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So I did it. Some hard earned experiences were made. I'm pretty happy with the result. Temps and OCs are higher by a few %, and the system is completely quiet when doing work and a tad louder than with Air and AIO-cooling when gaming. I think it looks better though. The two ML fans and three LL fans on the rads go all out when gaming, which I guess is normal? My ryzen 3800x now averages 4300-4350 on all the cores used in Fallen Jedi, which seems to be a rough game to run for both CPU and GPU. The 2080 ti with galax bios stays pretty much rock solid at 2085-2100 and 350 mem. This card never got good memory overclock. I see most people get 900-1100. This card cant get better than 250-400 stable. I found that the thermal pads on the VRMs and mem on both sides were "watery". They actually leaked something. Removed the ones where the corsair-block had new ones, and just dried up and kept the ones on the back. Pretty sure I should have replaced em, but that would have meant waiting. So meh. Temps stay around 45 and 36 idle for the CPU/GPU, and coolant stays around 36. thats when my little room goes to 25-26 ambient. Doing Fallen Jedi,which seems to tax everything a lot the GPU is quite solid at 55-56 and the CPU at 65-72, coolant around 42. I wouldn't mind getting the fan speeds down for gaming, so if anyone has any tips that would be great. Lot of great guides and tips on this forum helped me out a bunch, so thanks for that

I actually read your post a few minutes after you posted it and it got me thinking, I hadn't noticed this before I saw your post. After re-watching the video I linked it seems the guy who built the system in the video just moved the fans over a bit like you did. You can see it clearly at 6.33. I'll probably do the same, and move the fans over a bit. They will be doing intake, and I would assume that some obstruction wouldn't do more harm than good - which might be the case with exhaust. I figure 70-80% airflow in from two fans is better than 100% from one. Also, I don't want to waste a perfectly good LL120-fan. Thanks for making me aware of this! :)

Hi there! I'm having a first go at building a custom loop after building PCs since the early 90s. Going for a corsair-build since it seems to be the easiest and cheapest way to get a real performance gain in both noise and thermal performance. I also think it looks great. Doesn't hurt that I allready have the Corsair 680X case with a commander pro and a h100i platinum for my CPU. I actually built an EK-pack to see what that would set me back and it seems that will cost a bit more - and the performance probably won't really be any better. RGB seems to be better with Corsair, even if I do love those new D-RGB GPU-blocks from EK. I initially wanted to do just a 360 rad and GPU block, but figured what the heck and went for both CPU and GPU in the initial order. After watching a lot of youtube-clips of people building their systems, reading most of the relevant posts in this forum and asking the support-people at the shop where I'm ordering, I thought it would be wise to ask the people here as well if you have some input. The worst thing that could happen is that I have ordered the wrong parts or have a build in mind that simply won't work. Or could work better if I did a few things differently. The system I have now: 680x h100i platinum rgb commander pro MSI ventus OC 2080 ti Ryzen 3700X G.skill trident neo 2x16 Asus Crosshair Hero VIII Fans: 3x LL120 front (inntake) + 2x LL120 bottom (inntake) + 1x LL120 back (exhaust) + 2x ML120 (on the 100i) exhaust. I ordered: CPU-block GPU-block Pump 1 x pack of 3M soft tubing (yeah, I'm going "easy") 3 x standard fitting packs 3 x packs of 90-degree tilt fittings 2 x 1L premade corsair clear fluid 1 x XR5 240 radiator 1 x XR5 360 radiator 1 x Asus Rog strix riser cable The plan: 360rad front with fans facing glass doing exhaust 240 rad top with fans facing inside doing exhaust 2x LL120 doing inntake bottom 1x LL120 doing exhaust back GPU mounted vertically Pump in the main compartment mounted to the inside of 360 rad Hoping to get it looking kinda like this (except all my stuff is black, black rads, black fans, black fittings): [ame= ] [/ame] Som things I'm unsure of: Using the ML-fans from the h100i for the top 240 rad Will this be enough to overclock both the CPU and GPU (nothing crazy, but decent OC) Will I need more fan/RGB-controllers? Are there any cables that I am missing for connecting stuff (GPU-block, fans, etc)? Will the airflow in the case be good enough for the RAM, MB and M2-SSDs? Will my PSU handle all this stuff (corsair RM850i)? Am I going overboard with fittings? This got way too long, and I probably missed some important stuff. Sorry about that. Any tips, concerns or comments are appreciated.