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Since having children, my gaming hours have shifted in to the late evenings which has required my office door to be closed, turning it in to a sauna (see my other rig below).  I decided it was worth building a smaller single GPU system in an effort to remain somewhat 'cool'. 


I'd like to hear your thoughts/criticism.  One criticism with my last build was the non sleeved psu cables so I grabbed a kit for this one even though you can't really see any of them. 

 

Specs:

 

Intel 8700k (EKWB Supremacy MX block)

MSI Z370M Pro Gaming

MSI 1080 Ti 'aero' (EKWB FC nickel + acetal block + backplate)

32GB Corsair Dominator 3000 (4x8GB, waiting on the other pair to arrive)

2x Samsung 960 Pro 1TB

EKWB Coolstream 240mm and 120mm radiators

EKWB XRES DDC 3.1 MX pump+res

4x Gentle Typhoon 1450rpm, 1x 1850rpm

Inwin 301 matx case

LEPA G1600 PSU (unnecessary but I have a few laying around)

 

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It is such a dream isn't it? :3

 

Congratz!

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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2 hours ago, ricksteendam1 said:

nice build what is that soft tubing?

Just EK's soft water line.  I haven't really bothered with hard line yet. 

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Just now, Dark said:

Just EK's soft water line.  I haven't really bothered with hard line yet. 

oke thanks, enjoy your system.

ask me about your system builds, AIO's, CPU's, PSU's, and GPU's.

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2 hours ago, BlitzThePcSpecalist said:

Looks great dude! Would be nice to see more Ryzen builds though. :/

I certainly considered Ryzen but I was after ITX or MATX with 2x m.2 bays, I may have missed one for Ryzen if it's out there.

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that looks fantastic! its making me wanna put my 8700k 1080ti rig underwater xD 

"Sulit" (adj.) something that is worth it

i7 8700K 4.8Ghz delidded / Corsair H100i V2 / Asus Strix Z370-F / G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB 3200 / EVGA GTX 1080Ti FTW3 / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q

Samsung 850 EVO 500GB & 250GB - Crucial MX300 M.2 525GB / Fractal Design Define S / Corsair K70 MX Reds / Logitech G502 / Beyerdynamic DT770 250Ohm

SMSL SD793II AMP/DAC - Schiit Magni 3 / PCPP

Old Rig

i5 2500k 4.5Ghz | Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P | Zotac GTX 980 AMP! Extreme | Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB 1866MHz

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Some updated pics.  
The second pair of memory was producing errors in memtest, so I sent it back and picked up some Vengence LED sticks (same capacity, same speed/timing).

 

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Rebuilding the loop!  Waiting on a few more fittings and the delid kit but may start bending the lines early.

 

Now that my main rig is back in action I am going to delid the 8700k and go hardline.

 

 

Main Rig

 

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So much for going hardline.  Wasn't too happy with the Barrow 'frosted' tubing so I went back to EK ZMT.

 

Major changes: 

 

8700k delid + liquid metal

additional 240mm EK SE radiator

EK DDC pump top and heatsink

EK-Res X3 110 

 

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Love the build.

What's in the top of you loop is it a extra 120mm above the pump and res combo?

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There's the power supply compartment and the reservoir at the top of the case.  Unless you're looking at something else?

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