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My humble cranky old man anti-RGB build, tucked into my not ideal-but-it's-what-I've-got nerd corner.

MSI X670E Carbon, 7800X3D, 7900XTX, 32GB of RAM, Corsair RM1200x Shift, Scythe Fuma 3, Fractal Design Define R6, Edifier S2000 MKIII, Emotiva SE8 Flex.




 
Swapped my 8GB 3070 for a 16GB Arc A770 a few weeks ago, changed out my Arctic Liquid Freezer 240 with a white Thermalright Frozen Prism 360 ARGB (pretty well-rated and just $54!) and replaced my bottom-mount blue-lit Corsair 120mm fans with white Thermalright ARGB fans ($14 for a 3-pack!) yesterday, and doubled my RAM to 64GB with another 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws V kit today (pictures were taken last night before the RAM came in):


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Not mine, but was amused by the new Ars article. Retro case aesthetics.


arstechnica.com

Return of the Turbo button: SilverStone is making another ’80s-style beige PC case

FLP02 has a throwback facade but can fit a thoroughly modern PC inside.
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I've occasionally flirted with the idea of doing a retro case build a couple of times for a secondary rig (I have no room for such things though). I look forward to seeing some fun builds with stuff like this though :D
 
Decided to upgrade (had a 5800x3d) and try an AIO for the first time (usually use dual tower coolers). Honestly it's kinda nice, albeit i do hear the pump if the pc is just idle if it's set higher than 55% (it's set on idle to be 30% and ingame 65%, cant hear it over fans).
MSI b850 gaming white
9800x3d
Tcreate 32gb CL30 6000
Arctic Freezer iii 360 Pro white
H7 Flow RGB white case
MSI RTX 5080 (i took backplate off and put the fan on the exposed gpu heatsink, load temps dropped by around 5c)
A few samsung NVMEs (2tb1/1tb)
Noctua fans on exhaust, be quiet fans on intake and under gpu (80mm ones, also drop gpu temp on load).
Overall super quiet and performs extremely well, low 1%s and overall smoothness has gone up noticeably over 5800x3d.

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After 15yrs+ I finally have a PC build to post in this thread.:bleh:
9950x3d
ROG x870e hero
Corsair Dominator Titanium w/Copper heatsink kit 64GB 6000
Streacom SG10/ Caylos Phaseloop Evaporator

The case in Passive cooling config has limited OC really non at all. The cpu will hit 95+c in all core(200w) and can sustain 4.5ghz with minimal throttling. My CineR23 is 38400~38900. It's under 43000 that Noctua DH-15G2 gets. Not too bad I suppose. The Ram runs hot and needs fan a blown on it during stress test. I'm not sure it's even worth the effort to tune the timings. I can bump the voltage to maybe get 6200 but it'll eat up the PPT power budget. My IMC isn't great it needs 1.19vsoc to run expo. I did manage to run flck 2133 with 1.19 vsoc and .940 VDDG IO/CCD. I did 20hrs of VT3 + Linpack Xtreme and confirmed it's stable without IF error retransmission.

The real fun starts once I get a GPU to teardown and install in the other loop.
https://imgur.com/a/9O4wX2w
 
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Nice, full passive is awesome but I also want dust control... you can have largely passive cooling in a cheap tower case, you only need to put a grill instead of a glass door on the side. I was able to ditch all case fans and avoid most dust.
 
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Nice, full passive is awesome but I also want dust control... you can have largely passive cooling in a cheap tower case, you only need to put a grill instead of a glass door on the side. I was able to ditch all case fans and avoid most dust.
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The effort required to manage the dust is not bad. It help the case is mostly empty. I only wipe the bottom and small surface on the top once a week along with my desk wipe down. The mobo I blow with my hand fan for few sec. The side with the glass probably months before I need wipe it and only top of the PSU surface. Leaving the side off makes easy I would not wipe it weekly if had it in installed.

