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you could say it's been a lifelong journey of mine to build the quietest pc

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possible my old tj07 build used two radiators so

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that i could run my fans at just 600 RPM and my current setup has the pc

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literally in a different room with a cable running through the wall

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but that is both expensive and kind of a pain in the butt

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what if there was another way

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a way that looks super cool but that may or may not be even more

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expensive and with even more butt pain

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i'm going to tell you about it but first something that comes with no butt pain

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the be quiet! dark base 700 is a versatile case that features RGB

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lighting and a tempered glass side panel check it out in the link below to learn

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more

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so this idea was actually pitched months ago in a writer's brainstorming meeting

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when well let's just say we got totally off

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topic discussing old computer hardware memes but instead of making a case made

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of fans we should do a case made of radiators right and it should have no

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fans at all yes

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well somehow that made it onto the production

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calendar with the original plan actually being to basically no actually to

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exactly just jury rig together every

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radiator in the warehouse with some l brackets we had lying around and zip tie

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in a motherboard power supply and graphics card that got canned pretty

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quickly and the project evolved into its second form a bunch of radiators

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attached with l brackets and some metal mounting brackets for the

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internal hardware courtesy of our friends with the machine shop that

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totally isn't the only reason we hang out with them after school proto case

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then by this point if we're gonna get some custom mounting hardware we might

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as well create our own frame for the radiators right

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yeah obviously so it was off to autodesk

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inventor where a bunch of time was spent measuring and mocking up the brackets

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required for our build as well as for the case frame itself

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we ended up with a shape that's actually sort of reminiscent of a pc case but

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without front fascia or side panels

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or a bottom i guess it is to a case kind of what a

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go-kart frame is to a car but

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these uh feet that we got from mnpc tech are pretty cool and anyway it's perfect

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for our purposes since it is perfectly

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sized for ek's ultra thick xc series

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radiators in the 360 millimeter variant

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and then it's also got another spot on the back for the three by three 120

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millimeter rad that we've had sitting around unused in the warehouse since

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2013. for style points for this build we went

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with hardline tubing using fittings for all of the bends giving us a finished

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product that i wouldn't think would be

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beautiful to most people in like a traditional sense but that has a raw

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industrial look to it that i personally absolutely love

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and the real story here isn't beauty anyway but rather pushing the limits of

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performance and cooling so let's take a look then at the insane specs that we

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loaded it up with for testing we started with 18 cores of pure Intel

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core i9 power then we threw in 64 gigs of quad channel

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sodium ddr4 from g skill 64 gigs and a

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whopping 3 by 960 gigs of NVMe SSD raid

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0 goodness though we actually ended up needing

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those high capacity drives for another project but

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their 240 gig siblings look pretty much the same oh and then we threw in a gtx

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1080 because come on what i9 rig doesn't have a bitching GPU

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finally at the heart of all that the way that we fit this much radiator power

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into this much space was asrock's brand new x299e itx with a custom bits power

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full cover block that thankfully replaces the micro sized vrm cooler on

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this puppy okay then enough about that how does it

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perform we decided to test our creation a couple

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of different ways first with no fans in

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it at all except for the one that was built into our silverstone 800 watt

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modular sfxl power supply

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and that idle mission accomplished our temps were near

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ambient with our pump handling all of these radiators like a champ with that

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said a system like this when it's not doing anything doesn't

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kick out a lot of heat so we added a CPU load measured the

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results and ended up even more impressed

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even at this power level we are easily dissipating all of the heat and keeping

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our processor at a safe temperature but then what about the graphics card

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no problem so i think at this point it's safe to

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call the project a success it should be noted that the fan in the power supply

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did spin up while gaming adding to the noise already being made by our d5 pump

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but thanks to the massive radiator surface area this is still among the

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quietest systems we have ever encountered even at full load and

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perhaps the coolest thing about it is that by borrowing a page from the build

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that originally inspired it we can take it of course to a completely new level

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now we weren't able to fit fans onto all of the radiator spots but

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even running at a low RPM we ended up with some seriously impressive cooling

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results so then conclusion i guess

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if this was a product sent to us by a manufacturer asking for an objective

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review what would we say well in this exact configuration we're

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looking at almost twelve hundred dollars worth of water cooling hardware

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so we'd start by saying that you might wanna think about saving a few bucks by

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using soft tubing at the very least

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but we'd also say that you cannot question the performance of what is

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effectively an 18 by 120 millimeter

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radiator setup and you can't question the fact that it

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not only ran passively but also did so

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with performance that wasn't far off what you'd expect from decent

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aftermarket cooling systems so

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it's not a great value but it's definitely rad

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