Corsair Hydro X build advice

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Might have a few questions, advice as i research this setup.

First question.

Bought the block for my 3080FE as it's heavily discounted here.

I already have a Corsair AIO £150 range for the CPU. So for a start thought I would just to the GPU.

Will the Corsair software support both at the same time? Or will I have conflicts do you think?
 
Ross Thomson said:
wouldn't bother with the corsair stuff. The pump is weak, the rads can be bought cheaper without the corsair branding.
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Well I've bought the Corsair block. But I suppose that doesn't stop me buying everything else by a different brand.

£100 for a block I felt I couldn't refuse to dip my toe back in to full water-cooling been almost 20 years since last time.
 
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So I'm thinking of mounting my pump/res combo here. With the radiator above as you can see.

Tell me why not? Other consideration was on the front of the case.
 
Where's the CPU rad going if you're putting the GPU rad up top?

I would personally go with the GPU rad at the front as intake and CPU AIO up to as exhaust as the slightly cooler intake air would best serve cooling the ludicrous amount of juice run through the 3080ti.

Nothing wrong with the pump/res combo there, the only consideration is if you want to see it through a side panel? Not sure what the case is so no idea if any cut out covers anything below the mobo tray.
 
SirConfused said:
Where's the CPU rad going if you're putting the GPU rad up top?

I would personally go with the GPU rad at the front as intake and CPU AIO up to as exhaust as the slightly cooler intake air would best serve cooling the ludicrous amount of juice run through the 3080ti.

Nothing wrong with the pump/res combo there, the only consideration is if you want to see it through a side panel? Not sure what the case is so no idea if any cut out covers anything below the mobo tray.
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So. Currently I have the existing CPU AIO behind the rad you can see at the top. The case is massive and can handle 2x480mm rads up top. You can see the tubing for it coming down to the CPU block.

The panel that goes on this side is a clear window. Case it a core x9.

Tempted just to get another rad and fans and do the CPU too. But that would be shelving an expensive aio with little resale value and spending a chunk on rad and led fans.
 
Assuming I stick with just GPU for the time being...

I'm guess I would go pump to rad, rad to GPU, GPU to pump....
 
lnoton said:
So. Currently I have the existing CPU AIO behind the rad you can see at the top. The case is massive and can handle 2x480mm rads up top. You can see the tubing for it coming down to the CPU block.

The panel that goes on this side is a clear window. Case it a core x9.

Tempted just to get another rad and fans and do the CPU too. But that would be shelving an expensive aio with little resale value and spending a chunk on rad and led fans.
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use the fans from the AIO - order of the components doesn't matter
 
lnoton said:
So. Currently I have the existing CPU AIO behind the rad you can see at the top. The case is massive and can handle 2x480mm rads up top. You can see the tubing for it coming down to the CPU block.

The panel that goes on this side is a clear window. Case it a core x9.

Tempted just to get another rad and fans and do the CPU too. But that would be shelving an expensive aio with little resale value and spending a chunk on rad and led fans.
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Ah, I see now. It wasn't super clear that it was double depth from the picture.
As said, loop order doesn't matter, especially when you're cooling a single component.
Another rad and block would definitely be a significant cost, but if you're likely to just do it in the future anyway and you can afford it now then you would save a lot of hassle doing it all at once.
As for RGB, that's personal taste... there are plenty of great value fans that don't have it if you want to only spend £20-30 kitting out a rad, but if you want that unicorn vomit then you're going to have to pay for it! Just don't forget a controller if you don't buy the fancy daisy chaining ones.
 
So started with connecting the fans to the new commander pro.

Nice to see icue detects my aio too.

Major issue. Corsair provide fan extension leads...but no RGB 4pin extension leads. What utter rubbish from them. Also have to extend all the ones from the pump too.
 
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Enough for today. Moved pump and Res to the front of case, but facing out towards window. Added y splitter and valve for drainage.

Hooked up one RGB fan and ordered some extension cables for the fans and one for the pump/Res so I can reach and plug it into the pro commander.
 
Decided to bend a pipe. 2nd attempt and I know what I'm doing.

Am I allow alittle wiggle here it's slightly pulled to the side... that's looking down from the top mounted rad, the pipe comes out from the pump.

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Super scary. Turned it on and pubg crashed before the initial loading screen. Quake rtx ran fine. But then port royale bench blue screened with a can't write to read only memory.


Re booted and everything has seemed fine. No idea want was going on but it's plays forza for a couple of hours, few rounds of BF and benched port royale for 35min no issue.

Not sure if it was a coincidence. I did boot up initially without the GPU power in. DOH. So shutdown with a hard power down and plugged the GPU in. It was then I saw these crashes. Maybe something wasn't right somewhere.



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13.1 degrees delta to gpu on the hotspot. this use to be 10c.

I didn't like installing the block. Two noted challenges with my 3080 FE and this XR7 corsair block.

When putting the pcb onto the block I was unsure if the block posts should come through the pcb to align on the back edge of the PCB. I decided that they didn't. and the PCB lay on top of the post without coming through the pcb.

Once attached and screwed down, I noticed a couple of the smaller edge pads actually didn't make contact.

These are the two that clear have a fraction of a mm of gap, as the card is also for 3080TI I wonder if that is the difference.

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The temps suggest its all working though.
 
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