u/lawndartdesign

Less than 90 days old. System has been restarting randomly.

I've been a big fan of John and Ellie's work at LiquidHaus and they just released their OFST cooler which cools the ram and VRMs (I noticed a 10-12c drop at idle/load) and uses two 80mm fans.

I've reached the point of diminishing returns on this Corsair 5000D Airflow and due to work I need to stuff another Astral 5090 in here (Blender rendering) so this PC will be going to them to get the full liquid cooling treatment...soon.

You do? Well jeez!

Whoever was working in the tire shop in May at the ford dealer when my raptor was in must have been having a really bad day because when I went to remove my wheels to do my brake pads in the rear I about blew out my asshole trying to undo the lugnuts. These are forged stainless steel nuts. I got all of them loosened except one. That sheared.

My impact gun with over 500 ftlbs of torque was literally just chattering not able to move these.

We’re gonna need to drill it out.

Dealer is going to pay for all the repairs and potentially a new wheel if it’s damaged in the process.

Anyways I hope your Tuesday is going better than mine.

Took the time to CAD up some velocity stacks for the intakes/exhausts. Likely doesn't improve performance but looks cool. 3D rendering // Motion Graphics workstation.

Designed and had printed (SLS PA12) velocity stacks inspired by Liquid Haus (front intakes, CPU radiator, and rear exhaust). Build is just waiting on LH's RAM cooler which will use 2x 80mm Noctua fans...and then likely the build gets gutted early fall to have him convert the whole thing to a custom case/open loop so I can fit a second 5090 in for 3D Rendering.

That dang PWM cable… which on all of their fans looks properly loomed and heat shrunk. So a little bit of braided loom and some automotive heatshrink (6:1 with the glue liner is awesome) and it looks much tidier.

Did this mod a few years back but figured some of you would appreciate it. Sonnet thunderbolt 3 PCIE enclosure for my Black Magic Design Decklink Mini Monitor 4K card.

The cards built in 40mm fan shuffled off this mortal coil and the enclosures’ stock fan was truly annoying. So I machined off the original 40mm mount and milled a mount that would hold a noctua low profile 40mm fan. And installed a 60mm noctua for the enclosure. Because the enclosure only had 2 pin power I hooked it up to a Noctua PWM controller to make it whisper quiet.

Finished this up today along with the force 12 wiring install. Paul at Swarfworks was awesome in working with me to build a straight panel mount for the previous gen raptors/f150s. I also sourced an overhead console that didn’t have the upfitters. Resulting in a really clean overall install!

My last workstation decided it didn't want to live on this planet anymore, and it was entirely AIO and air-cooled, and obviously this build (270K+, Asus Astral 5090, etc) are AIO cooled each.

This is a 3D animation and Motion Graphics workstation primarily.

The Astral for all it's price tag isn't as quiet as I was hoping (the AIO runs at 100 percent and doesn't sound great but it sounds like all the other Astrals).

I ordered a Bitspower water block for the GPU just to have so I'm in no rush to convert it to open loop but I will probably tackle it this summer.

I'm likely going to go with black soft tubing because I dig that industrial look and it's more forgiving for a first time build. Likely with gold EK fittings (I'm not jazzed about EK either, trust me).

My questions are:

1. Should I do dual 360mm rads or do triple 360mm rads (top/side/front)?
2. Suggestions on a pump/reservoir combo?
3. CPU block? I'd like to avoid RGB if possible but I'm looking for the best build quality primarily.

So I'm upgrading my workstation after 5 years and am putting together a new PC. I went with the Asus Astral 5090 LC (I do a lot of 3D rendering for work in Blender and 3DS Max) so that has a fairly thick 360mm radiator. I'll be putting that on the top of the case exhausting the heat (currently I'm planning on a pull setup with the fans on the other side of the radiator for clearance issues).

CPU is a 270K Plus, with its intake on the side of the case. Front of the case is purely intake. With a Noctua in the back as exhaust.

This look okay or anything you'd change?