First Custom Loop - comments please :)

Awahwah

Awahwah

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First attempt at a custom loop, with the help of other members here providing me with their hand me downs.

Entered into to this with plenty of reading and a basic idea of what I wanted to do but never fully knowing ropes. Now that its built, there are some changes I'd make but you live and learn I think when it comes to Custom Loops. I'd like to change the GPU\CPU\Top rad run and will do that in it's first 'post' install flush out.

Both Rads where flushed before installing multiple times, I then ran distilled water through the loop and flushed several (can't remember how many times now) before draining and using the coolant.




Temps seem good to me.

Idle
CPU: 25 - 28
GPU: 24 - 26

Load (Realbench)
CPU: 68 (hottest peak on one core) others around the low 60's
GPU: 35

Gaming
CPU: 40 - 50
GPU: 35 - 40


Components are:

EK XRES 140
EK Supremacy EVO Full Nickle
EK 1080 Ti Block
EK CE 280 at the front
Alphacool NexXxoS ST30 up top.

Case is a 750D

Anyway, thoughts please guys?
 
On top, three Fractal Design FP 12's. On the 280 rad, Corsair Mag lev jobbies. All fans running at 700 - 800 (cpu temp dependent). Funny enough, the loop has been a little warmer today as we are having a mini summer down south.
 
I have tried two fan speeds setups, actually three.

1) Increase based on CPU temp
2) Increase based on water temp
3) constant Fan speed - 750 - 800 (they bounce somewhere around that)

Option 3 seems to give the best temps and none of this fan ramp up going on. The only item that increases speed is the pump, from 45% to 60% (50 is noisey).

All fans are PWM.
 
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