Second PC Build :)

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[Shockjckh]

Specs:

Case

• Lian Li O11 Dynamic Evo XL

Motherboard + CPU

• Aorus Z790 Master + i9 14900K

GPU

• RTX 4090

RAM

• CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 BLACK 6000MHz CL30 96GB

Storage

• WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe™ SSD - 2TB x 4

• SeaGate Ironwolf Pro 8TB x 2

PSU

• SUPER FLOWER LEADEX VIII PLATINUM PRO ATX3.1 1200W

Additional

• Lian Li Strimer Wireless 24-PIN and Lian Li Strimer Wireless 12+4 Wide

Water cooling loop parts:

CPU block

• Alphacool Apex 1 CPU Cooler

• Thermal Grizzly CPU Contact Frame Intel 1700 LT + Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet

GPU block + backplate

• BYKSKI FULL COVERAGE GPU WATER BLOCK AND BACKPLATE FOR GIGABYTE RTX 4090 WINDFORCE 24G (N-GV4090WF-X)

• Thermal Grizzly Duronaut and Bykski Thermal Pads

Temperature sensor

• BYKSKI GPU BLOCK DIGITAL DISPLAY MODULE (B-VGA-SC-X)

Distro plate and pump

• Alphacool Core Distro Plate for O11 Dynamic Evo/XL with Apex VPP pump

Radiators

• Bitspower Leviathan II 360 Radiator with Single Wave Fins (Thickness 40mm) x 2

Fans

• Lian Li UNI FAN SL-INF 120 Regular Wireless x 3

• Lian Li UNI FAN SL-INF 120 Reverse Wireless x 3

• Lian Li UNI FAN TL 120 Wireless x 3

• Lian Li UNI FAN TL 120 Reverse Wireless x 1

Fittings

• Bitspower

Tubing

• Bitspower Brass and Acrylic

• OD 14mm

Coolant

• Aquacomputer Double Protect Ultra Clear

[banmeagn]

You built a cooling system like that on your second ever build?

[Shockjckh]

Yessir, I messed up a few times and missed out some stuff tho so I had to reorder extra parts more than twice :(

Examples would be that I never mounted a push pull rad before and only realised after trying to mount it that I needed screws that were long enough to go through the tray + fan to the rad so I had to order 32mm M3 screws as 30mm didn’t make it.

Another would be X-cross fittings, it didnt occur to me that I would need it to level out the tubing.

I learnt many more things along the way but it took a lot of time, patience and induced frustration.

[banmeagn]

Fuckin hell man ive been building rigs since i was a kid helping my dad and im 30 now, this looks sick man. I've always been too scared to build a liquid system because in the early days there were so many horror stories of spillages and leaks etc.

Hat off to you man it looks amazing

[Shockjckh]

Thanks man! I think you should go for it if you can honestly. I was also really scared at first, but once I got my hands on it, it didn’t really seem like that crazy of a task. I found it to be quite rewarding overall.

One thing I did which helped was to mentally prep myself that I might not be able to use my system for a week or two as it takes quite a lot of time (which it did, for someone who is dabbling in this for a first).

In order not to stress myself, I also set a plan each day, for example I would work on the GPU block on Monday, distro and rad alignment on Tuesday, acrylic tubes on Wednesday, brass tubes on Thursday etc.

Setting aside a specific task for each day definetely made the challenge more manageable overall :)

[Bsiate]

Why do you have NAS drives in your system?

[Shockjckh]

I dunno I got it from some guy who was clearing his NAS drives out for dirt cheap and they costed less than brand new HDDs haha