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[nick-fury]

Hey,

Looking for someone in the know to cast their eye over this upgrade package I'm looking at, please

I currently have an EK based loop consisting of 2x EK-CoolStream PE 240 Dual and a EK-XRES 100 Revo D5, it's cooling an i9 9900K and 2080ti.
It's been fine for near enough 5 years, no issues.

I'm looking at the following to replace the exisiting kit, and keeping the Rads and pump.

Any thoughts or mistakes with the following?
(not looking to order until the 4090 block is in stock)

Cheers.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Corsair RM1000x Shift ATX 3.0 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (CP-9020253-UK) (SKU: CA-27A-CS) = £201.95
• 1 x Samsung 980 Pro 2TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-24P-SA) = £139.99
• 1 x be quiet! 12VHPWR Pci-E Adapter Cable (SKU: CB-000-BQ) = £16.99
• 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-Quantum Vector² AMP/Trinity RTX 4090 D-RGB Graphics Water Block - Nickel + Plexi (SKU: WC-AEC-EK) = £239.99
• 1 x MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-375-MS) = £239.99
• 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-Quantum Velocity² D-RGB CPU Water Block For AMD AM5 - Nickel + Plexi (SKU: WC-AC7-EK) = £119.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance RGB EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMH32GX5M2B6000Z30) (SKU: MY-4DU-CS) = £169.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DT-AM) = £428.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 4090 Trinity 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-13E-ZT) = £1,499.98

Total: £3,057.86 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

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[Tetras]

Any thoughts or mistakes with the following?

• 1 x be quiet! 12VHPWR Pci-E Adapter Cable (SKU: CB-000-BQ) = £16.99

Is this a mistake? You won't need it and it isn't for a Corsair PSU.

 

[nick-fury]

Ah good shout, I read up on ATX3 PSU's this evening then added the Corsair/removed a be quiet! and forgot to remove it from a previous basket.

Cheers for taking a look.

 

[Tetras]

Intel alternative just for fun:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-13700KF (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6B7-IN) = £374.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming Z790-Plus WIFI (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6JM-AS) = £242.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK32GX5M2B5600C36) (SKU: MY-4D7-CS) = £109.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 4090 Trinity 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-13E-ZT) = £1,499.99
• 1 x Seagate FireCuda 520 2TB SSD PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (ZP2000GV3A012) (SKU: HD-3EX-SE) = £116.98
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 1000W ATX 3.0 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-14Q-BQ) = £149.99
• 1 x (unchanged) EK Water Blocks EK-Quantum Velocity² D-RGB CPU Water Block For Intel 1700 - Nickel + Plexi (SKU: WC-A7B-EK) = £119.99
• 1 x (unchanged) EK Water Blocks EK-Quantum Vector² AMP/Trinity RTX 4090 D-RGB Graphics Water Block - Nickel + Plexi (SKU: WC-AEC-EK) = £239.99

Total: £2,862.90 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

You can see how they compare here:

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs. Core i7-13700K, The Best $400~ CPU For Gaming?

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Unless you're using stuff like blender, unlikely to offer any advantage. You can see benchmarks on that kind of app here.

 

[NoobCannon]

I would stay away from EK blocks, they have become the Asus of the water cooling world.

When i re built my Loop recently in the same situation as you (new mboard,cpu and gcard) i went with the Corsair XC7 cpu block and an alpha cool GPU block, previously i was using all EK blocks but the “ek tax” just isn't worth it now

Now days most of the WC stuff is within a degree or two of each other

Annoyingly OCUK dont sell the alphacool block for your card but you can check the correct one on the comparability site and find it. I wont link the exact block as will fall foul of the forum rules but its much cheaper.

HWConfig - German

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[nick-fury]

Thanks for the input, much appreciated.

Did you reuse the connectors/fittings you had previously or did you purchase new?

 

[str]

I wouldn't change anything. You nailed it with every component. :thumbs up:

 

[NoobCannon]

Thanks for the input, much appreciated.

Did you reuse the connectors/fittings you had previously or did you purchase new?

I reused most of my fittings, but replaced all my tubing (i use soft tubing) as changing from coloured to clear coolant.

The only fittings i didn't reuse were barbed ones, half my loop was compression and half were barbs whilst i had it all apart i swapped the rest for compression.

 

[gjbf1]

I assume you're keeping your case?

 

[nick-fury]

Yeah, it's a Corsair Carbide Air 540, rather chunky but I do like the side compartment for tidying cables away.

 

[mickyflinn]

Yeah, it's a Corsair Carbide Air 540, rather chunky but I do like the side compartment for tidying cables away.

Did you purposely pick the shift series PSU as the connectors are on the side of the psu not the back ?

 

[jigger]

I’d be tempted to go for a reference card if adding a water block.
Would also echo the sentiment about EK.

 

[nick-fury]

Did you purposely pick the shift series PSU as the connectors are on the side of the psu not the back ?

Yep, in the Corsair Carbide Air 540 the PSU is mounted on it's side, so the connectors will face upwards. At least, that's my understanding of it

 

[nick-fury]

I’d be tempted to go for a reference card if adding a water block.
Would also echo the sentiment about EK.

Thanks, I will look into it as the waterblock for the Zotac is still out of stock and they are really pricey!

Any suggestions on a decent alternative, something like this? https://www.overclockers.co.uk/barr...ard-water-block-with-backplate-wc-0ah-ba.html

 

[mickyflinn]

Yep, in the Corsair Carbide Air 540 the PSU is mounted on it's side, so the connectors will face upwards. At least, that's my understanding of it

Yes that's correct I just checked they face upwards , I didn't want you buying a PSU with the connectors facing down.

Would have made your build interesting though