Here's my dual 240 radiator T1 build. It was a very rewarding experience, although with not a lot of performance gain. We will get to that later in this build log. (Yeah the psu was backward I flipped it later)
Here's everything that's about to be crammed into the poor T1.
We start the whole build with the EK DDC pump. Big shoutout to PPCS' cable sleeving service.
immediately busted a vein trying to take apart the pump.
Had to bust out the big gun just to put on a heatsink :\
This is the Nouvolo Aquanaut block. This is a great solution if you want a low-profile CPU waterblock with DDC compatibility.
The lower section is made from machined acrylic. I had to clean away some tiny acrylic bits and pieces before installing.
Annnnd here's the Aquanaut fully assembled! Looks quite clean.
Bit of a rant here. Although the Aquanaut was quite a good concept, it was simply executed poorly. My order shipped with the wrong mounting screws and the thermals on this is not exactly up to par.
First-time test fitting with mobo and psu.
Ordered silicon cables from DreamBigByRay on Etsy. These are very flexible and surprisingly cheap.
EK block on. I'm lovin it so far.
Had to get creative with the fittings to route tubes between mobo and psu.
Since Nouvolo shipped me the wrong screws, I had to make do with some random HomeDepot screws.
Short break, here's a bottle of Intel hot sauce.
The two radiators I used: EK Classic 240 with a12x15 and P12, and Hanjiang 17mm 240 with two 12012.
Radiator test fit!
Here's the clearance between the side radiator and gpu.
Unfortunately, the Phanteks neon strips were a bit too thick to fit in this build.
The Alphacool TPV tube is just skinny enough to fit in this little hole toward the bottom of the case.
And connected.
I used a 4-way EK fitting to add a fill port and a temperature sensor.
Time to start filling her up! I'm using EK's clear premix.
Filling was a nightmare since this is a very small case with a rather poor tube pathing.
Had to get creative with what I have around the house.
So what's interesting is that if you are using a PCIe gen 3 riser with gen 4 mobo and gpu, the motherboard will automatically go with gen 4. Which won't play well with the gen 3 riser. Busted out the 550TI to manually lock PCIe to gen 3.
This is it. I have achieved compute supremacy. 0MHz and already in bios.
Obviously, that was a joke. Had to bust out old reliable 550ti to flash bios again :(
And she is all put together!
Dual Rad T1
Color(s): Black Purple
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Sci-Fi
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: SFF
Type: General Build
Hardware
CPU
$ 286.13
Motherboard
Memory
$ 196.59
Storage
$ 125.98
Case Fan
$ 16.95
Case Fan
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