RGB RGB RGB it's like it's the only damn
thing anyone talks about these days even us i'm sure you guys saw the RGB build
guide well one of our writers Jake saw
it too and in a fit of what i can only describe as nerd jealousy
concocted up his own version of it in an
attempt to go even further over the top
by doing RGB hard line water cooling and
given how much you guys hated the anti-RGB build i mean this is clearly
what you want to see so i green lit it
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check them out at the link below the first step in any build is always
part selection
wait this time it was actually pretty interesting there were some legitimately
tense moments when Jake wasn't sure if
he was going to be able to one-up james by finding RGB components for every
single part of a water cooling loop but in the end he did so moving on then an
RGB CPU block wasn't hard to find
however most of the products on the market were either cheap knockoffs or just downright
hideous fortunately our friends over at ek had
the perfect solution their strix z270e
monoblock it keeps the vrms and the CPU
nice and chilly while also looking dank af this was actually our first time
using a full cover motherboard block so we'll spend a little more time on this
first the stock motherboard vrm heatsinks need to be removed then you
cut and stick on the included thermal pads you may also need to remove the
plastic io fascia piece being careful
with any connected cables while you do it
yeah then with everything prepped we put our
7700k in since this is a gaming machine
and applied a generous amount of thermal goop
RAM was next and while we actually tried to stay away from non-water cooling RGB
parts to keep the focus on the RGB loop g-skill trident z's are just too
irresistible so we went with a four by eight gig config to get all them slots
populated and meh man does that ever look good
next it was time to lay the monstrous
thermaltake tower 900 on its side and
remove the glass to make installation easy or at least possible
in went the io shield and then went ASUS's strix z270e
a solid motherboard choice for example features overclocking capability and
most importantly compatibility with our RGB block
as for the GPU we went with NVIDIA's flagship gtx 1080 ti because why the
heck not right but getting an RGB block for the graphics
card ended up being one of the most difficult parts to source for the build
most of what's out there in RGB is for the base 1080.
fortunately fantex is a lot better at
building sexy products than they are at making a website so after we overcame
some bad seo we set to work getting it installed
it did take a while but man is it ever worth it and just wait for when it's lit
up by far the most time-consuming part of this build was the hardline tubing
even after all the time spent planning out the loop
things changed as they always seem to do and hardline
tubing is challenging enough when you're just doing basic plumbing when all of a
sudden you want to power every one of the fittings to light up
your tubing well it adds a whole new dimension of
difficulty every single fitting needs to be individually powered ah holy crap
let's talk about the rest of the cooling system the star of the show here is
easily the dual quad 140 millimeter radiators installed
in the back now look i know this is basically the
most overkill possible setup and we could probably cool like
four Threadripper systems with it but if you haven't come to expect overkill
here atlanta's tech tips then what kind of fan are you
speaking of fans the obvious choice was our LTT edition Noctua fans again
because this is about RGB water cooling not RGB air cooling now the original
plan for holding our tubes in place where they're converted to soft tubing
behind the motherboard tray was to 3d print some mounting brackets on the
ultimaker 3 but then came a stroke of
jerry rig university engineering genius
how about tension mounts with zip ties and anchors at the back
and it worked so with that system in place the tubes
were cut to a manageable length and then finished off with an RGB fitting tied to
a 90 degree angle to adapt to our soft
tubing hard in the front lots of wiggle room in the back
we actually really like this style of hardline since it makes maintenance much
easier finally cable management oh lordy
cable management even with sexy cablemod
cables running the 8 million individual wires
for every fitting around the back was a challenge to say the least but look at
this it's actually coming together quite
nicely all of the fittings conveniently plug
into a single controller giving the tubes a really pleasing glow that should
be made even more impressive once primochill's opaque white coolant
concentrate is added finally
time to fill our CPU and GPU are
actually on completely separate loops so we started on the GPU side
these gargantuan radiators take a huge
amount of water to fill but we eventually got them both filled
up and with zero leaks i'm impressed
which isn't to say that we didn't forget anything we had to unscrew the cap of a
filled reservoir to put on the RGB reservoir holder rings
but it was totally worth it then the cherry on top was a non-RGB Corsair
mp500 SSD that we couldn't install earlier because someone else had it in
their test bench hyperdirt finally though we added the coolant concentrate
actually plugged in our mono block and damn
haters gonna hate but if you're being honest with yourself i think you have to
admit this is one of the best looking builds we've ever done and if you're not
ready to admit that yet well here's what i think will be enough
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