Your PC ATM

[Vario]

Its stuff like this that makes me stay on air

Well it isn't necessary to run the colored fluids everyone uses now. If I was doing watercooling I'd use the classic distilled water, corrosion inhibitor and biocide. Less to go wrong. On that train of logic, like you I am staying on air. I just upgraded my aircooler to a Phanteks PHTC14PE and Thermalright TY143 Fans.

 

[Vayra86]

Well it isn't necessary to run the colored fluids everyone uses now. If I was doing watercooling I'd use the classic distilled water, corrosion inhibitor and biocide. Less to go wrong. On that train of logic, like you I am staying on air. I just upgraded my aircooler to a Phanteks PHTC14PE and Thermalright TY143 Fans.
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Loving that ghetto style GPU cooler you got there.

So you went to a dual stack tower, seeing improvements?

 

[Vario]

Well its a Prolimatech MK13 so not really ghetto its a premium heatsink, however it does lack aesthetics.

The improvement is somewhere between 5-10 degrees over my single stack cooler.
Also I just now rotated the fans 90 degrees because it occured to me it would save a cm in height, center the hub a bit better onto the fins and allow me to close my panel without touching the cooler. These fans are 14x15cm, not round.

 

[Arrakis9]

finally finished cleaning everything... took about 8 hours total to get everything back up and running and all of that gunk out of the system, it clogged up my radiator too

i reused my ZMT for the tubing again... i actually like it better than the clear.

 

[HammerON]

I finally decided that I needed to clean and upgrade my crunching PC's as they have been going full strength for about a year and a half.
They were actually not too bad as far as dust and crap. The rads were a little dirty. I was happy to see that both of my loops and water blocks were clean. I have been using Koolance's liquid coolant for many years now and have been real happy with the product.

So my initial quest was to replace the 6900k build (one on the right) with the AMD EPYC build. So I took everything out of both cases and thoroughly cleaned everything and built the AMD EPYC buld in the trusty 'ol Corsair 800D. Yes I do have RAM installed. Two 16GB sticks of Crucial 2400 RDIMM.

I then re-built the Xeon (E5 2683 v3) in the Thermaltake case and added the GTX 980Ti.

However, when I hooked it back up, I could not get it to post. Took it apart and re-placed the PSU as I thought that was the issue and still no go. So I realized that I somehow killed the board and need to try to RMA it. We will see how ASrock is with their RMA process...
So I decided to put the 6900k build in the Thermaltake case and finished that up last night. I also bought a better PSU to manage that build. Went with the EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1. Great looking PSU I must say!!! I will post pictures of that build soon.
Oh I forgot to mention that one of my D5 pumps died on me as well. Luckily I had a spare

 

[Arrakis9]

jayz just posted this... seems relevant, this is basically what happened to me.

 

[phanbuey]

Well it isn't necessary to run the colored fluids everyone uses now. If I was doing watercooling I'd use the classic distilled water, corrosion inhibitor and biocide. Less to go wrong. On that train of logic, like you I am staying on air. I just upgraded my aircooler to a Phanteks PHTC14PE and Thermalright TY143 Fans.
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so wait, the PSU blows hot air into the ventilated front panel, that then get sucked back in to cool the cpu?

 

[Vario]

so wait, the PSU blows hot air into the ventilated front panel, that then get sucked back in to cool the cpu?

It is not ideal. In stock form the rear fan is an intake and the front fan is an exhaust into the front panel. There is no intake hole for the power supply so the power suppy takes case ambient and exhausts into the front panel. In stock form, the front fan generates enough back pressure in the panel that the power supply does not exhaust very well into that same space.

I added a hole for the power supply to intake fresh air. The power supply exhausts into the panel. The front case fan intakes from that panel and sends it to the back. The rear case fan exhausts. It would seem like a problem but the power supply is a platinum rated so it runs cool. I also added a top 140mm intake that in reality provides the majority of the fresh air into the case. So in actuality, the front intake fan now purely serves as an extended power supply exhaust fan. The overall system runs very cool. My CPU does not get over 55*C in AVX2 prime 95 (small fft) load at stock voltage/clock. The graphics card usually stays under 70 in most games. If I open the front bezel up while playing a game and touch the power supply it does not even feel very warm. I moved my harddrive and SSD out of the cage and into the 3.5 and 5.25 bay so the front intake is a straight shot into the CPU heatsink with no obstructions. Overall it works well.

 

[theFOoL]

My computer is coming along 720P Gaming Build

[A Future Project of MINE]

 

[HammerON]

Here is the 6900k build:

 

[Hockster]

Made some configuration changes. Moved the rad from the front to the top, that allowed me to put the cover back on the front of the lower shroud. I had a bundle of cables down there I could see, and it was driving me nuts. As awesome looking as this case is I wish I had gone with something a bit larger. I just have too much gear for a smaller mid-tower. The space behind the mobo tray is extremely limited, I have a hard time getting the back panel closed properly. This case would be amazing for a single GPU/1 drive setup.

 

[fredz77]

 

[ensabrenoir]

..... not 100% done but heres my Ryzen 1600x build in My "NIM NI" case.... (sorry crappy pictures):

lots of cable management to do and a new gpu...or change the blue windforce logo white somehow.....looks in credible in the dark though......

