Corsair 280X Watercooled Build

[SlowMixit]

System specs

Corsair Crystal Series 280X

AMD Ryzen 3600XT *

Asus Strix B550-I

G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB 4000 CL17 **

nVidia Quadro K2200 ***

1Tb Kingston A2000 NVMe SSD

Seasonic Focus G-650

Watercooling

Barrow AM4 RGB Waterblock

Barrow 14mm Hardtube fittings

Corsair 14mm PMMA tubes

4 x Arctic P12 fans

2 x 240mm EK Coolstream Classic SE rads

EK XRES 140 D5 pump+reservoir

Various extra fittings and adapters

Notes

* upgrade soon as 5800X is released

** run at 3800 CL14

*** upgrade soon as RTX 3080 arrives

 

 

First to testing the components, running the system in some random temporarily case untill it is ready to be transfered to new build.

This 3600XT is able to run at 1.25v 4425Mhz CCX0 and 4000Mhz CCX1, also this cpu is able to run FCLK at 1900 stable making running memory at 3800Mhz CL14-16-16-32 1.5v 1T possible, ram timings are not yet perfectly optimized but this is good enough for me. Temperatures for CPU is below 70'c with AMD Wraith Prism cooler running stress tests.

It is also stable with these settings running 24hours of Prime95, 50000% Karhu RAM Test, 8hours Asus Realbench and several games without any issues or errors.

 

 

Now to the build.

Very first thing i did is move that top fan to front and drill 4 holes to mount pump+res to the case, found screws from my box of thousand things, i did not find any screws with bigger head so these are just maybe 0.5mm larger than the drilled hole, i wanted to have some wiggle room to move the pump+res few millimeters around. Some of you might already see second modification i did for the case to improve airflow exiting from the case as this case is known to have top glass panel too close to top of case that reduces airflow outside of the case.

 

Next im going to do the tubing runs or at least most of them. I did one of the tubes going from bottom rad to input of pump+res, i'm not shure if im happy with it.

 

 

I will continue updating this thread untill the build is finished, i need buy maybe 4 x 90 degree fittings for what ever waterblock i will eventually get for RTX 3080 once shop i purchased one from will send it, i know there is limited stock so it could very well be 1 to 2 months before i get RTX 3080 for this build. I might even go for RTX 3070 if i dont get 3080 before 3070 is released.
I'm not quite shure if i will add extra RGB to this build or if i will just stick with Barrow AM4 block's build in RGB and RAM RGB. What i could do is add Phanteks Halos RGB frames for fans.

I also need get better camera, this phone just wont do it. Maybe some cheap DSLR like Canon EOS 500D.