Its taken me 3 months searching for used parts but I have finally done it
Behold my semi custom water loop :
Started off with a used alphacool eiswolf for my gpu (other gpu was being RMA at the time) with a used 360mm rad.
Added a used 360 eisbear and when my gpu came back from RMA I waited 2 weeks with it loud hot and on air until I could get a used block for it.
Tubing and fittings were all new.
It doesn't look the best but its my first ever watercooled system.
Temps are good although not as amazing as I thought but there is a couple of large air bubbles in the loop so hopefully they should clear soon enough
specs are :
ryzen 1600x at 3.9ghz
16gb of 3200mhz ram running at full speed
Gigabyte gaming 7 motherboard
2 x msi armour 1080s
2 x alphacool 360mm rads with EK Vardar fans running at around 800rpm
1 x alphacool 240mm rad with 2x alphacool fans again running at around 800rpm.
This is housed in a bequiet 900 pro case
System Is mostly silent (under the desk I can only hear it if I bend down)
temps are :
CPU 30c idle 65c full adia load with gpu stress testing added
GPUs top is around 24c idle 51c running 3d mark ultra combined test in a loop
bottom is around 27c idle 44c load
my top GPU has always ran hotter under full load than my bottom however its weird that it runs cooler at idle.
As I said I have a few large air bubbles in the loop 1 of which I can see. Where the PC is Under my desk I cannot shake it as much as it needs so I rock it side to side every now and again and I can see the bubbles being chewed up by the pump. I think a couple of weeks of switching my PC on when I come home from work and switching it off when I go to sleep will get rid of them eventually
Behold my semi custom water loop :
Started off with a used alphacool eiswolf for my gpu (other gpu was being RMA at the time) with a used 360mm rad.
Added a used 360 eisbear and when my gpu came back from RMA I waited 2 weeks with it loud hot and on air until I could get a used block for it.
Tubing and fittings were all new.
It doesn't look the best but its my first ever watercooled system.
Temps are good although not as amazing as I thought but there is a couple of large air bubbles in the loop so hopefully they should clear soon enough
specs are :
ryzen 1600x at 3.9ghz
16gb of 3200mhz ram running at full speed
Gigabyte gaming 7 motherboard
2 x msi armour 1080s
2 x alphacool 360mm rads with EK Vardar fans running at around 800rpm
1 x alphacool 240mm rad with 2x alphacool fans again running at around 800rpm.
This is housed in a bequiet 900 pro case
System Is mostly silent (under the desk I can only hear it if I bend down)
temps are :
CPU 30c idle 65c full adia load with gpu stress testing added
GPUs top is around 24c idle 51c running 3d mark ultra combined test in a loop
bottom is around 27c idle 44c load
my top GPU has always ran hotter under full load than my bottom however its weird that it runs cooler at idle.
As I said I have a few large air bubbles in the loop 1 of which I can see. Where the PC is Under my desk I cannot shake it as much as it needs so I rock it side to side every now and again and I can see the bubbles being chewed up by the pump. I think a couple of weeks of switching my PC on when I come home from work and switching it off when I go to sleep will get rid of them eventually