Fluxmaven

Decided I didn't really want to use the tube pump/res from V1. I actually have two of these Bitspower/Maingear distro plates. They are designed for a Maingear Vybe (which I do have and will do a build log for eventually). To make one fit in the Asus Tuf GT501 I just needed to drill a few holes. Cut up a piece of foam as a spacer for the top and used a little strip of 3M VHB on the bottom. Overall I'm happy with it. Hardest thing is going to be connecting both radiators. Used a crossflow up top with the stock Tuf RGB fans push and BeQuiet SW3's pull. Doing just push with the Tuf fans on a normal 360 rad in the front. Looking like I might need to use one smaller diameter tube to get everything behind the distro connected as it's just too tight with all the 1/2x3x4" tubing.

Swapped out the waterblock on the 1070. Shout out to Swiftech for pre-applying thermal pads, as well as folding over the corners of the protective tape to make it easier to peel off. Speaking of peeling things.... My dumb ass left the protective plastic on the heatsink I was testing with Copper and gold really don't match at all but once it's in a case with a tinted glass side panel I'm banking on it being close enough I was going to just toss a simple loop together with a 360 rad and that Aquastream Eheim pump that's sitting on my desk but I can't find the G1/4 adapter fittings So... No quick loop to get some HWBOT runs in this weekend. Just gonna go ahead and build the whole rig.

Lol it makes up for the parking ticket I got while I was out of town. I forgot that they run the street sweeper first Thursday every month and I left my car in front of the house Now I just need to snag a reference 6900XT.

I'm too cheap to overpay for a high fllow NEXT. I bought a D5 NEXT right when they first came out and its neat but I never look at the little screen. I just picked up a high flow 2 instead. Also still have the original high flow sensor which has been running great for years. Also swung by Microcenter to pick up some cheap open box finds that I reserved the the other day. I had been keeping my eye on the 6900xt block for a while as the price had been dropping the past few weeks. Ended up snagging it for $18.28 after tax. The 16mm hardline fittings were about a dollar a pop but I had gotten an email that they were out of stock after I put in an online reservation. To my surprise they handed me the bag of fittings and only charged me my updated order total which was for just the block. So I guess after they had already altered the order they found the fittings and just gave them to me since they were already OOS in their system.

Would definitely be worth it so you don't have to keep repeating the same info. A lot of questions have been asked and answered both in this thread and on the discord. I know I've thanked you already but again really appreciate you hand holding all of the first time HWBOTers through the process. I'm hoping to get a couple runs in this weekend. Flying home in a couple hours. Just found out I'll be flying right back to Florida next week... I'm really starting to miss my former WFH IT job.

Heat is my biggest enemy currently. Will be nice when winter comes so I can really push everything. I was running a 3090 @ 69% power limit, a 2080 that stopped folding at some point, and a 1080ti

Hadn't checked on the rigs at all but remoted into them a bit ago. (Lots of zooming in attempting this from my phone ). Found the GPU slot failed on the 2080. I'm not sure how long that was down for. @mx500torid what all hardware are you running? We finished super close. IIRC we were really close in 24hour average last month too. Either way, good job

I ran mine too but score was in between your scores so it never showed up. Or I screwed up posting it which is also possible

Same here. I have redundant pumps and rules set in Aquasuite to shut the PC down if flow rate or temps get bad, but I still don't like running it when I'm not home. Not sure why, I've had very few failures over the years and never lost hardware. My first D5 which was a full speed non vario lasted 9 years.

Bedroom rig is up and folding. Still deciding if I want to leave my main rig folding while I'm out of town for a week. If I do, I'll drop the power limit way down. My roommate has been rendering on his 3090s so the home office is already borderline unbearably hot. Don't want to be a jerk contributing to the problem when I'm not there to share in the suffering. When I got back from Michigan, I conveniently left my travel rig in my soulless cubicle (that I'm thankfully rarely in). Figured might as well fold with free power

The tablet is a MS surface my buddy saved from the work recycle bin. I figured I'd use it for looking stuff up while using the workbench but my main PC is in the same room so the surface is basically just a desk clock lol. I love Monsoon fittings. That stack is all the angled adapters that are matched to the OD of their free center compressions that I already have for this build. Bring all the beer you want, I'm always down to party. I bought that stool off craigslist in the ghetto when I lived in Georgia. When I pulled up the guy selling it could tell I wasn't from that neighborhood and told me I best hurry on home IDK what gave me away... Probably looked a little something like this. Dug out the 1070 I'm borrowing for now. My boy apparently never heard of the word maintenance . Conveniently have a spare NIB Origin PC branded Swiftech Komodo block. bought a whole stack of these years ago cheap from some reseller on ebay. Honestly don't know if I'll even bother cleaning the dirty block. When I sold my last 1080 with one of these blocks, couldn't get any interest. Ended up swapping back to the FE blower and tossing the block in for free "Just in case the guy wanted to watercool in the future".

