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Realisation's a proper asshole, isn't it?

Thanks guys - will look into it.

Hey - first time I've seen someone with the same GPU as me! Any issues with the temperatures? Mine's stable-ish at 55-60 under load (running AAA's on ultra), but it's the only thing in the loop. Haven't touched it clock-wise. (My loop is a mess though, seen as how my H115i won't fit any case I've tried. I've marked it up to the 280mm size, and decided to go 2x 360mm including the CPU in the loop next time around).

Did you give any thought to going vertical? The horizontal orientation hides a lot of the pimp on the card imo. I'm defo doing that when expanding the loop.

Nice work on the hardtubing though! Colour me jelly.

Yep :) The only drawback with the software is it eats up about 6-7 % of my CPU on idle... I just set them to red and uninstalled it tbh.

Yeah, but I was troubleshooting random freezes of the OS and this seems to have solved it.

Pictures|/u/uandai] |January 2018|Cougar Panzer

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So, I've been deployed for six months and figured what better way to reward myself for the hard work than splurging on a beast of a rig. A lot of late nights and frustation later, it's alive and well. Please excuse the potato quality, my camera battery charger is MIA. The S8 will have to suffice for now.

Specs:

• i7 7820x OC to 4.8GHz
• Gigabyte Aorus Geforce GTX1080Ti Waterforce WB (11GB,) stock OC
• Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 9
• Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3000MHz 32GB
• Samsung 960 EVO 500GB M.2 PCIe
• Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5"
• Corsair HX1200 PSU (overkill, I know)

Peripherals

• Roccat LEADR
• Roccat RYOS (MX Cherry)
• Steelseries Arctis 3 (should've gone for the wireless...)
• Acer Predator Z301CT 30" with Tobii (which is kind of useless) ("OC" to 200Hz)

• Samsung C27F591 secondary

• EK-XRES 100 D5 pump and res

• XSPC EX140 rad

• EK ACF fittings both red and nickel plated

• EK duraclear soft tubing

• XSPC blood red liquid

• Alphacool y-splitter into a EK ball walve (plugged).

I first tried to install this in the Corsair 460x, and had some success. My plan was to have the AIO up top. However, seen as how the Gaming 9 has a ridiculous placement of the CPU power, it just wouldn't fit. It ended up going in the front, which kind of defeated the purpose of the 460x in the first place. The GPU rad just barely fit.

Flash forward through the christmas holiday and I've rebuilt the thing in a Cougar Panzer. Now, I can't commend the Panzer enough. It is a remarkable box for the buck. I think it retails for something like $89? I'm in Norway, so it ended up just above $95. Luckily they sell it here, because I am super pleased with it, and I'm not sure I could've waited for the international shipping. The only drawback I can see with it is mostly my motherboard's fault, as it is very obviously not built with top rad placement in mind. Originally, I wanted the AIO cooler up top, as I tried with the 460x, but apparently, even in this thing my mobo is being a bitch about it. As such, it ended up in the front, and I ended up having to drill a couple of holes for the fans. The Panzer is built for a 360 up front, and my 280 didn't align very well with the original fastenings. Now, had I known that before I'd spent 8 solid hours moving the innards from the 460x, I might've been okay. Problem was the AIO was the last component to go into its new home, and I could not be bothered to drain the loop again to move everything around. I had measured it up to put the GPU rad in front, but, as said, that is where the AIO now rests. Which is why my tubing might look a little off.

Temps:

GPU idling: 33C-35C GPU under load (Tarkov and Wildlands on ultra): 45C-52C

CPU idling: 41C CPU under load (Aida64): 86C-88C

The GPU has been stress tested using Aida64, but unfortunately I won't get a temp reading that's accurate enough.

However, as I've never used an AIO before, or a custom loop for that matter, I'm wondering if people find these temp values a little off / worrying /superamazeballs / downright dreadful. Guys?