Posted December 30, 2018 Hey guys! I decided to build myself a new compact and nice looking PC for the comming years (hopefully ). The system will be based around the Lian Li PC-O5SX case that I've already used once for another water cooling build. So I do have some experience with it. It's a very complicated case for water cooling and requires a decent amout of prep work (rotation fittings etc are needed.). Anyway... I just wanted to show you some fotos of my progress. The PSU sleeving was made by myself. I usually order the sleeves of AliExpress. They are cheap and good looking :) For water cooling I'm using mostly brands like Barrow and Bykski. Why? Because I've had nothing but great experiences with them this far. Bykski is kind of the only manufacturer with a nice looking VEGA 56 Nano water cooler. It will be a hard tube build with 14mm thick tubes. The radiator will be a EKWB 240mm SE and the pump is a Laing D5. Oh yeah... The PSU . The stock fan just had to go! It was such a stupid and loud sleeve bearing fan that I just couldn't leave it on there. So I replaced it with a much quieter BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 High Speed PWM fan, that will be controlled by my motherboard. Mainboard: ASUS B450I Strix Gaming CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (-50mV undervolt) Ram: HyperX Predator RGB 3600Mhz at CL17 (Samsung B-Die), are tweaked to 3200Mhz CL14 with advanced subtimings though. Storage: Samsung 970 EVO 500GB GPU: Sapphire RX Vega 56 Pulse (I will undervolt it by quite a bit) PSU: Sharkoon SilentStorm SFX 500W (basically the same as the Silverstone one) Case: LianLi PC-O5SX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 30, 2018 Author Some more pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 30, 2018 oooooh.... pc nudes. I'm unavailable for a while /jk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 30, 2018 Author 1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said: oooooh.... pc nudes. I'm unavailable for a while /jk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 4, 2019 Author I'm getting towards the finishing line with this PC, thankfully I literally spent multiple hours trying to figure out how I could do the tubing around the reservoir and pump... DONE!!! ; Is it perfect? NO!; Am I happy? YEP! I already know what I'm gonna change once I have to change out the fluid: Reinstall the RGB kit on my waterblock. I removed it but now I think I would have looked nice.. Well I can't use this build yet, as I couldn't fill the reservoir up completly. The D5 pump was so strong that it produced foam inside of the loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 4, 2019 Clean build Mate! Love how you tried to cram as much in to a small case as possible, props to you!! Thats half the fun aye! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 4, 2019 Nicely done! I love the PC-O/5/6/7 cases! Got the O6X myself, also watercooled so I know how difficult it can be Again nice job. "To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution" (Marcus Aurelius) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 5, 2019 Love this build, it's one of those builds that inspires the imagination! You got a lot in there, yet to me it doesn't look cramped at all. It looks like everything is exactly where it ought to be. Your custom cables look ace and your attention to detail, such as cable management, pleases me greatly. Well done! My 9900K build: Carbon Claw v1.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 20, 2019 Author On 1/5/2019 at 1:06 AM, LaserLion said: Love this build, it's one of those builds that inspires the imagination! You got a lot in there, yet to me it doesn't look cramped at all. It looks like everything is exactly where it ought to be. Your custom cables look ace and your attention to detail, such as cable management, pleases me greatly. Well done! thanks a lot! I usually get totally crazy when building such PCs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 20, 2019 Author I actually finished the build a few days ago. The system runs fine and cool enough. Cooling was my main concerne. But I was able to undervolt my 2600 via an offset of -50mV and I could get my Vega 56 (more or less) stable at around 1000mV core voltage. Vega however is a very temperamental architecture. The system sometimes just freezes with a black screen which is indicating a power issue on the GPU - so my undervolt isn't quite stable yet.