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[osiris]

Upgraded to this:

CPU: AMD Threadripper 1950x
Mobo: Asus ROG Zenith Extreme
Ram: 32GB Trident Z Gskill RGB 3200Mhz
GPU: Geforce GTX 1080ti Founders Edition
HDD 1: Samsung 960 PRO 512GB NVMe M.2
HDD 2: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB NVMe M.2
Case: Corsair Carbide 540 Air

Cooling:
Enermax pump/Reservoir 400ml RGB
XSPC EX360 Radiator
Hard loop PETG Tubing
XSPC fittings
Raystorm XSPC CPU waterblock

Spent this entire weekend learning how to bend pipes and the past month busy getting all the parts that I needed and plotting the loop. Bending pipes was a mission but quite fun!

Before this I was using the Corsair H80i V2 all in one water loop, During a 3d render using the Arnold renderer for Maya I was always hitting 87 degrees Celsius. I have run all the same renders with this custom loop and I am hitting 42 degrees Celsius with a peak of 44 Celsius! This is a monumental improvement! Probably due to the fact that the Raystorm CPU water block covers the entire CPU where the Corsair is compatible with the Ryzen Threadripper but its round and doesn't cover the entire heat spreader! I would say its also due to the massive 360 radiator.

 

[FiRi@Rennzport]

That is one nice looking rig

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[RAArmstrong]

Wow. Just wow. That looks incredible!

 

[Zack]

When somebody's ram speed is = to my processor speed. :roflol:

That is a gorgeous machine with specs to drool over.

Crying in corner with 8 cores and a 1060 :roflol:

 

[Geek_320]

My rig is a work in progress (Disclaimer: it is dusty and my cable management is poor)

PC:
4th Gen i7
MSI Gaming Motherboard
8GB RAM
GTX 630 - soon to be changed to a GTX 1050, but car mods first
NZXT Case (not sure of model, looks like a small fridge, some mistake it for a coffee table)
2x 24" Monitors (Samsung & LG)
Logitech 5:1 Speakers
Eleet Gaming Chair
Cougar Deathfire EX Keyboard and Mouse
Crico XL Mouse Pad

Console:
PS4 500GB
40" Hisense LED TV
Microlab speakers 2:1

 

[Diesellover]

Upgraded to this:

CPU: AMD Threadripper 1950x
Mobo: Asus ROG Zenith Extreme
Ram: 32GB Trident Z Gskill RGB 3200Mhz
GPU: Geforce GTX 1080ti Founders Edition
HDD 1: Samsung 960 PRO 512GB NVMe M.2
HDD 2: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB NVMe M.2
Case: Corsair Carbide 540 Air

Cooling:
Enermax pump/Reservoir 400ml RGB
XSPC EX360 Radiator
Hard loop PETG Tubing
XSPC fittings
Raystorm XSPC CPU waterblock

Spent this entire weekend learning how to bend pipes and the past month busy getting all the parts that I needed and plotting the loop. Bending pipes was a mission but quite fun!

Before this I was using the Corsair H80i V2 all in one water loop, During a 3d render using the Arnold renderer for Maya I was always hitting 87 degrees Celsius. I have run all the same renders with this custom loop and I am hitting 42 degrees Celsius with a peak of 44 Celsius! This is a monumental improvement! Probably due to the fact that the Raystorm CPU water block covers the entire CPU where the Corsair is compatible with the Ryzen Threadripper but its round and doesn't cover the entire heat spreader! I would say its also due to the massive 360 radiator.

I just saw Heaven:bravo:

 

[osiris]

Thanks for the compliments guys. :smilebounce:

Building this hard line water loop was a mission but so worth it!

Next up hopefully happening this weekend is custom white sleeving for all the power supply cables! Will post the updates when I'm done! :smilebounce:

 

[Ash777]

Here's my work in progress.
Sure its not much right now

 

[SubLoaded]

Here's my work in progress.
Sure its not much right now

At least it's not a Mac

 

[Nick]

:roflol:

 

[Zack]

Here's my work in progress.
Sure its not much right now

Where did you manage to get hold of an EA server? :biglol:

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Thanks for the compliments guys. :smilebounce:

Building this hard line water loop was a mission but so worth it!