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I dont have the right mounting kit for my Corsair H105 so i did as much as i could....

Few things have changed as they did not go to plan. Originally, I had intended a BitFenix Spectre Pro 'all white' fan to go at the bottom but when it arrived it turned out not to be PWM and i wanted a full pwm fan setup. I have replaced it with a 120mm Fractal Venturi HP-12.

Rear 140mm was originally a Noiseblocker PK3 -- now its a grey Noctua P14s Redux. The two red sata cables will be replaced with black ones.


I somehow wish the ram heatsink was white, but Its black with white LEDs. When its completely finished it will look very industrial. I picked up the Noctua redux fan to complement the VRM heatsinks. Theres also a little Fractal R3 fan to keep the VRMs cool. I probably dont need it but I neeed an extra bit of white inside the case along side the white LEDs.

I'll be loading in a 4 or 6TB hard drive in the vacant slot in the hard drive cage.


for now its a pretty expensive desk ornament that just sits there glaring at me

 

[Space Lynx]

Hey guys, my new PC is finished. I won the silicon lottery. MSI The Duke 1080 Ti hits 2050 core stable , 12,224 vram, 66 celsius max temp (very strong fan curve plus and extra fan blowing on it), and my 8600k hits 5.2 ghz temps are good as well. I did not want to risk liquid metal, so I used Kryonaut on IHS, top of IHS, top of CPU, top of Noctua cooler, and on GPU and top of GPU cooler. @newtekie1 thanks for the delid tool help mate. @R-T-B thanks for everything last week or so, cheers mate.

 

[ChaosCountyCustomPC]

BlueBird currently. An ES Xeon E5 1680 v3, X99 Deluxe II and an R9 290X. Being an ES Xeon, it is overclockable....and I am....

 

[sam_86314]

I'm not that great at cable management.
Yes, I'm the only person in the world who still uses an optical drive.
I was able to get a 4.5GHz OC on that cooler (before I switched to this case). Max temp was somewhere around 75C.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well good news. Looks like DHL did me a solid and done a saturday delivery. However right now Im too achy tired and lethargic to be arsed to do anything as i was out cycling with a group for over 40miles over night.

 

[cole2109]

My last build.

• Intel i5 8600K@5100MHz
• Asus Strix Z370-F
• HyperX Fury 2x8GB 2666@3200Mhz
• Asus 1080TI Strix@ 2038MHz, 12600MHz
• Asus Xonar HDAV 1.3 Deluxe PCIe
• HyperX 240GB SSD
• Toshiba P300 3TB
• Fractal Design R6
• Phanteks 500mm Black Universal Extension Cable Kit
• EK-Supremacy EVO BLUE Edition
• EK-CoolStream XE 360
• EK-ACF Fitting 12/16mm - Nickel
• EK-Vardar EVO 120ER Black (2200rpm)
• EK-XRES 100 DDC MX 3.2 PWM

 

[FreedomEclipse]

My last build.

• Intel i5 8600K@5100MHz
• Asus Strix Z370-F
• HyperX Fury 2x8GB 2666@3200Mhz
• Asus 1080TI Strix@ 2038MHz, 12600MHz
• Asus Xonar HDAV 1.3 Deluxe PCIe
• HyperX 240GB SSD
• Toshiba P300 3TB
• Fractal Design R6
• Phanteks 500mm Black Universal Extension Cable Kit
• EK-Supremacy EVO BLUE Edition
• EK-CoolStream XE 360
• EK-ACF Fitting 12/16mm - Nickel
• EK-Vardar EVO 120ER Black (2200rpm)
• EK-XRES 100 DDC MX 3.2 PWM

I got the same board and CPU as you. what are your settings?

 

[cole2109]

I got the same board and CPU as you. what are your settings?

5100MHz
Vcore: 1.34V
LLC: 6
Dram: 1.2V
AVX: 0
Asus multi core: disabled
CPU SVID: disabled
...

 

[Space Lynx]

5100MHz
Vcore: 1.34V
LLC: 6
Dram: 1.2V
AVX: 0
Asus multi core: disabled
CPU SVID: disabled
...

I regret rolling MSI now, although you could have just won the silicon lottery. I am at 1.360v LLC Mode 5 on MSI BIOS... is Mode 5 same as your LLC: 5? So maybe I should try LLC 6 and 1.34v for my 5ghz... hmm....

 

[cole2109]

I can run 5200MHz on 1.41v but temp. is too high.
Maybe i will delid CPU some day.

 

[Space Lynx]

very nice, you got a golden chip indeed

 

[FreedomEclipse]

5100MHz
Vcore: 1.34V
LLC: 6
Dram: 1.2V
AVX: 0
Asus multi core: disabled
CPU SVID: disabled
...

I see you still have to crank LLC upto 6 to stop vdroop

5100MHz
Vcore: 1.34V
LLC: 6
Dram: 1.2V
AVX: 0
Asus multi core: disabled
CPU SVID: disabled
...

i got a dumb question. Is there an Asus app where you can tune or set fan profiles from within windows? I know one exists on the higher end Asus ROG boards