It’s been a while since my PC has had any significant upgrades, the i7-6700K CPU is still working well with the water cooling setup but the Arctic case fans have become noisy and now rattle so I have decided it’s time for an upgrade. One thing which has picked up since the original build is…
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 have been waiting to upgrade my GFX card for a long time and since the soft tubing update I have been waiting for an opportunity to get a GFX card with an integrated water block. There is currently a stock shortage for PC hardware and GFX cards at the time of writing this are…