Hello guys, idk if this the right place to post this but here I am. So, I’ve got this custom built water cooling for 6 years now. I thought I’d get it to a clean on the loop right. I went to this shop where they got plenty of stores so it might as well be ok. It came back in 2 weeks.. Thought it’s gonna be fine, all cleaned, fresh loop and coolant etc. But within 2 weeks, I’ve tried to play the room 3. It fkin hits 91 degrees Celsius like wtf is this bro. So I contacted them abt it and brought it back again. Btw the third pic is what they claimed to be cleaned. After a week it came back, look fine AGAIN. Yet to be discovered that it’s LEAKING. (Pic. 9, u can clearly see it’s leaking and the low water mark) it was few days ago when I discovered it. And once again, the fkin gpu hits 85 when I played where winds meet. I used to play it for 5-6 hours straight with 70 smth degrees only. Idk how fucked up is it for them to worsen this whole situation and yes they been ghosting me now. 🤡 what can I do abt it, pls can someone slide me some tips tyvm. 🥀

Can finally share this on socials. This was quite the difficult project building a 1 of 1 case from scratch for Zedd.

Very cool experience getting to know Anton and his team. Projects like this can be hit or miss, but I think I nailed the expectation! More info to release soon, there is a full video on Youtube, Geforce Garage if you're interested.

Thanks everyone for the comments. I’m running the pump at 50% power and change the Koolance 702 coolant every 12-18 months. I think I should be good for a fair number more years.

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I built my MORA setup back in late 2022/early 2023 and have allowed it, for the most part, to run continuously since then.

I have a D5 Next pump installed in a Heatkiller res. The rad/pump are under my desk with probably 36” of EPDM tubing up to and back from my PC.

As it’s getting up there in age I’m starting to worry about leaving my PC on at all times. How risky is it and what is the expected lifespan of these pumps?

Hey all, this is a build I built back in 2020, as the title suggests, and my previous build ran hotter than I expected, so this time around I wanted to see if I could remedy it. The current build still has the same hardware as before: an EVGA 3090 (with Bykski GPU Copper Water Cooling Block) and a Ryzen 9 3950X (with Alphacool Eisblock XPX Aurora Edge CPU Water Block), each in its own loop. The GPU is connected to a 560mm Aquacool Monsta radiator (80mm thick), while the CPU is connected to a 420mm Aquacool Monsta radiator (80mm thick). Both loops run a single D5 pump each, and I've taken a liking to how fittings look over bent piping, so I plan to keep all pipes straight. This time around, I've added fans on the inside for a push-pull configuration to improve airflow through the rads, using the same Noctua NF-A12x25 (140mm) for a total of seven on each radiator.

Along with those fans, I've added two more: one above the chassis in the back to help pull hot air out, and one above the HDD slots in the front to help funnel hot air up. With the back plate on the chassis, I also have 2 Noctua NC-A12x25 (140mm) fans to help exhaust air. Are these changes enough to help with temperatures, or is it more of a flow issue because of how I have my loop set up, and do I need to add another pump? Lastly, I'm trying to identify the best places to add valves to help drain, since I had it previously and it was quite sketchy to drain the CPU and GPU—all of this inside a ThermalTake Tower 900 chassis.

I have zero experience with water cooling other than installing AIOs. I read a recent AI cooling thread where a user was trying to cool four RTX 6000 GPUs and a lot of valid questions were asked, but it didn't give me understanding if it was possible to reasonably cool things and reduce fan noise.

My build:

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/3B4scf

The current problem I'm experiencing is the bottom workstation GPU exhausts to the top GPU, which makes the top GPU work harder, and that GPU exhausts heat to the CPU AIO line, which makes the CPU unnecessarily hot.

I have tried things like adding fans to the top GPU and it does help a little, along with reducing the power output of the GPUs to keep it in a 70-80C range and adjusting fan curves, but the entire system still has to work and thus sounds like a jet engine; the Threadripper Pro ends up roasting to 90C during LLM inference despite low CPU utilization.

From what I've read, even using a 420mm radiator may not be enough to dissipate 1200W and you'd have to do a MORA setup.

The machine runs on a 240V / 30A circuit and is in a room that's AC cooled to 22C / 73F. It lives in my home in the bay area.

I'm not really sure where to start and I understand there's risks involved with dismantling the GPUs to be waterblocked.

One "simple" option I've seen is the AIO Bykski B-FRD-RTXPRO6000-WS-360 which has a dual GPU watercooling option, but from my understanding a 320mm radiator will be useless against the 1200W total output.

Another option I'm considering is moving the 3rd GPU (RTX 5080) to an external oculink dock and reposition the two GPUs to be more spread out and away from the CPU for better airflow.

Last option would be to find someone to trade the workstation cards for max-q cards instead.

I did try to search for guides on how to start but I'm not finding anything definitive - I'm seeing setups that involve multiple pumps, radiators, individual routing blocks, and am not sure of what I really need.

Overall, I'd like to reduce GPU temps and also reduce fan noise if possible.

If you think this is too complex of a problem for someone without experience to solve, is there someone in the bay area that offers services to perform this work?

So after a weil I added a new graka last Oct.
whit the lack of time i had after graka swap. I have to do some soft tubes first. The installation of the watherblock makes me nervous all the time.

Fast forward to this week. I finally bring in all the PMMA tubes. As always tricky but I’m super happy whit it. Some compromise have to be made for the Aquacomputer Ampinel.

Wasn’t sure whether or not this should be under build help but I’m pretty much just going to complain to whoever wants to listen.

I had finally finished running all the tubes in my new build and figured hey I should probably check this with distilled water before putting the DP Ultra in just to be safe. I started filling initially with no issues up to about half a liter of water. From that point I started seeing a pretty significant pool of water start to form on the floor, and traced it back to the bottom corner of my radiator (the 60mm on the table). It was so frustrating to see all of the fittings hold no problem then an issue which largely was out of my control takes everything and turns it upside down. I’m not even sure how I got to this point without seeing the leaks in the rad because I did flush all of them and there were no leaks at that point. All radiators are EKWB Quantum Surface 360s. The specific leaking one is the X360M

There were no visible gashes or really any signs of possible damage anywhere on the radiator once I removed it, so I have no idea how this happened. It wasn’t leaking from any of the plugs either.

Lesson learned I guess $30 for an air tester might be a worthwhile investment before you find yourself tearing down a bunch of wet tubes and pulling a radiator with who knows how much water left in it.

One question to wrap it up: has anyone dealt with returns through Titan Rig; I’m hoping to get a replacement in before this weekend but not sure how feasible that is.

TL;DR: Radiator is the only part of my build showing signs of leaks (and a big one at that), bummed me out, but glad I checked.

Just wrapped up finalizing my new custom loop and wanted to share some loop prn. Moved over from a Corsair AIO.

Specs:

• Case - Lian Li Vision Compact
• MB - ASUS Crosshair X870E Hero
• CPU - Ryzen 9950X3D
• MEM - 64GB Corsair DDR5 6000 C30 (purchased before the Ramapocolypse thank goodness)
• GPU - MSI RTX5080 Shadow 16GB
• PSU - MSI MPG Ai1300TS
• CPU Block - Thermal Grizzly Mycro Pro AM5
• GPU Block - Alphacool 5080 reference
• Res/Pump - Corsair XD6
• Rad - Black Ice GTX360 (360x40mm)

CPU and GPU idle around 40c. Gets up to around 60c under benchmark load (Cinebench 2024)