Modded Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic Home Workstation/Gaming Rig

[Dawelio]

@23RO_UK - No need to thank me, likewise!

Ah, so you experience it also?... Interesting. I actually removed this about a year ago when I had my even smaller Dan A4 SFX and the Asetek 645LT (92mm AIO) and I then set my 3700 at 4 GHz @ 1.1V or around there. This way the CPU didn't clock up and down, hence also the voltage were fixed and completely eliminated the ramping up an down of the AIO.

Although as you pointed out, it took a fair amount of time to fiddling around, testing etc etc. And I just gotten to a point in life, hence also why going both smaller and with the thoughts behind the air coolers, where I just simply want to enjoy my rig - and not having to tinker around with it. It used to be something I found interesting etc, getting the best values for my specific system, but you grow up and life gets more and more in the way of things.

 

[Dark NighT]

Very clean build, I totally get your reasoning as I recently did the same move. I got the O11D Mini in january and only about a week ago changed to the much smaller Cooler Master NR200P case. It was just too bulky on my desk.

Since then, I've personally gone with the Noctua NH-U9S Chromax and I have an 3700X. Seeing as you have an 5800X and an Noctua air cooler, does your heatsink also ramp up randomly due to the CPU having spikes of boosting?...

I can hear my fan spin up if loading just 5 Youtube tabs for example, then it quickly slows down again. I've never had this issue with an AIO, which is why I'm strongly considering going AIO again. I went with air cooling as wanted the peace of mind of longevity and foremost reliability that of air coolers - basically only the fan(s) that can break.

This can be solved in the bios by making a custom fancurve for the cpu fans so that it slowly ramps up based on temperature and not load or short spike temps that happen when you load up a program.


I did this to my 3700x on a msi core frozr heatsink with a single fan and it only spins up to audible levels when im gaming for a while.


Nice build to 23RO, i get where you come from having a 011D myself, its bulky and i've been considering a change up to something else, but im still waiting for a case that truely speaks to me, the CM cosmos 700p does because it looks fantastic but its even more huge, oh the first world problems

 

[23RO_UK]

@Dark NighT, I totally get where you're coming from when you say “waiting for a case that speaks to me”.

I'd done some research and the Define 7 Compact was initially an outsider in the final cut, the thing that sold it for me was the fact it came with an optional vented roof panel (included in the box); even so, it was only during the actual hands on of the rebuild I was like yeah, I made the right choice.

First world problems indeed lol

 

[23RO_UK]

It finally arrived...

So, after being on order for 242 days, the final piece of the puzzle arrived…

Say hello to the Zotac Gaming RTX 3070 AMP Holo (what a gob full lol).

Looks wise it’s a subjective flavour but ultimately it runs cool and quiet, overclocks like a champ and has a 5 year warranty (this was the principal selling point for me); furthermore mine cost me MSRP (£620).

Safely installed.

And fired up for the first time with zero issues


With a little tinkering I now have it running at a conservative +125MHz on the core clock equating to a base core clock of 1625MHz (boosting to 2115MHz) and on the memory +1000MHz giving it an effective memory speed of 16000MHz all with no increase to the power limit


Just a quick recap of what my rig has now evolved into 18 months later -

• AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU.
• Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master (rev. 1.0) Motherboard.
• Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 AMP Holo GPU.
• 32Gb (2x16Gb kits) of Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 PC4-32000C19 4000MHz DDR4 (PVS416G400C9K) running at 3600MHz CL15 1T timings.
• Two Sabrent Rocket 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD’s.
• Two Crucial MX500 1TB SATA SSD’s.
• EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G3 PSU.

The want was strong for a Founders Edition 3080 I will confess, on reflection however, the 3070 is perfect for my gaming needs at 1440p; end result, one very happy inner child lol.