Advice on Lian Li O11 Dynamics Build

Schlangers

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Hullo

I am after some advice regarding a custom cooling for a Corsair Crystal 280x. This is my first ever build.

I am currently looking at the following components:

Case - Corsair Crystal 280x
Motherboard - MSI B550 AM4
CPU - R7 3800X or 4XXX
RAM - Corsair 32GB
SSD - 1TB M2 PCIe 4.0
GPU - EVGA 3080 Hydro Copper

Water-cooler Components:

Reservoir/Pump - Corsair XD3
CPU Block - Corsair Hydro X
Radiators - 280mm x 2 (?)

I plan on using two 280mm Radiators, one on the top and the other on the bottom. The XD3 fixed to the back of the case. As this is my first attempt at a custom build I am thinking of using soft piping.

Is the case good for such a build, I am open to recommendations for a different case.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Krupi
 
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Buy the black ice xflow 280mm,I've fitted 2 in my case phantek evolv x they cut down on the hose clutter,unless your going hardline tubing.
 
Thanks clone.

Upon further research I have decided to go for the Lian Li O11 Dynamics, I think that the 280X is too small and the 680x too big.

The O11D sits nicely between the two.

I will check out the 360 Black Ice X Flow
 
Schlangers said:
Is there any benefit of distro plate vs reservoir?
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I suspect it depends on whether you want to use hard or soft tubing. A distro plate will look neater but does really require hard tubing, a reservoir is probably better with soft tubing (mine is soft tube).
 
Given my planned specs would one large 360 radiator be enough or would a second be required? I

The reason I ask is it looks like the water blocked 30XX GPU will need to be installed vertically in order to fit and that means I can't use the lower radiator.

Hopefully the Hydro Copper is small enough fit but I doubt it.
 
Schlangers said:
Given my planned specs would one large 360 radiator be enough or would a second be required? I

The reason I ask is it looks like the water blocked 30XX GPU will need to be installed vertically in order to fit and that means I can't use the lower radiator.

Hopefully the Hydro Copper is small enough fit but I doubt it.
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Unless you get the XL you may have issues fitting a radiator in the bottom.

I have the razer edition and I had trouble with the USB 3.0 header on my motherboard, I ended up having to buy a 2.0 converter so the cable was more flexible and would fit. And that was just for fans without a rad.

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Like Pugs, you can fit a 360 at the bottom as well and a vertical mount ontop of the fans and it will be fine.

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Hi Jay

Funnily enough I was just checking out your build. Looks fantastic out of interest why didn't you go for a G1 Distro Plate?

Was it the DDC vs D5 or space?

Also what vertical riser bracket is that you use?

How are your temps with only slim rads?

Thanks.
Schlangers
 
Schlangers said:
After looking around I am leaning towards two GTS360 Rads in this build, would these two slim rads be enough?
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Depends on what your're running, I ran 2x240mm 27mm rads in mine and temps were fine, I only added the other 360 rad on the rear simply because I could lol... my 2z240mm rad were fine keeping a 8 core overclocked xeon cool and a overclocked 5700XT... so yeah I reckon so
 
Only problem I am seeing is that the HW Labs ones are a little bit wider and I am worried that means I won't be able to have an EK FTL 360 on the tray.

Might force me to go with the FLT 240 like Jay's set up.
 
i've just rebuilt my o11 dynamic system today, got the distro plate for the 011 dynamic and a set of koolance quick disconnects for the next gen 3000 gpu's, makes gpu swaps so much easier :)

i have 2 ek pe classic 45mm thick rads installed top and bottom, and have plenty of room for gpu's either air or watercooled :)

i have around 60mm of space between my rads and the distro plate, so the flt range of res/pump units should have no problems fitting as they are similar in width, even if you use fittings it shoul fit, just need to get creative routing tubes or pipes

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Nice, thanks for sharing Wookie.

I am still trying to decide between the distro plate or the FLT Range.

I am leaning towards the new EK Front Distro as people seem to prefer the D5 pump over the DDC however it is a bit on the expensive side.

How are you finding the pump, I want this to be a silent build.
 
if you go for the new ek front distro plate, word of caution i think thats for the xl version of the case, regardless the flt distro plates with included pumps are pretty good, i had 2 of of the 120mm/ddc for seprate loops one for my cpu and the other for the gpu, the ddc are loud at start up but after loading into windows the pwm function takes over and they are lovley and quiet.

regarding my above distro plate that has a 4 pin pwm ddc 3.1 pump and it whisper quiet all the time as it pugs into the motherboard and is powered via that too, headding into the bios to tweak the rpm's and its silent even if i crank up the rpm a bit, but as any pump going flat out they will be loud i have mine set to 30-60% depending on tempratures.

end of the day, you'll need to head into the bios or install fan rpm software to get the best out of them, i run ddc's for a while and not had any issuess due to faliure, one time i wired one up wrong and boom but thats my fault XD
 
Schlangers said:
What made you go for soft over hard?
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as i said to Jay85 earlier i'm a bit old fasioned and tbh i dont have the b@@@s to undertake a hardline build, seeing the horror stories if anything goes wrong put me off going hardline, though i am envious of everyone who does undertake such a task, the end results looks amazing :D
i just like to keep it nice and simple :)
 
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