FULLY RGB WATER COOLING - EVEN THE FITTINGS!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,370 words · ~6 min read
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RGB RGB RGB it's like it's the only damn
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thing anyone talks about these days even us i'm sure you guys saw the RGB build
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guide well one of our writers Jake saw
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it too and in a fit of what i can only describe as nerd jealousy
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concocted up his own version of it in an
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attempt to go even further over the top
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by doing RGB hard line water cooling and
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given how much you guys hated the anti-RGB build i mean this is clearly
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what you want to see so i green lit it
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Corsair's void pro gaming headsets feature microfiber mesh fabric and
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memory foam ear cups as well as custom tuned 50 millimeter neodymium drivers
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check them out at the link below the first step in any build is always
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part selection
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wait this time it was actually pretty interesting there were some legitimately
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tense moments when Jake wasn't sure if
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he was going to be able to one-up james by finding RGB components for every
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single part of a water cooling loop but in the end he did so moving on then an
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RGB CPU block wasn't hard to find
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however most of the products on the market were either cheap knockoffs or just downright
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hideous fortunately our friends over at ek had
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the perfect solution their strix z270e
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monoblock it keeps the vrms and the CPU
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nice and chilly while also looking dank af this was actually our first time
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using a full cover motherboard block so we'll spend a little more time on this
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first the stock motherboard vrm heatsinks need to be removed then you
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cut and stick on the included thermal pads you may also need to remove the
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plastic io fascia piece being careful
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with any connected cables while you do it
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yeah then with everything prepped we put our
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7700k in since this is a gaming machine
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and applied a generous amount of thermal goop
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RAM was next and while we actually tried to stay away from non-water cooling RGB
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parts to keep the focus on the RGB loop g-skill trident z's are just too
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irresistible so we went with a four by eight gig config to get all them slots
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populated and meh man does that ever look good
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next it was time to lay the monstrous
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thermaltake tower 900 on its side and
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remove the glass to make installation easy or at least possible
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in went the io shield and then went ASUS's strix z270e
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a solid motherboard choice for example features overclocking capability and
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most importantly compatibility with our RGB block
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as for the GPU we went with NVIDIA's flagship gtx 1080 ti because why the
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heck not right but getting an RGB block for the graphics
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card ended up being one of the most difficult parts to source for the build
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most of what's out there in RGB is for the base 1080.
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fortunately fantex is a lot better at
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building sexy products than they are at making a website so after we overcame
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some bad seo we set to work getting it installed
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it did take a while but man is it ever worth it and just wait for when it's lit
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up by far the most time-consuming part of this build was the hardline tubing
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even after all the time spent planning out the loop
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things changed as they always seem to do and hardline
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tubing is challenging enough when you're just doing basic plumbing when all of a
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sudden you want to power every one of the fittings to light up
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your tubing well it adds a whole new dimension of
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difficulty every single fitting needs to be individually powered ah holy crap
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let's talk about the rest of the cooling system the star of the show here is
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easily the dual quad 140 millimeter radiators installed
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in the back now look i know this is basically the
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most overkill possible setup and we could probably cool like
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four Threadripper systems with it but if you haven't come to expect overkill
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here atlanta's tech tips then what kind of fan are you
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speaking of fans the obvious choice was our LTT edition Noctua fans again
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because this is about RGB water cooling not RGB air cooling now the original
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plan for holding our tubes in place where they're converted to soft tubing
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behind the motherboard tray was to 3d print some mounting brackets on the
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ultimaker 3 but then came a stroke of
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jerry rig university engineering genius
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how about tension mounts with zip ties and anchors at the back
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and it worked so with that system in place the tubes
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were cut to a manageable length and then finished off with an RGB fitting tied to
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a 90 degree angle to adapt to our soft
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tubing hard in the front lots of wiggle room in the back
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we actually really like this style of hardline since it makes maintenance much
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easier finally cable management oh lordy
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cable management even with sexy cablemod
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cables running the 8 million individual wires
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for every fitting around the back was a challenge to say the least but look at
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this it's actually coming together quite
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nicely all of the fittings conveniently plug
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into a single controller giving the tubes a really pleasing glow that should
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be made even more impressive once primochill's opaque white coolant
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concentrate is added finally
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time to fill our CPU and GPU are
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actually on completely separate loops so we started on the GPU side
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these gargantuan radiators take a huge
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amount of water to fill but we eventually got them both filled
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up and with zero leaks i'm impressed
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which isn't to say that we didn't forget anything we had to unscrew the cap of a
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filled reservoir to put on the RGB reservoir holder rings
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but it was totally worth it then the cherry on top was a non-RGB Corsair
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mp500 SSD that we couldn't install earlier because someone else had it in
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their test bench hyperdirt finally though we added the coolant concentrate
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actually plugged in our mono block and damn
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haters gonna hate but if you're being honest with yourself i think you have to
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admit this is one of the best looking builds we've ever done and if you're not
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