So this is my very first attempt at a watercooled build.

The case is a Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X in Silver with the following components:
ASUS Maximus XI Hero
Intel i7 9700K
EKWB Velocity block with clear acrylic top
32GB Corsair Dominator, with Cablemod black tops
Zotac GTX 1080ti reference card with an EKWB Waterblock and a Nickel Backplate
Samsung 970 evo and a couple of 860 evos

A little bit about the loop:

So this loop is using two EK slim rads, triple 140mm in the front and dual 140 in the top.
The loop starts at a Singularity Computers Pump/Res combo mounted to the front Rad than goes into the GPU first which is in parallel with the CPU than goes into the top Rad than front and finally back into the Res.

There also is a drain hooked up behind the res with a 90° single rotary and a mini valve/passtrough fitting.

For the overall colour scheme I tried to keep it simple with only black, silver and grey coloured parts.
However the fluid kind of ended up a light blue colour, in UV light the effect is even stronger.

Things I do like about my own build:

-pretty ok bends for a first time
-parallel setup of GPU and CPU
-pump/res mount (well thanks to SC on that one)

Things I don't like about it:
-ordered wrong GPU cables, ended up with stock/unsleeved cables ._.
-a litte too much GPU sag for my liking, could be fixed by using the stock pcie bracket instead of the EK provided single slot
-not enough personality... This build, eventhough nice looking overall, just doesn't cut it for me. Next time there will be a lot more mods, and I'd love to work with a different, more vibrant colour scheme

Thinks I hate about my build:
- it leaked... like not even a few drops only, as I pretested the loop with air. And here's what happened:

I had all the fans hooked up the the fansplitter and connected that to the motherboard to controll them via ASUS's FanExpert Software...
well it didn't really like the automatic setup as the water volume took so long to heat up the software though it could basically completely stop the fans.

... and thats where you're wrong kiddo

The fluid started heating up like crazy without the fans kicking in, the pressure which built up caused a pipe to burst out of one of the fittings. Thankfully nothing got damaged and I managed to reassemble it.


Anyway it was quite the adventure and definetely worth the experience.