Time Sync.

[AlienALX]

Damn man, you're a machine! Try ALL the waterblocks, LOL!!

10 PRINT "BITSPOWER"
20 GO TO 10
RUN

BITSPOWER
BITSPOWER
BITSPOWER
BITSPOWER
BITSPOWER
BITSPOWER
BITSPOWER
BITSPOWER

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lol.

My mate asked me yesterday why I was so addicted to water cooling. I said "It's like Mephisto's monkey. You just gotta keep adding asses to it"

 

[AlienALX]

OK so it's done for the moment. Lots of issues, will run through those.

I got home last night and fitted the new CPU block. Went well. I then drilled the reinforcement plate I made the other week and bolted that in. Which allows me to fit all three nuts and bolts to the vertical riser. The Phanteks riser never fitted very well, as I had basically modded the entire case to take the Cooler Master one, yet the ribbons on those are crap and it failed.

Now I could fit and remove the GPU waaaay easier. It's night and day, with literally no sag at all. Before it had one bolt in the bottom, so it sagged even with a 2070 in there (a literal featherweight).

I then ran into issue number one. The res is huge. How they work it out IDK, but mine was a 100mm and this was supposed to be a 150 yet it is twice as long. This is good, because it means I can have more coolant in there, but the whole loop was not going to work as it was. There was just no room.

I removed a stop plug on the flow meter to move it to the bottom hole (so I could come out at an angle) and it cross threaded. The only way to remove it was to take the flow meter apart. All told it took me about two hours to fix this, and it was leaking afterward. I've also fitted the ceramic pole the wrong way around and thus it won't spin now (but flow is still very good).

Issue two then raised its head. The RGB adapter for Gigabyte's unique 3 pin fan but RGB connector was wired with the black wire as 5v. I have never seen something so idiotic. So of course I fitted it with the blue wire to 5v. Problem is once you put the GPU in you can not get to it without removing the GPU which isn't fun when you have two litres of coolant in your PC. Any way I found a way around it (thanks to the new design of the vertical riser) and got that working.

Issue 3. I thought I had two 8 pin extensions in the rig (black). Turns out I had a 8 pin and 6 pin. That's OK though, thankfully I had a spare 8 pin in grey which looks fantastic in there.

Issue 4. Windows killdate. Windows updated itself. The rig rebooted. I installed the GPU driver, tried to run 3dmark (anything just to test the card) and I installed Precision X1. I went into Precision but I had no clock control, no voltage, no power or thermal limit nothing. It was all greyed out. Then 3dmark would not get past the hardware scan. So I disabled the hardware scan and ran Time Spy, card was not boosting and was sitting at 1350mhz which made it slower than a 2080.

By now it was midnight. I had spent two hours just trying to get something running so I could test the GPU. I conceded that in the end I would need to reinstall Windows.

By this time Windows had died any way, and I was getting "unable to find boot device". This was after the killdate.

Great, only one issue. I took every single USB stick I own over to my mother's for building the NAS. I found a SD card, but I have thrown away all of the readers. In desperation I dug through my crawl space and found my PSone mini and thank the heavens there was a 32gb stick poking out of the front. Took the rig down, moved it, put my other rig in and made a boot stick.

By 2am I had Windows back on, this time in UEFI. How it ended up in Legacy I have absolutely no idea. This time, however, it worked. Seems I did well on the GPU front too.

There is one thing left I want to do. Aquasuite still will not pick up my Farbwerk or LT on their own USB splitters. So I am going to have to connect them directly to the mobo.

Then I can get rid of that god awful bloody pink it has defaulted to and have full control over all of the RGB again. Something lacking since I removed my Intel mobo and AquaComputer blame on Ryzen /rolls eyes.

 

[AlienALX]

Finally. Finally I fixed the USB problem and could rid myself of the gash pink.

 

[AlienALX]

Whaaa? an update? Amazingly yes. I still have this rig. It has sat untouched for about 7 months now. The coolant had yellowed slightly but other than that it still looked the same. I needed to flush the coolant any way because when I rebuilt the flow meter the impeller got stuck. It still allowed tons of coolant through, but yeah it wasn't spinning. So the first thing I did was drain down the loop, remove it and fix it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko9ZQ3D7FMQ

So with that done I decided to hard mount the panel that I made to cover the IO about two years ago.

OK. Now before any one even says anything; no. I am not happy with the paint at all. I thought it would be hard wearing as it should be, kinda like powder coat, but it is terrible. It literally falls off if you go near it, and thus when you touch it up it makes it look even worse. I have decided to make a large removable frame that screws onto it. Probably made from acrylic. Think picture frame, but obviously made to fit. Had I known how truly crap the paint would be I would have had it powdered. So just ignore that for now.

The rig is still sat in my kitchen because of the sheer weight of it, and the ease of destroying those 1.5mm alu panels all over it. Especially the front one. The rig weighs well over 50kg and there really is no easy way to carry it. It does not have any handles, and it is large and cumbersome. Which is really annoying, as it totally craps on the rig I use at my mother's. Which has a 2070S and 16gb 2666 ram. This one is 2080Ti, better loop, better cooling, nicer case, better mobo and 32gb 3200 Doms. However, I think I have come to the realisation that to move it it will need to be pretty much gutted out.

And, if I am going to do that I may as well clean the rads. Which again, are very very hard to access due to the design of the rig. IE, for example, to remove the front rad fans you need to remove the reservoir, the res bracket, the fan halos, and then finally the fans. Which means a full drain.

As such this is the reason for my post. Because the rig is totally unicorn vomit and cost a king's ransom to make it that way I decided I wanted to change the fans. Right now I have black BQs with halos on. I didn't realise BP had released fan kits. When I found out they were on sale. So I grabbed the triple kit with the controller and hub.

And a single one to make four.

I will not be removing the Halos, pictured here. Front.

And top.

Those will be put back on, giving me ring lighting and lighting on the fan blades themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWPOAPJkULI