I build my PC since ever. First PC was custom Build from the money we get a child from the church when we whatever... bla bla free Money!
I have build it for friends aswell.
Some of my Friends wanted Hell Machines... i warned them which its overpriced.
Was the time which you could connect upto 3 GPUs via SLI.
Anyway if you build stuff like that you PC need to be next Level.
What is a next Level ?
100% Watercooling System.
So you are right below is my MASTERPIECE in the 3rd Generation.
I may not win the Contest for the best looking one.
(Yes, Hardtubes look much better...and red = blodd bla blub bla)
LittleDevil LD PC-V8 ATX Liquid Cooling PC
-> Bigger is better, more space, more freedom (also have big hands...g)
The case is quite old(+7 years) and for 500 Bucks this metal monster sustained serveral Lan Parties. It has space for upto 3x Raditors (3x Fan ofc). Also the case is now hosting new hardware for the 3rd time. In case of Earthquake wear it has a hat to be safe.
Watercooling System (This also the 3rd. reused)
2x 3x Fan Raditor (don´t ask me the fansize :P)
Aquacomputer Aquastream XT (this was updated between the 1st to 2nd)
2x Wasserreservoir (because we don´t want to refill)
For the GPU always and sometimes the CPU you need new cooling.
Installation difficulity:
CPU, easy.
GPU you need to find the refernce model and than you buy the cooling.
Because the screwholes are diffrent on each model and they WILL not match.
You need to remove the Fans from it and mount the watercooling.
Waranty is lost in this process.
Note: You can build it up however you want since the temp. will level itself.
Pro Tip: There are knowdays plug and play connectors which makes it super easy to rebuild it.
I use the Kitchen Clips to stop the "water"... i would change this in the 4th version maybe in 2026.
The Current Hardware:
Seasonic PRIME-TX-1000, 80+ Titanium, 1000 W
Why? Because i can and it has 12 Years Warranty and saves most money.
^^ I did some math and in 12 Years I maybe win.
GTX 4080
Why? Because the fucking 800 Bucks Main Monitor is Gsync so i am soulbounded to Nvidia.
I could have saved ~300 Bucks but neehh.
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Why? Hits my sweet spot, but is definitly overscaled.
-> I run the 4080 also with the AMD 7 5800X and jeah... was ok.
32GB RAM (4x 8 GB DDR5-5200 DIMM CL36 )
Why? Had 16 in the old one and it felt like we needed more.
And yes we needed it! also CL means shit.
There are serveral NVME SSD inside, aswell a fancy gen 5 which has an exclusive gen 5 port.
-> ASRock X670E Pro
So do you really need a GEN 5 PCI?
The answer is NO, because GPU are still V4 and only the NVME are in V5.
So if you need to safe money here is some sweet spot, beside the newly released AM4 CPUs.
Dust, even with some Dustprotection it sneaks in
Here you see the Pump with the Watermonitoring and my super lazy cabeling.
Like look at this space...and how short this GPU is if you go from air to Water.
Some Temp information:
Winter it runs stable between 28°C up to 35°C in somer we can reach the 50°C depending on the outside temp. Never had faulty Hardware expect this one PSU which died.*
But if you don´t by Seasonic you buy twice (a lot of PSU have Seasonic inside)
For the future i could think about to get external watercooling and just make a mini Barbone PC which two external water plugs...
I don´t need to use PC Watercooling Stuff, i can just go for regular ones which are much cheaper... also would allow me to run multiple systems with just one watercooling system.
Have fun :)
