Triple Radiator Cerberus-X
Posted Oct 27, 2019, 6:54 PM UTC
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crossposted from r/sffpc
Had a lot of fun building this one
Components
*3700x waiting for 3950x
*Gigabyte X570 I Aorus Pro Wifi
*2080Ti XC ULTRA
*16GB Vengeance 3200 CL16 soon to be 32GB
*Samsung 1TB 970 EVO Plus NVMe
*Corsair SF750
Watercooling Loop
*HWLabs GTS 1x280mm, 1x240mm, 1x120mm
*Aquacomputer Culpex Kryos Next
*Aquacomputer Kryographics Next w/ Active Backplate
*Aquacomputer D5 Vario
*Singularity Computers Reservoir
*Bitspower/AC fittings
*EKWB ZMT
*Fans: should be obvious to you by now
There is an Aquaero 6 LT controlling the custom loop, mounted to an available motherboard standoff.
I use this system for 4k gaming and video editing. Please ask me any questions you may have, I've been through a lot of iterations in many cases including builds in the SM560 and Cerberus (non-X).
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I need more photos. I'm not familiar with the case, so where's the motherboard? And I'm also curious about what you said about mounting the Aquaero.
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The motherboard is ITX-sized, behind the PSU.
The case has standoffs for ATX motherboards, so I was able to mount the Aquaero to one of the available standoffs. Hope that makes sense!
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That makes sense, yeah. Do the screw holes on the Aquaero happen to line up with ATX standoffs?
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I was only able to use one standoff, but it's better than nothing. The threading on the screws supplied with the Aquaero match the motherboard standoffs.
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this thing is a beast
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You managed to stuff 120mm worth of radiator more than I was able to put in my Meshify C Mini, pretty damn good job.
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This is one of the nicest custom-loop SFF builds I've seen. I bet it took some work figuring out the build order. Going with an ITX board was a smart touch too.
How are temps so far?
The build order definitely took a bit of iteration. The ITX was necessary to have room to route everything and the Aquaero can be mounted securely out of sight by using a spare ATX standoff.
Running an absolute stress test (Prime95 small FFTs and Heaven benchmark concurrently with PBO enabled and max power target on 2080Ti), the air/water delta doesn't exceed 10 degrees Celsius after full heat soak. This is with a fan curve that caps all the radiator fans at ~1300RPM, making the fans inaudible from more than 2 feet away.
Under a more realistic workload such as gaming, the air/water delta stays around 6 degrees Celsius, keeping my water temp around 32-33 degrees C. CPU-only workloads barely increase the water temp whatsoever, maybe 1 or 2 degrees above idle.
Water temps at idle are around 2 degrees C above ambient with fans at sub-800 RPM.
Thank you for the compliment!