Sure is. It’s all wired to one if those lian LI connector things though and it doesn’t work on Linux.
I’m sure there’s a way to wire it to motherboard though. It’s on my list to figure out next while I wait for the white accents and I’ll try and do it the next time it’s apart
Yes, i can agree with you on that. My Corsair 5000D is also way too big and very heavy once assembled especially with the monster Noctua Dual fan air cooler. I also don’t like RGB that much as i had that on my slightly older system and opted to not get it again. I don’t mind the RGB on my keyboard and mouse but hardly would ever change the color or have it blinking and flashing. I just have it set to a light Endeavour purple.
I don’t see a weight either. This must be a version 2 of the original? Looks very well thought out. If i ever decide to build another I’ll be looking at it for sure. My Corsair 5000D Weighs a ton and is large for a mid tower ATX. I like it but it is heavy especially with the Monster Noctua heat sink and dual fan air cooler. Not sure this one would fit in that case but it might? I’m thinking it probably would.
I just wanted to try this cooler being that it is a real monster with 140mm dual fans and all. I do like how it works and noise level is very quiet. But it is massive!
Went from air-cooled (30–70°C) to vodka-cooled — temps are now chilling below 20°C.
Air cooling? Water cooling? That’s amateur hour. Vodka cooling is the real liquid courage.
Air Cooled
Temps: 30–70°C
Fan noises louder than my existential thoughts
Dust bunnies have unionized and are demanding better airflow
Water Cooled
Temps: 20–30°C
Silent. Smooth. Sexy.
RGB looks like it’s calculating pi in 4D
Vodka Cooled
Temps: Below 20°C
PC runs so cold it asked me to wear a jacket
May void warranty… and sobriety
Disclaimer:
Do not actually pour vodka into your PC.
Unless it’s Russian. Then… maybe it’ll overclock itself.
How do the thermal readings compare to the period when water cooling was not used? Were you getting 75 degrees after say an hour or two? Would it be possible to go lower, say 60-65 degrees?
Since you are using water cooling now, would you consider overclocking the CPU and the GPU? It would be interesting to see how are the thermal readings post overclocking. Do the remain in the same region, i.e. 75 degrees? Or do they increase.
You are using AMD Ryzen, which is typically rated less, in terms of max temperature, compared to Intel Core processors. From 95 degrees to 105 degrees respectively.
Actually I went the other way. I was previously using an Asus 360 AIO water cooler. Idle on water was like 30-38 pretty much always and gaming was always in the 65-75ish range.
Now I’m using the air cooler. So I went from water to air cooling. Still in the 32-40 range at idle/web browsing whatever range all day today.
When it was warmer in the house earlier today like 26-29 in the room and I had games running for hours fully as hot as I saw all day was a few blips at 80 flat, but most everything was upper 70s all day long. So I’m gonna say it’s about maybe 5*C hotter overall than on the 360 watercooler, and I think that may be a little high. I’m looking forward to more testing.
I’m running a Ryzen 9 5950x. It’s a hot one for sure.
Vodka, or any alcohol based liquid, will corrode the tubing much more quickly than would water or any other liquid. Including the O-rings, the plastics and other non-metallic stuff.
Further the specific heat of Vodka or any other ethanol based alcohols is way lower, in some instances by about 50%, compared to water. Thus it is a very poor way to take heat away from the hot zones.
it doesn’t matter, water cooling is just air cooling with extra steps. But the relatively larger heatsink (radiator) which allows you to use more fans to cool it can potentially be a game changer for some builds. But if you’re just using a watercooler with 2 fans on it, might as well use an aircooler with 2 fans on it, unless you have a reason to want to move the cooling away from the area in front of the cpu (like small form factor builds) then water cooling really shines since you don’t have to put the cooling bits right on top of the cpu.
What is needed that we can pump in chilled, say -5 or -20 degrees celsius nitrogen or CO2 or some other air into the case, suck it in, chill it again and then pump it back in. Any gas or mixture of gas or even air, but minus the water vapor and which is not toxic. So Carbon monoxide and related gases are out. This will allow cooling to reach those places where liquid cooling, including water or vodka or whatever gets one high, cannot reach. But that would require air tight cases. Not practically doable. Nor economical feasible.