PC Building

[BenWayland]

2 weeks ago I posted my All AMD Build titled "Sinister". Well, Sinister has officially gotten an upgrade to being completely water cooled! I will have the specs of this PC down below the pictures!

Build Specs:

• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Formula
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x3D
• CPU Block: Corsair Hydro X XC7 RGB Pro
• RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 64GB (4 x 16GB) 3600 CL16
• SSD: Corsair MP600 Pro LPX 1TB
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Reference
• GPU Block: Corsair Hydro X XG7 RGB RX
• PSU: ASUS ROG THOR 1200w Platinum
• PSU Cables: CableMod ModMesh EPS, 24Pin, & PCIe
• Case: Corsair 5000T
• Case Fans: Corsair QL120 x7
• Radiators: Corsair Hydro X XR5 360mm x2
• Distro: Corsair Hydro X XD7
• Fittings: Corsair Hydro X 90° Rotary, 14mm O/D Compression, EK Torque Drain
• Tubing: Corsair Hydro X 14mm O/D Hard Line - Clear
• Coolant: Corsair Hydro X XL8 - Red

[BigAl01]

Looks great, and the photography is excellent too.  

[BenWayland]

Thank you! 

[eebiii]

Very nicely done! Clean. Are you missing a 8-pin to your 6950xt? 

I like those Hydro X res/pump and CPU block. hope to use them in a build one day. Great job!

[BenWayland]

Appreciate that! As far as the 3rd 8pin, no. The Reference model GPU only has 2 8pin PCIe connections instead of 3 that you would find on the AIBs .

The blocks and distro are pretty nice. They all flow really well

[Vynski]

Very observant!  I sure overlooked it.

[GreatnessRD]

Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Joint is fire!

With an all water-cooled system, how often do you have to do maintenance and change out the liquid? One of the reasons I'm team air-cooled, among other things, lol. Nice build once again.

[BenWayland]

Thank you!

As far as maint, it depends on what coolant you run. If you are running clear, you can drain, flush, remove blocks and clean, and then re-fill once a year. With dyed coolant you will want to do that every 6 months. And then with opaque coolant you will want to do that every 3 months.

[Vynski]

I'm like @GreatnessRD an air man.  I do a 6month cleaning of of every desktop I have (4).  Not all on the same day or month.  I have a service log spreadsheet where I store the info on each.

[BenWayland]

There you go! As far as maintenance, the building life is my hobby to be honest with you. I just build and disassemble pretty much all my PCs. I only have 2 active PCs that are used everyday and those are all AIO CPU cooled and just the factory air block on the GPUs 

[eebiii]

Agree with you all. Coolant has come a long way. I built a system with a 390x and the block from the primochill liquid utopia dye I poured into the loop was stained so badly that I had to use crest 3d toothpaste and a toothbrush for days to get it clean. I also drained a 6800xt block like 2 months ago after running for 14 months with EK Cryofuel blood red, and the block was spotless after just rinsing it out. Really depends on brand, type, etc.

[BenWayland]

Completely agree with this! 

[mengelag]

I guess with all that Corsair, RGB Compatibility is not an issue ha