Next up hopefully happening this weekend is custom white sleeving for all the power supply cables! Will post the updates when I'm done! :smilebounce:

Just for interest sake, in your personal experience, how much would you recommend water cooling? There are so many mixed reviews on it and so many many fails.

I've always enjoyed gaming on older server grade equipment (Xeons) and they can get a bit hot/ noisy fans. But is water cooling really worth it?

 

[osiris]

Just for interest sake, in your personal experience, how much would you recommend water cooling? There are so many mixed reviews on it and so many many fails.

I've always enjoyed gaming on older server grade equipment (Xeons) and they can get a bit hot/ noisy fans. But is water cooling really worth it?

I have been using water cooling for as long as I can remember. I did my first water loop in the UK but it was a soft tube water cooler and I went as far as taking a mini fridge apart and pulling the peltier cooler out and buying a copper plate and placing that on my cpu and using the water cooler to cool the hot side of the peltier cooler and managed to achieve sub zero temps. but my water cooler started boiling and almost destroyed my pc!

When I got back to SA I had to go air cooling again as water cooling was very expensive and hard to get parts for. Things have changed in the past couple of years though. When I got my first I7 920 and the first AIOs loops were out I managed to get myself a Corsair H80i V1 and I have been using that for years! I upgraded to my I7 4770k back in 2013 I think and was able to use the same AIO loop and I'm still using it till this day on that pc! It cools that cpu very well and its heavily over clocked! I have it over clocked to 4.7Ghz and its been overclocked since I bought it! So I can definitely recommend liquid cooling.
They last VERY long. I mean I have been using that loop since I think 2010 or 2011 and its still works perfectly!

 

[Zack]

I have been using water cooling for as long as I can remember. I did my first water loop in the UK but it was a soft tube water cooler and I went as far as taking a mini fridge apart and pulling the peltier cooler out and buying a copper plate and placing that on my cpu and using the water cooler to cool the hot side of the peltier cooler and managed to achieve sub zero temps. but my water cooler started boiling and almost destroyed my pc!

When I got back to SA I had to go air cooling again as water cooling was very expensive and hard to get parts for. Things have changed in the past couple of years though. When I got my first I7 920 and the first AIOs loops were out I managed to get myself a Corsair H80i V1 and I have been using that for years! I upgraded to my I7 4770k back in 2013 I think and was able to use the same AIO loop and I'm still using it till this day on that pc! It cools that cpu very well and its heavily over clocked! I have it over clocked to 4.7Ghz and its been overclocked since I bought it! So I can definitely recommend liquid cooling.
They last VERY long. I mean I have been using that loop since I think 2010 or 2011 and its still works perfectly!

Have you used a closed loop cooler? Thinking about keeping it simple and just getting one of those.

 

[osiris]

I have been using water cooling for as long as I can remember. I did my first water loop in the UK but it was a soft tube water cooler and I went as far as taking a mini fridge apart and pulling the peltier cooler out and buying a copper plate and placing that on my cpu and using the water cooler to cool the hot side of the peltier cooler and managed to achieve sub zero temps. but my water cooler started boiling and almost destroyed my pc!

When I got back to SA I had to go air cooling again as water cooling was very expensive and hard to get parts for. Things have changed in the past couple of years though. When I got my first I7 920 and the first AIOs loops were out I managed to get myself a Corsair H80i V1 and I have been using that for years! I upgraded to my I7 4770k back in 2013 I think and was able to use the same AIO loop and I'm still using it till this day on that pc! It cools that cpu very well and its heavily over clocked! I have it over clocked to 4.7Ghz and its been overclocked since I bought it! So I can definitely recommend liquid cooling.
They last VERY long. I mean I have been using that loop since I think 2010 or 2011 and its still works perfectly!

Have you used a closed loop cooler? Thinking about keeping it simple and just getting one of those.

Yes, the corsair H80i that I mentioned is a closed loop cooler otherwise known as an AIO cooler.

 

[Zack]

Yes, the corsair H80i that I mentioned is a closed loop cooler otherwise known as an AIO cooler.

:facepalm: Sorry should have googled first. I assumed everything you mentioned was custom stuff :smilebounce:

 

[Hugo_za]

I decided to retire my Mac Pro 5,1 as my daily driver for work and replaced it with a PC instead. The Pro still runs respectably for a 10 year old machine (dual Xeon 5690 6 cores, 12 threads each) but overall it was just starting to feel it's age.

