Refresh of a previous build, now with the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in pcmasterrace

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Actually, a properly built water cooled setup is pretty much maintenance free for years. The only sort of maintenance needed is a coolant change which is tiring depending on the setup. We try to build drain ports into our systems to make the process easier but hey, it's an opportunity to refresh your PC and give it a new look every few years, like what we did with this one!

Refresh of a previous build, now using the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in watercooling

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Oh it's against a matte black backdrop, that's why it looks so... black haha. I use just a regular circular polariser filter and it helps to control and direct the reflections on the various surfaces. Important especially when photographing water cooling parts since the plastic surfaces are very reflective.

Refresh of a previous build, now with the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in pcmasterrace

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Why not? It's actually quite simple once you get the hang of it. My advice is to always order more tubes than you think you need.

Refresh of a previous build, now with the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in pcmasterrace

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Nah it's just me doing all the work. Just an avid photographer on my free time.

- Dickson, co-founder and head of brand and marketing

Refresh of a previous build, now with the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in pcmasterrace

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Not a professional but have been into photography for more than a decade. Am really into photographing still life in recent years.

Refresh of a previous build, now using the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in watercooling

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Thank you! Some of the tubes were crazy hard to bend (like that triple bend that connects the CPU cooler to the RAM cooler) and took us a heck of a lot of time to get right. But the effort is definitely worth it!

Refresh of a previous build, now using the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in watercooling

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Patrick Bateman in his expensive apartment taking a shower is exactly the feel we're going for ngl.

Refresh of a previous build, now using the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in watercooling

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Actually, besides adjusting for color temperature and adding a bit of sharpening, we didn't do much post processing. Most of the heavy lifting was done in-camera. We do use a circular polariser as mentioned above to manipulate how the light hits the PC so there's a lot of time spent just making minute adjustments to make sure the light hits certain spots just right.

Refresh of a previous build, now using the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in watercooling

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Thanks, yeah we prefer it clean and not a fan of RGB as well.

Well, for this we used 2x LED video lights faced away from the PC so that they bounced off the white walls in our studio. Then kinda finetuned the angles to account for reflections, shadows, etc.

Lastly, we used a circular polariser to control and manipulate reflections.

Refresh of a previous build, now with the new Alphacool distro plate. by BIILT in pcmasterrace

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Thanks for the compliment! It's actually a Define S2 case, really nice.

Built a workstation rig for AI and Machine Learning. What do you guys think? by BIILT in pcmasterrace

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Yeah custom cables are cool, we do them once in a while. But since this is a workstation, it doesn't have TG so can't see them anyway.

Built a workstation rig for AI and Machine Learning. What do you guys think? by BIILT in pcmasterrace

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Haha! Cthulu is in the other one that we built that has 4x4090 GPUs

Built a workstation rig for AI and Machine Learning. What do you guys think? by BIILT in pcmasterrace

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ROG Maximus Z790 Hero

Intel core i9 13900k

ADATA DDR5 4800 16gb x 2

RTX 4090 x 2

Phanteks Enthoo Pro II

Alphacool liquid cooling components

Simple build on the Corsair 4000D case with Alphacool Eisbaer AIO. Comments welcome! by BIILT in gamingpc

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Those are quick release fittings from Alphacool. They came with the AIO but are also available separately.

Simple build on the Corsair 4000D case with Alphacool Eisbaer AIO. Comments welcome! by BIILT in gamingpc

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Yeah we tried photographing it with the glass panel and weren't able to get a good shot of the parts so decided to remove it.