A Quiet Monolith

[icase81]

It's been a few years since I upgraded my PC, so I recently cleaned out the basement and ebay'd a bunch of old hardware to finance my new build. This is primarily a gaming, but also a 3D modeling in Fusion 360 for CNC and 3D printing.

R9 3900X + Corsair H115i Pro 280mm AIO

Asus B450M-Pro TUF Gaming

16GB (8x2) Adata XPG D41 DDR4-3200 TUF (Coincidence that they're both 'TUF')

MSI Radeon 5700 XT EVOKE OC + Kraken G12 + EVGA CL11 120mm AIO

Toshiba XG5 512GB m.2 NVME (Already had on hand)

2x Samsung 850 EVO 1TB in RAID0 for storage (Also already had on hand)

Corsair RM750 Yellow Label

Generic Sleeved PSU Extensions

All fans are Corsair ML140 Quiet

3D Printed 140 -> 120mm adapter to put 140mm fan on GPU radiator

Fractal Design Define C Mini with stock blue LEDs replaced with white

Dwight K. Schrute front case badge

 

End result is a pretty fast machine that creates 32dBA whether its idle or at max load. Temps stay reasonable and there's no thermal throttling. Its essentially inaudible at any load.

 

Debating whether or not to add a Sound BlasterX AE-5 or not. 

 

[eeeee1]

Good looking! AIO is upside down tho. Have fun gaming.

[icase81]

1 minute ago, eeeee1 said:

Good looking! AIO is upside down tho. Have fun gaming.

Thanks! Yeah, I can't flip the CPU AIO because there's no space in the bottom for the inlets/outlets, and I can't flip the GPU AIO because the tubing isn't long enough to support it. Cooling is more than adequate as is, though, so I'm not worried about it. I haven't heard any air in either system.

[jaslion]

Neat looking. Do keep temps for memory and vrm in eye on that rx 5700 as the g12 doesn't have great memory cooling and a rx5700 gets nice and toasty on those parts.

[icase81]

10 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Neat looking. Do keep temps for memory and vrm in eye on that rx 5700 as the g12 doesn't have great memory cooling and a rx5700 gets nice and toasty on those parts.

Yeah, I stuck some cheapy little heatsinks on the RAM and VRM, and the RAM gets warm, like up to 87-90C, but that's still within spec. The VRMs don't ever go above 58C. That was one of my primary concerns, but it seems to be doing just fine. I did keep the stock backplate on the GPU with the thermal pads there. The top fan in the roof is intake so its blowing down onto the back plate a little bit as well. Mostly, I'm not going for absolute cooling as I am going for adequate cooling and silence. I tried the Arctic Xtreme III heatsink on the GPU before I settled on the G12, and the Arctic wasn't any cooler than the stock one and only a little bit quieter under load, while also being absolutely honking huge and almost touching the radiator in the front. No bueno. Sent it back, got the G12 for $20 used on Amazon, and the EVGA AIO for $60, so all in it was only $15 more than the air cooler, while performing SIGNIFICANTLY better.