ramthor's monster build

It's all looking good to me. Glad it's starting to come together. The power cables could be nicer as someone said but it is a style choice, not a problem.
You might want to be careful of the hose that goes from the top rad to the back. It looks like it could be a bit squashed. You don't want it to kink and block the flow.
You might find that a 90° fitting (rather than a double 45°) will take it up a bit higher.
If you can't get fittings to bring it a bit higher, you could take a Dremel to the hole and round out the bottom. The rubber grommet should drop down a bit without falling out if it's smooth.
 
Cenedd said:
It's all looking good to me. Glad it's starting to come together. The power cables could be nicer as someone said but it is a style choice, not a problem.
You might want to be careful of the hose that goes from the top rad to the back. It looks like it could be a bit squashed. You don't want it to kink and block the flow.
You might find that a 90° fitting (rather than a double 45°) will take it up a bit higher.
If you can't get fittings to bring it a bit higher, you could take a Dremel to the hole and round out the bottom. The rubber grommet should drop down a bit without falling out if it's smooth.
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It looks worse in that picture than in reality probably because when the loop is filled the pressure inside the tube helps with keeping it in shape. I'll try the 90 degree though and see if that helps now that I have them.

As regarding the sleeved cables I think that should be the final touch when everything else is more or less finalised. I would probably need some advice at that stage as I've never used customised cables before.
 
More pictures from the Making of...






Clothed Titan X...




Naked Titan X...




Fixing Titan X...




Properly dressed Titan X... But, why so many left-over screws, nuts and washers? I read the instructions million times and I'm pretty sure I've done everything right. So what's with all that? I wrote a letter to EK. Then continued to the back plate.




Back plate kit opened and instructions read. Second question time! Why so many screws when instructions clearly state just one type and why do I keep getting all those nuts that are never required? That's if you find the screws bag hidden in the "secret" compartment of the box. Second letter to EK. Moving on!




One Titan down, one more to go!




Two troublemakers!




Let's our powers combine!



After two days the reply from EK came something like this: "We're making lots of watercooling stuff and we can't be bothered to pick every single screw for every single block therefore take this bag of all kinds of screws and nuts. Make the best of it!"

True story!
 
Quite a log ! You took a fair bit of stick at the start of your log and it ended up being more like a part query (not your fault I might add). I had to double check I was in Project Logs.
I feel for you it seems it went off on the wrong foot straight away, you shouldn't have to be justifying your spend.
Of course making changes and getting suggestions is always the way, think some posters were judging you based on the costs involved.
However you stuck with it and you have a build, I hope you can iron out the issues and get it nice and clean and working fully.

Best of luck.
 
colinmcr said:
Quite a log ! You took a fair bit of stick at the start of your log and it ended up being more like a part query (not your fault I might add). I had to double check I was in Project Logs.
I feel for you it seems it went off on the wrong foot straight away, you shouldn't have to be justifying your spend.
Of course making changes and getting suggestions is always the way, think some posters were judging you based on the costs involved.
However you stuck with it and you have a build, I hope you can iron out the issues and get it nice and clean and working fully.

Best of luck.
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Thank you!

I guess the saying 90% of everything is crap still stands even here but the rest of 10% was worth the suffering as it really helped my build.

This thread was initially on the general forum where I was asking for advice and then moved here by the mods when I actually started buying stuff, that's why it is so big and may seem out of place when you start reading it.

I'm still building on it and I've done good progress even though I don't have as much time as I'd like due to work but still, things happen... I'm almost done. Just waiting on a few more things.

I'll post more pictures with current events Soon™...
 
In the meantime here are some pictures with the replacement motherboard I got from the same company that cannot be named:














Clearly a refurbishment by ASUS and not only for cosmetic reasons (scratches and the protective plastic not peeling off as it should) but after I installed it, hoping that I will not encounter any other problems, I get random BSOD and always get failed boot-up when the computer goes to sleep after it's not being used for a while. It recovers only after I turn off the PSU and back on again.

Of course I demanded a replacement. This would be the third motherboard that I'd receive, fourth in total with the one they've lost in transit. My popularity with them must be on the rise...

But really, who would keep that motherboard in the pictures after you pay well over £500 for it?

The good thing about it is it does accept my full 32 GB of Corsair Dominator 3200MHz memory in the expected slots. Thank you very much!
 
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Christ mate, this is getting stupid now. The way your luck has gone with this one I wouldn't be surprised if the next delivery ended with the van crashing through you front windows :/

On the plus side, at least you're going to end up with a proper beast of a machine in late 2019 when they do finally deliver you a working, A-Grade motherboard :D
 
Could be worse though, even a broken motherboard is a step up from the end of the week that never arrives!! :mad:

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Keep plugging away, it looks great! Oddly I have had motherboard trouble too, and switched from my MSI Godlike Board to the Asus Rapage V edition 10; which I have to say is way better built! Shame you are having such rubbish luck.

I for one am glad you persevered, great to see you enjoying the build! :)

Cheers
Ras
 
Great build mate, sorry to see you went through the you know what to get there, I had the same when I posted my intended build. Check out the Firestike & Timespy benches on the forum and join the fun :)
 
Thank you all for all your encouragement. Here is a sneak peak of what's to come.

New motherboard is here and if that is not a dud as well I should be done by tomorrow or Saturday.

Stay tuned for some serious tech porn. :D

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Monster almost complete.
  • I still need to install the other SSD and HDD.
  • Need to return one pump to EK as it does not provide the motherboard with the PMW data so I run it without PWM at what I suspect is 60% power.
  • I need sleeved cables.
  • I need Molex splitters to install the motherboard fan controller included. I've used all 5 Molex from the PSU on 2 fan splitters, 2 pumps and one for the mobo. EVGA should have provided more by default.
  • Color the water when no more changes to the loop.
So far happy with the result.

































 
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crinkleshoes said:
Looking good dude :)

FYI, you don't need the molex into the bottom of the motherboard... so you can use that one for the fan splitter.

I also ran out of molex connectors with my Corsair AX1500i
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Maybe, but the manual recommends it and I don't want to risk running out of juice when I'm playing with voltages.

For all those "experts" telling me in the beginning of this thread a 1200W PSU is overkill, ASUS seem to have a different opinion. I am glad I didn't listen back then.

 
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