better), you can add another 20mm or so to the overall length. It actually makes the 240, or 360 quite a bit larger. Had I gone 360; I don't think I could've put fittings on the bottom.

Hi everyone, I should've updated this - my apologies. EK eventually sent my controller back to me, claiming it was working 100% as designed. They could not - despite everything they tried - reproduce the problem. Finally, after weeks in RMA limbo, and no real answers - EK asked me if I had other RGB Software installed on my PC. Evidently, there's a conflict between EK-Connect Software, and "other RGB software". So - for the heck of it, last time I drained my loop, decided to uninstall all the RGB software (ASUS for my GPU, Gigabyte for the MB, and Corsair for peripherals), and reinstall the controller. Low-and-Behold, it works again! I reinstalled corsair's RGB, and still works. I don't really need asus or gig any longer, so didn't reinstall them. BUT!!!!!! That doesn't mean I recommend the software. It's still a hot piece of garbage that I wish I hadn't reinstalled. Next loop drain, it's coming back out. Long rant short, try uninstalling any other RGB software you have & let us know if that helped.

I've got the older version of their connect, and the up to date connect software. Installed a 3rd party liquid temp sensor. It reads liquid temps fine, and shows them in connect, BUT... There's no option in connect software to select the sensor by which the fans operate. Connect sees CPU and GPU temps, and assigns a temp to use against fan speeds, but there's no way to change that assigned temp. It does NOT match my coolant temperature, CPU, OR GPU temp. I'm personally disappointed in the connect software, not that I know of a better alternative. I thought I've seen an EK rep on this forum here, perhaps they can comment for us.

Yep - same experience from my end. I really like their actual cooling equipment, but this connect-51 and software seem like utter garbage. EK's already told me that their engineers are actively working to patch and improve the software but.... meh. If no big changes by the time I have to flush/refil my loop, I'll probably pull the connect out altogether, and rewire everything direct to my mobo.