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 20, 2019 Author And not only that. Somehow my Asus Aura Sync software is conflicting with the "anti cheat" software of many games.. So I can choose between synced light or gaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8, 2019 Author Clear Fluid and the RGB lighting on the CPU block just make this build more "pop" What do you guys think, which one do you prefer more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Posted February 9, 2019 Great build! both looking really good, purple fluid look more premium imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 9, 2019 22 hours ago, Cocco93 said: Soooooo pretty!! MSI B450 Pro Gaming Pro Carbon AC | AMD Ryzen 2700x | NZXT Kraken X52 | MSI GeForce RTX2070 Armour | Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4*8) 3200MhZ | Samsung 970 evo M.2nvme 500GB Boot / Samsung 860 evo 500GB SSD | Corsair RM550X (2018) | Fractal Design Meshify C white | Logitech G pro Wireless | Gigabyte Aurus AD27QD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 9, 2019 On 1/20/2019 at 2:43 AM, Cocco93 said: Absolute Beaut of a machine Optical Drive Poll: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1006309-optical-drive-survey/ Main Rig (Pulsar) CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X MOBO: MSI MEG X570 Unify RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB (4x8gb) 3200Mhz 16-16-16-32 GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S Chromax (LTT Edition) Storage: Intel 6000p 128gb boot drive, Intel 665p 1tb (x2), Samsung 850 EVO 1tb, Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Tempered Glass PSU: EVGA SupeNOVA G1+ 750W OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit FreeNAS Server (The Vault) CPU: Xeon E5-2603 v3 MOBO: MSI X99 Tomahawk RAM: G.Skill Aegis (4x8gb) 3000Mhz 16-18-18-38 GPU: EVGA GT 710 Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED Storage: Intel S3520 x2 for boot, x16 in RAIDZ for storage, Seagate Ironwolf 2tb (Striped will be a steam cache) Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro Tempered Glass PSU: Corsair CX750 750W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 Hi I was wandering what are the VRM temps under load with this GPU waterblock? Is the GPU Overclocked Undervolted of flashed to vega 64? CoffeeLake build: CPU: i7 8700K OC 5.0 gHz, Motherboard: Asus Maximus VIII Hero (Z170), RAM: 32gb Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200 mHz, GPU: Asus Strix OC gtx 1080ti, Storage: Samsung 950pro 500gb, samsung 860evo 500gb, 2x2Tb + 6Tb HDD,Case: Lian Li PC O11 dynamic, Cooling: Very custom loop. HTPC CPU: i7 8700K, Motherboard Asus z390i, RAM:32gb g.skill RGB 3200, GPU: EVGA Gtx 1080ti SC Black, Storage: samsung 960evo 500gb, samsung 860evo 1tb (M.2) Case: lian li q37. Cooling: on the way to get watercooled (EKWB, HWlabs, Noctua, Barrow) Office pc CPU: i7 9400F, Motherboard: Z170i pro gaming, RAM: 16gb Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200 mHz, GPU: Sapphire Vega56 pulse with Bykski waterblock, Storage: wd blue 500gb (windows) Samsung 860evo 500Gb (MacOS), PSU Corsair sf600 Case: Motif Monument aluminium replica, Cooling: Custom water cooling loop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 Did you had luck with your Vega, is it molded or unmolded? My Red devil is unmolded so I get stupid hot spots, still it does 1725mhz with the LC bios and 1175mhz hbm without problems. 1150mv on the core. They are great cards if people know how to work with them. And the HBCC seting is just a must. Great build you have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 It runs fine, as good as it can with hynix memory( the core And the hbm does not hit 50c (hot spot is around 15c higher), my problem is vrm temp it is a bit too high for a watercooled card. Up to 90+c, I know it is within the specs but it is still hot. What thermalpads did you use? HBCC setting? what build out of 3? CoffeeLake build: CPU: i7 8700K OC 5.0 gHz, Motherboard: Asus Maximus VIII Hero (Z170), RAM: 32gb Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200 mHz, GPU: Asus Strix OC gtx 1080ti, Storage: Samsung 950pro 500gb, samsung 860evo 500gb, 2x2Tb + 6Tb HDD,Case: Lian Li PC O11 dynamic, Cooling: Very custom loop. HTPC CPU: i7 8700K, Motherboard Asus z390i, RAM:32gb g.skill RGB 3200, GPU: EVGA Gtx 1080ti SC Black, Storage: samsung 960evo 500gb, samsung 860evo 1tb (M.2) Case: lian li q37. Cooling: on the way to get watercooled (EKWB, HWlabs, Noctua, Barrow) Office pc CPU: i7 9400F, Motherboard: Z170i pro gaming, RAM: 16gb Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200 mHz, GPU: Sapphire Vega56 pulse with Bykski waterblock, Storage: wd blue 500gb (windows) Samsung 860evo 500Gb (MacOS), PSU Corsair sf600 Case: Motif Monument aluminium replica, Cooling: Custom water cooling loop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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