Butchery

[seth1969]

I don't know where to start really

Well hear goes, old build was....

gigabyte x99 soc
5930k
g/skill ram
Maxwell titan x
All water cooled by 2 xspc rx 480
Housed in a phanteks Enthoo Primo

The build always suffered from cold boots, which I never sorted out (being to lazy)
The Enthoo Primo was ok at first, because it housed all the wc kit, then started to think about external rads.
So going to try a self build out of oak, glass, metal and maybe stone.
All to be work in prog.

New kit in my possession already
X570 AORUS XTREME (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset EATX Motherboard
Team Group Edition 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C14 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black
Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER XC ULTRA, OVERCLOCKED

The idea in my head is to build the case with the I/o up top with exhaust above it, some how hinge for easy access to I/o.
Cables come out of the back and hide behind the case.
Either side of the main case a rx 480, sort of look like external stereo cooling in push-pull @500 rpm

 

[seth1969]

Why go for the 3600 given the other components and the CPU you're coming from?

Surely a 3700X or 3900X + would be more fitting given your motherboard costs best part of £700?

Saving for the Zen 3, then do the board justice. The sound quality on this board is massive to the x99 loving it.

 

[seth1969]

Makes sense.

I've subbed to the thread, always loved the X570 XTREME, outstanding motherboard and in a class of it's own tbh.

Very happy so far with it. I have always cut costs in the past with mobo's this time I thought sod it I am havin it

Very much looking forward to zen 3 now just hope it delivers.

 

[seth1969]

The engineering on the heat sinks, board Armor and back place are ace and being passive is what sold it to me.
Had a bad experience back in the amd 939 days with fan seizing up, nearly lost the full rig due to nearly catching fire.

 

[seth1969]

Butchery is a reference to taking an angle grinder to the Enthoo Primo for parts.
Gaming on the r5 3600 so far seems to flow better and smoother.

 

[seth1969]

Any news/photos?

Not much at the moment, Waiting for watercool heatkiller blocks for gpu and cpu.
Also a 200mm d5 glass res by watercool.
Still trying to get my head around best layout for the case.
Just ordered Phanteks Eclipse P400S and Cryorig H7 CPU Tower Cooler and just air cool, while building the case.

 

[seth1969]

Nice! Looks like good kit. I'd be nervous running it outside a case.

I was

 

[seth1969]

The ryzen cooler was to loud, it had to go.

 

[seth1969]

Genuinely surprised, I thought most people test built systems this way. Never had an issue.

I was a bit worried, as I had a stack of tools nearly to the ceiling next to it. If they had been knocked over they would destroyed it all

 

[seth1969]

Looks great bud, bet you can't wait to toss a 4900X or something into it though!

Thanks Bud, yeh glad i just got 3600 for now, like you said gives me something to look forward to.

Plan for the scratch build keeps changing in head lol. Can not decide which way to mount the motherboard...

a/ mounted horizontal with i/o to the rear or
b/ mounted vertical with i/o to the top.

I also want to mount the motherboard on a 10mm piece of glass, so the back board is visible.

 

[seth1969]

Got busy this weekend, not sure about the result

 

[seth1969]

Overkill?

If ya gunna be a bear, be a grizzly

 

[seth1969]

Finished the build for now and will just take my time designing the scratch build case.
Impressed with the cooling so far, 20 deg c in the room and the 2080 was boosting to 2100 with +120 on the core and never hit over 39 deg c
First time I've purchased watercool heatkiller blocks, amazed by the qc of these over ek.

Spoiler

 

[seth1969]

Nice! You are running CPU and GPU blocks in parallel as well I see! How is the flow like?

Not sure about the flow yet, as I have no meter yet.

 

[seth1969]

Very happy with the cooling now, on desk-top for hours youtube etc 10 deg/c delta t passive.
Gaming with overclocked 2080 unlimited frames and fans full tilt on the rads 3deg/c delta t. I did add another aquacomputer d5 to the loop with barbs and zip ties as i'd run out of fittings.

 

[seth1969]

Loop order after adding 2nd pump, hope it's right

 

[seth1969]

Looks great. I really love the external radiator. With external radiator though you could easily go for a smaller case with the right components.

Cheers, but I am making a scratch build out of oak, 10mm glass and 10mm alu, may be granite too. With fans at the bottom and the I/o at the top covered with dark glass so you don't see the I/o and cables.
Next job is to distress the oak rad frame with a wire cup, sand and wood dye in ebony.

 

[seth1969]

wow sounds amazing, i dont have the patience for that lol

just gone 50 have a lot of patience, with 2 grandsons

 

[seth1969]

they take lots of patience and then some

 

[seth1969]

wow sounds amazing, i dont have the patience for that lol

yea im struggling with my 1yo son lol. because i miss my pc i sit at it at night and just read forums or watch youtube rather than game lol

I read all I needed to know to build this project, was from this forum and I am humbled as these folks just want to help people out.
In this day and age I class that as going the extra mile, big up the ocuk massive, long may it continue