Watercooling madness 4.0

[Vousaty_Sensei]

I get bored to looking to my setup i was running last 2 years so i made some little changes. Month ago i strike a deal on local market - 3090 for around 500 USD. I dont know how rest of the world but here they are normaly even on used market selling for 800-900 USD so i was in hurry to pick it up. It is refference model from Dell but i know what i want to build so look doesnt matter. So what was done..

 

Welded brackets for holding two 480 rads from aqua computer - they are absolute nightmare to work with because those stupid threaded inserts kept falling off.

 

Welded bracket for D5 pump.

 

Drilled and then installed threaded inserts to hold cable management brackets.

 

Middle brace of the case was little modded to allow use GPU inlet be from the MB side. Also back of the case have 2 holes for tubing out. I also have to offset GPU because that thick ABP block.

 

Custom cables from PSU to under the table to run PWM module, fans and pump.

 

GPU cables was shortened and 6+2 pin connector was swapped to 8 pin.

 

 I am running pump and fans on 30% via pwm module connected to arctic fan controller. I like to set it up manualy and forget it. Anything over 30% is audiable.

 

Specs are 13600k, B660i board, kingston 5600 ram 32Gb, Dell 3090, Corsair sf 750 and Samsung 980 nvme.

 

Cooling specs:

 

CPU - Aqua commputer cuplex cryos next (copper-acetal)

GPU - EK-Quantum Vector² with active backplate, RGB strip removed

Fittings are Alphacool Eisbaer mostly - 13/10 with PUR tubes 12/9. I like those PUR tubes, they are nightmare to work with because they are very hard but on the other side they stay clear very very long time (2 years +)

Fans - In the case are two 140 noctuas set as exhaust just to move radiating heat from the case. On radiators are eight P12 pwm arctics in push mode.

Pump - EK-XTOP Revo D5 PWM with some small Alphacool res on the top of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Boarder Gamez]

How loud is the PC?

[thrasher_565]

ya the aquacomputer rads are crap with thows threads that move... i have 2 of thows rads as they looked nice and had alot of ports and looks like you can take a part to clean...

 

 

[Vousaty_Sensei]

Boarder Gamez you cannot hear it at all. It is written on the top that fans and pump are set to 30% because anything over that is audiable.

 

thrasher_565 yeah you can take them apart and clean but i would have to take them off the table and i dont want to deal with those stupid threaded inserts again so when cleaning time comes...i would clean them just by air to take off the dust.

[actually_god]

desk mounted rads are so hot

[loony979]

This is great. good to find another soft tubing person like my self. They just make life better. You may want to put a fan next to the pump if you can to try to keep it cool. Don't have to but i would as they get hot, the heatsink on them. But what ever man that's a clean build. Bit of air in the loop i saw tho that will make it's way out eventually.

[Vousaty_Sensei]

Never had a problem with D5 overheat but thanks for advice. I cannot agree more with soft tubing. Like i had hardtubes in the past and they look good but man....lot of work for basicaly nothing but look. Not worth anymore for myself, expensive without benefits.

[thrasher_565]

On 9/22/2023 at 1:15 PM, Vousaty_Sensei said:

Never had a problem with D5 overheat but thanks for advice. I cannot agree more with soft tubing. Like i had hardtubes in the past and they look good but man....lot of work for basicaly nothing but look. Not worth anymore for myself, expensive without benefits.

some one say soft tubeing...

 

ya we over kill but you never no...

 

you remember when soft tubing was made in to hard tubing internet dosent. i was almost gone form the net but i got a slice...

 

ya d5 should be fine i no the ddc can get hot and "offer" a heatsink for it...