Project Imperium

[MorganO]

Main specs

Ryzen 7 2700x

32GB DDR4-3000

ASUS CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WIFI

GTX 1080TI

A teaser pic

Will post more pictures as it progresses over the entire few days

Above: the new board and cpu

Below: draining the old loop in preparation of the tear down.

 

Currently posting from mobile so not final formation of the posts

[MorganO]

What's done so far 03/05/2018(DD/MM/YYYY)

-Old loop full drained 

-mostly stripped of parts

-monoblock removed 

-Test placement of Rad + New pump

-installed m.2 drive on the new motherboard.

To Do 

-strip GPU and redo thermal paste and clean the block from fingerprints

-clean the backplate

-install monoblock on new mobo 

-start the process of installing parts

-fit cables etc and basic cable management

-plan loop and begin running the tubing

-fill and test

-reinstall windows etc and software

-install programs and begin thermal and performance testing

 

[MorganO]

Pics of the build progress

the gpu is a little messy but meh

it took me a quite a few hours to do this.

[MorganO]

I did an oopsie and forgot to plug the gpu :/, at this point I took a hour break and left the psu to dry, then began filling it again

[MorganO]

The final images 

[WkdPaul]

thread moved back

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