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[g-unit1111]

That wood feature looks so nice!

Yeah it looks pretty nice in person. I really only use those covers for looks. I have the metal covers on when I do any actual gaming on it.

 

[Wuwu]

My first high end system. Yes this is the correct orientation by the way.

2010 - 2015

Intel Core i5 2500K 4.5ghz 4 cores
Corsair H100
EVGA Z68 SLI
8GB Skill Ripjaws 1600
EVGA Geforce GTX 480 under Gelid Icy Vision
Pair of 1TB Spinpoint F3 in RAID-0
Silverstone Raven RV02 case
Silverstone SST-1000P
Phobya G Silent 120mm RED LED fans
Windows 7 64

2015 - 2020

Intel Xeon E5640 @ 4.45ghz 4 cores 8 threads
Coolermaster Seidon 240P
ASUS P6X58D-E
16GB Kingston HyperX 2133mhz
Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 Fury Nitro+
1TB Crucial BX500 SSD
1TB Spinpoint F3
NZXT S340 case
Silverstone SST-1000P (This PSU lasted 10 years!)
Amazon brand... forgot the name 120mm White LED fans
Windows 10 64

2020-2022 Revision 0.5

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6 cores 12 threads
Scythe Fuma 2
16GB Patriot Viper 3733
Gigabyte X570 Aorus elite
Inno3D Geforce RTX 3070 iCHILL X4
Corsair 4000D Airflow
Noctua fans
MSI MPG A850GF PSU
Crucial P5 Plus 2TB NVME
Crucial BX500 1TB SSD
Western Digital Blue 1TB M.2 SSD
Western Digital RED 8TB HDD
Windows 11 64


2022 - end of 2022 Revision 1

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8 cores 16 threads
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
32GB Patriot Viper 3733mhz (4x8GB)
Gigabyte X570 Aorus elite
ASRock Phantom Gaming D OC AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (loud asf, sold to cover cost of a 7900 XT)
Corsair 4000D AF maxed out on fans
All Noctua
MSI MPG A850GF PSU
Crucial P5 Plus 2TB NVME
Crucial BX500 1TB SSD
Western Digital Blue 1TB M.2 SSD
Western Digital RED 8TB HDD
Windows 11 64

November 2022 - current Rev 2.0

https://i.ibb.co/34nS815/F7fR1Gl.jpg

AMD Ryzen 7 5800x3D 8 cores 16 threads + 3D Vcache
Thermalright Peerless Assassin SE
Patriot Viper 32GB DDR4 3733 (4x8GB)
ASRock B550 Extreme 4 (Gigabyte board started to collapse under heavy load)
ASUS TUF RX 7900XT OC 20GB
MSI MPG A850GF PSU
Crucial P5 Plus 2TB NVME
Crucial BX500 1TB SSD
Silicon Power S55 4TB SSD
Crucial BX500 480GB
Western Digital Blue 1TB M.2 SSD
Western Digital RED 8TB HDD
Windows 11 64 23H2 / Linux Nobara

Slight case modification and general layout changes for the current system.

Air from outside >>>>> through front fans, across CPU / GPU >>>>> out 2 rear exhausts from GPU and CPU.

Noise levels are very low.

Cooling is excellent.

https://i.ibb.co/q9gF44Y/8JpV1lN.jpg

That is a Gelid low profile UV blue fan, cheap and cheerful, not loud, glued to the rear I/O out and situated just below the outputs of the radeon 7900 XT, although you have to be careful, you can still pull in and out the 7900 XT from the case like this and reconnect any displays.


Celebrating the OP's name.. @tecmo34

One of my fave OST's from a game by Tecmo.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

^ Surprised you switched from AIO to air cooling. were the air coolers not good back then?

 

[Wuwu]

^ Surprised you switched from AIO to air cooling. were the air coolers not good back then?

That was my first high end system, I ran an AMD AM3 system before that with one of the fist AIO's, the ECO A.L.C from Coolit, it leaked everywhere.
That H100 did the same, that's why nothing was used from that system but the PSU and one of the HDD's as the power supply was situated up top and the HDD's to the side.


I understood for the time these things were improving, but common sense kicks in after a while and well knowing what we do now, haw far air cooling has come along.... I just don't need it for CPU's I have been using.

Watercooling of any kind adds more points of failure.

Coolit ECO A.L.C. Review - KitGuru

A few years ago Coolit released the Domino cooler which at the time redefined liquid cooling for the

www.kitguru.net

"A few years ago Coolit released the Domino cooler which at the time redefined liquid cooling for the ‘masses' – bringing it out of the basement of hardcore enthusiast users and firmly into the mainstream market. Everyone wanted a Domino, they were affordable, well built (although not without some issues it has to be said) and could handle overclocked systems with relative ease."

 

[mechanocs]

I just finished my first ever computer build!

 

[Darkbreeze]

Looks fantastic man. Great job.

 

[ilukey77]

crazy good nice work!!

 

[Colif]

I guess I missed this thread for a few years... forever

So this is what current build started as: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/sWvJ6R

And this is what it looks like now: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/XvH4dH

And in a few days it will have a different AIO in it. So I will use this photo as a before and make another post after.

If you were wondering why my pump is green, its part of reason I am replacing AIO. Ever since the last build of Icue, my colors on my pump are wrong. If I set it to show Blue, its green, if I set to to show red, its Orange. That and sometimes software just doesn't start with windows, which isn't ideal for software that controls AIO fans and pump. Start is when they help the most. So I have set pump to show temps, it seems to get that right.

