Water Cooling: It's better down where it's wetter

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spunkshui: Oct 5, 2011

Corsair semi ripped off lian li and made a gigantic version of the 4000D called.... the 5000D

https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/Categ...p/CC-9011211-WW

Heres the 4000D, check out the difference in top AIO clearance.
https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Mid-Tower-ATX-Cases/4000D-Airflow-Tempered-Glass-Mid-Tower-ATX-Case/p/CC-9011200-WW

I still like the 500D I own but 6 intake fans is making me jealous.

edit: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/obsidian-500d-case 500D link

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 06:04

spunkshui: Oct 5, 2011

Step 1 to fixing a lovely prebuilt case with bad cooling is to change the case.

3x 120s in the front does wonders for temps.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 05:29

spunkshui: Oct 5, 2011

SpartanIvy posted:

Hindsight is 2020 but if I were to do it all over again I would definitely go this route with non-RGB fans and just use RGB strips or something.

It is incredibly frustrating how NICE the Lian Li hardware like cases and fans are, but the LConnect software is just... not good.

There really needs to be standardization across manufacturers because there are something like 4 or so competing 5v ARGB standards and it's loving nuts to try and work with. People just cobble and daisy chain ridiculous setups together to get their end results and there should be a better way.

I just went balls deep into corsair when I decided to go from no RGB to "all the RGB."

That reminds me its time to crack out the orange and purple. :ghost:

# ¿ Sep 17, 2022 17:38

spunkshui: Oct 5, 2011

Please stop buying cases for power switches people.

Its more convenient to mount them externally anyway.

:negative:

On Off Power SW Cables, Black https://a.co/d/bFkl2W9

# ¿ Oct 14, 2022 01:30

spunkshui: Oct 5, 2011

Moey posted:

Am I the only one who doesn't shut down my poo poo?

Why pay money to power poo poo I�m not using? Just put it to sleep.

The RGB disappears and the PC vanishes behind the tinted glass.

:cool:

# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 07:21

spunkshui: Oct 5, 2011

If you like RGB just stick to corsair and ASUS, run it all through icue.

I have like 8 sata connections for RGB and it all runs perfectly.

There must be 300+ LEDs at this point between the LLfans, LSstrips and LCtiles.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2022 21:17

spunkshui: Oct 5, 2011

Triikan posted:

Is there a collection of some sort of "water cooling theory" somewhere? Trying to plan out my first build, and want to do some off the trail stuff, but don't want to be repeating mistakes that were figured out long ago.

Youtube tech channels basically.

Jay2cents has done a few.

https://youtu.be/5ZnDESqJdyU?si=N_oIZWCIoXjrgwhE

But also seek out a few more to get a well rounded background.

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 06:04

spunkshui: Oct 5, 2011

namlosh posted:

I�m not yet cool enough to have a custom loop, although I did have one at one point� but I do have an AIO. It�s a thermaltake 420mm and I have it hooked up to a 14900k. If anyone can help out with some questions I�d be grateful.

Should I power the AIO pump using PWM or DC or it really doesn�t matter?
The AIO has 3x140mm fans pushing air through the radiator. If I wanted some more performance, would adding fans on the back pulling air be advantageous?

I�m using a completely open case� rack mounted in an open sided rack. Is this causing me huge issues? Should I be ducting the air away somehow? I have no idea how I�d manage that, but figured I�d ask since it�s far from a standard case.

Using prime95, I can peg the cpu to where it will hit 100C. I can�t tell if it�s throttling very much or not but I�m just using hwmonitor. Any recommendations on better software for monitoring and control?

If there isn�t a dust filter over your intake or over the fans, your radiator is going to look absolutely filthy eventually.

And the worst thing is that lint get stuck between the fans and the radiator so you got a really disassemble it to clean it.

You need to either filter, the air coming into the computer or since that sounds like a really open set up you need to put filters over the fans that are pulling into the radiator.

I have no advice about DC or PWM because I have a Corsair AIO and I just wire it up the way they say to do it and monitor it with their software.

I have my fans staying at 35% until the water hits 35� then it ramps all the way to 100% fan at 40 C.

I keep the pump on the highest setting.

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