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=
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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.