JR's lian-li build thread

JoshR1989 · 19 Dec 2017 at 11:25

Thought I'd create a thread for my build as it changes.

I moved all my gear over to a lian-li glass case when I bought a GTX 1080Ti earlier this year, previous case was a corsair 330r which was ok but no where near as nice as this one.

Spec was 4790k, MSI Z97 gaming 7, hyperx 2400mhz DDR3, ASUS STRIX GTX1080Ti OC, 2x ssd's and a hdd for music, films etc. I later added more led fans and a phanteks controller but didn't get any pictures.

I've upgraded this morning to X299, further plans are to watercool it, will be full hardline loop, either 2x 360mm rads or 1x 360mm and 2x 240mm, haven't quite decided yet. Once cascade lake-x drops I'll upgrade to one of the larger CPU's and another 2 sticks of RAM. specs and photo's below. Had a little play this morning and CPU is hitting 5.0ghz at low volts - circa 1.32 but throttling due to thermals, delid tool is on route to sort that. Also need to run through all BIOS settings but there is a lot on this mobo.

7740x, asrock x299 oc formula, g skill tridentz 8gb x2 3600mhz DDR4 16-16-16 timings, ASUS STRIX GTX1080Ti OC, 2x SSD's and 1x HDD. Corsair H105 for cooling ATM, corsair AX760 PSU.

JoshR1989 · 22 Dec 2017 at 16:59

De-lid tool turned up today so I'll have a crack with that later and hopefully get the temps down, see how far I can push this CPU on the current cooling I've got.
Josh.

Doobedoo · 22 Dec 2017 at 17:28

I was looking at getting that acse it really is quite beautiful.

You need some watercooling goodies, 2 nice, slim 360mm top and bottom and some hard tubing would turn that into a stunning build.

JoshR1989 · 22 Dec 2017 at 17:37

Doobedoo said:
I was looking at getting that acse it really is quite beautiful.

You need some watercooling goodies, 2 nice, slim 360mm top and bottom and some hard tubing would turn that into a stunning build.

That's the plan, will likely be end of Jan before I get round to it though, might get another Ti at the same time :cool:

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Josh.

Doobedoo · 22 Dec 2017 at 17:55

JoshR1989 said:
That's the plan, will likely be end of Jan before I get round to it though, might get another Ti at the same time .
Josh.

Nice

Harpss1ngh · 23 Dec 2017 at 01:49

JoshR1989 said:
That's the plan, will likely be end of Jan before I get round to it though, might get another Ti at the same time .
Josh.

Get the Phanteks Glacier waterblocks! I'm working on a build in the same case and same GPU's and I just fitted one and they look amazing.

JoshR1989 · 23 Dec 2017 at 10:38

Right as promised an update, managed to get the CPU de-lidded and re-installed last night. Shaved around 25c off under load which is astounding, intel really need to do something about this issue. Seems I have a decent chip clock wise but need to do some more testing.

Photo of the contents of the delivery, feels like good quality kit for the price, I won't link anything due to forum rules but you all probably know what it is anyway.

Shot of the kit used to undertake the surgery.

And today's patient.

Case was laid on its side and the glass panel removed, on a separate note the asrock motherboard really is a quality bit of kit, one of the few items I've bought that actually justifies its price.

Cooler removed.

Looks like my initial build done in a hurry meant that I didn't use enough paste and the cooler went on a little crooked, never mind.

More evidence of the above.

Cooler cleaned up using IPA.

CPU removed and inserted in to the de-lid tool.

Top of the IHS cleaned up using IPA.

De-lid in process, previous jobs have done with a knife, I find the tool method is a little worrying with the amount of force required to split the due and IHS. It was fine however.

Die and IHS split apart.

Both cleaned up using IPA and picks/knifes.

Liquid metal applied to die and leftover on cotton bud smeared on to IHS.

Little silicone applied to IHS, if I was doing this again I'd use a small syringe for this but that's a lesson learnt.

Jig fitted to secure IHS during setting time for the silicone.

Job complete, including drying time took about 1.5 hours.

Cooler remounted, I didn't get a picture but applied a thin X this time rather than a pea in the hope to get more even distribution with the TIM.

And she's all stitched back together.

I'm going to start playing around with the BIOS later and see what we can get out of it.

Josh.

JoshR1989 · 23 Dec 2017 at 11:47

Harpss1ngh said:
Get the Phanteks Glacier waterblocks! I'm working on a build in the same case and same GPU's and I just fitted one and they look amazing.

I was going to get them anyway to be honest as I can keep the ASUS backplates, with the ek ones I don't think you can, I'll most likely go with their CPU block as well as I like the VRM heat sinks on this board. With everything else on water I can reverse the rear exhaust fan to blow cold air over that area so cooling should be adequate anyway. You've got the ROG case as well, mines the earlier model.
Josh.

Harpss1ngh · 23 Dec 2017 at 15:35

JoshR1989 said:
I was going to get them anyway to be honest as I can keep the ASUS backplates, with the ek ones I don't think you can, I'll most likely go with their CPU block as well as I like the VRM heat sinks on this board. With everything else on water I can reverse the rear exhaust fan to blow cold air over that area so cooling should be adequate anyway. You've got the ROG case as well, mines the earlier model.
Josh.

Yeah, the earlier case is still great. You still have the same space for watercooling, just the front fans are now mountable in the mobo tray in the ROG and a few changes in the side compartment as well as the vertical gpu kit included but other than that they're the same.

