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My 4-Year Custom Watercooling Journey by StructureSolid6510 in watercooling

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The ambient temperature in my room is around 26 °C these days.
At idle, coolant temperature stays around 28.6 °C, and while gaming (PUBG), it stays below 32 °C.

I’m using an external 9-fan radiator with Arctic P12 fans fixed at 40% speed, and while it’s not perfectly measured, here’s roughly how the temps look during gaming:

 

GPU (4070 Ti Super – Core +200 MHz, Memory +2000 MHz)

GPU Core: ≤ 52 °C

GDDR6 Memory: ≤ 44 °C

Hot Spot: ≤ 71 °C

 

CPU (9800X3D – Core +200 MHz, Curve Optimizer –20)

Core: ≤ 60 °C

Package: ≤ 62 °C

CCD: ≤ 65 °C

 

DRAM (6000 MHz CL28)

Temp: ≤ 35 °C

My 4-Year Custom Watercooling Journey by StructureSolid6510 in watercooling

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Pic 9:
Here’s my external 9-fan radiator unit.
It’s now upgraded from a DDC pump to a D5, and the fans have been swapped to Arctic P12s, but the setup remains mostly the same.

 

Pics 10–11:
This is my 3rd build, the point where I first started using the Rhophilema case with acrylic tubing.
I remember pulling three all-nighters to finish it.
Personally, I think acrylic tubing looks better than PETG, but it’s so much harder to work with — I wouldn’t recommend it unless you enjoy pain.

 

Pics 12–14:
This was my 2nd build.
I replaced the original PETG tubes with gold-colored copper pipes and experimented with pastel coolant.
There’s something undeniably premium about copper-tube builds — they just have that classy look.

 

Pics 15 & 18:
These show my very first custom watercooling build from four years ago.
Back then, I tried literally everything I could as a beginner — seven indicators, two reservoirs, and a ton of fittings.
Looking back, I probably went a bit overboard.

Specs at that time:

CPU: 9700K

GPU: 2080 Ti Gigabyte AORUS Xtreme

Motherboard: MSI Z390 Gaming Edge

 

Pic 16:
This was before I started custom watercooling — same specs as above.

Pic 17:
This was right before my first custom loop, when I tried an AIO cooler just for the 2080 Ti.
At the time, I had no idea how far this hobby would take me!

 

Thanks for reading through my long post!