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So got my hands on Corsair Carbide 275Q in good condition for 40$ and plan is to have some fun with it.
Plans so far:
- custom front inlay in walnut.
- clear acrylic side panel
- custom top inlay in walnut
- custom side panel with decals or something.
Water cooling:
- Dual Alpha cool ST30...
Small upgrade for the build with a Ryzen 5 5600 and a HP 3060 TI with a Bykski water block, but it was running a little hot with the DC-LT 2600 pump so I found a used EK-XRES 140 D5.
Cut some gasket from a 1mm rubber sheet to try and damp some of the vibration.
Two small ones for the mounting bracket at the pump and a large one that goes between the wood case and the bottom alu plate.
Still some noise/drone and I also tried with some rubber strips to place the case on and that helped as well.
Just doing some testing without the front to see if I can remove the last pump noise. Think it must be between my main alu plate and the wood case, maybe I could add some kind of foam...
So it seems that the noise comes from my angled fitting that goes to the top of the reservoir.
It is touching the wall slightly, so I'm thinking that I could tap and drill a hole in the top cap of the reservoir and move the fitting to there instead.
So the PC is back in the radio again and temps seems to be fine when gaming and doing occt power test.
Only really annoying thing is some sort of drone noise from the pump, which only seems to be there when pc is installed in the wood case.
I'm thinking something is resonating, but not really...
Did some testing in CS2 for 1,5hours and with fans at 900 RPM and pump at full speed GPU hotspot stays around 60-61°C and CPU temp is somewhere around 50-55°C.
Delta between water temp and ambient is 6-7C° and water is around 28-29°C.
So I'm happy, now I just need to get it back in the radio again
Ok I'm a little less worries now :)
I guess I could add another rad to see if I can decrease the exhaust temp compared to ambient and perhaps run with a little less fan speed?
So I think maybe my GPU water block is not as effective as I thought or maybe it is fine.
What do people think?
Loading GPU/CPU to max in OCCT temps seems to be:
Ambient temperature around 23-24C.
Intake coolant temp 31c
Exhaust coolant temp 30c
CPU max 55C
GPU hot spot 64-65C
GPU memory...
So I also received my GPU block (for the Asus 3060TI) and my CPU block from Liquid Extasy.
Getting ready to mount the CPU cooler:
Fitting GPU Block, looking damn sexy:
All hoses in place and 2 hour leak test:
Close up of GPU and CPU:
So tried to do the flow measurement again.
Setup...
So I got my self a NEXT high flow sensor and installed that to some measurements.
Setup:
ID6,5mm hoses
CPU block: Coolermaster ML120 RGB head (the one if have been using all the time.
GPU Block: None, I bypassed it since I'm running my Asus 3060TI with air cooling atm.
Result: ~ 80 L/h
To be...