First Water Cooling Build, Finally Finished!
After working on this build for just over a month, it is finally finished! Had a bunch of hiccups along the way, including just bad luck and poor information from manufacturers, but thankful I was able to get it finished. Below I'll post the parts i went to and what I had previously in case anyone is interested or had questions.
During this process, I ended up thinking my 2080ti died, hard tubing would NOT work correct for some reason and I tore an o-ring on a fitting, my pressure testing tool wasn't sealing for multiple tests so I couldn't test correctly, ordered the wrong size hard tubing as well. Then the pump and gpu couldn't fit together normally, so the vertical mount was moved forward towards the panel, and finally last night a poof of smoke came from my fan controller rgb connector, so I reached out to phanteks to get that replaced. Overall happy with the result, but the stress to get here has been high! Also doesn't help that I was unaware the CPU/MOBO combo I have only supports dual channel, so I was forced to run 32GB and not the full 64GB I purchased, hoping in the future I'll be able to swap a part or two out and run all 4.
Previous Build: - Z390 Aorus Pro Wifi mobo - 64GB 2400mhz g.skill Trident rgb - Intel i7-9700k cpu (with 280mm Gigabyte aio cooler) - Gigabyte 2080ti xtreme oc gpu - EVGA 850w Gold+ PSU
Current: - Z790 Aorus Elite AX - 32GB 6400mhz (mt/s) DDR5 g.skill Trident rgb - Intel i9-13900k (EK-Quantum Velocity² D-RGB - 1700 Full Nickel) - Gigabyte 4090 oc gpu (EK-Vector 2 rgb 4090 nickel/acetal waterblock) - EVGA 1600W Gold+ PSU
Other: - 10/13mm soft tubing w/ compatible EK soft tubing fittings x10 - 2x EK-280 slim black radiators - 5x 140mm phanteks rgb fans - Pump/Reservior: EK-Quantum Kinetic TBE 200 D5 PWM D-RGB - Acetal - Case: Phanteks Evolv X
After working on this build for just over a month, it is finally finished! Had a bunch of hiccups along the way, including just bad luck and poor information from manufacturers, but thankful I was able to get it finished. Below I'll post the parts i went to and what I had previously in case anyone is interested or had questions.
During this process, I ended up thinking my 2080ti died, hard tubing would NOT work correct for some reason and I tore an o-ring on a fitting, my pressure testing tool wasn't sealing for multiple tests so I couldn't test correctly, ordered the wrong size hard tubing as well. Then the pump and gpu couldn't fit together normally, so the vertical mount was moved forward towards the panel, and finally last night a poof of smoke came from my fan controller rgb connector, so I reached out to phanteks to get that replaced. Overall happy with the result, but the stress to get here has been high! Also doesn't help that I was unaware the CPU/MOBO combo I have only supports dual channel, so I was forced to run 32GB and not the full 64GB I purchased, hoping in the future I'll be able to swap a part or two out and run all 4.
Previous Build: - Z390 Aorus Pro Wifi mobo - 64GB 2400mhz g.skill Trident rgb - Intel i7-9700k cpu (with 280mm Gigabyte aio cooler) - Gigabyte 2080ti xtreme oc gpu - EVGA 850w Gold+ PSU
Current: - Z790 Aorus Elite AX - 32GB 6400mhz (mt/s) DDR5 g.skill Trident rgb - Intel i9-13900k (EK-Quantum Velocity² D-RGB - 1700 Full Nickel) - Gigabyte 4090 oc gpu (EK-Vector 2 rgb 4090 nickel/acetal waterblock) - EVGA 1600W Gold+ PSU
Other: - 10/13mm soft tubing w/ compatible EK soft tubing fittings x10 - 2x EK-280 slim black radiators - 5x 140mm phanteks rgb fans - Pump/Reservior: EK-Quantum Kinetic TBE 200 D5 PWM D-RGB - Acetal - Case: Phanteks Evolv X