Red Rig Showcase

[saywhut]

Description

You'll either love it, or hate it.  Let me know what y'all think!

Specifications

CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Graphics	Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 5700 XT
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570
Memory	G.SKILL Trident Z Neo 32GB DDR4 3600(PC4 28800)
Disc Drive 1	Samsung 512GB 970 PRO (OS + Apps)
Disc Drive 2	Samsung 1TB PM961 (Games)
Disc Drive 3	Seagate BarraCuda 2TB (Data)
PSU	EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G3
Cooler	Thermaltake Floe Triple Riing RGB 360
Case	LIAN LI PC-O11 Dynamic Black
Case Fans	9x Thermaltake Riing Trio 12 RGB
Cable Kit	CableMod PRO ModMesh E-Series G3 (Red)
RGBs	2x RGB Strips(5v 3pin)
Monitor	LG 34GK950F-B 34 inch 21:9
Monitor	2x Dell P2214hb
Keyboard	HyperX Alloy Elite RGB with HyperX Double Shot PBT Keycaps
Mouse	HyperX Pulsefire Surge
Headset	HyperX Cloud Flight

[whiskey-foxtrot]

Needs more RGB (j/k) - a beastly setup you have there! Are you controlling the RGB with TT's hubs?

[saywhut]

i agree, not enough RGB!  Yes, I am using TT's software right now to control the RGB on the fans but their software is buggy or I have an issue with the controllers.  While playing with the settings all of a sudden one of the controllers won't be detected until I reboot the computer.

I have to open a ticket with TT but I just haven't gotten around to it.

[whiskey-foxtrot]

I would love to use those (Trio 12) fans in my builds, but no Asus Aura support is a deal breaker for me. Preferably I have all light sources controlled with one, in this case Aura. 

Did you try reaching out to them on their Discord server?

[saywhut]

Na, I opened a ticket with them though so I'm waiting to hear back.

I think I am going to move the radiator up top, i know it will make my GPU cooler but my CPU maybe a bit hotter.

[whiskey-foxtrot]

Now that I'm looking closer at the fan orientation, you have 3 at the bottom blowing air out, the ones on top are and the ones on the rad are pulling air in - or am I mistaken?

From my experience with this specific case, it can be a bit tricky figuring out the optimal airflow. Most of my builds have the rad on top (blowing air out) and the fans at the bottom as intakes - so it has a bottom to top airflow with some minor turbulence created around the GPU - but not much to affect cooling. With the LC'ed version of the GPUs of course that wasn't a problem.

I always tend to keep all rad air out of the case since it can build up and cause heat issues, but not as drastic as it may seem in theory.

[saywhut]

3 bottom are intake, then 3 side and top are exhaust.

[colesdav]

Looks great. Why so many fans?
I think those Sapphire RX5700XT Nitro+ only burn a max of 220 Watts power which is the same as an RTX2080OC.
Is the memory controller on the 3700X allowing you to run your RAM at 3600MHz and pass Ram Test?

[saywhut]

One word: Aesthetics.  I know I didn't need all those fans, I just bought them for the RGBs.

It is, I ran MEMTEST and everything passed.

[colesdav]

Try this in Windows 10 : RAM Test - Karhu Software 
It can test large amounts of RAM in Windows 10.
My Ryzen 2700X passed MEMTEST pre boot into Windows 10.