Ryzen Upgrade & Rigid Tubing Conversion Complete!

mrmeeseeks84 · January 18, 2020

Mighty fine thanks to several on these forums for tips and tricks to help get through my conversion from soft loop to a rigid loop, as well as some hardware weirdness I was troubleshooting.

I decided it was time for a change, so I retired my old Corsair 900D and Intel i7 5820K for some new hardware, keeping pretty much only my GPU and PSU from my old rig.

Motherboard: ASUS STRIX x570-E Gaming

CPU: Ryzen 3700x

GPU: ASUS RTX 2080 Ti STRIX

RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Neo

SSD: 2x 1TB PCI 4.0 NVME M.2

I had some issues with the installation of the new EKWB Vector Strix back-plate on my card. I discovered through trial, error, and luck that the GPU plate was shorting out the card. I may have missed it in instructions somewhere, but putting plastic washers between the back-plate and the GPU solved the issue, and didn't impact contact with the GPU at all. Phew.

The rigid tubing was actually pretty painless.... just tedious really. I imagine the use of 90 fittings and using the distro plate made things a tad easier. I did get to try one 90 degree bend though where I couldn't fit both fittings on the tube because the distance was so small. Might revisit that one in the future to see if I can get a smaller fitting on there.

Overall I'm pretty pleased and thrilled with the way the rigid tubing came out. Had always wanted to do try it out and I could not be happier.