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My 3990x pc as been slowly giving up the ghost and today it decide to die. the machine is 5 years old and was build by pc specialist. It is a fancy water cooled setup with EK double radiator one 240 and one 360 so 5 fans and all hard piping, never again am i going to go hard piping as diagnosing and pulling parts is a night mare. Also my gpu is also connected to this loop, making puling out parts to problem solve almost impossible without draining the system I aint giving up on all these components yet, but i need a stable fast machine setup first before i start testing this one for fault, i suspet eithert gcard or mother board are the issue.
my current setup looks like this as u can see, it looks cool but not very practical
So was browsing for cpu options and amazon are seling the 7980x for £2800 which is too good an op to miss so that has been bought . Now i need to build a pc around it, I was wondering what setup people are running? motherboard and ram combos in particular and how these machines have peformed and who stable are they. Looking on scan and overclockers they only seem to list 3 mother boards, asus, asrock and gygabit, is that really all the choice. my last two mobos have been asus and found them to be nothing but fussy about what memory they like to work with. Has anyone else had similar experiances with them?
My initial idea is to keep the chassis, psu and rad setup, except i would flip the top rad so its in and out pipes are on the right and not crossing motherboard, remove gpu from loop and have just cpu connected with flexi popes, basically it will be like a fancy aio with 2 rads that can be easily removed without draining system. I will probs buy a new reservoir and pump while im at it. Pipe arrangement would look more like this
It would be good to hear what peoples expericance are with these processors and what parts any self builders have speced .
thanks
matt
My 3990x pc as been slowly giving up the ghost and today it decide to die. the machine is 5 years old and was build by pc specialist. It is a fancy water cooled setup with EK double radiator one 240 and one 360 so 5 fans and all hard piping, never again am i going to go hard piping as diagnosing and pulling parts is a night mare. Also my gpu is also connected to this loop, making puling out parts to problem solve almost impossible without draining the system I aint giving up on all these components yet, but i need a stable fast machine setup first before i start testing this one for fault, i suspet eithert gcard or mother board are the issue.
my current setup looks like this as u can see, it looks cool but not very practical
So was browsing for cpu options and amazon are seling the 7980x for £2800 which is too good an op to miss so that has been bought . Now i need to build a pc around it, I was wondering what setup people are running? motherboard and ram combos in particular and how these machines have peformed and who stable are they. Looking on scan and overclockers they only seem to list 3 mother boards, asus, asrock and gygabit, is that really all the choice. my last two mobos have been asus and found them to be nothing but fussy about what memory they like to work with. Has anyone else had similar experiances with them?
My initial idea is to keep the chassis, psu and rad setup, except i would flip the top rad so its in and out pipes are on the right and not crossing motherboard, remove gpu from loop and have just cpu connected with flexi popes, basically it will be like a fancy aio with 2 rads that can be easily removed without draining system. I will probs buy a new reservoir and pump while im at it. Pipe arrangement would look more like this
It would be good to hear what peoples expericance are with these processors and what parts any self builders have speced .
thanks
matt
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