Hello all, it took an age and a half but I finally found some time to wrap this thing up. Haven't done any temperature tests (any recommendations on how to do that?) but I downloaded a decibel app on my phone and am disappointed to say that at idle, it's about 5db louder than my air cooled setup (fans are basically all off at idle in the old setup, and the pump is pretty audible, but not the worst). Here's hoping that at full throttle it ends up being quieter (which is where the old setup got real bad when the GPU fans spun up).
After trimming the power cables and filling with fluid I had one terrifying day of DRAM error lights on the motherboard, but after plugging and unplugging everything a couple times, it has been starting up without issue. Also took about a week with it on its side, with a tube hooked into the fill port of the LOBO just to bleed all (read: most) of the bubbles out - now I understand the importance of having a reservoir in the loop if you can fit one.
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