 

[Crazyy8]

My newly upgraded rig, in all its cable management glory.
RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, 7800X3D, 32GB of DDR5 6000, and 3.5 TB of storage(2tb HD, 500GB SSD, 1TB SSD). Cyberpunk 2077 is 30-60 FPS max settings with Raytracing enabled and DLSS set to Quality.

 

[Darkbreeze]

What cooler is that?

 

[Phaaze88]

What cooler is that?

Deepcool AS500.

 

[ilukey77]

I guess I missed this thread for a few years... forever

So this is what current build started as: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/sWvJ6R

And this is what it looks like now: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/XvH4dH

And in a few days it will have a different AIO in it. So I will use this photo as a before and make another post after.

If you were wondering why my pump is green, its part of reason I am replacing AIO. Ever since the last build of Icue, my colors on my pump are wrong. If I set it to show Blue, its green, if I set to to show red, its Orange. That and sometimes software just doesn't start with windows, which isn't ideal for software that controls AIO fans and pump. Start is when they help the most. So I have set pump to show temps, it seems to get that right.

build looks awesome noctua fans are great fans but for the sake of matching the red anti vibration pads look out of place !!

I found a guy selling the blue ones on ebay like a whole bunch of them..

Or arctic freezer ARGB p140's i use them as case fans and are easy to control with most lighting software.

power color Red devils do look awesome in really any colour !!

what new AIO are you going to use ??

 

[Colif]

I chose the red there and on the extension cables on purpose. I have all the colours as they come with fans. Rgb strip on motherboard is red as well.
Adds some colour to a dark case. It will all change with the new aio as I have to use other software.
Aio is a arctic liquid freezer ii 360.

 

[ilukey77]

I chose the red there and on the extension cables on purpose. I have all the colours as they come with fans. Rgb strip on motherboard is red as well.
Adds some colour to a dark case.
Aio is a arctic liquid freezer ii 360.

you wont go wrong with the arctic freezer ii 360.
I have one on my 5800x3d works a treat ..
Im tossing up between using it on my 7800x3d with the o11 vision case next year or going with the Galahad LCD 360mm but big $$$ for the Lian Li cooler !!

corsair do 420mm long aio sleaves in a few different colors to add a bit of a pop of colour to the boring black tubes !!

 

[Colif]

red fans no longer out of place.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

^ the most dramatic AIO hose run i have seen!

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Havent installed Windows yet, to-do today. No GPU yet, waiting for the 4070ti super. My ROG strix G15 serves me well in the interim. Living room PC, so no RGB.

Parts in my signature.

 

[Colif]

^ the most dramatic AIO hose run i have seen!

shame i have dark tinted glass as its not as dramatic with it on.
I miss the rgb from the Corsair pump head but I just need to get more light into the CPU area somehow. Not replacing noctua exhaust fans just to get RGB though.

might go blue again, I haven't actually loaded any new rgb software yet. I just turned ram red using Icue and GPU has its own software, Powercolor don't share.

 

[ilukey77]

^ the most dramatic AIO hose run i have seen!

Arctic freezer not the most prettiest AIO but when you get down to the price VS performance there is literally nothing better than it on the market ..

That said you can glam them up a bit with some AIO tube sleeves in different colours corsair do some 420mm long sleeves in various colours that look good !!

 

[ilukey77]

Havent installed Windows yet, to-do today. No GPU yet, waiting for the 4070ti super. My ROG strix G15 serves me well in the interim. Living room PC, so no RGB.

Parts in my signature.

looking good cant wait to see it finished !!

 

[Colif]

I am sure RGB fusion used to take over my ram off Icue, but its not even seeing it.
I was told my red was too dark

I see more now.
its fun getting 3 different pieces of software to show same colors at same time.
Yes, I know about signalrgb. I am just messing around.

I can even see the once concealed basement - at least PSU should be getting some air now

 

[bit_user]

That's pretty classy looking. Just... please tell me you eventually removed the plastic scratch guard sheet from the tempered glass panel!

 

[Lucky_SLS]

That's pretty classy looking. Just... please tell me you eventually removed the plastic scratch guard sheet from the tempered glass panel!

Yup, eventually. I feel that my pc is finished only after I get my gpu. And till then I would be mostly using my laptop connected to the TV. So the peels will come off with the gpu XD

 

[Lucky_SLS]

shame i have dark tinted glass as its not as dramatic with it on.
I miss the rgb from the Corsair pump head but I just need to get more light into the CPU area somehow. Not replacing noctua exhaust fans just to get RGB though.

might go blue again, I haven't actually loaded any new rgb software yet. I just turned ram red using Icue and GPU has its own software, Powercolor don't share.

Phanteks Innovative Computer Hardware Design

phanteks.com

Or a Light strip in the top.

 

[Colif]

Since the start of the year I have replaced:
GPU - 2070 super to 7900XT
CPU - 3600xt to 5800x3d
HDD - replaced storage drive with 4tb ssd
AIO - H100i with a Arctic Liquid Freezer ii 360
PSU - Seasonic 750watt with a Corsair RMX1000
Keyboard - K70 rgb mk2 replaced by a Nuphy Halo96
Mouse - Next week probably replace Steelseries Rival 600 with a Logitech G502 X Plus
Ram - not really a replacement but I added 2 corsair Ram enhancement packs... 2 of my ram sticks aren't real, just rgb

I think I have spent enough for one year. I hadn't intended to do all that. It just sort of happened.
Only things left I haven't replaced are:

1. Motherboard
2. RAM
3. Case
4. Speakers
5. I can't think of anything else?

So no, I won't be getting the RGB frames. I like how it is now. I had already run out of things I wanted before the AIO was necessary. Now my mouse is acting up.