Might do a black friday job, just finding it hard to upgrade to the same case basically with abit more space for an extra £100ish.
Downsizing from TT Core X9 to the O11D XL + EK Front Distro plate
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@Jay85 its not just the radiator space you get the 4 3.5 quick swap bays. Plus cable management so much better plus you can sell your old case.
Oh and there’s A RGB strip NBC in the front
mind u I do think it should be £40- £50 cheaper
trouble is if u do u will want that front distro now that’s costly.
you have spent enough this year and your builds great.
DON’T BUY DON’T BUY
I went with 2 Aquacomputer Active Splitty fan controllers to manage the fan grouping. Ill use one for the exhaust and the other for the intake, which will take up two CP fan headers. The other Fan headers will control the Flow RPM, power the Inline Temp gauge and control the pump RPM on channel 6. For RGB control, Ill use 2 Lighting Nodes which will connect into two of the CP USB headers. Ill use the 4 temp headers the CP has to read the inline water, ambient temp and the GPU backplate. The Commander pro, PSU and any other USB2 device will then plug into the NZXT USB splitter which will connect to the Motherboard. I think that all makes sense lol. Hopefully this will all work and be stable.
True... ive spent in excess of £2k easily in the past 2 months lol and i still don't feel 100% satisfied! I really wish i went with the xl to begin with so i wouldn't have this issue now. In all seriousness if i do come across a secondhand xl i will probably make the jump. New price is just not tempting enough to switch yet.
Plus cable management so much better plus you can sell your old case.
Oh and there’s A RGB strip NBC in the front
mind u I do think it should be £40- £50 cheaper
trouble is if u do u will want that front distro now that’s costly.
you have spent enough this year and your builds great.
DON’T BUY DON’T BUY
Thats a lot of devices on the usb headers- hope it all works out well as seems to be well planned
did you consider going with aquaero? much more possibilities than any motherboard will give you
no I didn’t consider it this time as I’ve been using Aquaero for the last 12 years and want to move away from it as I’d still need ICUE for the RGB and PSU so may aswell have it control everything.
Looks like I won't be able to complete this build until the end of Nov due to EK water block delays. Annoying as My Asus Strix 3090 has just been shipped as well!
Ill still be able to test the 3090 and 5950X in my old system though. Just annoying how release dates these days are all paper launches.
Ill still be able to test the 3090 and 5950X in my old system though. Just annoying how release dates these days are all paper launches.
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Heres a couple of pics. One of the Flow and in line temp which will be secured to the GPU Inlet Tube.
And the other of the T-Junction which will be connected to the GPU outlet tube for the MP5works. I've added a ball valve on to test back plate temps.
And the other of the T-Junction which will be connected to the GPU outlet tube for the MP5works. I've added a ball valve on to test back plate temps.
Today after using Mayhem's blitz part one on the Rad, I tested it out in the case with the fittings and tubing. 2cm spacer +0.7 cm spacer lined it up nicely to the Distro plate.
And the MP5Works has just arrived. Shame Ill have to wait for EK to release they heavily delayed water block!
And the MP5Works has just arrived. Shame Ill have to wait for EK to release they heavily delayed water block!
With the Asus Strix 3090 on the way, ill be removing the GPU and extra Rads from the old system in preparation for its arrival either later today or tomorrow. Ill then be able to measure up the bottom Rad and make sure the MP5works tubing is long enough to route behind the case to the bottom rad port.
Ah how come you didn't get the flow and temp combo unit from Bykski instead? I looked at these but found the Bykski one instead which does both and saves a lot of room. Good build so far mate, looking good! Let us know how you get on with the MP5 back block, be interesting to see how you plumb this in as its recommended to do it in parallel.
I saw yours in your project build thread. Unfortunately the only one I could find any info on before buying mine was the TT one which looks pants. I didn't see yours until I had already received mine. They still look good though, so not going to complain about it.
I am going to run the MP5works in Parallel. The inlet will be attached to one of the spare ports on my HW Labs SR2 bottom Rad and the outlet will connect to a T line between the GPU outlet and Distro plate. I will cut the outlet tube down to run along with the Flow and temp wires making it look as neat as possible.
Yeah 2 inline sensors do look baller tbh, i do like the look of it. I wouldn't be able to do it in mine due to lack of space lol. Gonna be interesting to see how you put all this together and the lines you run, always intrigues me on the routes and bends people come up with.
Ah nice one! Hmmm i might give this a try, although i have the aquacomputer kryographics block on order so not sure if its worth throwing money at it now. I don't have the extra ports on the rad so i would need to run 2 x T fittings somewhere out of sight. Good idea though to run it along the wires so its less in your face. I really wish they did normal size G1/4 ports but i can see why they did it like this to keep the low profile of the block.
Tubing Wise, there's little variation you can go on except this. Ill have to use 45 degree fittings though for the GPU as the Strix is taller than reference shown in the below pic, but it will pretty much follow the same format. My build though will have 0 bends only Fitting adapters.
If there is a space issue with the Flow and temp sensor going from the GPU inlet tube, I could move it to the top Rad inlet tube.
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