I haven't done it yet but i've got the waterblock ordered which will attach to the back plate of the gpu. I'll post up once i receive this and begin the procedure.
Edit: I'm running an alphacool Waterblock
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Edit: I'm running an alphacool Waterblock
Thanks mate, its never ending when it comes to pc builds haha. It's been a very expensive 2 months though...how are you making the tubing glow like that ? is it just from the other lighting in the system ? or is something actually glow in the dark / etc ?
I'm using UV dyes with De-ionised water for the green and the bottom pink coolant is Mayhems UV Pink with a touch of red for a deeper darker colour. I have Cablemod UV Widebeam stripes to make it glow.
Yeah i've read it over on the EVGA forums with the help of some members who have attempted it and saw some decent temp drops as well. Gonna give it a try and see how it goes for me, will be nice for a few more degrees shaved off the gpu for not a lot of work if im honest, just gotta be accurate with the measuring.
I'll measure up tonight, sorry late reply.
I'll grab some after workany pics of it with the lights on / in daytime ?
, not had much time lately due to work stuff.Yes you can do it via the remote, theres 2 sets of on/off switches. I mainly use it for UV tbh as the rgb makes i overly bright and saturated.
New colours coming tomorrow hopefully, i ordered EK's Azure blue and Laguna Yellow
Gonna finish this cyberpunk look once and for all before the game lands.
That's a good idea tbh but i really hate the air front panel, it's just not aesthetically pleasing for me. I was looking at custom designs from an american company but worried about shipping it over as its only thin acrylic.
I would be tempted to squeeze a shorter 240 rad at the bottom lol.
I'm dedicating this build to a family member who passed away this morning.
Rest in peace Grandmother-in-law, never met her much as she lived in a different country but she was always happy and smiling when i did see her.
Rest in peace Grandmother-in-law, never met her much as she lived in a different country but she was always happy and smiling when i did see her.
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Aquacomputer Kryographics block with the active XCS backplate cooling on order 30-60 days apparently... and i need to adjust the blue colour to suit the theme abit more. So going to order some Green and mix in some laguna yellow to make a turquoise colour, or alternatively set the rgb to turquoise leave the blue colour alone as i quite like it as it is.
If the block takes too long to come then i'll get the MP5 backplate block that OC2000 is working with at the moment to cool the backside of the card. The 3090 still gets really toasty because of the GDDR6X chips on the back.
Yeah will all builds theres always more to do lol, still tempted to get the XL version.
Other news... i've just cancelled my pre order on a asus tuf 3080, gonna put that money towards a new board and cpu i think instead
but which do i go for? AMD or Intel?!I'm leaning more towards AMD at the moment if their single core performance is as good as it says it is. Otherwise i might be looking at a 10900k but i really dont want another rehash of the 14nm+++++++++++++++++++++ lol
Yes! Although the performance gain in pcie4 is minimal it doesn’t seem bad to have now anyway, might as well utilise it while i can.
Ever since going horizontal again due to the thicker rad at the bottom i've really missed the vertical mount.
So tonight i've come up with a possible solution that i'm going to test out tomorrow once all my other bits arrive from ocuk.
I got an adjustable bracket which i've adapted to the phanteks vertical mount. This required chopping up the mount which was abit painful to do but not that expensive of a part so it felt necessary to get what i wanted to achieve. I drilled 2 additional holes in the vertical mount to mount the bracket which was easy enough. This gave me both X and Y axis adjustability so i could shift the mount in any direction to compensate for the thicker radiator. The extra spacing created from the adjustable mount also gave me the ability to route the display cables in any location provided i removed the pcie covers at the back of the case. Finally the vertical mount is designed to slot into the existing pcie blanking plate holes for extra rigidity however spacing it out meant it would not be able to and hence interfere with the motherboard. Only option was to chop away the parts i didn't need and what i was left with is a much narrow vertical mount while still retaining a flat bottom. The flat bottom is very important as it allows the mount to sit or be as close as possible to the bottom fans for support.
A bit of filing and a lick of black primer and its ready to rock for tomorrow. I took some measurements and it should align up nicely while not interfering with the cpu block as its pushed up around 30mm from the previous vertical mount setup.
So tonight i've come up with a possible solution that i'm going to test out tomorrow once all my other bits arrive from ocuk.
I got an adjustable bracket which i've adapted to the phanteks vertical mount. This required chopping up the mount which was abit painful to do but not that expensive of a part so it felt necessary to get what i wanted to achieve. I drilled 2 additional holes in the vertical mount to mount the bracket which was easy enough. This gave me both X and Y axis adjustability so i could shift the mount in any direction to compensate for the thicker radiator. The extra spacing created from the adjustable mount also gave me the ability to route the display cables in any location provided i removed the pcie covers at the back of the case. Finally the vertical mount is designed to slot into the existing pcie blanking plate holes for extra rigidity however spacing it out meant it would not be able to and hence interfere with the motherboard. Only option was to chop away the parts i didn't need and what i was left with is a much narrow vertical mount while still retaining a flat bottom. The flat bottom is very important as it allows the mount to sit or be as close as possible to the bottom fans for support.
