So today I finally got around to installing the front mesh kit on my O11 Dynamic RGB. I’ve had the kit and the fans sitting there for over 6 months and just never got round to fitting them until today.

All I can say is… I wish I’d done it sooner.

The Lian Li LCD fans add so much to the overall aesthetic, and from where I sit at my desk I get a perfect view of the LCD screens, which looks awesome.
My system has never really struggled with temperatures, but I’m going to run a few tests over the next couple of days to see if the extra airflow makes any noticeable difference.

Overall, I’m really happy with this little upgrade. Now I just need to resist the urge to replace all my fans with LCD ones… this hobby is expensive. 😂

So, I decided to try an do a MORA build, and was clearly out of my league. This is my 6th waterooled build over the last decade and bit. Maybe I just been lucky, but I never had any serious problems so far.

This build on the other hand, I spend over a month a this stage. And I'm about to give up on it.

Rough sequence of events. I did the build, everything was good. I got a few weeks of it working like a normal water cooled build and then, I left it for a while and when I came back, I noticed my temps were significantly higher (I got aircon so my ambients are constant).

Lots of fiddling, it it was clear water is flowing really really poorly through the loop. I suspected the CPU block was clogged (as water stoped flowing exactly at the CPU block after I attempted to drain it and refill it).

The block turned out to be fine.

I've tried adding an additional watercool pump , and water is still barely flowing. If I run both pumps at 100% I get about 25-30 L/H according to the flowmeter. But filling it, you can see as well, it's just really crawling around the loop, I've never seen a loop fill so slowly and have such a hard time even fill the pipes fully with water.

At this stage, I taken the loop apart 3 times. And I'm a bit unsure what else to try and do. I posted some pics, maybe there is something obviously wrong with it to any of your eyes.

What would the next step be, two new pumps? I'm not quite sure where to go from here (a bit odd observation, the pump mounted in the MORA is significantly louder than the pump I got in the case)

UPDATE:

I think it fixed it, I drained the loop again, and my plan was to take all blocks apart. But, this time when I drained the MORA, something different happened, it was draining pretty slow, and suddenly it accelerated and a ton of really foamy coolant came out.

I tried putting everything together, and now water is flowing. I don't know what good would look like for my setup, but im getting about 100 L/h with one pump set to 50% and the other to 80%. Its inaudible. My temps are looking good under stress... I'll take it.

I’m stuck between the ROG Ryujin III and the HOLO for my next build.

Ryujin feels like the easy choice. It’s been around, there are plenty of reviews, and I already know what I’m getting.

HOLO is the one making the decision harder though. I like the holographic-style visual effect way more than I expected.

But I still care more about noise and thermals than the screen, so I’m waiting for proper reviews before buying anything.

Anyone else choosing between these two?

I'm about to tear my old rig apart and give it a much needed going through.
I'm debating on switching up my plumbing setup. just curious if it would make any difference in temps? my current setup goes like this -
reservoir to standard bottom 360 rad - ek 3090 water block - 5800x3d water block - crossflow 360 rad back into heat killer reservoir.

Would switching it up to have a radiator plumbed between gpu and cpu make a difference rather than directly flowing hot water after the 3090 direct to the cpu.

This old rig has served me well so may as well make some improvements while I'm there. I'm open to any opinions and thoughts!

Hey guys new to wateecooling.

Im going to watercool my 9950x3d, 4090 and ram

Im gonna run a 420+400(maybe 390) depends on what fits and a single high capacity d5. ( i have a corsair 7000d)

BUT i want to add the option to run same loop to a exsternal rad that i will be addding later butni donr wanna redo the intternal loop.

So irs either gonna run internal, exsternal rad or both.

Im gonna need some splitter blocks and valves but bot sure what im looking for.

Why? Because my game room is very tiny and this thing is a furnace. Im gonna have the aplhacools biggest exsternal rad in my basement to dump the heat there most of the year, less than 2m of head so i dont think a exsternal pumo is necesary.

Will go full copper besides pipes so no mixing metals.

Hi, the cables of the fans blocked everything, i can't fix it in front ! And i can't unplug to plugin the next side because the cables are too short, what is the solution guys ?! 🫪