[Did my first liquid cooled hard tube system]

loving that Distro plate... nice work Sir!

 

Thank you! I love it too, I just wish I could etch the Bitspower logo off, not a huge fan of dragon stuff for art if that makes sense. I just don't care for the aesthetic lol

[Did my first liquid cooled hard tube system]

Corsair LL120 RGB fans are the gold standard for me for case fans, at least with RGB. I also love the look of the Dominator RAM and having Corsair lighting synced with the effects always look great. I have six LL120 fans for the two 360mm rads (one is an EKWB PE and the other is a Bitspower Leviathan XF), four LED strips, and the Dominator RAM. I had an h115i RGB Platinum AIO before I built this and it worked REALLY well in every set up I had it in.

 

Specs are in my PC build but I'll throw em down here:

9700k, 2080 FE, 32 GB Dominator Plat RGB 3200 mhz, ASUS Maximus XI Hero Wifi, Lian Li O11 Razer Edition case, Samsung 970 EVO nvme (500 GB), HP EX950 nvme (1 TB), Samsung 860 EVO SSD (1 TB), Corsair RM750x PSU, EKWB cpu & gpu blocks, fittings and tubing as well as Bitspower Sedna O11 front panel PWM distribution block, a few fittings, and some tubing. About 95% of the fittings are EKWB and just a male to male adapter and two 20mm extenders are Bitspower.

 

Idle temps the GPU is usually low 30s C (sometimes 27-29C) and CPU usually 5-10 C higher. Under load GPU after half an hour is usually low 50s C and CPU within the same 5-10C window.

[Hiding RGB controllers.]

My latest trick is tucking them into unused drive bays: I get one of those 2.5"-to-3.5" converters for mounting SSDs into spinner bays, and they provide a perfect flat surface to sticker them onto with the dual-sided foam tapes. There's plenty of room around them to cable-manage as well, and they keep everything tucked nicely away.

 

Of course half the reason I have so many drive bays is that in my 1000D I'm using a pair of NVMe tucked away in the motherboard and then a bunch of SSD in the french-door mounts, so that leaves me five standard bays sitting unused.

 

I do the same, I have my Commander Pro and Lightning Node Pro in one of the 5.25 drive bays.

[iCUE 3.19.120 issues]

So usually my CPU load at idle is less than 7%, jumping from 1%-5% usually. I noticed today (I had updated to the most current version a couple days ago) that my cpu load at idle was jumping all over the place, sometimes over 40% for a second then drops, then jumps to 18%, then drops, then jumps to 25%, etc. When I exit from the taskbar it immediately drops (it also shows icue taking up all the cpu resources in task manager to double confirm).

 

Also, I can't seem to be able to select another lighting profile. It always defaults to one profile every time. It used to load the color scheme I wanted for Diablo 3 but then it stopped. This current "update" just took us five huge steps back.

[LL120 RGB fans won't light up in one case (but work fine in another)]

So I bought some more LL120 fans because I liked the way it looked in my main build. I have an older build with the following:

 

i7-5930k

Asus X99A (just updated bios to most recent)

32 GB Crucial RAM

GTX 1070 TI

Intel 750 Series 1.2 TB SSD

NZXT h500i

Antec EDG750 PSU

 

Problem: I installed 4 fans in the case. They all spin and can be controlled via PWM in bios. I have installed Corsair LED strips and LL120 fans before so I know how to wire them correctly on the mobo and the hub. I tested the lighting node pro and commander rgb hub in my main build, along with every single part - they all work correctly. Fans light up, fans spin, etc. So the hardware doesn't have any problems.

 

But I also tested the SATA power cable and the USB headers on the motherboard (they light up and control the NZXT LED strips without a problem). So it appears all the USB headers work, the power supply ports and SATA power cable works, and the LL120 hardware works correctly in my main build case, but not this one. Any idea why?

 

I opened a ticket with Corsair but we're going in circles. They're telling me I need to send them the fans but I explained I know for a fact they work, just not with this PC for some reason. The ONLY thing I haven't tried is swapping out the power supply unit to see if there's some kind of problem or compatibility issue somehow with the Antec EDG750 and the Corsair fans.

 

My main build is a similar case without the built in LED strips - I opted for the Corsair LED strips to put with the two LL120 fans and the h115i RGB Platinum I have and everything runs flawlessly. I just don't get why I can't get these beautiful fans to light up in my secondary PC. :*(

 

Please help!