EK Quantum Kinetic FLT Evolv'd

Shaolin Chicken · 14 Oct 2020 at 12:55

That sure is a chunky boy rad. Nice improvement on the temps.

Jay85 · 14 Oct 2020 at 13:36

spartapee said:
Wow I wasn’t expecting those results but then again what do I know lol. I’m genuinely impressed with that!! A massive 10c drop with a much slower fan speed, just goes to show what a thicker rad can do!

I’m sure aesthetically it still looks great going back to horizontal mount

Same, wasn't expecting to be able to drop below 50c tbh but very surprised to be able to keep it under that and more! Need to do more tweaking with the fan curve but confident i can drop another degree or 2 with a slightly higher fan curve.

Shaolin Chicken said:
That sure is a chunky boy rad. Nice improvement on the temps.

Proper pics up tonight, need to shave these late nights doing this lol.

On another note my Bykski temp/flow sensor arrived today which i'll plumb in as well. It's the POM version

Shaolin Chicken · 14 Oct 2020 at 13:42

Looking forward to seeing the results!

Jay85 · 14 Oct 2020 at 13:55

A certain rainforest is doing a deal on SSD's, just picked up 2 x 2tb Crucial BX500 for storage drives to replace my mechanical HDD's! Long awaited change over lol finally happening.

SpartaP · 14 Oct 2020 at 21:30

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing the progress

Jay85 · 15 Oct 2020 at 00:03

That time of night again, picture time

for the archives

Forgot to mention i added 2 x small 80mm fans at the back for exhaust. Seems to help bring down the cpu temp a little so its not drowning in rtx 3090 hot air.

Jay85 · 15 Oct 2020 at 01:06

Abit more testing tonight and finally broke that 14k mark on Port Royal haha! My last attempt hit 13901 limit

New cooler gpu with average temp of 37c with the fans at 100% for the run i managed 14039!

http://www.3dmark.com/pr/399106

Vidar · 15 Oct 2020 at 07:05

Mate your system must weigh a hell of a lot! Lol it's looking fantastic though and you've given me some ideas I'd never even considered, such as actively water cooling the back of the gpu, though I'll probably not do that one lol

Jay85 · 15 Oct 2020 at 10:35

Vidar said:
Mate your system must weigh a hell of a lot! Lol it's looking fantastic though and you've given me some ideas I'd never even considered, such as actively water cooling the back of the gpu, though I'll probably not do that one lol

It does and i have to haul it up and down stairs whenever i need to do any work on it haha. It must weigh around 20-25kg easily :eek:

, comparing it with a 20kg bag of rice lol.

Let me know if you go ahead with the mod, i think im gonna order one from a certain geniexpress. It's half the price for the same thing provided you dont mind waiting 2 weeks for the item to arrive.

Vidar · 15 Oct 2020 at 11:22

Jay85 said:
It does and i have to haul it up and down stairs whenever i need to do any work on it haha. It must weigh around 20-25kg easily , comparing it with a 20kg bag of rice lol.

Let me know if you go ahead with the mod, i think im gonna order one from a certain geniexpress. It's half the price for the same thing provided you dont mind waiting 2 weeks for the item to arrive.

I don't envy you pal that sounds like a ball ache! The mod is not something I can see myself doing any time soon to be fair as money is getting particularly tight. Payday cannot come fast enough.

Shaolin Chicken · 15 Oct 2020 at 12:57

Congrats on the great looking build once again.
Looks very nice and good improvement on the temps.
The pictures are quality too.

Jay85 · 15 Oct 2020 at 14:24

Vidar said:
I don't envy you pal that sounds like a ball ache! The mod is not something I can see myself doing any time soon to be fair as money is getting particularly tight. Payday cannot come fast enough.

Yeah its not good on ye olde back lol, would ask the wife to help but she'll probably roll it downstairs

Shaolin Chicken said:
Congrats on the great looking build once again.
Looks very nice and good improvement on the temps.
The pictures are quality too.

Thanks mate, we'll update more when the ram block arrives for some custom cooling

JayGee · 15 Oct 2020 at 14:30

@Jay85 Nice build! (apologies if I missed this in amongst your posts) but what waterblock are you running on your 3090?
Edit: I think I found it - Alphacool, right?

I noted that you also water cooled the backplate side of the card too - how was that achieved?

Jay85 · 15 Oct 2020 at 15:16

JayGee said:
@Jay85 Nice build! (apologies if I missed this in amongst your posts) but what waterblock are you running on your 3090? I noted that you also water cooled the backplate side of the card too - how was that achieved?

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

JayGee · 15 Oct 2020 at 15:18

Jay85 said:
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.

I'll be watching with interest

Roadrunner_668 · 15 Oct 2020 at 21:35

honestly a work of art it looks amazing well done !

Roadrunner_668 · 15 Oct 2020 at 21:36

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 ?

SpartaP · 15 Oct 2020 at 22:52

Great results mate, and your system looks awesome, even with gpu vertical mounted, I really like it!

intrigued to see the gpu back plated water cooled, not seen that before

SpartaP · 15 Oct 2020 at 22:53

Roadrunner_668 said:
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 ?

Might be wrong but could be UV dye

Roadrunner_668 · 15 Oct 2020 at 22:55

i didnt know they still did that