Current rig at the moment. Did not want a full size setup, but one of my clients more or less pushed me back to a full size system. He is very very well off , and often jokes about having more money than brains.
Aside from the pump assembly, I got all of these almost new watercooling parts as partial payment and my 295x2 for stupid cheap later on.
Story behind this - friend of a friend got us together to look over a custom built machine from a retailer here. For the almost 10k he sunk into it , it was the most god awful mess I had ever seen. Kinks everwhere, used crappy coolant which turned into a sludge pretty much and gunked up the blocks to hell. He paid me to rip it all out and start the overhaul. I gave him a list of what I recommended for the overhaul and he of course went overboard on everything. I get the system cleaned up and leak tested most of it , but it turned out that one of the O-rings in the 295x2 was shot (initial leak testing didnt indicate this at first). Rather than wait 2 days for new O rings, he says " this is a pain in my ass" (despite me offering to work for very little, I wanted to create a masterpiece). Pays me to tear it out again , waited two days and he went to air cooling and a pair of msi gaming 390xs. (I also tried to talk him out of that, as this 295x2 has taken everything ive thrown at it without issue) but he did not listen.
Got everything back together, he is happy as can be. He pays me more than what I requested for service, and says " what do I do with all this crap" We are talking about 500 bucks in brand new compression fitting, new pump, tubing , ect. Told him he could prob return most of it with a hit on restocking. Takes 50 out of what he paid me and dumped all this gear on me. Initially tried to sell it all for cheap, but no one was interested so I said screw it - ill use it. Front glass from this case is missing because purolator beat the hell out of it and I just havent been bothered to replace it. System is dead silent and I dont think the cpu or the gpus have ever gone over 55c under any form of testing - even tried out some cryptocurrency mining on it and temps never budged.
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