My Personal Improvised Machine

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My Personal Improvised Machine

After having to do an emergency move flight, and my previous case being too large and heavy to take with me, I took only my hardware itself inside the case. When I was able, I bought a relatively inexpensive case that (on paper) would fit my hardware, but ran into some problems. This case is great for 120mm profile water cooling, but very tight on 140mm. Lets just say I had to do a lot of improvising, with basically what I happened to have on hand. The system now is the result of that improvisation, with incremental revisions behind it.

This is my personal (and only) machine, that has evolved over some time.

All fittings, GPU block and pump are EK, reservoir is from AlphaCool and I think the tubing is PrimoChill. The 140mm radiator in the back is a Hardwarelabs Black Ice GTX. I have a temperature sensor from AlphaCool also mounted in the bottom of the reservoir - fans on the radiator respond to that temperature rather than hardware.
Color(s): Black Pink White
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: none
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build

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Hardware

CPU
$ 148.00
Intel - Core i7-7700K
Socket: LGA 1151
Cores: 4
Integrated Graphics: Yes
Motherboard
ASUS - ROG STRIX Z270E
Chipset: Z270
CPU Socket: LGA 1151
Size: ATX
Memory
$ 400.00
Corsair - Dominator Platinum (3200MHz) (Grey)
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 64 GB
Graphics
ASUS - Poseidon
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: GTX 1080 Ti
Graphics
$ 235.00
ASUS - ROG Strix
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: GTX 1080
Storage
$ 156.00
Corsair - Force MP500
Form Factor: M.2
Interface: M.2 (M)
Capacity: 120 GB
Storage
$ 49.96
Western Digital - WD Black Desktop
Form Factor: 3.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 500 GB
Storage
$ 49.96
Western Digital - WD Black Desktop
Form Factor: 3.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 500 GB
Storage
Western Digital - WD Black Desktop
Form Factor: 3.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 1 TB
Storage
$ 109.37
Western Digital - WD Gold Enterprise
Form Factor: 3.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 4 TB
PSU
Corsair - RM1000
Wattage: 1000
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: 80+ Gold
Case
$ 79.99
Phanteks - Eclipse P400S (White)
Type: Mid-Tower
Side Panel: Tempered Glass
Cooling
$ 299.73
Corsair - Hydro H110i (RGB)
Type: AIO
Size (WxHxD): 140 mm
Monitor
$ 499.00
ASUS - MG248Q
Size: 24 Inch
Panel: TN
Refresh Rate: 144 Hz
Monitor
$ 282.14
ASUS - VG248QE
Size: 24 Inch
Panel: TN
Refresh Rate: 144 Hz
Keyboard
$ 72.17
Corsair - K70 Rapid Fire
Interface: Wired
Key Switch Type: Cherry MX Speed
Type: Full Size
Mouse
$ 66.00
Logitech - G502 Proteus Spectrum
Interface: Wired
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