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[Meshify Rebuild] Zero Tolerance (1080 Ti SLI Custom Loop + Zen 2)

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More lighting test after a quick fill and test boot to make sure everything was working. It wasn't really so I'm glad I did so before slotting in the real CPU. Don't mind the red heatsink, its just a temporary wifi card before I plug in my PC to my LAN.

 

I just wanted to note the importance of characterizing each RGB strip you may use and how spending some time matching the colors can improve the look especially if you want a white color without using RGBW strips.

 

For example, this is how my buiild illuminates itself with everything set to "white" (255,255,255) however you can see that the strips for ambient lighting are a bit greeny/bluey (seen most obviously on the VRM heatsink in the back), whereas the GPU strips are casting a very noticeable blue color onto the PSU shroud. On the otherhand the illumination of the motherboard ("Crosshair" text on the i/o shield) look okay.

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So adjusting the GPU strips to (255, 197, 80) and the ambient strips to (255, 197, 160) while leaving the motherboard LEDS (255,255,255). I feel I was able to achieve a much more aesthetically pleasing balanced white illumination around the chassis.

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I can now gladly say to @jonnyGURU that I have successfully made custom sleeved cables from scratch and haven't blown anything up. Thanks again for moving me towards the right direction of actually probing the pins that made me not wire something I thought was dead, but wasn't. Fairly pleased with the end result in terms of the presentability of the backside, the only thing derpy is really the SATA power which I would have preferred a more daisy chain like appearance, but I was struggling way too much with that one so is what it is now.

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After some initial test boots I had intended on just leaving it in the distilled water, but since it may be weeks before I get my hands on even the shadow of a 3950X I decided to add some EK-CryoFuel concentrate to minimize complication later. To give the system a run, I did the following quick tests:

 

- Enable XMP on my 2800 MHz CL14 RAM (4x 16 GB) and then bumped the frequency to 2933 MHz (or whatever the one above was)

- Set Multiplier of my Ryzen 1700 to 40x, auto voltage (honestly, just too lazy)

- GPU core +84 MHz, Memory Clock +147 MHz

 

After a short RealBench run, my CPU was averaging about 75 degrees or so, occasionally hitting mid 80's. I imagine the auto voltage of  1.38~1.40 V wasn't helping, but whatever, for what it is, not bad imo.

 

The GPUs were holing at about 50 degrees. The fluid temperature was about 45 degrees at a fan speed of ~800 rpm.

 

A rather long Heaven Loop was run afterwards which had the CPU at 65 degrees, GPU at 55 degrees, and water at 47 degrees. Fan rpm stabllized at about  850 rpm.

 

The VRM temps were also respectable at 62 degrees during RealBench and 47 degrees during Heaven. So all in all I think my system should be capable of handling the 3950X hopefully without any complications.

 

 

 

After a long Heaven loop

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After 15 mins of RealBench

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I guess I'll mention it now. since the PC is much quieter now thanks to the watercooling, the coil whine on the GPUs are much more noticeable (I suppose they are also boosting higher than before since it is colder). There is a distinct "sizzling" sound when I load both GPUs up heavily. But to be fair my ears are about 30 cm away from the culprit at the moment so moving it slightly further away and having any form of music/noise makes it non-perceptible

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Looking good, like always.

Ex-EX build: Liquidfy C+... R.I.P.

Ex-build:

Meshify C – sold

Ryzen 5 1600x @4.0 GHz/1.4V – sold

Gigabyte X370 Aorus Gaming K7 – sold

Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8 GB @3200 Mhz – sold

Alpenfoehn Brocken 3 Black Edition – it's somewhere

Sapphire Vega 56 Pulse – ded

Intel SSD 660p 1TB – sold

be Quiet! Straight Power 11 750w – sold

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8 hours ago, For Science! said:

I guess I'll mention it now. since the PC is much quieter now thanks to the watercooling, the coil whine on the GPUs are much more noticeable (I suppose they are also boosting higher than before since it is colder). There is a distinct "sizzling" sound when I load both GPUs up heavily. But to be fair my ears are about 30 cm away from the culprit at the moment so moving it slightly further away and having any form of music/noise makes it non-perceptible

Coil whine is one of the few reasons a Define C would be preferred over the Meshify Front panel. I'd imagine given your low RPM's that it wouldn't impact temps heavily but might reduce that coil whine a fair bit (if you're up for even more experimenting, FOR SCIENCE!)

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40 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Coil whine is one of the few reasons a Define C would be preferred over the Meshify Front panel. I'd imagine given your low RPM's that it wouldn't impact temps heavily but might reduce that coil whine a fair bit (if you're up for even more experimenting, FOR SCIENCE!)

https://www.fractal-design-shop.de/Define-C-Front-Black

I actually transferred my Define C to the Meshify C a while back, so won't be going back to it :P (I. then subsequently tore the Define C to make a test bench, but even that is now thrown out...) Originally it was just for the tempered glass, but you're most probably right about it dampening the noise a bit.

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So been playing around with the 3950X (installing it was supposed to be easy but I dropped a washer and so it was more complicated than it needed to be....).

