After draining my water loop I installed the RTX 3080, including cutting new tubes and refilling along with the GPU support stand to prevent the card from flexing the PCI-E slot and causing damage. Everything went fine and the card worked without issues lighting up my case with a rainbow RGB cycle effect. Temperatures appeared…
This came in a very big box and when I took the card out the first thing I noticed was the weight of the thing, it’s very heavy. Build quality is high and everything appears to be quite refined and well protected. The XSPC compression connectors I will be using with the water block will…
I used this to upgrade an AMD spiral cooler on a Ryzen 3 5600G, works ok and silent when running at 800rpm. No instructions supplied so you need to go to Arctic Cooling’s website to download or view the PDF online however it is quite easy to install and supports 2 fans for a push/pull…
I have now removed the old hard tubing and replaced with the soft version, so much easier to work with and it has provided a lot more clearance for a bigger GFX card. The lighting is also much better due to less bends and a continous length of tubing. This took me around 4 hours…