Deep Blue V3

[Prairiemedic]

Processor, a glorious 3950x
waterblock for the 5700xt
And the Aqua with the monoblock removed

[Prairiemedic]

5700xt with the shroud removed

[Prairiemedic]

Back side, lots of cable management left to do...

Monoblock back on with the 3950x snug underneath

And in the case!

Now... The D140 plate is a headache. It's supposed to be used in parallel. Any thoughts on that? I was going to go serial but the manual seems to imply I can't. Or at least should not.

[Prairiemedic]

Loop planning and measuring, and source of headache.

[Bartacus]

Ahh the joy / pain of figuring out those tube runs. I bet every one of us water coolers has a box of old pieces of used tube just for this purpose, LOL! I think I'd stick to serial in a situation like this, at least to get a baseline and make sure everything performs as it's supposed to. And also to get some numbers, generate some heat, etc. Once you have a feel for how it performs, and have some performance metrics, you can change to parallel later on and note the differences. Just my $0.02.

[Prairiemedic]

Well, I got relatively far...

But I was not happy with the tube runs, didn't like the RPM wheel, and then disaster struck.

[Prairiemedic]

The disaster?

The 5700xt won't work. I thought it was a problem with the PCI riser cable, it isn't that. Tried different slots, isn't that. Thought maybe the screws holding down the block were too tight as I recall that was an issue on the 290x cards. Wasn't that.

It's a dead card now. No display output. So I cobbled together my old system and its running now.

I ordered new tubing from Daz as the only good bends I did are the ones to the motherboard block.

This is the most expensive, and most difficult build, and the most frustrating I have ever done.

[Bartacus]

Oh man, that really bites, sorry to hear it bud. Did it ever work at all before the block was put on? Or did you pull a Bart and just block the card without testing it first?

[Prairiemedic]

The card had been in my old system since October running the reference cooler until last week. Definitely something I did wrong when I installed the block.

[DazMode]

Check if cabling is good. If you use extensions, connect original PSU wires.

[Prairiemedic]

Hello Daz

I did not use extensions, I have a modular PSU so I used the other set of PCI power cables, no difference. And when I briefly put the GTX 970 in the system to see if it worked, it worked fine.

I ended up buying a liquid devil 5700xt and it will be here soon. Thanks to your fast shipment I should have all the parts I need to redo the loop and finish it by mid next week. Then this saga will finally be over. My wife made me promise that, barring any disasters I will not upgrade the PC for at least 2 years. The cost of the build is staggering. But its my only real hobby outside work.

I am contemplating putting the 5700xt water block on the buy and sell, It is fine. The card though, I just cannot figure out what went wrong.

[Prairiemedic]

Done, more or less.

[Bartacus]

Nice! I totally missed it for some reason! How are the temps on everything?

[Danny79-Qc]

Wow. Very impressive. Looks very Nice.

[Danny79-Qc]

Little question for you. Do you need to buy the bracket along with the riser cable to be abble to use the upper vertical gpu slot? I know the case come with a antisag and vertical bracket but from what i've seen, it looks like it only works with the lower slot. I have to build one for one of my client and dont want to order the extra bracket if i dont need it.