This is Valkyrie, my personal rig. While "her" main job is gaming and DCS it is also often running other projects in Matlab, Ansys, CATIA and more. Initially built as a simple PC in 2015 it has been expanded, modified, modded and rebuilt multiple times. After four motherboard swaps, three GPU changes, many CPU overclocks and projects, delidding, liquid metal, AIO, aircooling, RAM tweaks it is finally close to the form I dreamed at the start of this journey. This doesn't mean I'm finished because it's just a start of another, even better, adventure.

Every piece that travelled thru her have found a new home; in my father's gaming PC, in my server build, in many friend's PC and desktops. I'd like to think that Valkyrie spread the passion for PC and custom builds around the people I know and love the most. The initial form of it was a 7700K and GTX1080 both housed into a (massive) Corsair 760T. Many things changed and after many weeks and hours I finally completed my first custom watercooling loop in it. Now the case is different, the "not-so-original" O11D but I wanted to do something more personal than the usual build with distro plate and disco lights.

I always been a precise person, to the limit of being pedantic. I like function over form, I'm quiet and tend to always want my way. Valkyrie is very similar to me: I wanted a triple radiator setup with a vertical GPU. Impossible in the O11D? Not at all by slightly modding and painting a vertical mount. I wanted a watercooling low maintenance loop with great look and performance. Impossible? Not by using ZMT tubing and clear simple coolant. Fitting everything was like a tetris, everytime finding a new clearance issue to be solved. But it turned out to be the best thing I could do. And the results might not be anything amazing to you, but they are to me. And the next step will involve more headaches, more swearing and more finger cutting. But it will be worth.

Be free to check out the part list, be free to ask anything or just drop a comment. I'll be happy to answer and share what I learned until now.

Nice to know facts:
- The vertical mount is modded to fit a full radiator and fans at the bottom to a total of 65mm of clearance, you could do more if needed.
- There is a PCIe Intel 900P Optane drive hidden and vertically mounted behind the GPU with a 4x riser cable.
- The pump/res combo mounting position was the only wayto fit it but it also hides the evaporation of coolant.
- All the rads are configured into pull configuration, the side one is in the back chamber.
- There is an inline temperature sensor hidden in one of the plugs at the back of the GPU block.
- My drain port works by turning the case on it's front, so it's the "lowest" point.
- There is a total of 9TB of SSD+NVMe storage in the system and I actually need MORE.
- The watercooling project happened because it's impossible to get a new GPU, thanks Nvidia!