It might not happen, but 80% sure I'm going to opt for a custom loop in my next build. Not far away. 

Not going for rigid tubing or any of that stuff, will be black flexible tubing. 

Being a custom loop noob, what do you recommend for best manufacturers for tubing, reservoirs, radiators, fittings? Will be a D5 pump no doubt, so any advice on that front welcome too.

Not sure if it will be the EVGA RTX 380 ( if it ever arrives) and CPU to cool or just the CPU. Might be a Ryzen 5900X. 

MIGHT be a Mini ITX build but not sure yet.

Any advice from Mr Freeze or anyone else who's a bit of a custom loop expert welcomed. 

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That's it then. My NH-D15S it is then. 😉

You'd get far more help on building up a custom water loop at sites like overclock.net.  If you are truly interested, that's where to go.  Expect to spend LOTS of money on it, plus custom water loops require periodic maintenance.

That being said, my NH-D15S is barely capable of controlling OC temps for my i7 10700k.  I rate it "good enough", but wish it had more headroom.  The best I can do is a 5Ghz HT and a 5.2Ghz no HT OC, though realistically this is due more to my silicon loser chip (Asus SP 51) than my cooler.  Once past 210 watts it struggles to keep temps in the 80's.  On the plus size, with the NH-D15S there is very little to worry about maintenance-wise, a smaller case footprint, and overall it is very quiet, BTW all the reasons why I went with this cooler.

Edited October 24, 20205 yr by TheFamilyMan

Thanks for the reply.

I'm aware of the capabilites of the D15S. I've used the D14, D15, and D15S for years. "D15S then" was meant tongue in cheek, as I'm the guy that has extolled the virtues of the cooler a multitude of times on the forum and engaged I'n many debates with water cooling fans.

My current D15S does a fantastic job on my delidded 8700k. 5ghz on all cores is easy, and like you will hit 5.2 GHZ with HT off.

I'm not sure your CPU is a silicon lottery loser, I presume that overclock is on all cores, so its actually quite a decent overclock, as Intel Turbo doesn't overclock all cores to Turbo Max. And your CPU has got 8 physical cores.

I'm aware of the website you mention, the reason I asked here is because I know Rob (alias Mr Freeze) is knowlegable on custom loops. Mr Feeze seems to have gone dark though, so is either up to naughty stuff with cat women, or defeating a nefarious criminal in Gotham City. We also have Westman (Hasse) that contributes occasionally, who happens to be a competitive overclocker and extremely knowlegable. 

 

Not sure which CPU this will be, might be the new Ryzen when launched or I may stick to Intel. Money won't be an issue. If I go down the custom loop route I'm currently thinking Bitspower as a quality manufacturer. 

Edited October 25, 20205 yr by martin-w

Whoa, I see I missed a lot of inside info with my response, sorry there.

Though I can run stable with those OCs, the voltages required make me hesitant to use them 24/7 and hence my loser assessment  (trick question: if it didn't win, does that make it a loser? 😁).  Overall, I'm impressed by my D15S.  It does fine with what I need it for (big sigh of relief), which is running OCs for flight sims and H.264 encoding.

Have fun with your future build.  I think AMD is about to reenter their Athalon X2 glory days with Zen 3...kind of wished I waited, but my 4770k build was having serious problems.  Too bad for nvidia too, big navi is poised to run off with all the disgruntled prospective 3080 customers, which may include myself.  Exciting times lie ahead!

17 hours ago, TheFamilyMan said:

Whoa, I see I missed a lot of inside info with my response, sorry there.

 

 

Ha, no worries at all, I'm grateful you went to the trouble to respond. 👍 

 

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Have fun with your future build.  I think AMD is about to reenter their Athalon X2 glory days with Zen 3...kind of wished I waited, but my 4770k build was having serious problems.  Too bad for nvidia too, big navi is poised to run off with all the disgruntled prospective 3080 customers, which may include myself.  Exciting times lie ahead!

 

To be honest, I'm an Intel boy, I understand Intel, its familiar. I did build a PC for a friend a while back that was AMD and have to say I wasn't that impressed with its temp spikes. Just the way AMD CPU's work I understand. I had to make a custom fan profile so that the fans would stop randomly ramping up and down in response to spikes in temp. Not a huge deal, but just another excuse for me to favour Intel. 😁

But alas...  if the new AMD CPU's are as good as they say, and it looks like cheaper, I may have to go that way. 

As for RTX 3080, I am down on the EVGA "auto notify" system but god knows when I'll get one. 

Edited October 26, 20205 yr by martin-w