Hello Dazmoders!
My name is Cole coming in under the wire from Montreal for the March submission.
I've been building PCs for just over 15 years now and this is my first custom loop build.
As with most of you I'm sure since I first saw a custom loop I've always wanted to do one for myself, but I was never able to justify it to myself until this build.
My goal was to make a reasonable system with great performance to dollar and as close to silent as I could get.
From my limited testing so far I've definitely hit that mark! My GPU temps alone dropped nearly half from the blower cooler and I can barely hear my fans or pump.
I have a good friend that advised on the tubing and HEATKILLER parts for their quality and wow was he right.
Hardware Part List:
Cooling Part List:
The theme was grayscale and I'm incredibly happy with how it turned out.
I do still have some plans for it, but I wouldn't consider them needed just nice upgrades. The pump for example is just resting on a piece of foam for now.
The PSU has been going strong for about 8-10 years now I think and I would like to get something with a bit more headroom and efficiency.
Some of you may have noticed that I went with a M-ATX board but the case is regular ATX! I do plan to shift down to a smaller form factor when the right case comes along.
This is my 3rd Fractal case and if they do a new MATX refresh of something I'll probably jump on that or the Meshify mini during a sale.
I think I may have gotten the bug for this stuff and I would love to use to prize put towards a simple CPU loop for my brothers PC.
Thanks to Dazmode for the excellent parts selection in Canada!
Cole.
My name is Cole coming in under the wire from Montreal for the March submission.
I've been building PCs for just over 15 years now and this is my first custom loop build.
As with most of you I'm sure since I first saw a custom loop I've always wanted to do one for myself, but I was never able to justify it to myself until this build.
My goal was to make a reasonable system with great performance to dollar and as close to silent as I could get.
From my limited testing so far I've definitely hit that mark! My GPU temps alone dropped nearly half from the blower cooler and I can barely hear my fans or pump.
I have a good friend that advised on the tubing and HEATKILLER parts for their quality and wow was he right.
Hardware Part List:
- Case: Fractal Design Define C
- Mobo: ASRock B450M Steel Legend M-ATX
- RAM: ADATA XPG GAMMIX D30 32GB @ 3200
- GPU: MSI RX 5700 XT (reference)
- Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB NVME
- Storage: ADATA SU800 1TB SSD
- PSU: Corsair CX 600w
Cooling Part List:
- EK ZMT tubing
- HEATKILLER IV RX 5700 GPU block
- HEATKILLER IV PRO Acetal/Nickle CPU block
- EK-Xtop SPC-60 PWM Pump
- EK-Quantum FLT 120 Resevoir
- Darkside LP240 extra slim radiator x 2
- Darkside Chrome fittings
- Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 Fan x 2
- Corsair SP120 Fan x 2 (Accent ring painted gray)
- Mayhems XT-1 Nuke with water
The theme was grayscale and I'm incredibly happy with how it turned out.
I do still have some plans for it, but I wouldn't consider them needed just nice upgrades. The pump for example is just resting on a piece of foam for now.
The PSU has been going strong for about 8-10 years now I think and I would like to get something with a bit more headroom and efficiency.
Some of you may have noticed that I went with a M-ATX board but the case is regular ATX! I do plan to shift down to a smaller form factor when the right case comes along.
This is my 3rd Fractal case and if they do a new MATX refresh of something I'll probably jump on that or the Meshify mini during a sale.
I think I may have gotten the bug for this stuff and I would love to use to prize put towards a simple CPU loop for my brothers PC.
Thanks to Dazmode for the excellent parts selection in Canada!
Cole.
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