Summer is very short here in Finland and when it starts I put my AC on lol. (Yeah Im not from UK, hopefully Im welcome anyway).Excellent results!
Wait until summer rolls around
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Living the PC builders dream in a cold climate. Most welcome!
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Split my loop into 2. Not sure why I didn't do that to start with, but I'll assume laziness. The top rad is dual chamber, so CPU and GPU have 1.5 rads each. The GPU gets the larger bottom rad and CPU the slimmer side one. It works out well as unless I'm rendering or gaming it idles on just 3 fans.
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@Skunkworks Pics aren't showing 
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Fixed, I think. I can't find my tripod so the low light pics are garbage.
No idea how I've never seen this thread but oh well! Here I am. I've been doing WCing for a long time now; first WC rig was back in 2007.
In more recent times, I switched to hard tubing in 2021 and did a whole new build.
My many times updated/modified, old school soft tubing rig and a 3090 FTW3:
I purchased a whole new rig to build alongside this one (excluding PSU), and then plotted out the new loop on a whiteboard. I couldn't do the 480 rad at the front with the fittings down low as the case didn't allow the bottom radiator to be mounted far enough back, sadly.
Here are some images of pieceing the loop together, with a Radeon 6870. I kept switching between various cards at the time, and hadn't decided on one to keep. I eventually settled on an MSI 3090 Suprim.
My very first bend of hard tubing:
Worst pipe to do in the whole rig and I got it first try somehow:
Finished loop in phase 1 with no GPU:
Adding the 3090 Suprim into the loop:
Phase 2 completed. I partially added the fill and drain loops here. I wouldn't end up adding them on until 18 months later. Whoops.
Eventually, I added the missing fill and drain portions of the loop.
I then upgraded to a new board, CPU and fresh block Oct last year. I took no pictures of this process other than the end result, I'm afraid! Even then it's not a good picture to boot.
In more recent times, I switched to hard tubing in 2021 and did a whole new build.
My many times updated/modified, old school soft tubing rig and a 3090 FTW3:
I purchased a whole new rig to build alongside this one (excluding PSU), and then plotted out the new loop on a whiteboard. I couldn't do the 480 rad at the front with the fittings down low as the case didn't allow the bottom radiator to be mounted far enough back, sadly.
Here are some images of pieceing the loop together, with a Radeon 6870. I kept switching between various cards at the time, and hadn't decided on one to keep. I eventually settled on an MSI 3090 Suprim.
My very first bend of hard tubing:
Worst pipe to do in the whole rig and I got it first try somehow:
Finished loop in phase 1 with no GPU:
Adding the 3090 Suprim into the loop:
Phase 2 completed. I partially added the fill and drain loops here. I wouldn't end up adding them on until 18 months later. Whoops.
Eventually, I added the missing fill and drain portions of the loop.
I then upgraded to a new board, CPU and fresh block Oct last year. I took no pictures of this process other than the end result, I'm afraid! Even then it's not a good picture to boot.
Thanks for getting in touch - love your build and pretty much set on transplanting my son's rig from the Lancool 3 into an O11D Evo.Upgraded GPU from 3080 to 5090. Upgraded Linkup gen4 riser to Linkup gen5.
Redone the loop few times and here we go
Will share pics once "Santa" has made his deliveries.