I saw few a videos on open air builds a few commented dust management is not as bad as you would think. After owning the case for over a month I can understand what they meant. I only wiped it 3 like times. The inside barely accumulate much dust after a month. Managing the dust is a breeze compare to my old desktop. On my old desktop I have clean the fan filter once a month and unplug everything once a year bring the whole case outside. As infrequently as I had to do it it feel much more tedious work to do than this open case when I think about it.

One thing I love about this case is the orientation gives easy direct access to the back port. It reduced the desk clutter by not having a USB desk hub. Now I can put other S#!t on my desk.:bleh:
 
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Good to know Im always wary to go after any electronics like the mobo itself to clean it... best I do is use compressed air. But in a more open environment the dust can get greasy sometimes. Def a benefit to pull less dust by losing fans. Even with just one cpu and the gpu fans I get some dust drawn in. What was the cost of the fan free setup?
 
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Good to know Im always wary to go after any electronics like the mobo itself to clean it... best I do is use compressed air. But in a more open environment the dust can get greasy sometimes. Def a benefit to pull less dust by losing fans. Even with just one cpu and the gpu fans I get some dust drawn in. What was the cost of the fan free setup?
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The case itself cost me $1612 including shipping and a $78 Tariff. I ordered it last Nov but it received it in July. It would have cost me over $1800 if I order it today. The copper is a limited ed. I made a gamble it would be cheaper or near cost of the regular Aluminum they'll have available later. I also got a free GPU cold plate upgrade good for 2yrs. One thing to note is the main appeal is fanless but it can also accommodate 4x 120mm x 25mm fans. There are some design flaws with the case it's questionable if I can fit 2 fans on the GPU side. There's a placement near the ATX port but the ATX cable gets in the way. I not sure how I'm suppose to install one under there. Maybe I need to wrap it tightly together with some kind of sleeve?
 
OK... heavens to mergatroid. I knew they could be pricey but ya... I follow https://x.com/FanlessTech on twitter and its not cheap there either. The radiator on top is massive but bet Nvidia will find a way to exceed it. Maybe you can add aluminium fins later?

The only way Ive found to deal with wires getting in the way is use longer ones and rerouting.
 
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OK... heavens to mergatroid. I knew they could be pricey but ya... I follow fanless on twitter and its not cheap there either. The radiator on top is massive but bet Nvidia will find a way to exceed it. maybe you can add aluminium fins later?

The only way Ive found to deal with wires getting in the way is use longer ones and rerouting.
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Yea, it's pricey. It also heavy AF I think it's 68LB empty. It a cool display of the Tech. Noctua's prototype thermal siphon use the same tech from Calyos. Nvidia already exceed it. The loop is only rated for 350w passive and 400-420w with fans. Linus tech tips built one with a 4090. I was really surprise it ran fine without fans. Streacom is making a 5090 coldplate kit for this. I intended to build it with a 5090 but AMD rumors got me reconsidering. If they manage to release a card that matches a 5090 but under 400w that would be amazing. AMD have been failing to deliver. I very skeptical they can pull it off.

I can't reroute the cable but it more than longer enough to push it forward more. The issue is the cable bend sticks up.
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Dude it's god damn gorgeous. I watched the LTT video on it a couple months back (here) and it just looks stunning imho. Nicely done, glade to see a fellow Rage member get one. Awesome, simply awesome :)
 
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Ya gotta give it that tho its on the pricier side its pretty cool looking.
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As pricey and cool looking as it is. It's not without problems. The cooling loop was failing from cold boot which triggers the CPU thermal protection. I think some fluid is getting trapped in the condenser and not enough is pooling back down which in turn causes the evaporator to dry out. I was working with their thermal engineer close to a month. I was instructed to test out the other loop to rule out problems with cooling loop or the fill ratio because they did lower the fill ratio to address the noise. Unfortunately for me no one else has this problem.

Instead I switched back to thermal paste. It seemed to resolve the problem for almost 3 weeks as it's no longer failing daily or so I thought until today. Getting PTSD thinking about this. I spent way too much time troubleshooting various issues than enjoying it. It's gonna be hassle to ship back. The way Trump making shipping tariff worst by the day has me on edge. I think I'm gonna enjoy the build a while longer before disassembling and shuffling things around again.
 
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