 

I've got an all core overclock of 4.3 GHz, using offset +0.325 V in BIOS. It's a bit weird since it doesn't seem to reflect volts in HWinfo but for whatever reason the temps are better than Auto, so I leave it be. During Realbench stress test temps are in the 80-85 ish. Fluid temperature at the moment equilizes at 41 degrees with radiator fans at 1100 rpm.

 

I've installed a "temporary" spot fan in the PC to get strong airflow over the VRM heatsink, this keeps the VRM temperature at 58-60 degrees during Realbench. Without the spot fan, the VRM heatsink gets to around 80 degrees ish, not catastrophic (for VRMs), but hotter than I would like. So this fan may be here to stay. Thankfull as a Noiseblocker fan, it is not very noisy.

 

At 4.3 GHz, Cinebench R20 scores are just below 10k (9920~9980 ish) however this is with Stock RAM. However enabling a RAM overclock looks like its not going to so straightforward with the X370 board and my quick attempts did not look very stable. I guess this would not be the case with a decent X570 board, but I only have what I have, so we'll see ;)

 

Picture to come....

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Playing around with focal lengths.....The system is stable at 4.3 GHz, but I'm starting to accept I'm not going to get any memory overclock on this board for whatever reason. Mainly set on keeping the spot fan, I guess it will keep the board alive for longer.

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On 11/17/2019 at 4:48 PM, For Science! said:

I can now gladly say to @jonnyGURU that I have successfully made custom sleeved cables from scratch and haven't blown anything up. Thanks again for moving me towards the right direction of actually probing the pins that made me not wire something I thought was dead, but wasn't. Fairly pleased with the end result in terms of the presentability of the backside, the only thing derpy is really the SATA power which I would have preferred a more daisy chain like appearance, but I was struggling way too much with that one so is what it is now.

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After some initial test boots I had intended on just leaving it in the distilled water, but since it may be weeks before I get my hands on even the shadow of a 3950X I decided to add some EK-CryoFuel concentrate to minimize complication later. To give the system a run, I did the following quick tests:

 

- Enable XMP on my 2800 MHz CL14 RAM (4x 16 GB) and then bumped the frequency to 2933 MHz (or whatever the one above was)

- Set Multiplier of my Ryzen 1700 to 40x, auto voltage (honestly, just too lazy)

- GPU core +84 MHz, Memory Clock +147 MHz

 

After a short RealBench run, my CPU was averaging about 75 degrees or so, occasionally hitting mid 80's. I imagine the auto voltage of  1.38~1.40 V wasn't helping, but whatever, for what it is, not bad imo.

 

The GPUs were holing at about 50 degrees. The fluid temperature was about 45 degrees at a fan speed of ~800 rpm.

 

A rather long Heaven Loop was run afterwards which had the CPU at 65 degrees, GPU at 55 degrees, and water at 47 degrees. Fan rpm stabllized at about  850 rpm.

 

The VRM temps were also respectable at 62 degrees during RealBench and 47 degrees during Heaven. So all in all I think my system should be capable of handling the 3950X hopefully without any complications.

 

 

 

After a long Heaven loop

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Awesome build! I've registered on this forum just to compliment you and your PC :) Looking forward to any updates you have.

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On 9/2/2019 at 2:49 PM, For Science! said:

So I have been putting off my yearly maintenance of my Meshify C build for a while now since I moved country this year. There's nothing really wrong with the build functionally per se, but I do think my system does need a bit of tender love and care as well as a few upgrades using parts that I have lying around.

 

Current System Specs:

CPU: 7700K

GPU: 2x 1080 Asus Turbo

PSU: Corsari RM750x

RAM: 4x 16GB Corsair LPX 3200 MHz

 

My intentions are to retire the components in this build for now, and eventually recycle them for a powerful NAS build I have in mind. To replace these, I will be using the components I bought for a testbench that are arguably more powerful but seldom got used since I love my watercooled PC.

 

Things I already have:

New Waterblocks

2x 1080 Ti Asus Strix

X370 Crosshair VI 

4x 16 GB G. Skill Ripjaws V

 

Things I still want to buy

Ryzen 3950X or 3900X

 

I also intend on doing custom sleeving myself to keep it presentable in the back. The intended theme of the rebuild will be clear, silver and black. Hopefully a nice classy timeless build.

 

While my current build is still very functional and beautiful if I were to clean it up a little bit, a lot of my LEDs have started to die, too many for me to bother replacing them, and so I will be "graduating" from a heavily illuminated setup and maybe keep a strip or two illuminated only as accents.

 

My system, no LEDs on.

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Firstly my monoblock LED strip has completely killed its Red and Green LEDs, and so will only be Blue or off (not really a problem since my coolant is blue anyway). But the Phanteks Halos have developed a rather unpleasent yellow tinge on the "white" setting over the last 1.5 years. They used to be a beautiful crisp white, but has now a yellow tinge; may be "cleaned" but I think they are all in all not worth the effort.

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The LED strip in the GPU blocks have also started to die, where one is stuck on red, and another on green (on a white setting). 

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Your build is beautiful! Very tasteful loop config. 👌👌👌

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