JoshR1989 · 23 Dec 2017 at 22:39

I've run prime95 with avx off for 1 hour at 5.1 on the core and 4.7 on the ring with vcore set to 1.3v with no errors. LLC is set to level 2 and with vdroop the vcore is being reported in hwinfo as 1.248v which is impressive! Temps are around 65-70c after around 10 minutes and stay there for the duration after the de-lid.
Going to crank it up some more.
Josh.

dholdi · 23 Dec 2017 at 22:48

That looks very nice indeed.
If my case wasn't tucked away under the desk and I had room to put it on show I would be tempted by that case.
Where do the front fans pull the air in from ? The grilles at the bottom ?

JoshR1989 · 23 Dec 2017 at 22:54

dholdi said:
That looks very nice indeed.
If my case wasn't tucked away under the desk and I had room to put it on show I would be tempted by that case.
Where do the front fans pull the air in from ? The grilles at the bottom ?

Thanks for the praise. There are grilles at the bottom in both sides of the case, just in front of the fans next to the glass there are vents in to the back of the case, they do move a lot of air but are more for show than anything. There's 2 on the bottom blowing air up, 3 on the front blowing air into the graphics card and the VRM area, 1 on the back as an exhaust and 2 on the top as exhaust for the AIO.
When I watercool it I think the front fans will go, 2x 360x45mm rads top and bottom, was hoping I could get a 60 on the bottom but it's tighter than it looks. 150 res and D5 where the front fans are now. All done in hardline, will be my 1st attempt but I've done plumbing before so shouldn't be too hard I hope.
Josh.

JoshR1989 · 24 Dec 2017 at 08:47

Managed to get 5.2 stable at 1.33v last night, with LLC still at level 2 the core voltage under load was around 1.28v, temps have risen with peaks at 78c but hovering between 68-72c generally. Going to try for 5.3 later, if I don't hit a voltage or clock wall it might do 5.4 this chip which is impressive, for the price ocuk have these up for they are a bit of a bargain. Only problem is the price of the boards.
Will start playing with core/ring combos later on in the week and seeing what the memory can be pushed to.
Josh.

Chaos666 · 24 Dec 2017 at 21:51

nice overclock .... still its a stupid cpu to buy :> no offence

JoshR1989 · 24 Dec 2017 at 21:57

Chaos666 said:
nice overclock .... still its a stupid cpu to buy :> no offence

It will go at some point, if cascade lake x fits the LGA2066 socket then one of the larger chips will go in this, if not then I'll stick a 7900x in there. Main reason for the upgrade was the platform, thought I could have a little fun seeing what the baby chip of the range could do while I was at it.
5.3 failed up to 1.37v earlier, going to try going back down to 1.35v and changing LLC to level 1 so it should hold the voltage and stabilise the clocks. At level 2 and 1.37v with vdroop hwinfo was reporting 1.312v.
Josh.

JoshR1989 · 25 Dec 2017 at 00:07

Gone up to 1.4v with LLC set to level 1 and I'm getting BSOD's after about 10 minutes, seems to coincide with memory tests in P95 but I can't be certain. Some more in depth testing is required, good news is even with only a 240 AIO installed after de-lid even at those voltages I'm still only getting peaks of 84c. Obviously I expect this may increase if the test went on but not bad in the grand scheme of things. Hopefully with some more playing I can get more from this chip as to hit a wall at 5.2 @ 1.33v would be a bit of a bummer.
Going to get my head stuck in to google and the owners manual searching the meaning of all the voltages I can edit (there's a lot on this board!).
Josh.

Chaos666 · 26 Dec 2017 at 16:44

i would probably keep it @5GHz with a lower v

Holst1981 · 26 Dec 2017 at 16:59

If it's only got to survive a year I would go for max overclock, especially once properly watercooled.

But I often don't upgrade till something blows up

Modern hardware is much more reliable for me than old stuff used to be.

Smffy · 29 Dec 2017 at 19:57

Holst1981 said:
If it's only got to survive a year I would go for max overclock, especially once properly watercooled.

But I often don't upgrade till something blows up
Modern hardware is much more reliable for me than old stuff used to be.

Also pretty evident these have rock solid IMC and should be capable of tidy 5.3ish. So yeah go big or go home

JoshR1989 · 22 Nov 2018 at 20:31

Not updated this for a long time due to work commitments and also only used the PC for work on the rare occasion I'm not 200 miles away. Starting a new role shortly and with winter firmly here it's time for some gaming rather than going to the pub.
Completed my 1st watercool'd build the other day and on the whole happy with it. Res/pump to bottom rad could be better, think I'll swap the 45 connector to a 90 and route it around the back of the graphics card. Had to do the vertical rad to pump in hard line, I attempted it all at first with no angled fittings and it didn't go well. Drove down to overclockers and paid for 10 compression fittings, loads of soft tubing and loads of 45/90 fittings. Imagine my annoyance when getting home to find only 9 compression fittings.....
Now under water upped the volts to 1.4v and tried 5.4Ghz, ran fine until a stress test where I got instant BSOD. Upped it to 1.43 incrementally and now prime95 stable for 2 hours at 5.4Ghz, I'll monitor it over the next few weeks but it's looking good so far. Max temps ive seen now are 83c at those volts which I'm happy with.
Side panel now won't fit, due to the width of the card/waterblock, it's around 3-4mm out, I'm going to get some standoff and smaller screws sorted for this. The front panel will also be binned, in 2 minds between another glass panel or going brushed anodized aluminium as the rest of the case is. It will need to be slightly wider to account for the side panel and I'll have slots cut at a 45° angle for the fan intakes.
Whole build will be redone in hard line at some point but I need a little more practice first.
Few photos below.