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[Completed] Serious Black, A Journey (All Black, Custom Water Cooling)

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This is a shot of my cable management, before and after upgrades. Tidy cable management does wonders, but isn't always the easiest to accomplish. 

 

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All Dem Cables...

Case: Lian Li PC011-D - CPU: 3900x - GPU: 2080ti Reference - Mobo: Gigabyte - Ram: Corsair 4x16gb 3200MHz - SSD: 2TB Samsung Evo NVME

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Subbed 

Gryphon :wub:

I <3 my gryphon :)

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must be all white by now :)

nope?  Its still black?  The thermal armor is still black, haven't painted it yet :)

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now that's one hell of an upgrade this build deserves. not going to lie at the start i thought the build was un balanced with the i7 and 270x but now its great, only issue is that sock cooler :c  

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CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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nope?  Its still black?  The thermal armor is still black, haven't painted it yet :)

dont get the reference? okay then never u mind.

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dont get the reference? okay then never u mind.

yeah, I'm sorry.   :(

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now that's one hell of an upgrade this build deserves. not going to lie at the start i thought the build was un balanced with the i7 and 270x but now its great, only issue is that sock cooler :c  

 

Honestly this build got me excited about gaming again so I felt the 290x was worth it. Especially since they were going for super cheap on eBay.

 

I've also got some custom water cooling plans coming up. I just have to coax myself into spending the extra money.

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Don't the reference r9 290xs, get hot and loud as all hell? Or do you plan to do something with it later?

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Don't the reference r9 290xs, get hot and loud as all hell? Or do you plan to do something with it later?

 

I have dual 7970s in my 350D on air, they run pretty hot but rarely over 70C.

 

A single card I had no issues. The Dual cards I had to flip my PSU upside down to exhaust the hot air from the bottom card and put some nicer fans in the front to give them more air.

 

A single 290x shouldn't put out anywhere as much heat so you should be fine.

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Don't the reference r9 290xs, get hot and loud as all hell? Or do you plan to do something with it later?

 

I haven't seen them over 70C and that was while running a terribly optimized game. Idle is around 35C and while gaming it sits around 55C.

 

I keep my fans at max RPM most of the time so sound isn't an issue for me.

 

That said, I did purchase it with the intentions of water cooling it, but with good case fans it's not necessary. 

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Got some new parts in. I love EK and all of these parts are beautiful, but I don't know how I feel about the 'striped' badge.. That was definitely not in the product images on FrozenCPU.

 

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Does anybody know what's up with the gaudy striped badges?

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Awesome, Cant wait!

CPU: Intel Core i5 4460 | GPU: XFX r9 280x DD BLACK OC EDITION | RAM: 8gb Kingston HyperX Fury 1600Mhz | Mobo: Gigabyte h97n-WIFI | PSU: EVGA 600B | Case: Cooler Master Elite 120 | Cooler: Stock intel | SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120gb | Storage: WD 150 gb

CPU: Intel Core i7 4710MQ | GPU: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 850M | RAM: 8gb Corsair 1600Mhz | Mobo: Metabox WA50SJ Motherboard | Case: Metabox WA50SJ case | Cooler: Stock | SSD: Sandisk 256gb

:wub:  :wub:  :wub: 

Best purchase this year, bcuz forza

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The badges look like they just have a plastic cover on them. Otherwise this is a sweet build!

 

It's just a protective covering. Peels off really easy. 

 

Great, thanks! The stripes make the badge look terrible. I'm glad that it's just a protective film.

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Well to say the least, watercooling this beast has required quite a bit of resourcefulness and ingenuity. I ended up needing more angled fittings that hopefully will arrive in the next couple of days. I didn't expect to mod the case quite as much as is needed, but I'm incredibly excited to have it all put together. Until then..

 

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Am I the only person to not test my components and just build away? I love the gryphon, it's saber tooth AMD brother is my wallpaper

haha who has the time for testing?

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As I said in my last update, water cooling this case with the hardware that I selected has been nothing but complicated. However I'm happy to say that it's coming to fruition.

 

Here's a cell phone shot of the leak test. Hopefully in the next couple of days I will have some glamour shots up, as well as the final conclusion. 

 

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