Blueshift - Purple AMD watercooled rig

[BluMondae]

Hi guys! It's been a while I haven't been surfing on those forums and since I uploaded my last build.

This one started from my old AMD rig (FX 8350, 7970Ghz x2), which was my first one. I then decided to change a few things such as the case, until I realized I could properly fit a watercooling loop. A few months later, here I am, part of the watercooling adventure. :beerchug:

Specs:
AMD FX 8350 @ 4.85Ghz
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
M5A99fx PRO
16Gb HyperX @ 1800Mhz cl9
750W XFX Pro Black Edition Semi-modular Silver
Phanteks Enthoo Pro M acrylic
Bitfenix Recon Fan controller
Samsung 840 Evo 128Gb
Crucial MX 100 512Gb
WD Blue 1Tb
4x EK vardar 120mm
2x Be Quiet! Shadow Wings 2 140mm
1x Enermax Appolish 120mm
2x Enermax Tb.Silence 80mm
Bitfenix red cable extensions
Red + UV led strips

WC parts:
EK Predator 240 expanded (DDC 3.1 pump, P240 rad, Supremacy MX block)
EK P240 radiator
EK Acrylic-Copper Fury X waterblock
EK 10/16 nickel fittings
Alphacool Eisflugel flow meter
Mayhem UV red coolant
Masterkleer 16/10 transparent tubing
Various white and red leds in the blocks and flow meter

Peripherals:
BenQ XL2730Z (1440p, 144Hz, Freesync)
Logitech G700s
Logitech G710+ (mechanical, brown switches)
HyperX Cloud II headset
Tobii Eye tracker

Pictures:

It's been quite hard to reproduce the real lighting and colors. In fact in reality it is more purple than seen on those pics. More sober, some pics look like a christmas tree here.


Planned upgrades/maintenance:
- Switching to EK DuraClear tubing (Masterkleer is already loosing some plasticizer after 2 months. Tubes are not transparent anymore)
- Alphacool 14W/mK thermal pads on the Fury X vrms (with the standard 3.5W/mK EK ones, vrm temps reach 70°C compared to 45°C for the gpu core)
- thermal paste replacement for the cpu and gpu (Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut)
- Phobya UV red liquid

This is my first loop, any suggestions are welcome! Hope you enjoy it.

Cheers

 

[AlienALX]

Very nice. Good to see an all AMD build too

In future if you want hose to go dead straight then heat it up with a heat gun. Plastic has a memory, and when you heat it it will return to its original shape

Then you can get rid of the cable ties dude.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Very nice and all, bonus credits for that vrm cooling fan

 

[BluMondae]

Thanks guys! Glad you like it

That's great, I didn't know about the heating of the tubes. I thought it was for hard tubes only. Since I have a heat gun I'll give it a try next week when I change the tubing

Yeah this motherboard is quite frustrating. Even with those 2 fans blowing directly on the vrm, the motherboard can barely sustain the load at 4.85Ghz with 1.4V only. Cpu core temps are ~50°C and gpu 45°C so there would be some room to push the cpu further

 

[AlienALX]

Just do it evenly and take your time.

I heated three in mine. Some I wanted curved because I like curves but yeah, you can heat them straight you will need something to put in them when you are heating though, as they get hot

 

[BluMondae]

That looks quite clean indeed, I'll definitely give it a try.

Nice case modding by the way. Also, this gpu looks really small, I'm guessing it's not the Fury in your signature since it has the nvidia logo and less power cables...

 

[AlienALX]

That looks quite clean indeed, I'll definitely give it a try.

Nice case modding by the way. Also, this gpu looks really small, I'm guessing it's not the Fury in your signature since it has the nvidia logo and less power cables...

That's not the Fury rig no mate. That is here.

In my Xeon rig. The green one has a Geforce 950 in it and a six core Phenom 2. Old parts, but wanted there to be less risk than cooling expensive stuff (was my first real full WC rig).

I've got three in total. One on all AIOs (Titan XM and 5820k, where the Fury X used to be) and a 8 core ES Xeon with a Fury X then the old part rig