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Well after a dozen mock ups, test fits, cuts, more mock ups and test fits this is the current state of the watercooling project. Was able to mount both pumps and res on to the UT45 like I wanted. Essentially used all the fittings save for maybe 2. I assumed the 90 degree rotary fittings were stand alone, didn't occur to me until a bit ago that they need to be coupled to a standard compression fitting. Luckily I purchased enough for the loop (including the 2 filters) Radiator outlet may be better served by a 45 degree fitting long term but tube isn't kinking so it may be OK. Still haven't been able to get the shelves yet, my aunts been using my car for her side hustle quite often while I've been on vacation so I haven't been able to go anywhere. Ideally when I go the shelf approach the rad/res/pump will all be above the pc and tubing will be fed through the shelf directly to the pc below. Probably going to put in my 3090ti to hold me over while I install the ek block. To protect the diodes from liquid metal, is clear nail polish still the preferred method? I did buy some kapton tape and still have some 33/88 electrical tape.

Well turns out there is a wrinkle on part of the server :/ Gigabyte did not enable bifurcation on the motherboard, it can be enabled with a BIOS mod just really didnt want to do that sort of thing. The Sage has it enabled by default and works on my Precision Towers so I fully expected it to be commonplace on this one. I'll look at the guide in a bit and toss a coin for looking for the hardware programmer I have somewhere. tl;dr the 4xNVME PCIE adapter is only showing 1 drive from the 4. Otherwise Unraid just booted right up, reallocated the array of drives and the cache on its own, didnt even have to point anything anywhere. See's the 80 threads available to it now with no issues. Just been cleaning up what ever I was doing at the time, server is nice and cool, and more importantly more than quiet enough to be placed in the second floor living room (hybrid office kind of setup). Overtime I do plan to replace the older 4/6TB drives there are still present in the array, they are getting looooong in the tooth so if I do anything with this system that will likely be the first step. drives on the right are 12TB each but 2 of them are being used for parity, so it doesnt add much to the "useable" pool of storage. Onto the next project for now :) Decided to go with the server build first to get my confidence back, its been some time since I built something outside of my wheel house. Damn near thought I had some crap karma for a minute there because the server wouldnt post when I tested the motherboard. Turns out, its not guaranteed that it will default to a GPU for video out since they have a chipset video output via the VGA port on the I/O. Once that was squared, then realized, sadly, one of the sticks of RAM was bad :( Anyone got 2933Mhz/3200Mhz 32GB DDR4 ECC laying around? Damned things are stupid expensive now :(

Project #1 almost done, just needs to be setup in unraid again then hopefully don't touch for 6 months lol.

Every time I see more reports of cables giving up the ghost, happy to see my 7900 XTX still chugging along even after I pushed 850w into it. Though while I may think of my card as something akin to a muscle car, 4090/5090 are still going to dust it like some exotic supercar. Rest of the watercooling stuff showed up today, tomorrow I run to Home Depot for some wireframe shelves and distilled water. Once that is done I have to move a bunch of stuff around which will probably take the better part of a day alone, then get to flushing the loop if I have enough time. Trying to not get too excited, dont want a repeat of the Sage motherboard.

Got about half of the watercooling gear today, for all the hate that EK gets the WB certainly feels premium, fairly heavy too lol, also got the 1080mm rad as well so I can take my time routing cables and such

I'm in the same boat, it may be covered by warranty but, it's still an OC profile. A warranty and what it covers doesn't change what is listed on Intel ARC. Just finished brushing, rinsing, air drying (pc duster) x2 my Pa120se (AM4), NH-D15 (10850k) and Red Devil 7900 XTX. The cost of running open air and a/c unit, dust lol. I did buy another open air frame, should be here in the afternoon. Probably going to have to switch to one of those multi-tier wire frame shelves. Running out of space on my old' wood chest. Started outfitting the server box with drives and SDD's. Also replaced the E5-2650's with E5-2697A's in my last dell tower. I really underestimated the homework for older GPU's and modding vbios, casually going about it for a bit each night before I go to sleep. The time consuming part is going to be backing up all the vbios but maybe I can just do that as I go, we'll see.

