Ladies and Gentlemen...
...I'm at it again.
Granted, not as extravagant as in the past but a mans gotta slow down in his later years, so you understand.
Lets start with a brief history as there's a build log that I skipped before this one.
I started Here with James' first prototype of the now current Sliger Cerberus. I dubbed it Nova Prime and it ended up something like this
I sold the complete system to a young chap here in Aus, So the case itself is god only knows where.
After that I went full water-cooling in a P5, Don't really have much photos so we'll gloss over that over 20L monster and continue on.
Following that little hiccup, I actually bough a Ghost S1 with the intention of shrinking down. I got so annoyed about having to not use my ATX mobo and mono block that I ended up designing my own P5 inspired open air case - Here
I learned a lot from the experience. Made some measuring mistakes and underestimated the weight of everything but all in all, it was mostly a success. I still have it, Currently has an old 1080ti and 6600k in it and is used as my pc for my 4k TV.
From then to now, I bought a Cerberus-X and kind of jammed all my stuff in there to the point that it was packed. This posts namesake is because of my Cerberus-X's current configuration. The Tesseract...
Yeah Yeah Yeah I know... Blue...on blue...on blue. It's the denim jacket and denim pants of PC's. I'll be real with you, It actually looks great in person with all the panels on and the windowed side panel. The blue seems to bug my camera out and I can't seem to capture how it really looks, I did however try to tweak it in Lightroom to look about as realistic as it does to me (Should probably note I'm also colourblind, Please don't tell me if it's actually been purple this whole time).
Lights off
And nude
With all that out of the way, Lets focus on the rebuild.
The star off the show isn't actually in the photo. It's a 9900k. A decent upgrade from my 9600k and a bit of future proofing for the eventual 3080 install once they're available again. The pump shown is the new VTX pump by EK. Will it be better than my DDC 3.2? Dunno, Ain't gonna test it or nothing, was just an upgrade path I took to motivate me to pull apart my loop and do the maintenance. I've also decided I'm not particularly big on the FLT240. It's cool, really, but in a SFF case it just takes up too much room, especially with solid tubes. Which leads me into that small fortune of tasty fittings pictured above. Kind of hoping flexible tubing will make maintenance slightly easier, might not, more of an excuse to change things up really. I can say that here because I know my partner won't be reading this :')
The plan is to do a sweet parallel loop between GPU and CPU. Also shifting fluid colours from blue to something else, but that can wait until further into the build log. The best part of replacing all my nickel fittings with the newer black fittings from EK is that I get to reuse them in my best mates PC. He's finally agreed to let me build him a complete custom loop with 3080 and 10900k. Will most likely chuck the FLT240 in there too. But that's a story for another thread. Will also being changing up the configuration of the fans. I stupidly have the bottom fans exhausting out...exhausting hot air from the front rad out the bottom. I swear it was intake, but it's done and should hopefully improve temps. Also configuring the front rad in push pull with the Noctua slim 15mm fans, So that should be interesting. I read an EK article about push pull on slim radiators being 6-7 degrees better, I'll post that here.
And I was reading another the other night about how the A12x15 perform very similarly to the 25mm variant, I'll post that here too.
Anyways, It's late, I'm tired. I'll keep you posted on my progress over the next couple of weeks. Thanks for joining me
...I'm at it again.
Granted, not as extravagant as in the past but a mans gotta slow down in his later years, so you understand.
Lets start with a brief history as there's a build log that I skipped before this one.
I started Here with James' first prototype of the now current Sliger Cerberus. I dubbed it Nova Prime and it ended up something like this
I sold the complete system to a young chap here in Aus, So the case itself is god only knows where.
After that I went full water-cooling in a P5, Don't really have much photos so we'll gloss over that over 20L monster and continue on.
Following that little hiccup, I actually bough a Ghost S1 with the intention of shrinking down. I got so annoyed about having to not use my ATX mobo and mono block that I ended up designing my own P5 inspired open air case - Here
I learned a lot from the experience. Made some measuring mistakes and underestimated the weight of everything but all in all, it was mostly a success. I still have it, Currently has an old 1080ti and 6600k in it and is used as my pc for my 4k TV.
From then to now, I bought a Cerberus-X and kind of jammed all my stuff in there to the point that it was packed. This posts namesake is because of my Cerberus-X's current configuration. The Tesseract...
Yeah Yeah Yeah I know... Blue...on blue...on blue. It's the denim jacket and denim pants of PC's. I'll be real with you, It actually looks great in person with all the panels on and the windowed side panel. The blue seems to bug my camera out and I can't seem to capture how it really looks, I did however try to tweak it in Lightroom to look about as realistic as it does to me (Should probably note I'm also colourblind, Please don't tell me if it's actually been purple this whole time).
Lights off
And nude
With all that out of the way, Lets focus on the rebuild.
The star off the show isn't actually in the photo. It's a 9900k. A decent upgrade from my 9600k and a bit of future proofing for the eventual 3080 install once they're available again. The pump shown is the new VTX pump by EK. Will it be better than my DDC 3.2? Dunno, Ain't gonna test it or nothing, was just an upgrade path I took to motivate me to pull apart my loop and do the maintenance. I've also decided I'm not particularly big on the FLT240. It's cool, really, but in a SFF case it just takes up too much room, especially with solid tubes. Which leads me into that small fortune of tasty fittings pictured above. Kind of hoping flexible tubing will make maintenance slightly easier, might not, more of an excuse to change things up really. I can say that here because I know my partner won't be reading this :')
The plan is to do a sweet parallel loop between GPU and CPU. Also shifting fluid colours from blue to something else, but that can wait until further into the build log. The best part of replacing all my nickel fittings with the newer black fittings from EK is that I get to reuse them in my best mates PC. He's finally agreed to let me build him a complete custom loop with 3080 and 10900k. Will most likely chuck the FLT240 in there too. But that's a story for another thread. Will also being changing up the configuration of the fans. I stupidly have the bottom fans exhausting out...exhausting hot air from the front rad out the bottom. I swear it was intake, but it's done and should hopefully improve temps. Also configuring the front rad in push pull with the Noctua slim 15mm fans, So that should be interesting. I read an EK article about push pull on slim radiators being 6-7 degrees better, I'll post that here.
And I was reading another the other night about how the A12x15 perform very similarly to the 25mm variant, I'll post that here too.
Anyways, It's late, I'm tired. I'll keep you posted on my progress over the next couple of weeks. Thanks for joining me
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