My 4-year-old X79 rig is long overdue for an upgrade. After doing some research, I'm considering venturing into the wonderful and scary world of custom water cooling. No hard-tubing stuff, but pumps, radiators, fittings, etc. etc.
Here's the list of parts:
Here's the list of parts:
- AMD RYZEN 7 1800X
- ASRock X370 Taichi ATX AM4 Motherboard
- Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
- Samsung 960 Pro 1.0TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
- MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition Video Card
- Fractal Design Define R5 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case
- Corsair Professional Gold 1200W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
- Not a gamer, although I guess I sneak in a little bit of XCOM2 and Civ 6 once a month (yup, once a month)
- This is mainly for heavy duty coding and video editing
- Near-silent operation
- No silly RGB lighting stuff
- Stability
- Safe overclocking, if any
- Learn how to do water cooling (this would be my 4th hand-built rig)
- Would something like the EK X360 kit be a good starting point?
- Should I go with a separate AIO kit for the CPU and another for the GPU? (Corsair Hydro H115i, for example)
- Would all of my main components work with water cooling? (i.e., finding a waterblock for the GPU)
- How worried should I be about leakage and damaging the motherboard, CPU, etc.?
- How long do the pumps, fittings, etc. last?
- Should I save on components (512GB M.2 drive instead of 1TB) and spend it on better fittings and motor?
- Should pay someone to do this for me, as there are a couple of shops in Seoul? Or just take the plunge? (Dumb question, but wanted to ask)