Gadgetory

you could say it's been a lifelong journey of mine to build the quietest PC possible my old TJ o7 build used to radiators so that I could run my fans at just 600 rpm and my current setup has the PC literally in a different room with a cable running through the wall but that is both expensive and kind of a pain in the butt what if there was another way a way that looks super cool but that may or may not be even more expensive and with even more butt pain I'm gonna tell you about it but first something that comes with no butt pain the be quiet dark bass 700 is a versatile case that features RGB lighting and a tempered glass side panel check it out in the link below to learn more so this idea was actually pitched months ago in a writers brainstorming meeting when well let's just say we got totally off topic discussing old computer hardware memes but instead of making a cage made of fans we should do a case made of radiator right and it should have no fans at all yes well somehow that made it on to the production calendar with the original plan actually being to basically no actually - exactly just jury-rigged together every radiator in the warehouse with some L brackets we had lying around and zip-tie in a motherboard power supply and graphics card that got canned pretty quickly and the project devolved into its second form a bunch of radiators attached with L brackets and some metal mounting brackets for the internal hardware courtesy of our friends with the machine shop that totally isn't the only reason we hang out with them after school proto case then by this point if we're gonna get some custom mounting hardware we might as well create our own frame for the radiators right yeah obviously so it was off to Autodesk Inventor where a bunch of time was spent measuring and mocking up the brackets required for our build as well as for the case frame itself we ended up with a shape that's actually sort of reminiscent of a PC case but without front fascia or side panels or a bottom I guess it is - a case kind of what a go-cart frame is to a car but these feet that we got from them and PC tech er pretty cool and anyway it's perfect for our purposes since it is perfectly sized for eks ultra thick XC series radiators in the three sixty millimeter variant and then it's also got another spot on the back for the three by three 120 millimeter rad that we've had sitting around unused in the warehouse since 2013 for style points for this build we went with hardline tubing using fittings for all of the bends giving us a finish product that I wouldn't think would be beautiful to most people in like a traditional sense but that has a raw industrial look to it that I personally absolutely love and the real story here isn't beauty anyway but rather pushing the limits of performance and cooling so let's take a look then at the insane specs that we loaded it up with for testing we started with 18 cores of pure Intel Core I 9 pala then we threw in 64 gigs of quad-channel sodium ddr4 from g.skill 64 gigs and a whopping 3 by 960 gigs of nvme SSD raid zero goodness though we actually ended up needing those high-capacity drives for another project but there are 240 gig siblings look pretty much the same oh and then we threw in a GTX 1080 because come on what I nine rig doesn't have a bitchin GPU finally at the heart of all that the way that we fit this much radiator power into this much space was as Rox brand new X 299 II ITX with a custom bits power full cover block that thankfully replaces the micro sized vrm cooler on this puppy okay then enough about that how does it perform we decided to test our creation a couple of different ways first with no fans in it at all except for the one that was built into our Silverstone 800 watt modular SF XL power supply and that idle putt mission accomplished our temps were near ambient with our pump handling all of these radiators like a champ with that said a system like this when it's not doing anything doesn't kick out a lot of heat so we added a CPU load measured the results and ended up even more impressed even at this power level we are easily dissipating all of the heat and keeping our processor at a safe temperature but then what about the graphics card ha no problem so I think at this point it's safe to call the project a success it should be noted that the fan in the power supply did spin up while gaming adding to the noise already being made by our d5 pump but thanks to the massive radiator surface area this is still among the quietest systems we have ever encountered even at full load and perhaps the coolest thing about it is that by borrowing a page from the build that originally inspired it we can take it of course to a completely new level now we weren't able to fit fans onto all of the radiator spots but even running at a low rpm we ended up with some seriously impressive cooling results so then conclusion I guess if this was a product sent to us by a manufacturer asking for an objective review what would we say well in this exact configuration we're looking at almost $1200 worth of water cooling hardware so we'd start by saying that you might want to think about saving a few bucks by using soft tubing at the very least but we'd also say that you cannot question the performance of what is effectively an 18 by 120 millimeter radiator setup and you can't question the fact that it not only ran passively but also did so with performance that wasn't far off what you'd expect from decent aftermarket cooling systems so it's not a great value but it's definitely rad oh that's awful we have partnered with Tesoro to give away 10 limited-edition Graham spectrum keyboards modded by the people over at modders Inc simply vote for your top 3 limited-edition designs and be entered to win one of these keyboards who knows maybe the most popular design will be produced as a magnetic overlay for more people to enjoy as well on their grand spectrum keyboards also if you purchase 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