My aesthetic is pretty minimal. I like subtlety, silence and performance with a throwback to almost any decade from the early 1900s to the late 1970s. Not always the easiest combination when it comes to building PCs 
I am still very much a water / liquid cooling noob. This is only my second attempt at building a custom loop - I even skipped the AIO stage cos I knew I wanted to tinker and pick my own parts. A big thank you goes out to 80ishplus on Instagram for months of careful advice and cajoling. Apologies in advance for the wildly differing lighting, a young toddler and long working hours means there's very little time in the day or evening to complete builds.
This build was originally on an open Yuel Beast Monument but with the oncoming summer in a sub-tropical region and a cat in the house, I felt the need to move this into the sealed, liquid domain. I took parts I had lying around and managed to put a custom loop on the GPU and a Thermalright AXP-100 Copper for the CPU. GPU Memory Junction temps so far are impressive compared to an earlier NR200 build I did with a Galax RTX 3090 SG in an NR200 so I'm pretty happy - particularly with my ITX builds mining ETH when they're not used for gaming.
Ebony
CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G
GPU - Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Edition
MB - Gigabyte B550i Aorus Pro
RAM - 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3600 C18
PSU - Corsair SF750
SSD - 1TB Western Digital Blue SN550
CASE - NCase M1 v6.1
COOLING
I initially started out by keeping the Noctua Redux fans I got a couple of years ago after there was a chromax.black drought. After a bit of disassembling and convincing myself it was worth it to crack open two fresh Noctuas, the Redux were replaced and a custom PSU cable from PSlate was tested.
Changing almost anything in cases this size or smaller generally means removing almost everything and starting over. One is constantly mindful of always giving the fittings a quick squeeze to the right after removing and putting components back in, just in case they've been nudged. These are hard lessons if you've been crouched over a build that suddenly develops a sneaky leak.
While the PSU cable looks great, it turns into an issue later on and is replaced by the original - this style of cable may work best with intricate hard tubing or an air-cooled system but that isn't my goal here.
A custom 12-pin GPU cable from DreamBigByRay on Etsy is used, however. More zip tying, pinning, sleeving to do (note for the future).
I am still very much a water / liquid cooling noob. This is only my second attempt at building a custom loop - I even skipped the AIO stage cos I knew I wanted to tinker and pick my own parts. A big thank you goes out to 80ishplus on Instagram for months of careful advice and cajoling. Apologies in advance for the wildly differing lighting, a young toddler and long working hours means there's very little time in the day or evening to complete builds.
This build was originally on an open Yuel Beast Monument but with the oncoming summer in a sub-tropical region and a cat in the house, I felt the need to move this into the sealed, liquid domain. I took parts I had lying around and managed to put a custom loop on the GPU and a Thermalright AXP-100 Copper for the CPU. GPU Memory Junction temps so far are impressive compared to an earlier NR200 build I did with a Galax RTX 3090 SG in an NR200 so I'm pretty happy - particularly with my ITX builds mining ETH when they're not used for gaming.
Ebony
CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G
GPU - Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Edition
MB - Gigabyte B550i Aorus Pro
RAM - 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3600 C18
PSU - Corsair SF750
SSD - 1TB Western Digital Blue SN550
CASE - NCase M1 v6.1
COOLING
- EKWB Quantum Vector Silver Special 3080 FE block
- EKWB Coolstream SE 240mm radiator
- IceMan pump / reservoir with Bitspower Laing DDC pump, soft ZMT 10/16 tubing
- Thermalright AXP-100 Full Copper
I initially started out by keeping the Noctua Redux fans I got a couple of years ago after there was a chromax.black drought. After a bit of disassembling and convincing myself it was worth it to crack open two fresh Noctuas, the Redux were replaced and a custom PSU cable from PSlate was tested.
Changing almost anything in cases this size or smaller generally means removing almost everything and starting over. One is constantly mindful of always giving the fittings a quick squeeze to the right after removing and putting components back in, just in case they've been nudged. These are hard lessons if you've been crouched over a build that suddenly develops a sneaky leak.
While the PSU cable looks great, it turns into an issue later on and is replaced by the original - this style of cable may work best with intricate hard tubing or an air-cooled system but that isn't my goal here.
A custom 12-pin GPU cable from DreamBigByRay on Etsy is used, however. More zip tying, pinning, sleeving to do (note for the future).
