r/watercooling

Total disassembly because of debris, so I built this madness.

My latest revision of a fully customized build! My last setup had an unfortunate issue: there was still some residue left in the radiators, which basically blocked the CPU cooler with debris. While checking the loop to fix that, I also noticed that one of the acrylic tubes had a crack. In the end, I decided to completely disassemble the entire build and just start over from scratch.

After 6 months of design, planning, and building, the madness is finally finished and it turned out even better than I ever expected! 🛠️

This is a dual-loop system where I designed all the custom elements myself. The entire main case is 100% custom. I only reused some MOD III cases for the PSU and radiator mounts. The materials are a bespoke combination of glass and acrylic, custom-cut by Firstlaser Company in Northern Germany.

Those black boxes on the wall are the external radiators handling the system's cooling. As for the blocks, the distroplates and CPU cooler are from Singularity Computers. That Plasma 3 cooler is a beast, it keeps the CPU at a cool 50°C under full load.

There’s honestly nothing better than building something yourself from the ground up. I’m incredibly proud of how this all came together, and I hope you guys like it!

Hey all, sharing my latest addition to my Watercooling setup. I have added a 560mmx58mm Radiator Push/Pull Tower to my setup.

Necessary, definitely not, but once you go watercooling you do things for your convenience and for fun. I love great temps and wanted my system to be quiet as well, so decided to add this tower and stay with same Lian Li fans and ecosystem to makes things easier. I reduced my fan speeds and I am now running them all 800 RPM, so very silent.

My temps have been great, after taking these picture ran my PC idle for 1hour and coolant temp has been stable at 22 - 22.5 degrees, only 0-0.5 degrees higher than ambient. CPU on idle 36-37, GPU 22. Load all depends on what you are testing.

Wanted to share in case anyone is interested in an alternate exterior cooling versus the MORA IV. If I ever go SFF I may move for a MORA, but that is years from now, I am all set until AM6 comes out and I need a new motherboard.

Below is my setup now:
CPU 9950X3D with EK AMD Ryzen Direct Die block, GPU 5090 FE with EK Velocity 3 Block, Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB and 4TB, Samsung 990 Pro 4TB for backup, Gskill 32GB CL2600 1.40V Ram Kit (overclocked to CL26 6400 2200), MSI MEG X870E Godlike, MSI MAG Ai1600TS (for GPU Safeguard), 17 Lian Li 140mm Fans, 1 Lian Li 120mm fan, Koolance QDCs, 2 x Aquacomputer High Flow Next, Lian Li O11 EVO XL Case with EK Reflection 2 Waterblock, 3X420x140mm EK Radiators, EK 120x30mm rear radiator, X560M EK exterior radiator, EK Momentum RAM Waterblock, Ton of EK Fittings/brackets and Liquidhaus 120/140mm bracket for exterior radiator, ~3.5-4 liters of Aquacomputer DP Ultra coolant running in my system.

P.S. I know I need to work on my cable management.

Hi everyone.

I'm working on cable routing in a Corsair 1000D with 2× Corsair XR7 480 front radiators in push/pull and 2× XR7 360 top radiators in push/pull. Total is 32 Noctua industrialPPC 3000 PWM fans, controlled by 2× Aqua Computer OCTO using 1-to-2 PWM splitters.

The issue is not electrical, it's physical routing. The front XR7 480 stack leaves very little room for fan cables. Routing cables between fan frames compresses them too much. Routing them through the center channel between the two front radiator stacks works better, but the 1000D front I/O cable bundle adds a lot of thickness near the tray.

Current idea:

- 8 upper front fans exit upward

- 8 lower front fans exit downward

- splitters placed close to the fan pairs

- single PWM trunks routed back to the OCTO controllers

Does anyone with a 1000D + front push/pull radiators have photos or routing suggestions for keeping the fan trunks clean without fighting the front I/O bundle?

I made a render of the project and some photos of the fans. The gpu waterblock is no longer ekwb but heatkiller V ultra (5090 tuf). This build is made for gpu rendering.

Thx you help

I made this custom PC and added a repulsor sequence that activates by voice command.

Sound on for the actual voice command and effects.

Specs are 9070 XT for now(planning to upgrade to a 5090), Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 64GB RAM, X870E board, 1000W-class Platinum PSU, full custom water-cooling, and a Hi-Fi audio system and a full aluminum alloy body

Curious what you guys think.

Hey everyone,

I'm after a bit of advice...

So I built this water cooling set up a couple of years ago and it fundamentally "works". It's pretty custom, as in I took the bits I wanted from old cases and wood etc and then made a PC that sits in a cupboard with a pair of 280mm radiators under the desk (the PSU lives in the cupboard below where there is a power socket).

