Lotz of fans.

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Those pumps are in serious need of some cable looms to dress them up and hide the wires. Takes away from the aesthetics as they are. Looks like progress though.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Damn that is a big case & a long radiator.

It was big until I started to put bits in it, that's why the fans ended up on top of it.

480 x 120 with Noiseblockers on it, hopefully I will be able to put the sides on the case.

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Kevin

Lotz of fans.

16 in the case, combination of Noiseblockers and Silent Wings, but atm not enough to keep it as cool as I want.

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Kevin

Those pumps are in serious need of some cable looms to dress them up and hide the wires. Takes away from the aesthetics as they are. Looks like progress though.

I know, included with that last order was a Lamptron modding kit for de-pinning psu and other connectors, am also looking at getting pins and head shells for some of the more common connectors.

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Kevin

Looking good Kevin :-)

Let's hope it performs as well as it looks.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Looking good Kevin :-)

Let's hope it performs as well as it looks.

ATM it is no 41 in the top hosts and creeping up slowly.

and its got a rac of over 250,000 in Einstein

Been running Einstein occasionally because it stresses the system differently.

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Kevin

Goes and stands in corner with head held in shame..
No one told me that there was TWO layers of protective plastic on bottom of water block:-(

I was actually quite lucky, was cleaning the bottom of the block and spotted what looked like a dirty mark that would not wipe off, I could feel it with my finger but it did not move, I tried to scratch it off with my nail and the plastic ripped - I then removed it properly.

How i missed it first time around I do not know, I had had a good look at it I had even very carefully checked it in all directions with a straight edge.

The CPU is now running at 45 - 47 C instead of 59 - 63 C, coil temps have not dropped but fan speeds have, will have to tweek fan settings or try to up the CPU speed, its still running a bit slow.

If it makes you feel a bit better, Kevin, I had exactly the same experience with a XSPC Raystorm Pro waterblock when I first tried it on this rig.
It would idle at a reasonable temperature, but as soon as the CPU started to do much of anything, the temps soared.
I must have remounted the darn block a dozen times trying to figure out the problem. I had actually floated the thought that the heatspreader had somehow separated from the core inside the CPU due to the clamping pressure.
The extra layer of protective plastic was so clear and perfectly trimmed to the face of the block that I did not realize it was there through many cleanings, reapplying different heatsink compounds, and remounting.
I finally, like yourself, got lucky and finally found a very small imperfection that I was trying to remove and discovered the extra layer of plastic.
I never gave myself such a big facepalm in my life.....LOL.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Makes me want to pull my XSPC Raystorm Pro block off and inspect it for that extra layer of plastic. But then I thought back and realized I couldn't have missed that since I have torn the block down a couple of times and had the bare cold plate disassembled in my hands and I am sure I would have found any extra layer of plastic. Plus for good measure I lapped the cold plate and I would think that a layer of plastic would have shown irregular grinding patches. Still makes me wonder.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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You would have found it if you lapped the plate, I am sure.
It would have shown itself quickly at that point.
It peeled off readily once I realized it was there,
I would rest easy on that one unless your temps are inexplicably high.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

The only reason my temps are high is the 1080Ti is in the loop also.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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The only reason my temps are high is the 1080Ti is in the loop also.

It probably generates more heat than the CPU itself does. Mo' radiator.....

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Yeah, I know it does. I would like to add another 240mm radiator but I would have to rebuild everything all over into a big enough case. Guess that should be the next project since the Ryzen+ upgrades are mostly finished.

I could not explain the difference in the last conversion to the first with regard to cpu temps. The last conversion had the cpu running at 59 C. fully loaded while the first one was running 79 C. at full load. Same case, fans and radiators. So I knew something was up in the first machine. Dug out my backup AIO and installed it and temps matched the first. So the 1st conversions AIO was getting weak. Ordered another H110i and should be delivered tomorrow. That will finish the upgrades.

Since the 1st conversion was completely new to me with new and different mobo and cpu I didn't know what to expect. I thought that the cpu was running hot simply because I was out of my knowledge with a very different BIOS compared to my 1st gen Ryzen systems and just had set it up wrong.

The poorly working H105 was my first AIO and is over 5 years old. Its mate in the second system is about 9 months newer. Hope that it continues to work or I can always resort to my backup AIO if it starts going south too.

I need to build the custom loop system into a case big enough to hold the XSPC 360mm radiator and a second 240mm radiator so the loop capacity could handle both the cpu and gpu. I don't want to go as big as the TT X9 case though. That would be overkill and I am sure the table the system is on wouldn't fit or hold it anyway. Any suggestions or comments??

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Been busy, new rad now contributing to global warming, it hanging out the window.

Mark it must be an XSPC thing, designed to fool the experienced amateur builder:-)

It was embarrassing though.

I have also had to de-fur the top rads, as I have been running it with the side off and a certain mutt of mine, mentioning no names but she knows who I mean, has been at times using it as a back rest while laying behind my chair.

Just had a quick look at the temps, the loop temps are down about 4 c against room temp and the room temp has dropped about 2 c compared with outside temp. So its dumping some heat outside.

Just for reference, my GPU's are running at around 33 - 35 c and CPU is 46 - 49 c loop temps are 30.5 c, so looks like this CPU does run hotter than GPU's, but at the end of the day it is the total amount of heat generated that counts when working out the required cooling.

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Kevin

My Tdie temp on the 1700X@4Ghz is 68° C. It was 62° C. before I added the 1080Ti card to the loop. My loop water temperature is 34° C.

Really need to get another radiator into the loop. I think the Thermaltake X5 case might be a good candidate. About 4 inches shorter in depth, about the same width and 1 inch less tall.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Loop and Tdie have dropped a couple of degrees, external temps are down about 3 c, GPU's are holding steady.

Are you running air con or any other cooling for their location?

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Kevin

Yes, the air-con has been on the past couple of days. 100° F. outside right now. Thermostat set for 76° F. because of the 5 crunchers punching out 3.6kw of waste heat.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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That's a bit on the warm side for me.

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Kevin

That's a bit on the warm side for me.

24 and a bit °c is a bit warm?
27° is the temperature inside when the air conditioner is running here.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I meant the outside temp, about 38 c, low to mid twenties is more normal over here.

Air con is not normal for domestic use.

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Kevin