A bit of filing and a lick of black primer and its ready to rock for tomorrow. I took some measurements and it should align up nicely while not interfering with the cpu block as its pushed up around 30mm from the previous vertical mount setup.
Glad you asked, its relatively simple if you do this.
Turn the pump on, full speed or any would do really as long as its running.
Tilt the case backwards about 60 degrees so its still pulling in coolant but not sucking in air. Turn the pump off and you'll see bubbles rise from the pump to the surface. Repeat the process till all or most of the bubbles are out.
Took me about 5 mins on and off with this method and managed to get all the trapped air out of your pump and radiator.
It's official!
Vertical mount in the O11D is nothing special BUT, vertical mount while having a 55mm thick radiator at the bottom is! With some careful measuring, some cutting up and modding of vertical mounts i managed to get the gpu in and sat snug up against the cpu block. it slightly blocks the ram but its still accessible round the back so swapping ram out wouldn't be an issue if it ever arose.
Took this opportunity to make turquoise as well by combining EK Azure blue with EK neon green to give me the correct colour. Felt like a mad scientist in a lab with all these bottles and mixing up coolant to get the colour right.
a shoutout to OCUK and @StigBourne once again for getting the order out to me so quickly despite the busy period.
Vertical mount in the O11D is nothing special BUT, vertical mount while having a 55mm thick radiator at the bottom is! With some careful measuring, some cutting up and modding of vertical mounts i managed to get the gpu in and sat snug up against the cpu block. it slightly blocks the ram but its still accessible round the back so swapping ram out wouldn't be an issue if it ever arose.
Took this opportunity to make turquoise as well by combining EK Azure blue with EK neon green to give me the correct colour. Felt like a mad scientist in a lab with all these bottles and mixing up coolant to get the colour right.
a shoutout to OCUK and @StigBourne once again for getting the order out to me so quickly despite the busy period.
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looks awesome, thanks for the update.
Cheers guys, just waiting on the new gpu block to come so i can change out the alphacool one. I really want some cooling on the backplate as it gets seriously toasty to the point where it would burn your hand if you held on for more than a few seconds.
It wasn't really achievable not in the traditional sense with tube reservoirs as they're usually quite tall and chunky making it difficult to position them without either taking up too much space or interfering with other components/ restricting airflow. EK comes along and creates the FLT range which is perfect for this kind of setup, very small footprint while being able to house a DDC or a D5 pump. What makes it even better is the spacing being a 120mm form factor it will pretty much fit in any 120mm fan slot.
Yes, the difference between the OG and the XL is basically slightly wider to accommodate a 120mm rear fan and allowing abit more space for a thicker radiator on the side, slightly taller to allow for thicker rad placement at the bottom. It's a tad deeper to allow for better spacing of the bottom rad as well.
In reality it isn't that much larger than the OG case if im honest, i almost went for the XL because i couldn't fit a vertical mount with a thick rad at the bottom but managed to conjure up a custom bracket to solve this issue.
If it helps the bottom rad is 55mm thick and the FLT's on the side with the fittings are close but theres still roughly a 10mm gap between the fittings on the flt and the radiator at the bottom. I'm using D5's so theres just enough space at the back of the case to still close the back panel.
If you want to go push pull, its no issue in the XL but in the OG it will not work unless you go with a slim rad and keep horizontal mount for your gpu.
GPU temp - 46c - 48c) / Fan speed 55%
Massively in my instance, i have the non oc palit rtx 3090 which at the time on aircooling i only managed a +35 core which sat around 1874mhz ish average on port royal.
With watercooling and much cooler temps im able to hit +180 on the core and +600 on the memory and my averages shoot up to 1966mhz average.
In games in particular watch dogs legion and mafia 2 remastered the card will lock itself to around 2145mhz but i bring the core clock down to +120 on the core and +500 on the memory. I can go higher but temps go above 50c in which case the card will downclock itself anyway due to thermal steps thats built into the cards bios, so the sweet spot seems to be around 48c or below for anything above 2145mhz core.
Mafia 2 was the really weird one where i could bump it upto +180core and still it was stable and didn't thermal throttle back at which point the card was pretty much sat at 2195mhz core
Whats wrong with your card if you don't mind asking?
It's Mayhems UV pink with a touch of Mayhems red dye. Still got 1 litre of it sat in the cupboard which im thinking of changing back to but want a solid colour i think. Been playing with solid colours and UV added and its quite a cool effect.