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I have been out of the scene for many years now (these things happen!), but have wandered back after building a new computer for the missus. Back in the day I used to build enormous rigs (combined phase change, peltiers and water cooling all in (and ontop of) a full tower Chieftec Dragon case!), but always had a soft spot for small form factor (Had many a Shuttle XPC).
Onto this build... I have always admired the BitFenix Prodigy case and have finally bought one of them (the Prodigy M) to start a fully watercooled system. The case arrived last week:
Any this week I took delivery of the first few pieces of the puzzle. I went with the amazingly compact Corsair SF750 power supply. This is mainly due to the location of the PSU in this case (the front) to allow room for a radiator at the front of the case. I also ordered a Corsair XR5 240 radiator to start looking at the best way to mount the radiator on the top of the case:
The plan is to have a dual loop water system inside this case, one loop for the CPU and one for the GPU. but I'm also looking at the possibility of one loop, just having rads mid loop before/after each component. I haven't settled on a decision yet on whether to go Intel or AMD, but I'm moving ahead with the layout for the watercooling as that decision can come later.
I know this is a very odd order in which to build a rig, but considering all of the announcements and releases at the moment, I thought I'd build the case and cooling solution first and then drop in my components of choice (once I make that choice!!... I am leaning towards Ryzen though...)
EDIT: Apologies for the image size... trying to sort now!
Onto this build... I have always admired the BitFenix Prodigy case and have finally bought one of them (the Prodigy M) to start a fully watercooled system. The case arrived last week:
Any this week I took delivery of the first few pieces of the puzzle. I went with the amazingly compact Corsair SF750 power supply. This is mainly due to the location of the PSU in this case (the front) to allow room for a radiator at the front of the case. I also ordered a Corsair XR5 240 radiator to start looking at the best way to mount the radiator on the top of the case:
The plan is to have a dual loop water system inside this case, one loop for the CPU and one for the GPU. but I'm also looking at the possibility of one loop, just having rads mid loop before/after each component. I haven't settled on a decision yet on whether to go Intel or AMD, but I'm moving ahead with the layout for the watercooling as that decision can come later.
I know this is a very odd order in which to build a rig, but considering all of the announcements and releases at the moment, I thought I'd build the case and cooling solution first and then drop in my components of choice (once I make that choice!!... I am leaning towards Ryzen though...)
EDIT: Apologies for the image size... trying to sort now!
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