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well known brand is cable mod? i think i came across it on jay2z's youtube about the overheating and saw others.



i emailed cable mod and gave them as photo of mine since the connectors are deeper w/in the gpu and need at least 13/16" to clear the gpu housing. the cables are hitting the glass cover and potentially putting some pressure on the connectors on the gpu.

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cablemods have no love for go Red!



no gpu power adapter there. i wodner if there are flexible gpu connector cables vs the ones i'm using from evga. evga sleeved them at least.

[Iknownot]

any recommendation for a 90 deg gpu power connector? kid's build actually hits the glass. not that it's causing issues, but it's always a pita me thinking about reinstalling the glass panel and all the wiggling that happens.
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Don?t get one of the angle adapters. Cablemod is issuing a full recall. My case is currently open using the stock cabling as I have the same spacing issue and pulled my cable mod adaptor until I get the details. Derbauer made a comment in his 12VPWR plug issues recent video that he may not even recommend the adapter he is associated with.

The 90 degree cables don?t seem to be having the same plug burn issues, even the cheaper Amazon ones. I?d get a 90 degree cable


I?m waiting on the recall reimbursement info but I?ll probably get a replacement 90 degree cable form cable mod.

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can't get it anyway Iknownot. they don't make 'em for amd cards.



it looks like the evga power cords are stiffer than those that came with my corsair psu. i may just get different gpu cables. good thing i didn't rgb the cables. i wonder how much stiffer they would be.



more of a case problem with the lian li 011 air mini not being deep enough. i thought it was from all the vids/pics.



plus OP's pic with a angled adapter looked cool. not going to work anyway.

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Very nice. One of these days I'm going to do a full-bore water-cooled build instead of cheesing out with an AIO - lol. What kind of temps do you get with that setup?

Finally got around to stress testing the setup. Idle temps on all 8 cores is 27-28 degrees Celsius. General usage like browsing the web, other in-Windows tasks they reach the low 30s. While encoding a ripped blu ray to H265 and all 8 cores are heavily taxed, temps got up to a high of 81.5 degrees. I currently have the rad fans on "quiet" mode so they're nowhere near max output, so there's definitely room to fine tune the cooling performance by adjusting the fan curves and bring those temps down, just haven't done that yet. I'd like to see max stress temps top out in the 60s. But, it's good to know that even with the fans on low output, the temps are still within the safe operating parameters for the CPU.

Nicely done. I changed from an open loop system back to an AIO after I got fed up with troubleshooting during an upgrade. Having to flush and refill the system multiple times got to be a real pain in the @ss.

Yeah a full flush and fill is not fun, but if set up properly from the beginning, the coolant can last for years without needing to be replaced. I made the mistake of using diluted automotive coolant the first time around because I had read that it works well because it has glycol which is a built-in growth inhibitor, but the loop ended up getting quite a bit of algae growth anyway. So this time with new hoses, I'm running straight distilled water with PrimoChill liquid utopia, after running the PrimoChill sysprep overnight through the loop and flushing, and so far it's still crystal clear. I know a lot of people like to run colored coolants, which to me is crazy because those coolants contain color particles, especially the opaque colors, which settle and becomes sediment throughout the system clogging up fins and tiny passage ways. I don't care about what the loop looks like, because I don't stare at the box when I'm using my computer, I'm looking at the screen. I just want it to cool efficiently and last.

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Finally got around to stress testing the setup. Idle temps on all 8 cores is 27-28 degrees Celsius. General usage like browsing the web, other in-Windows tasks they reach the low 30s. While encoding a ripped blu ray to H265 and all 8 cores are heavily taxed, temps got up to a high of 81.5 degrees. I currently have the rad fans on "quiet" mode so they're nowhere near max output, so there's definitely room to fine tune the cooling performance by adjusting the fan curves and bring those temps down, just haven't done that yet. I'd like to see max stress temps top out in the 60s. But, it's good to know that even with the fans on low output, the temps are still within the safe operating parameters for the CPU.



Yeah a full flush and fill is not fun, but if set up properly from the beginning, the coolant can last for years without needing to be replaced. I made the mistake of using diluted automotive coolant the first time around because I had read that it works well because it has glycol which is a built-in growth inhibitor, but the loop ended up getting quite a bit of algae growth anyway. So this time with new hoses, I'm running straight distilled water with PrimoChill liquid utopia, after running the PrimoChill sysprep overnight through the loop and flushing, and so far it's still crystal clear. I know a lot of people like to run colored coolants, which to me is crazy because those coolants contain color particles, especially the opaque colors, which settle and becomes sediment throughout the system clogging up fins and tiny passage ways. I don't care about what the loop looks like, because I don't stare at the box when I'm using my computer, I'm looking at the screen. I just want it to cool efficiently and last.

I did the same. Distilled water with a little bit of growth inhibitor. I never had any issues with particulates or sediemts. Had the system runinng for three years and never needed a flush. Probably would have kept that way had I not chose to upgrade the graphics card. I may still try another full loop but this time with soft tubes. Much easier to deal with for upgrades.