Thought I would post some WIP pics as i am almost finished with the build

[prof.turnip.seed]

Budget (including currency): £5k including everything

Country: uk

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: VR, general gaming and CAD.

Parts list:

Corsair 280x

Aorus X570i pro gaming

AMD 5900X

32Gb Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 3600MHz

Zotac gaming 3080 Trinity OC

2x Samsung 980 Pro 1TB

Corsair HX1000i PSU

Corsair XD3 pump + reservoir

2x EK CoolStream SE 280

EK Quantum Velocity CPU block Nickel/Black

EK Quantum Vector GPU block and back plate Nickel/Black

2x Corsair QL120 fans

4x Corsair QL140 fans

Corsair Commander Pro

Custom sleeved cables, parts from MDPC-X

 

Have a samsung odyssey G7 32" on the way. was going to go for the 27" but overclockers.co.uk had the 32" on sale  Friday for £0.96 more than the 27". Want the G9 but just dont have the space for it.

Valve index VR setup

Logitec G815

3D connexion CadMouse Pro (had for a few years now, not included in the total price)

3D connexion SpaceMouse Pro (had for a few years now, not included in the total price)

 

Just got a few things left to do:

Need to make a new block for the entry to the GPU block, should be able to get in the machine shop tomorrow after work.

Pipe that goes from the GPU to the bottom radiator needs finishing, will be done after I have made the block.

The pipe work in there now is only temporary to work out lengths and bends, think it looks really good as is in black. Will be going for bright polished copper, was considering mirror polishing it but will show up all the minor imperfections in the bends. Cable colour is there to match the copper pipe.

 

Ordered both the 3080 and the 5900X on their respective release days. 5900X turned up on the 14th November, 3080 turned up the 21st November. could be worse.

 

 

[Enzo1001]

What kind of pipes are those black ones? They look amazig!

[Radium_Angel]

6 minutes ago, prof.turnip.seed said:

2x Corsair QL120 fans

4x Corsair QL140 fans

I'd like to post a comment, but I doubt you'd be able to hear it over the roar of the fans

[Nena Trinity]

Oooh sexy 5th gen Ryzen, honestly I think most would be fine next 5 years with 3rd gen + RDNA2 tough even 5700XT might do the trick for most unless they want that ray-tracing!

[Ankh Tech]

12 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

I'd like to post a comment, but I doubt you'd be able to hear it over the roar of the fans

btw the ql is a real silent fan, fyi

[prof.turnip.seed]

16 minutes ago, Enzo1001 said:

What kind of pipes are those black ones? They look amazig!

It's corsair xt hardline satin black. Gone for 12mm tubing as that is the size of the copper tubing I could get hold of.

[prof.turnip.seed]

2 minutes ago, Ankh Tech said:

btw the ql is a real silent fan, fyi

I know, Have a 3200g knocking about and already had the system powered up, updated the bios for the 5000 series cpus, got some games preinstalled. Hoping that they will rarely need to spin up under normal use.

[prof.turnip.seed]

There 3080 cards have massive coolers. Would need to remove the bottom rad and lower front fan to fit it in with the original cooler on.

[Ankh Tech]

22 minutes ago, prof.turnip.seed said:

There 3080 cards have massive coolers. Would need to remove the bottom rad and lower front fan to fit it in with the original cooler on.

you won;t watercool the gpu, odd, btw I too wanted the corsair xt hardline satin black, how easy is it to work with, my theme will be pure darkness surrounded by rgb puke

[prof.turnip.seed]

Just now, Ankh Tech said:

you won;t watercool the gpu, odd, btw I too wanted the corsair xt hardline satin black, how easy is it to work with, my theme will be pure darkness surrounded by rgb puke

I was planning from day 1 to watercool the GPU, just thought it was a good photo to demonstrate the length of these cards.

 

The 12mm stuff has a very thin wall. Makes it a bit harder to work with than other plastic tubing I have used, ended up with bulges on the inside of bends and indents in the side of the pipe from the bend former. Their 14mm has the same inside diameter with a thicker wall, should be easier to work with. As I said, I ended up going for 12mm as I am planning on swapping out the plastic for copper and could only find 12mm copper tube.

[Ankh Tech]

Just now, prof.turnip.seed said:

I was planning from day 1 to watercool the GPU, just thought it was a good photo to demonstrate the length of these cards.

 

The 12mm stuff has a very thin wall. Makes it a bit harder to work with than other plastic tubing I have used, ended up with bulges on the inside of bends and indents in the side of the pipe from the bend former. Their 14mm has the same inside diameter with a thicker wall, should be easier to work with. As I said, I ended up going for 12mm as I am planning on swapping out the plastic for copper and could only find 12mm copper tube.

but why copper tubing, anyways, I was going to get the 14mm one, cause bigger is better right, anyways, really neat build, hopefully you can fit the radiator in there with the gpu waterblock

[Ankh Tech]

o, btw, why not the corsair water block, ruins the corsair theme, which I love.

[prof.turnip.seed]

1 minute ago, Ankh Tech said:

o, btw, why not the corsair water block, ruins the corsair theme, which I love.

Copper is just because I like to look of it, will mirror polish it but if the little imperfections show up too much and bug me then I will knock it back to a bright polish.

 

Just like the look of the EK ones more. GPU fits easily with the water block on, the PCB is so much shorter than the cooler.

[Ankh Tech]

1 minute ago, prof.turnip.seed said:

Copper is just because I like to look of it, will mirror polish it but if the little imperfections show up too much and bug me then I will knock it back to a bright polish.

 

Just like the look of the EK ones more. GPU fits easily with the water block on, the PCB is so much shorter than the cooler.

yeah, so much for cooling nothing, so you probably might fit it. Well I love corsair so I;d stick to them, plus you can control each individual led on icue, so I stick with them