Cooling planning

Prefelix · October 15, 2022

Hello!

I am planning to custom cool (hard tube) my pc and am now researching a bit for for that purpose. Currently I have Noctua DH15 cooling my i7 12700KF and can say that the temps never go above 80 and as for the GPU I have an RTX 3090 OC version from Asus TuF.

Now all this is build inside the Fractal Design Meshify C.

If I go with water cooling would a combination of 240 and 360 rads manage to cool the GPU and CPU. (I am thinking to get the extra thin radiators from XSPC that measure only 20.5 mm.)

GameRetro · October 15, 2022

But... why?

Prefelix · October 15, 2022

4 minutes ago, GameRetro said:

But... why?

Well...when the fans kick in to regulate the temps the build gets pretty loud and the GPU memory temps are always in the range of 100-102 C°.

Somerandomtechyboi · October 16, 2022

26 minutes ago, Prefelix said:

GPU memory temps are always in the range of 100-102 C°.

I wonder if the vram is even attatched to the heatsink or the gpu backplate with thermal pads or not, thatd likely solve the vram heating problem

And if you just want cooling then dont bother with hardtube, waste of time, money, and extreme PITA to upgrade all for some useless aesthetics but if suffering is your thing then ok i guess? Though you can get a shop to have your tubing sorted for you but since custom loop is niche dont expect it to be cheap

Went through alot of suffering to get my damn loop built (mostly annoying adhesion issues, superglue solved that) but hey destroying 360mm aios for only 20$ dont sound too bad. Not for everyone though cause ghetto loop is also just straight up pain depending on what you get for it, i cheaped out

Spoiler

Currently just needs a bigger res likely a bucket would do and a block but ill need a delidded wolfdale to actually use this thing since the original aim was getting a measly 1.5v vcore to stop overheating the crap out of my e8400 so i can push higher clocks cause a pathetic 4.4ghz aint gonna do for me. Now the aim is just to cool an x5260 once i get the thing at 5ghz though i wonder if the pump will provide enough flow over the cpu die to adequately cool the cpu at the likely 1.6-1.7v thatd require. ill figure that out eventually, and yes this is direct water over the die, water runs straight over the die

Maybe this thing would find more use on x58