First iteration, fully air cooled
Stock Ventus fans and shroud, pretty but not the best noise and performance wise
Vinyl tape to cover the red on vrm heatsink
Full black, looking sleek
Noise from spinning hard drive was driving me nuts though, time to get rid of this
Moved the 4tb hard drive to a NAS machine, replaced with 2tb 860 Evo
Got my hands on these "graphene coated" aluminum strips, mounted to vrm heatsink with thermal tape.
Covers the lower IO too making it look more cohesive than just the vinyl tape
Forgot to mention the piezo switch I got to replace the scratchy stock Formd switch
No more scraping metal noise every time I power on
GPU thermals were not satisfactory, especially the GDDR6X frequently reaching 110c, removed backplate to find missing strip of thermal pad, thanks MSI
Replaced with Laird Tflex HD90000, amazing stuff, highly recommend
Deshroud mod, replaced fans with TL-C12015L
Overall much better noise and thermals than stock, but still not entirely satisfied
Planning GPU only loop, CPU side still cooled with Blackridge, but now fits 2 fans because of 70mm clearance in T1's 2 slot mode
GPU side, Alphacool's DC-LT pump + Eisstation 40 reservoir and Barrow's rotary terminal connector makes this possible
Bykski waterblock, specially requested POM edition took a little over a week to manufacture. Went POM cause I use a lot of IPA to clean my parts and I've heard enough nightmare stories of acrylic cracking. Can't visually inspect the block but matte black fits my theme better anyways
Shiny
17mm thick radiator from Hanjiang allows for full size fans
Assembled for leak testing
Arctic P12s, virtually silent under 1300rpm, can't be heard over the ambient noise coming from outside my closed apartment window
Sat on my windowsill above my desk, gets more fresh air than I do
Full setup
Matte Chrome Hybrid
Color(s): Aluminum Black Silver
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Color
Cooling: Air Cooling
Size: SFF
Type: General Build
Contests
This build participated in 2 contests.
| Rank | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| #977 | EK 10K Challenge | ended |
| #267 | SFFPC meets builds.gg Contest | ended |
Hardware
CPU
$ 158.24
Motherboard
$ 175.00
Graphics
Storage
$ 44.99
Case Fan
$ 21.95
Cooling
Cooling
$ 33.56
Cooling
Cooling
$ 9.00
Cooling
$ 129.99
Accessories
$ 5.38
Accessories
$ 19.99
Accessories
$ 15.99
Mouse
$ 79.99
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