The Guy She Told You Not To Worry About

After years of using my old z170 system, the time to upgrade to modern computing hardware was very warranted. My old system served me very well when I first built it back when I was in high school. It held its own for some time, but its age was showing and I needed something far more powerful for the ever changing software climate and what I needed for school. I am an engineering student and a majority off the applications I use for design, simulation, and computation simply do not run well on my old system. When I need to use AutoCAD, for example, I would have to use my MacBook Pro i9 just to get my sketches done. Even with gaming, when I have the time for it, some newer titles barely ran at decent frame rates to be enjoyable, and was mostly stuck playing games that I played years ago. However, with this baby, everything I throw at it can handle it. I knew going into this project the only thing I wanted to keep from the original PC was the case. The Lian Li PC-05s, in my opinion, is uncontested for being on of the most standout and fashionable cases ever produced. However, puting an i9-13900k and an RTX 3090 in this case I was concerned about thermals because I was basically putting two microwaves in a mini itx case. It was no question that I needed to watercool the entire system, but to go about that was very frustrating and difficult. To begin, my old system used an old Swiftech pump/reservoir/radiator combo that fit perfectly in the limited clearance of the case. The problem was that this all-in-one radiator had a cracked reservoir and the thing was far out of its warranty period to replace; plus they completely stopped production on these lines of radiators. My search for the allusive all-in-one radiator led me to the Granzon radiator-pump combo. A brand I never herd of, but I had no choice because there is apparently a very limited selection of radiator-pump combo unites on the market. Pretty much after I discovered the radiator-pump unit, the rest of the build basically fell into place. I found the best looking, all black, components on the market, filled this system up with tons of storage and memory, and slapped them all together to get what I can say a pretty awesome looking PC that I am very proud of.