The Dreadnaught - A Dark Themed Build by OneFastStagea

[OneFastStagea]

Received a package from EZ (thanks btw!) on Friday evening with a few things needed to finish this build and start my next one eventually.













Started installing the last set of fans in the push configuration for the top rad, tight fit! So tight in fact, that I couldn't get the last fan on the far left to fit in position due to it hitting the CPU power cable. I ended up moving it to the back of the case instead, which allowed me to cut down on 1 fan controller thankfully:












At this point, I decided to try and make one final tweak to one of my tubes... which resulted in this happening, oops:












Don't worry, clear tape fixes everything! :










Just kidding. Used that to make a template for the new tube, which ended up fitting much better than the old one with no kinks to boot!:











With that taken care of, it was time to start prepping the loop for the pastel and leak testing. Mayhems Blitz step 1 (Step 2 happened as well, but it looks the exact same so I'll spare you all the wasted bandwidth):











Leak test and flushes were successful, time to fill the loop with the pastel and begin reinstalling Windows!













Onwards to benchmarking

[Hooded]

Nice work.
Looks dam good.

[Bartacus]

Looks great!

[HuguesP]

Good Job!

[DazMode]

Nicely done.

[EZ's PC's]

Tis a thing of beauty man. Congratz!.

[OneFastStagea]

Thanks everyone! Still a few things to do but they're on the back burner for now.

I'm having a hell of a time trying to get the memory stable at anything over 3000mhz.

Does anyone here have ant experience with in-depth RAM overclocking on Ryzen? It will post and boot into Windows at anything up to 3600MHz with relaxed timings and 1.5v DRAM voltage, but will fail almost instantly with any sort of stress test.

I've looked at a few Ryzen memory overclock guides but none of the steps in them seem to help with getting my memory stable.

[Necrodead]

I have 16gb of the same ram running at 3200 on 2 boards now, I haven't tried higher. From what i've read it sounds like you might want to try 16gb of ram first, I'm not sure if using 4 dimms with ryzen is still the problem it used to be, but it was a major issue for ram overclockers last year.
Also making sure you have the most updated bios installed should help, there have been a lot of changes since launch.
IIRC the first time I got 3200 running on my Asus prime x370, which had issues compared to the asus CH6, I set the timing at 16-16-16 and it ran 3000. then I tried going to 3200 and it worked. The CH6 just required the bios update.
And since you are running 4 dimms I would see if you can check your dimms power usage. I would image you'd get a significant v-droop with 4*16gb sticks. You could probably up the voltage to 1.6+ to see if this helps. Even up to 1.7 should be completely safe, but I prefer to only use 1.7 to test something like this and then use 1.6 for daily if necessary.

[Gutternutz]

Really nice build! I have that same board; what bios version are you running?

[HuguesP]

Very nice!