Trials and tribulations...
First off, the O11XL is lovely to work with. Bit of room to get fingers and hands in.
Love the M.2 pop holders in the Hero, makes populating a breeze.
So...
I'm currently running the following.
3 fans pulling air in vertically at the side.
3 fans pulling air up and pushing through the single fat rad.
3 fans in the roof pulling air in.
1 fan exhausting at the back.
9950X3D is watercooled under an AquaComputer cuplex kryos NEXT VARIO VISION at about 5C delta over ambient at idle and nudging 75C when under heavy test load.
Gpu is an air cooled Asus Prime 9070XT OC
Storage = 2TB Samsung 9100 Pro and 2 x Samsung 990 Pro 4TB
Initially I was running with 4 * 32GB Gskill TridentZ 6000 but I could not for love nor money get it to boot at anything over 4800MT/s. Performance in PCMark was lower than my Ryzen R9 7900 & Rx9070 on X670e so dropped a couple of sticks to take stock.
Current running 2 * 32 at 6000.
Had a funny issue the day after I built it up whereupon if I put a USB stick in, it would shutdown. Then it got to the stage where I could leave it 5 mins and restart where it would get to the desktop and then shutdown. Thought I might have had a air lock and Cpu spiking in temp but no, cpu sitting at 34C. Removed the USB headers, same issue. Removed the 9070, same but took longer to crash. Smart erase, reinstalled everything. Bang, down it went. Swapped the power lead... All good in the hood.
It is now running Yuri Bubliy's Hydra 2 sandbox for determination best weighing of pbo, voltages, oc. This will take a day, maybe 2 and then I'll move onto tweaking the Gpu. Im humming and haaing over getting a 5090 and just being done with it but then I see yet another account of one self combusting and I'll tell myself to wait for a RX 10090 XTX
