Recent content by nascentparadigm

I came across a post on Alphacool's official forums where someone confirmed that it was compatible with the non-Ti iterations. To be fair, I've only installed the block and it seems to fit nicely, I'm still not at the point where I can power the system on to make sure all the contacts are good.

Ok, water loop is "complete", as in all of the tubes have been cut and bent and the system holds pressure for 24hrs, which means when the time comes it should be ready to hold water! One of those bends took eight tries to get right - was a doozy of a route to run, as it had to go around the...

It's not a custom cable, its one that ships with the HDPLEX and I'm hooking it up to a Dell power brick so it should be fine...

Found a little bit of time to make some progress today. First, shortening the wires on the DDC pump, which were over a foot long and only needed to be a couple of inches (first and second images). Also worked on creating a hole for the DC barrel plug to go, since a fan and the HDPLEX will be...

I have no doubt that's true, but I'm sure they had more than a centimeter of space between the two radiators. I can always try it both ways, I just feel like with the limited clearance, turbulence will be more of a problem than impedance (which is what I'm assuming is the limiting factor in the...

Ok all the parts are in, and I was able to do a dry fit to make sure everything I visualized in CAD is actually going to work out, and with one exception that seems to be true. The GPU looks to be at a bit of an angle, so will have to figure out what's happening there. Other than that just...

Has anyone ever had an issue with their GPU not fully sitting in the PCIE riser? Just got a new 4.1 and MSI 4070 Ventus, and you can kind of see it in the image below that the left side of the GPU is higher than the right when attempting to seat the GPU fully in the riser - there's no way to...

I had not considered that, but the case only supports 92mm fans at the top/bottom so I'm not sure the airflow would be much improved. I am however considering flipping one of the rad fans to intake, so that I have a push/pull like configuration with a small gap between to hopefully sneak in a...

Slow going on getting the parts for the loop, the GPU block was backordered so still waiting for it to ship. Got all of the EKWB fittings though, and wanted to share the monstrosity I contrived to get from the CPU to the GPU, which is made of eleven extenders/adapters/fittings:

At the very least, that TechPowerUp build makes me feel better about the amount of clearance I have for my fan intakes!

@immolationepoch ah heck no, that's way too much machining for me (which is anything more than none). Hoping that the only modifications I need to make are shorter PSU cables.

I use Houdini/Maya for work, so it was more comfortable for me to use Blender than an AutoCAD program. Quick update, I did a dry run to make sure all the components are working, and thankfully everything was a-ok. I thought it would only take me a couple hours but ended up taking most of the...

Posted in several other places on the forums asking for advice/feedback on a potential build, and after many iterations in CAD I'm confident enough in the design that I've decided to go ahead with it, even if there's the possibility of a couple things not working out perfectly! Ever since I...

Ok, following up on this, I have two different designs I'm considering: 2x Alphacool ST20 120mm radiator with 15mm fans > 1x Alphacool XT45 120mm radiator with a 25mm fan > Which one do you guys think would be more performant?

They do, but shipping is $80 to the US for a $15 part, so I'm trying to find an alternate source if I can.