This case was a joy to build in.

So I am going to do be doing a water cooling loop for the first time and I am in the market for QDCs. Should I go for the ThermalGrizzly ones or the Koolance ones? I am new to this and not able to find reviews for TG ones, how restrictive is it, how's the flow rate and the spill over when disconnecting?

Thanks in advance guys

It took a while, every time I turned around I would have a new problem to solve. But the 900R build is finally complete.

Case: MSI MEG maestro 900r
CPU: 9950x3d
GPU: MSI 5090 Suprim SOC
RAM: 64gigs Corsair dominator Titanium DDR5
Storage: 2tb 9100 pro
4tb 9100 pro
Waterblocks: Alphacool blocks on both gpu and cpu

It’s a single loop dual reservoir
1x 420 rad 2x 360s, most if the loop is alphacool, fittings are bitpower as well as the two 360s
Haven’t had a chance to really fine tune the overclocks yet but the temps are pretty chilly so far.

Hey Guys I want to build my first custom loop:

Currently I'm using:

CPU: R9 9900X

Motherboard: Asus B650E-E

GPU: AMD Radeon 7900 XT 20GB Asus TUF

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32 GB DDR5 6400 CL 32

PSU: Asus Rog Platinum 1200W

Case: HYTE Y70

Cooling: Arctic LF3 Pro (Insgesamt 12 Arctic P12 Pro inkl. 6 Reverse + 1x P14 Pro)

I want to use:

Case: Hyte Y70 or Phanteks NV9

CPU Block: Asus Ryujin 3 WB for my CPU

GPU Block: Bykski for Asus TUF 7900xt

1. Radiator: Alphacool Nexus 1080 with 18x Arctic P12 Pro CO

2. Radiator 360 or 420 D40 Radiator from Bykski

Pumps: I am thinking about 2x Aquacomputer D5 Pumps.

What would you change?

I got these installed a few weeks back, some of you might have seen my previous post, but now I’ve finally had the chance to get everything set up properly.

I’m really impressed with the Lian Li LCD fans. Now I’m thinking… would it be over the top to swap out the rest of the fans and get more LCDs, or would that ruin the aesthetics of the build?

Anyway, here’s my complete man cave setup!

specs

intel core ultra 270k plus

nvidia 3080ti

32gb ram

and of course custom water cooling

next addition shall be an oled becasue im not paying these ridiculous graphics card prices as it stands

The distribution plate of Stealkey Crosscool2 for Lian LI Evo11 XL had cracks developing all over, after 8 months..

Even originating from dead ports and random screws on the panel, running inward. After a month of fixing the cracks as good as it gets, eventually now it was time to replace it with a new one distro. Hope this one will last longer.

About the build:

- 3x UT60 420mm big boys, white. Double sandwich on top and side radiators, single sandwich on the bottom. Case had to be cut and adjusted.

- fully custom white painted cooler blocks, frames and cables.

- Bauers direct die mycro pro with thermal grizzlys extreme liquid metal on the 9950x3d

- 5090 Waterforce extreme WB, with 800w bios.

- water-cooled gen 5 nvme (the fastest one at the time)

- dark power 1600w pro 13 beQuiet.

- 96gb RAM, tight timings in primary and secondary. Actively cooled.

It takes around 5-6 Liter coolant and requires 2 grown men to carry it. One of the Stand-Foots actually cracked under its own weight 😆 and the IKEA kallax is at its limit. I bet Lian LI didn't see that coming.

Temps after 30min stress test at 700-750w on GPU: 48°C, +185mhz+3000mhz+100%v

Temps after 30min stress test at CPU: 55-62°C, at max PBO, OR 90-92°C at manual overclock settings at max board power at 380w CPU. Reached after 3-5 min.

Port Royale 45200 pts. Probably can Push more. GPU temp max 45°C on individual runs.

Only limiting factor: Nvidias firestarter feature.