So after sleeping on it, just decided to wait it out and buy 2x NH-U14S DX-3647's for the server. More than likely wont have them in time to appreciate them which was the point of irritation. The U12 was the same price with more expensive shipping compared to the U14, so U14 it is. Do you guys follow the practice of soaking liquid metal into waterblocks? This will be the first time watercooling since X58. Until all the parts come in, I'll be benchmarking GPU's for our team starting tomorrow. Might make some prep tonight but just enjoying a little lazing about.

Chances are I may have taken up your offer, always prefer to do business with you and Fox for sure. I can also say I did make the purchases, probably the largest I have had in some time, around 1700. Now of course I just find out that the server heatsinks I bought wont fit LGA 3647. Also figure out that nearly no heatsinks worthy of note exist for LGA 3647. Looks like I'll stick with the Dynatrons I have just to get the ball rolling but it's looking like I will be building a second loop perhaps around the beginning of the next month for the server. EDIT: Turns out the Dynatrons I have also dont work since Intel did the whole square vs narrow ILM.

Yeah I was thinking one on the res after the rad and the second one as input back into the rad Sorry sleep aids kicking in, hard to think critically

This list cover the bases? @Mr. Fox @tps3443 Forgot the leak tester, Looks like EK, Alphacool and XSPC, all about the same price.

So as long as I keep the radiator standing up-right, should be fine? Also, running 2 pumps? Should I just get 2 Core 100's, Eisbecher res and remove the distro plate? Current list as-is, is that enough fittings?

Does this more or less cover all the bases? Thanks again @Mr. Fox!

I always get confused on the tubing, I know I want flexible tubing. What fittings and tubes should I go with? I found most of the same things on Amazon so it should arrive while I am on vacation. I'll see if I can find what I need on Amazon so its just one big order. Sold my second tower tonight so most of this is bankrolled by that :) I did buy 2x 2697A v4's for my last tower (currently on 2650 V4's and also just got my Xeon Gold 6248's for the server I am building to replace the Dell's that I got fed up with.

This is what I am looking at for the moment. Looks like I wont be able to get in to me quite some time though...

So I am at a bit of an impasse. Just been working 14 hour days this past month all the way up to my vacation (which was almost canceled lol). I don't like when people do this to me but here I am about to do the same. I am hoping to build a water loop for my Red Devil 7900 XTX, it's been 15 years since my last Waterloop not sure where to buy these things anymore. I'd like to get the 1080mm UT45/60 and alpha core block just not sure about the rest. Does the UT45/60 have mounting points for res and pump? Does it need a kit for that sort of thing? As payment for troubling you all I'll take plenty of pictures of the build log. I am based in the US, Texas, 76001 I know @Mr. Fox gave me some good info before I still have it favorited. I'd like to get everything purchased by tonight if possible. Thanks in advance everyone

A coworker of mine was chatting with me while we were frantically working onboarding a new client. The result of said conversation is that I now have a GTX 1080Ti from EVGA. As such, my second morpheus heatsink will now have a home. I might do a as is test, then cleaned up test, then morpheus. Like a complete idiot I also damaged the Asus Sage 621e motherboard when trying to do a mock fitting. I didnt realize that the motherboard stand-off's were preinstalled by the manufacturer. Shows how long I've gone without a case lol. I cant seem to find anyone willing to repair so I might go another route. Oh and does anyone have any spare 13th Gen CPU's collecting dust? Coworker bought a 14th gen used and turns out its defective. Sorry I havent been online for a spell, onboarding clients requires 12-14 hour days evidently

Amd chips are cheaper but the motherboard options are slim pickings. Finally got fed up with oem motherboards on the Dell precisions so I'm selling off a few of them and moving to a DIY solution. The board came with a couple xeon silvers which I s fine for testing but long term I'm probably going with a couple xeon gold 6248's 20c/40t Ordered a be Quiet 1000w for it as well I'll begin testing it over the weekend.

