Watercooled Case Gallery

I'm (somewhat) back in the game... after years away I finally decided a gaming PC was required and watercooling is a must.. I hadn't realised how easy these AIOs had made everything!

I'm used to using cable clamps and leak testing aquarium pumps!

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Still on soft tubing, much easier to work with and im forever changing parts or doing something hardware related, hence my GPU not being included in the loop, bubbles in the loop due to a very very recent coolant change.

There is also a sound blaster AE-5 hiding behind the GPU connected to a Sony AV receiver via a thick white optical cable that you can just about see in the first picture.

Magiccool 240mm X-Flow at the top, XSPC 360mm at the front, Ryzen 7 3800X on an MSI Ace mobo with 32gb G.Skill Trident Z Royal Silver @ 3800mhz CL18, ASRock Vega Radeon 7, Superflower Leadtek Platinum 1000w PSU, 3 x Samsung 250gb Evo Plus nvme drives in RAID0, 1 x Samsung Evo 1tb for games, and an 8gb Seagate mechanical for backups.

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I've moved to a PC-011 XL now, it's not finished yet as I need a few more fittings and clean all the cabling up.

The bottom run needs to be redone as its not straight.

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and a bit of a arty one.

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Found this sub forum after deciding on something of a whim to go for water cooling, so I’ve done this kind of arse about face! :o :D

Anyway, having realized my 4790K’s tower cooler was not seated properly and wouldn’t stay seated I opted for an Alaska venom A10 single rad cooler, fitting was a breeze, no more faff than any other cooler needing a backplate tbh which was a very pleasant surprise!

The end result is 41c under load (4.6Ghz O/C) and so far as I can tell nigh silent operation, all for under 40 quid!

I feel like posting this in the air cooling section, if I’d realized it was this simple I’d have dispensed with air coolers years back!

Very tempted to water cool my 1080ti but to be fair I’ve not yet needed to overclock it, think that may end in tears though... :o - and yes it is held in place by a cable tie to stop the bloody thing sagging, Zotac 1080ti Amp Extreme, weighs a ton! :D



https://www.overclockers.co.uk/akasa-venom-a10-single-radiator-liquid-cpu-cooler-hs-105-ak.html
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Apologies for the mess that is my case , there’s 10 Drives plus an optical lurking within.... :D
 
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I highly doubt that is the correct CPU temperature, i don't think a full custom loop for the CPU only could do that.

What are you using to read the temps?.
 
khemist said:
I highly doubt that is the correct CPU temperature, i don't think a full custom loop for the CPU only could do that.

What are you using to read the temps?.
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MSI Afterburner.

It might be wrong but I don’t know of a reason as to why, previously I was getting 55c idle (from bios) and 80+ in game (from Afterburner) with my incorrectly seated air cooler, hence me deciding to change it to this.
 
GilesGuthrie said:
Oof, that looks like a tight fit! Are you going to try to get the air bubbles out of the GPU cooler, or not bother?
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No point tbh temps are fine plus it's a really stubborn bubble. Even with 2 ddcs at full speed I can't get rid of it without turning the whole system upside down/shaking it.
 
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Phanteks P600S
Front rad is 420mm UT60
Top rad is 280mm Crossflow
1070 with EK 1080 block and TitanX with EK TitanX block
CPU is a G4400 with a Chinese no-name $15 block

System is designed purely for Folding@Home which is why its GPU's massively outpower its CPU which exists only to feed data to the GPU's.

I think I may have beaten my own record for the least tubing ever. The top two rads join like this:

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@momo56

look nice! what temps are you getting with the 9900k and 2080ti being cooled with one 240mm rad?

would be interesting to see them water temp if its under 30c . Got a 2700 and thinking of adding 2080 to it but using 20mm thick xspc rad and 15mm 120 fans
 
We're almost there with mine, contemplating swapping out my top and bottom fans for something with more colour...
Houses a 9600KF and 2070S

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orbitalwalsh said:
@momo56

look nice! what temps are you getting with the 9900k and 2080ti being cooled with one 240mm rad?

would be interesting to see them water temp if its under 30c . Got a 2700 and thinking of adding 2080 to it but using 20mm thick xspc rad and 15mm 120 fans
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At the moment mid 60's to 70 on the 2080ti @ 2000 mhz and high 80's on the 9900k @ 5ghz 1.34-1.38v.

9900k is annoying. It's been delidded, die has been sanded down and the IHS has been lapped and I still get 80+on a 360mm loop. I reckon a KS or better binned CPU could max around the high 70's.
 
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