Hot Coffee
by Robert T Posted on: 8/17/2020
Build Description
Gaming, folding@home, and watching movies & shows. My computer runs 24/7 doing it all. Most obvious hindsight fix would've been to not attempt to make a DIY purple dye, that backfired horribly and resulted in the name of the system because it stained the reservoir brown. It looks like the system has coffee pumping through the watercooling loop! Despite initial teething troubles with XMP the system is now rock stable and been problem free for most of the last decade. Planning to upgrade it to Zen 4, a proper NVMe SSD, and just maybe a 3080 Ti... Oh, and most importantly a new case that has room to allow for proper cable management!
Favorite Feature
Low maintenance water cooling, only needs a top-off every 1-2 years but the cooling performance is excellent, allowing overclocks at reasonable 24/7 temperatures but with quiet acoustics. At the time I built it it was impossible to find cases that could fit triple 140mm radiators, so even though the case has no room for cable management I was reasonably happy with it.
Core i7 4790K @ 4.5Ghz
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4.5Ghz all-core
ASUS Z97 Pro
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EVGA 1080 Ti Hydrocopper @ 2050MHz
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Kingston DDR3 32GB @ 1800Mhz 8-10-10-24-200
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Cooler Master HAF-X
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Only had to drill screw holes to mount the 3x140mm radiator in the top.
Corsair AX1200
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Swiftech Apogee GTX
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Western Digital 4TB
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Corsair Neutron GTX 256GB
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OS drive
Kingston 240GB SSD
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Steam drive
Transcend 512GB SSD
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Steam drive
Swiftech MCP655 Pump
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13 year old despite 24/7 use
Thermochil PA140.3 Radiator
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3x Noctua 140mm fans