A little preview of what I'm building next Sage 621e

Honestly I would just hang on to the 7900 XTX. Neither vendor has anything appealing for us without spending way too much money. I am waiting to see what next generation offerings look like, that being said I can play everything I want to play in terms of gaming at 3440x1440p. Perhaps Monster Hunter: Wilds is the only exception but that game runs like trash on anything right now. I believe you can run a trial for 30 days, there are ways around that "limitation" but I never looked further into it. I used the trial for about that duration and bought a license. The license gives you access to its platform for life but updates for 1 year to the OS itself. You can pay for a lifetime update license of course, i'll probably be upgrading my license to lifetime updates. The only part that is a bit quirky at times is finding a flash drive to use which must have a UUID that it can tie the license too, then of course install the OS to it. Cant remember how I did mine but probably used Rufus.

Its an OS you dont actually interact with directly like you would most linux distro's or Windows. Once its installed, you interact with it via Web browser of choice. Its main selling point is acting as your File Server, you can also add 2 drives for parity as well. The other large value add is containers, the functions are in my view endless, though it wouldnt surprise if people more adept in the line of expertise would say otherwise. Most importantly its just rock solid and is all installed on a flash drive, simply notate the Serials of the drives and how you arranged them in the GUI, and you can easily transport to another system and have it boot up without missing a beat. They've also recently added in official TailScale support so you can have friends and family have access relatively easily. Its not something I would expect people here to have too much interest in, but its been a thrilling experience for me while I gather up GPU's for benching this Winter. I have a particular fondness to Anime, make no mistake its an ocean of urine like any genre but it long poses a challenge in media management. Unraid has many containers to make this process much more simplified. More importantly just rock solid stability, wish Windows was as consistent. To answer both of you... They weren't the same, some may recall I had a 1300w PSU that was recommended by most here at the time, that one gave up the ghost, EVGA replaced it with a different model 1300w which I had been using with Unraid for a while, its now powering my ITX system. Open style chassis allows much more freedom than a case would in this regard. I've also killed an 850w EVGA Gold PSU, but like I said I killed it so I did not seek RMA for it. Not sure what the issue was for the 550w Im guessing it didnt like being power cycled as quickly as I had done it. In some ways it does clean things up a bit since I am no longer using the 1200w (900w for 110v) server PSU to power the 7900 XTX. Which now opens things up for a new PSU on the bench system (10850K), should I start looking around for another 1300w?

My little trooper EVGA 550w Gold gave up the ghost tonight. Somehow my Aorus ITX AM4 motherboard has now survived 2 PSU's (both EVGA) I yanked out the 1300w EVGA Gold from the Unraid system for now, I am planning some hardware swapping though so I suppose this is a bit of motivation. I recently acquired a Precision 7910, mostly so I can consolidate 3 systems into one. Unraid has been such a consistent OS that I think it will be a good fit for everything I could probably throw at it. I recently purchase a Morpheus 8057 heatsink, also got a second 280X (Windforce this time) and a PNY 780Ti w/ Accelero Xtreme III. About a 100 USD altogether.

I do often tell people that they can sleep when their dead! But that doesn't mean much where I proudly proclaim sleep as my favorite activity. Looks like seller moved to a different buyer for the 460 SLI set, oh well

He was like a kid window shopping at a candy store when we told him the details. I haven't spoken with him this week so I'll ping him and see if there were any complications. The worst thing right now is trying to refrain from building the pc until this weekend lol

Picked up a MSi Gaming GTX 970 to match the one I have and EVGA GTX 760 SLI (Plus bridge) Just loading up more and more work for my Winter break this year. Cleaned up the EVGA 980Ti, Sapphire R9 390X, and 2x Galaxy GTX 580's (Accelero Xtreme) Still have Sapphire R9 280X to clean up and GTX 9800 to assemble. Have an offer sent for a pair of GTX 460's as well. Kind of limiting myself to 2-way SLI/XFire or Dual-GPU single PCB scenarios. It would be fun to do Quad-SLI GTX 9800 but I wouldnt have the space for it all.

I did! Just finished cleaning it up. It's about 5 slots now, these fans are loud but they push a lot of air when pushing 100%. Either way it's ready for benching this winter. Also cleaned up 2x 650ti Boost 2GB cards