O11 Dynamic XL On Steroids

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Do you have plans for the Aquaero? If lack of a 5 1/4" bay is the issue, you could mount it on the back of the Mo-Ra or, you can remove the screen (if it gets in the way) and turn it into an LT mounted on standoffs on the bottom of the case or on the wall of the rear cavity. I run one externally with a screen for my server cupboard to run the intake and extract fans and monitor the temps and I removed the screen in my recent Self-Inflicted build. I've also got one cut into the PSU shroud on Overkill. I like Aquaeros
Dead useful that it runs all the watercooling and fans even if you've just bricked the bios too!

I plan on using the Corsair Commander Pro instead of the Aquaero. I stopped using the Aquaero because it became a subscription service and the constant necessary firmware updates drove me crazy especially on equipment that had run out of free updates.

Maybe it’s changed now.

 

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It's subscription in that you pay for upgrades for a year and then if you want further upgrades you have to pay again. If you stop paying it stays running, you just don't get to run the latest version. Some new versions require firmware updates and some don't. They are bringing out new features such as Playground (which lets you bolt some logic blocks together and do things - I have one of those set to send me an email if various temps in the server cupboard get too high and so on). If it has all the features you want though, you can at least disable the check for Insider (beta) updates, decline the mainstream updates and run it forever.

I've just spent all day trying to get the PWM to work with 18 fans and the Aquaero 6XT without success. I even added a third active splitty9 to power only 6 fans each and use 3 different fan headers, but it refused to work. I can only assume the Aquaero 6xt has a weak PWM signal. I then tried the Corsair commander pro which had a previous setting on Fan headers 1 and 2 and all 18 worked fine on 1 Fan header.

 

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Quick update on the new and improved MO-RA3 build. I have a second grill ordered which won't be here for awhile, but it will work fine until then without it. Hoping the weather has improved tomorrow so I can run the outside tubing and get it filled up and leak tested.

 

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Im using 2x active splitters powered by a 3 x Sata to Molex. The third Sata will power the pump. A Molex can handle 130+ W which all this will be under so power wise I will be fine. My understanding if active splitters is they take charge of providing the power to the devices and the PWM takes control of it so shouldn't be putting any strain on the header?
I won't know exactly how well the Commander Pro controls the PWM until I have a computer to test it on. Right now im just plugging the commander in without the USB connection.
I may have set the Pulse Modulation wrong on the Aquaero, its something to look at.

 

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Ordered the Octo and a Flow NEXT. I like the fact you don't need the software running for it to work on the profile you set.

 

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Yeah, an Octo would certainly do it. You could even run each strip of three (or four) directly off the Octo without powered splitters if you wanted to dedicate it to the Mo-Ra. The pump too. Would mean you only have one power cable required for the entire Mo-Ra.

I’ll be doing the internals too including the 10 fans, the EK pump and the high flow meter.

 

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Moving on from the MO-RA3 until the final parts come, my Asus Z790 Apex arrived today! Finally! I have enough now to get going on via a test bench until the rest of stuff arrives and I can test and get used to Intel again.
Still waiting for:

- EK Asus ABP GPU waterblock
- 2nd MO-RA3 Grill
- 6 more Koolance Quick disconnects to make the MO-RA3 fully modular
- Aquacomputer Octo
- Aquacomputer NEXT Hi Flow meter

 

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A Quick check of the APEX board to make sure its straight as their have been reports of bent APEX boards





Looks perfect straight apart from the weight of the components



Will get further into the products breakdown later today when I've finished work. Build quality of the Apex is stunning!

 

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Build time! spent this afternoon building a test bench mainly to test the parts and see if they work. The first was SP 102 (113P core 80 e Core) and second 101 SP (111P 81P)


The test bench





The new PSU







Comparing the new PSU to the old. The newer one will fit much better in the OD11 XL now

 

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Wires connected

 

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Well, there's certainly enough connectors on the back of that PSU!
Hang on a sec....TWO i9-13990K's?!

Yeah silicon lottery is rife with these chips so decided to try 2, unfortunately neither was special

 

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Ah, I see. I did go back and check the motherboard pic in case I'd missed a 2nd socket! And the old system was AMD so it couldn't have been an upgrade for that. Sale or return must be a real pain for retailers.

Just cleaned up the pics as I did those last night after the England Wales game. Had one too many I think

This is what I have to play with. E Cores look below average, But P Cores should be ok.

 

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system looking look but my god that curve on the monitor

You get used to it. I really like it. I think its a marmite situation. Useless monitor though for testing as it takes a few boots to show BIOS. Ill probably get a crappy one at Currys for testing

 

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Testing going OK. I've ordered a 3rd 13900k for one last try for a really decent sample, but this one is holding its own at least in the P Cores.

it will run C23 at stock at 1.13V Die sense. Haven't tried overclocking it yet.
DDR5 @ 8000 (1.41V set in Bios) was easy to achieve using the new G.Skills retail 8000 timings. Will wait until the memory is water-cooled before pressing further. Will be fun finding its tolerances vs temp. I did a quick OCCT on it and it hit 50C in 4 minutes (no errors) water cooling will keep it down. This Team Force 7200mhz is looking good.



Busy weekend now so won't get much more done now until next week.

 

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I'm not sure that 50°C under benchmarking is all that much to worry about. I'm getting a reading of 41.3°C on my DDR4....although I'm not sure that it's actually changing at all. From what I've read, you might get stability issues above about 75°C so if the worst its ever going to be (benchmarking the RAM) is 50°C, you're golden. I mean, don't let me hold you back from unnecessary watercooling though....it's part of the fun

DDR4 hated temps over 50C if its stressed it will even start erroring out mid 40s. I like ram below 40 which can only be done with a very good water-cooling setup. My last setup my ram was still hitting 48C which is why I went with a MO-RA for the new one.

 

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Speaking of which. Ram heat sinks are on now. Just need to screw the block on. Waiting for the GPU block though. Pre-ordered that the day before the 4090 was released too!