I recently made some modifications to the pipework because I had a few kinks and there were parts that weren't quite as good to look at as I thought. Also made a new 3D printed radiator mount to get better airflow (the old one was the top of an old case with some holes drilled in it - not ideal).

The issue here is that I'd always had flow that was not great - about 120l/h at peak, but after modifying it I'm now down to 80l/h having added more 90 degree and 2x 180 degree connectors, plus there's about 3m of pipework (maybe more) and something like 800mm top to bottom. The pump is a Alphacool VPP Apex at the bottom of the distro plate roughly in the middle.

I'd like to improve the flow rate so I came up with some ideas...

1. Add a second identical pump, either just after the existing one or at the exit of the radiators to help with getting the water back up to the top.
2. Replace the current pump with one with a bit more power (like an Alphacool VPP655 which should be a drop in replacement).
3. Some combination of the above or a total redesign.

I just thought I'd see whether anyone had any other ideas about what I could do... preferably without spending vast amounts of cash :)

Astral 5090 AC Core water block , AC Core 1 CPU block, 1x240mm 30mm rad, 2x360mm 45mm rad all AC

I have a 4080 with Barrow waterblock, I’ve tried replacing pads 3 times & gpu temp #3 continues to overheating after a month or so of play & reaching up to 90c under 100% load.

Intel i5 9600k
Waterforce z390 motherboard

Any suggestions?!!

I’ve been using my water cooled i7 8700k and 3090 set up for a good few years at this point but my 8700k is showing its age so I have pulled the trigger and upgraded to a 7950x3d.
Most parts I got (besides case mono and water block) were second hand, refurbished or pre owned (praise eBay & cex).
This upgrade involved changing;
CPU
Psu 1200w
Mobo
New case
Adding more fans up to 16 in this build
An additional 360mm rad
32gb DDR5 Ram
Extra fittings
Fan hubs
Drgb hubs.

I’ve 3D printed shrouds to feed 3x140mm fans into my two 360mm rads and have 3x120 pulling out in the bottom too.

I was able to add my 240mm rad to the back of the case with the help of my dremel (not sure if this counts as external rad build).

I’ve then got 3 x 140mm exhaust out the front side.

It’s taken a lot of time to do but I’ve loved doing it.

I have already made post on r/NZXT before about my 9800x3d overheating with almost new kraken elite v2 360mm aio. As some people suggested, i've replaced thermal paste, remounted cooler multiple times, put the fans and pump speed to 100%, nothing helped to solve issue with my 9800x3d hitting 95C! Finally i replaced it with different aio (8 years old master liquid 240mm) and no more 95c and overheating, 84C max under load now.

But it bothered me why almost new and expensive aio was not able to cool my cpu so i investigated little further and what i found was disgusting...

https://imgur.com/DY4R988

https://imgur.com/oUmQUVh

https://imgur.com/XxL5YC9

https://imgur.com/PjJlF96

If you look closer there something growing inside the aio or whatever crap this is. Micro-fins are all full of it and restrict fluid flow so it makes sense why it wasn't able to cool anything.

It still won't explain why there is bacteria growing inside less than a year old aio? But it sure explains why there are a lot of complains about kraken elite v2, high temp and pump issues with these coolers.

So here we have Arctic Wolf, all custom with a custom paint job with automotive paint for the pannels. Everything was hand cut or made with a 3d printer. Used polycarbonate for the back and mid-plate. She has

I914900ks

Asus tuf 5080 oc

64gb of ddr5

Asus z690 formula

3x 480mm radiators

3x pumps

3x reservoirs (one is in the basement)

23 fans

1300watt seasonic prime PSU

Each component has its own loop

VRM

GPU

CPU

I will be putting adding a Mo-ra v420 with 4x 200mm fans to her which at that time I'll combine the loop into one.

I installed a new Corsair iCUE LINK TITAN 360 into my PC yesterday and everything sounded fine when I gave it a (albeit brief) test. Today this sound started coming from the pump and it doesn’t seem to change when I change the pump profile to quiet or extreme. I haven’t messed with a new AIO in a while but does this sound like air bubbles or something else? The radiator is mounted to the top of the case and tilting it every which way doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Hi all,

I'm deep cleaning my build after some years (i know), i used to run EK cryofuel but as it stained a lot of things I removed it and just ran distilled water and as I understand it, that has led to the nickel plating coming off.

What would be the best way going forward? I bought some DP ultra to fill the loop with when i'm done. Are there any risks to my waterblock being like this? Any effects on temps or leaks?

Thanks!