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This was my first attempt at watercooling.
Before the system ran on Corsair H100i AIO and air for the rest of it.
To make life easier for me I decided to go with hard acrylic tubing and try delidding my CPU as well (which I've never done before either).
Used Liquid Metal on all surfaces that required paste; CPU Die>IHS, IHS>CPU Block, GPU Die>GPU Block
Had great thermals and no issues with the conductive (and liquid) nature of the product.
CPU ran at 4.8GHz, which was a nice improvement over the stock 3.5GHz (3.9 Turbo).
GPU Clock +220, GPU Memory +430.
Cinebench scored around 700, lost the exact result.
Superposition 1080 Extreme scored 3791.
Case needed some modifications to fit the rad on front and since I didn't have much room left inside I went with a bay res instead of a tube one.
Looking back on it, I should have probably just got a different case instead of trying to make it work with the one I already had, but hey, it worked well enough for me and it was a fun project.
Built in May 2018.
Before the system ran on Corsair H100i AIO and air for the rest of it.
To make life easier for me I decided to go with hard acrylic tubing and try delidding my CPU as well (which I've never done before either).
Used Liquid Metal on all surfaces that required paste; CPU Die>IHS, IHS>CPU Block, GPU Die>GPU Block
Had great thermals and no issues with the conductive (and liquid) nature of the product.
CPU ran at 4.8GHz, which was a nice improvement over the stock 3.5GHz (3.9 Turbo).
GPU Clock +220, GPU Memory +430.
Cinebench scored around 700, lost the exact result.
Superposition 1080 Extreme scored 3791.
Case needed some modifications to fit the rad on front and since I didn't have much room left inside I went with a bay res instead of a tube one.
Looking back on it, I should have probably just got a different case instead of trying to make it work with the one I already had, but hey, it worked well enough for me and it was a fun project.
Built in May 2018.
Color(s): Black Red
RGB Lighting? No
Theme: none
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build
Hardware
CPU
$ 249.99
Memory
Graphics
Storage
$ 74.85
PSU
$ 145.06
Case Fan
$ 59.97
Case Fan
$ 70.36
Case Fan
$ 74.99
Cooling
$ 79.99
Cooling
Cooling
Cooling
Cooling
Cooling
$ 12.99
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