What could possibly go wrong?
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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