Lot's of things going on all at once so I apologize for the messy photos... Roommates EX was living in the downstairs living room for the past month while trying to find an apartment. So a bunch of stuff ended up piled up in the upstairs living room where my sim rig currently is buried. She just moved out today so things will all get moved around soon. Sim rig and projector are moving downstairs and I'm just going to put a big TV up in this space. New CPU and motherboard are on my workbench along with a 960 I'm going to run for the HWBOT thing. Going to make a simple water loop to do those runs since I want to get some decent scores with the 11600k for HWBOT. I can currently only fit one stick of RAM with the air cooler I had handy.

First time on HWBOT so I appreciate you and @Avacado's advice as well as being patient with noobs asking dumb questions.

I already have it. It's 1/2x3/4" (13/19mm). I bought out the rest of sidewinder computers supply when they went out of business. I've seen the misshap. Won't catch me lacking like that

Also should mention the only thing coming over from the V1 scrap pile is the PSU and pump. The old 750D is getting scrapped. I have a couple new cases to pick between. I'll get some photos with both and make a decision soon. Going to run dual 360mm rads, gold monsoon free center compressions since there aren't many copper colored fittings, and Tygon A-60-G. Pulling one of the 32gb B-die kits from my main rig since I no longer do a bunch of work stuff in VMs and don't need 64gb.

I have it it setup with the bottom bezel about a foot back from the wheel, it's great. Went with this because the lower res was easier to run. I tried the wheel bolted to the desk but hated it. Immediately started looking for the frame No such thing as overkill also I'd likely put the 6900xt upstairs and move the 2080 to this rig. It's an absolute blast to drive and I'd highly recommend it. I am glad I also have my Mazda6 wagon for a daily though because the manual can be a bit annoying in rush hour traffic. Goes into microcenter to buy a $100 b550 walks out with the sexiest board in the store . Pretty sure I told you I'd do build logs for the 3 builds I'm working on and I also said I'd bench that 11600k. So I figured I'd start this log first to motivate myself to actually get some progress going.

The seat/frame I have is enough of a cockpit for me. The 7970s are fine in Asseto Corsa but lacking big time in stuff like Forza. For the short term I have a waterblocked GTX 1070 I'm going to swap in. I might snag a 6900xt depending on how the prices drop before RTX 4XXX series. Forgot to mention I have a Samsung CJ890 Series 49-Inch Ultrawide for the setup too.

After establishing that I do really like the sim rig I was ready to get away from that dying board that takes forever to boot. Originally was just going to grab a new b550 but I found the EVGA z590 DARK at Microcenter and had to have it. Picked it up along with an 11600k. Since it's a weird build anyway I busted out a new Heatkiller 3 I've had in storage.

I'd consider myself a car enthusiast. I have a pretty nice 97 Mazda Miata and a project 84 BMW 323i (e30). Racing IRL is really expensive so it was only natural that I would go the sim racing route at some point. As much as I would love to go straight off the deep end, I figured I'd dip my toes in first and see how I liked it before investing too much. Picked up a Logitech G923 wheel and a Playseat Evolution seat/frame off the local FB marketplace. Bought a new Logitech H-pattern shifter since I prefer that to paddles. For Version 1, I tossed a rig together with spare parts I had laying around Prime x470 Pro that got a bunch of coolant dumped on it and now takes 45 minutes to boot 5600x 16gb of Ripjaws 3600c16 Pair of 7970s Various fittings rads, etc. Some Yate Loons that I sleeved forever ago and never used, SW3s, Noctua redux, and one Bitfenix Spectre Pro. Started playing Asseto Corsa which runs great and actually supports crossfire.

We already established that was a mistake on the discord, but should I be adding rig photos? I told myself the setup in my bedroom was temporary which is why I didn't even attempt cable management, but the ole garage shelf is doing just fine so it will probably look like this forever

I'll have to look at what all fittings I have too. I have tons in various sizes, but If they are any of the sizes I have, I'd be happy to buy em off ya. Back on topic, can I do multiple submissions with different hardware to the same category on HWBOT? For the i5's I'll definitely run the 11600k since it's already sitting on my workbench. I can also run my 5900x for the AMD category. Combing back over the limitations on the other categories, I can also run my 960 and 2080 in the Nvidia category

I like my tubing like I like my women... Thicc. Aside from sff builds I typically run 13/19 tubes with QD4s. If I get a dedicated test bench going I could use any size so I might hit you up on those when I get to that point.

In fluxmaven I'll be out of town but I'll leave a rig or two running

No clue how it would compare with 56 threads. My only point of comparison was vs the university lab computers which were i5 iMacs with no dGPU. So the dell with an i7 and the Quadro completely slaughtered it. Do you already have the Quadro? Wouldn't be hard to throw it in a couple different PCs and get a feel for how it performs.