Project Ariyah's Orijin

[BudgetMODz]

On the plus side, at least the sensor panel is working well.



It's a bit disconcerting to see the cpu essentially idling at 60c, doing nothing but downloading cyberpunk and running aida64, is that normal for these CPUs? I did run the aida64 stability test and the temp creeped up to around 87c which is below the thermal throttle limit but I will be happier once it's under water.

It's the first time I've ran a cpu on a stock air cooler in... A longer time than I can even remember, so not really sure what to expect to be fair.

Had a quick play around with aquasuite and realised I really don't have a dam clue what I'm doing... I can't even figure out how to change fan speeds, I've found a way to drag points on a graph but the actual fans don't seem to respond. Luckily the Octo only controls the radiator fans so I've got time to figure it all out before I actually need it to work.

 

[BudgetMODz]

Some more goodies arrived yesterday, the WD Black is now installed and I reinstalled windows to make it the boot drive.



The 90 degree fittings will be used to tidy up the tubing under the false floor and keep the runs straighter, but I am awaiting another delivery from Germany on Tuesday before I tackle that.

Also managed to get Aquasuite working with the Octo, it's not the most intuitive program but once I'd figured it out it's actually pretty awesome.

 

[BudgetMODz]

Treat Tuesday came...

GPU block, CPU block, and a new D5 pump.

All installed


All I've got left to do now is sleeve the pump, move the Octo under the floor (far too many wires in the rear compartment blocking the flow between radiators), and figure out how to get the RGBpx working on the CPU block.

All the other rgb is controlled via the motherboards Mystic Light, but I plugged the Aquacomputer Cuplex Kryos Next (what a name) into the Octo as I didn't have an rgbpx to argb adapter, and for the life of me I can't get it to light up. I might have plugged it in wrong, but will have to wait until tomorrow to play around with it.

Temperature wise, my GPU hit a max 45c and CPU low 60's with a water temp Delta T of 11.3c after 20mins running Heaven and the Aida64 CPU stress tests together. The fans didn't need to ramp higher than 450 rpm to achieve that either so pretty happy with the result.