Replaced it with:
i9-9900k
Asus Aorus Pro-Wifi Z390
G.Skill RipJaw 32GB DDR4-2666
Cryorig H7 Cooler
EVGA Supernova G2 750w PSU
Corsair Carbide 270R Case

Cannibalised parts from the Mac Pro:
Lexar NS100 480GB SSD - Boot Drive
WD Black 7200 1TB - Work Data
Sapphire RX580 8GB

Geekbench on the Pro:

Geekbench on the i9:

Black next to the Mac:

 

[maxxis]

I decided to retire my Mac Pro 5,1 as my daily driver for work and replaced it with a PC instead. The Pro still runs respectably for a 10 year old machine (dual Xeon 5690 6 cores, 12 threads each) but overall it was just starting to feel it's age.

Replaced it with:
i9-9900k
Asus Aorus Pro-Wifi Z390
G.Skill RipJaw 32GB DDR4-2666
Cryorig H7 Cooler
EVGA Supernova G2 750w PSU
Corsair Carbide 270R Case

Cannibalised parts from the Mac Pro:
Lexar NS100 480GB SSD - Boot Drive
WD Black 7200 1TB - Work Data
Sapphire RX580 8GB

Geekbench on the Pro:

Geekbench on the i9:

Black next to the Mac:

For interest sake... what’s the plan with the Mac?


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[Hugo_za]

I decided to retire my Mac Pro 5,1 as my daily driver for work and replaced it with a PC instead. The Pro still runs respectably for a 10 year old machine (dual Xeon 5690 6 cores, 12 threads each) but overall it was just starting to feel it's age.

Replaced it with:
i9-9900k
Asus Aorus Pro-Wifi Z390
G.Skill RipJaw 32GB DDR4-2666
Cryorig H7 Cooler
EVGA Supernova G2 750w PSU
Corsair Carbide 270R Case

Cannibalised parts from the Mac Pro:
Lexar NS100 480GB SSD - Boot Drive
WD Black 7200 1TB - Work Data
Sapphire RX580 8GB

Geekbench on the Pro:

Geekbench on the i9:

Black next to the Mac:

For interest sake... what’s the plan with the Mac?


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It's still a pretty powerful rendering machine when using Keyshot, so I might use it for that when I do majorly complex renders. Other than that it will be relegated to file-, media- and backup server duties.

 

[osiris]

So a bit of an update to my Rendering/Gaming rig.

Still similar specs with a few upgrades.

CPU: AMD Threadripper 1950x
Ram: 64Gb DDR4 G.Skill 3200 RGB ram (Upgraded from 32Gb)
Mobo: Asus ROG Zenith Xtreme
GPU: RTX 3090 watercooled with vertical mount (Upgraded from 4x 1080ti)
PSU: Corsair HX1500i
HDDS: Samsung 512mb M.2 960 Pro, 512 960 EVO, 512Gb 970 EVO, 10TB and a 3TB normal drive
Case: Lian-Li PC011 Dynamic (Upgraded from Corsair carbide air 540)
Hardline waterloop. (Upgraded from AIO when I installed the 4x 1080ti)

 

[Zack]

So a bit of an update to my Rendering/Gaming rig.

Still similar specs with a few upgrades.

CPU: AMD Threadripper 1950x
Ram: 64Gb DDR4 G.Skill 3200 RGB ram (Upgraded from 32Gb)
Mobo: Asus ROG Zenith Xtreme
GPU: RTX 3090 watercooled with vertical mount (Upgraded from 4x 1080ti)
PSU: Corsair HX1500i
HDDS: Samsung 512mb M.2 960 Pro, 512 960 EVO, 512Gb 970 EVO, 10TB and a 3TB normal drive
Case: Lian-Li PC011 Dynamic (Upgraded from Corsair carbide air 540)
Hardline waterloop. (Upgraded from AIO when I installed the 4x 1080ti)

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Jeepers, that really is an amazing looking machine. A well made custom loop with good lighting just does a machine justice more than RGB will ever do.

ps, what did you do with your old parts? :fencelook: