Build log - First ever custom loop

Agamemnian · January 25, 2022

Budget (including currency): Way too much

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming - this is going to be way more than I need

So I got made redundant which sucks but I decided what better way to make myself feel better than drop a stupid amount of cash.

The first parts arrived over the last couple of days.

Specs will be:

Intel Core i7 12700k

Nvidia RTX 3080

Corsair Vengeance DDR4 Vengeance RGB RT Gunmetal 3600Mhz CAS 16

ASUS TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4 ATX

Sabrent 2TB Rocket NVMe PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive

Corsair RM1000x 1000W Modular 80+ Gold PSU

Lian-Li O11 Dymanic Evo Black

Mix of Corsair QL120s and LL120s

Corsair Commander Pro

Corsair Commander Pro Extension Kit

Custom Loop

Corsair XC8 J2C edition CPU block (super happy i got one of these)

Corsair XD5 pump/res combo

Corsair XG7 GPU block

2 x Corsair XR5 360mm radiators

Various hardline fittings and tubing

Corsair XL5 clear (Thinking I'll start clear and add dye if I think it needs something else)

This is going to be my first ever custom loop so am expecting to make a mess of a few things, but hey, its how we learn right.

Should get most of the rest of it delivered tomorrow and then I can get cracking on getting it all together.

I'm thinking with the case I'm gonna have 3 of the QL120s on the bottom of the case set to intake, one of the rads on the top with the LL120s set to exhaust but I'm not 100% decided on the second rad location yet.

Not sure if I should order the mesh front and put the rad on the font of the case or leave the case stock. At the moment I'm leaning more to having the rad on the vertcal bracket on the back wall in an intake config.

Alder Lake · January 25, 2022

2 minutes ago, Agamemnian said:

Budget (including currency): Way too much

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming - this is going to be way more than I need

So I got made redundant which sucks but I decided what better way to make myself feel better than drop a stupid amount of cash.

The first parts arrived over the last couple of days.

Specs will be:

Intel Core i7 12700k

Nvidia RTX 3080

Corsair Vengeance DDR4 Vengeance RGB RT Gunmetal 3600Mhz CAS 16

ASUS TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4 ATX

Sabrent 2TB Rocket NVMe PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive

Corsair RM1000x 1000W Modular 80+ Gold PSU

Lian-Li O11 Dymanic Evo Black

Mix of Corsair QL120s and LL120s

Corsair Commander Pro

Corsair Commander Pro Extension Kit

Custom Loop

Corsair XC8 J2C edition CPU block (super happy i got one of these)

Corsair XD5 pump/res combo

Corsair XG7 GPU block

2 x Corsair XR5 360mm radiators

Various hardline fittings and tubing

Corsair XL5 clear (Thinking I'll start clear and add dye if I think it needs something else)

This is going to be my first ever custom loop so am expecting to make a mess of a few things, but hey, its how we learn right.

Should get most of the rest of it delivered tomorrow and then I can get cracking on getting it all together.

I'm thinking with the case I'm gonna have 3 of the QL120s on the bottom of the case set to intake, one of the rads on the top with the LL120s set to exhaust but I'm not 100% decided on the second rad location yet.

Not sure if I should order the mesh front and put the rad on the font of the case or leave the case stock. At the moment I'm leaning more to having the rad on the vertcal bracket on the back wall in an intake config.

this forum is for seeking advice with planning out a build, whereas it honestly seems more like you just came here to flaunt cash, you literally said 3 or 4 times how it costs "way too much"

Please post this and your future logs in Build Logs instead of here