Love stuff like this. Fairly in-depth, weird, custom projects with niche and/or top end hardware. Kind of rare content in the sea of incredibly generic PC builds.
Well said. I appreciate that Roman retains an aesthetic level while modding as well. It's nice to see an engineer doing in depth mods rather than GN Steve butchering thousands worth of top end gear!
@@der8auer-en Do you think if we left pump in there and make custom watercooler, that pump would into a generator and maybe power some RGB lights with that ? Maybe ?
Love this type of content! Honestly my favorite types of videos to watch. I would LOVE to see this mod done in a full build, with the built in lighting and VRM fan still operational. One step better would be to see it installed in a custom rigid tube build in the O11D-E. Take care, please give us more on this card and mod!
@@MiesvanderLippe that's the thing, if they're using it to make money, it just depends on what their payback time is and if they're happy with that time. It's a very very very stupid card to buy exclusively for yourself, but if you're happy with only paying it off slowly it's at least not completely insane for a streamer to get it. Makes much more sense in a workstation for rendering workloads regardless.
That little creation reminds me of the old "Snail" blocks that EK made 10yrs ago for the 5**-6** series GPU's. This is awesome and love seeing the process you went through - amazing work as always man - also have been training for your Keyboard challenge from back in the day lol.
First time watching someone dismantling AIO. As someone who's fairly new to pc building, I always intrigued with the enthusiast side of it. Really appreciate your video, keep it up man!
so cooool!! I really enjoyed watching this video. I just got this card and put it in the Vetroo Pangolin case, a case which looks cool but is more like a high school art project than a well-designed product. Definitely keeping the stock AIO. I disassembled the build and will ask my artist buddy to custom paint the case... after I replace flimsy rivets with nuts and screws. I appreciate this video to see what the card can do and what it looks like inside! ty
Really great project Roman, really nice job on that block, very cool to see the water flow and dead spots. Have to admit to being jealous of your nice "toys" at your disposal to do fun projects like this, must be so much fun to know you can take on stuff like this without worrying if you have the right "tools".
Err... yes but look at DDR6X Junction Temp. My 3090 is at 92 degrees. This setup in the video 42! The 3090ti, not having the memory chips on the back side, plus a nice job with the DIY block, seems to work wonders. Something tells me Nvidia shouldn't have been dumb enough to put DDR6X on the back of other 30 series cards.
And proven again, solid copper heatsink for GDDR is the best solution. Thermal pads are not worth it anymore, these high power usage chips degrade them super quick.
@@N0N0111 "And proven again, solid copper heatsink for GDDR is the best solution. Thermal pads are not worth it anymore" Well, yes, but pads are still used between the copper block and heat sink for the GDDR6X on the AIO Ti. In the video he still used them. The Ti doesn't have memory chips on the backplate side of the card where they aren't cooled properly which helps. The mystery is that the 3080 doesn't have DDR6X on the backplate side but is still very hot. Clearly removing the chips on the backplate side plus another factor is responsible for the lower temp. Maybe the latest DDR6X generates less heat. Certainly true that copper is far superior to inefficient thermal pads. The copper shim mod on the 3090 where you replace the DDR6X pads with thermal paste and copper shims makes a huge difference. "these high power usage chips degrade them super quick." That's not what I've found. My EVGA FTW3 3090 was at 90 degrees DDR6X Junction Temp under load straight out of the box. That's what most people find.
@@DLTX1007 All or almost all 3080 and 3090's are high 80's to 90's. Crypto miners freak out because they can hit 110 degrees and throttle. I came across one individual that claimed he was seeing 70's with the same card as me, which doesn't make much sense really. Nobody else does. Regarding air cooled 3090 Ti, nope, from what I've seen no issue with junction temp. The lack of chips under the backplate and some other factor seems to have mitigated the issue. Inside the air cooled 3090 Ti they don't look much diferent to the non Ti, which is why I'm wondering if the new batch of GDR6X is cooler, or perhaps no longer from Micron. I actually contacted EVGA re my 3090 FTW3 and they said 90's is high but didn't regard it as an issue unless it hits 110 and throttles. All they care about of course is getting past the warranty period. What it actually means long term for GDDR6X in terms of longevity is a bit of a mystery. I contacted Micron out of interest, given its their memory, and enquired regarding longevity... they ignored me. Jayx2Cents dropped the temp a useful amount with better pads, others have too. I managed to drop junction temp with Gelid pads under the backplate which made a slight diference. The best mod though is the copper shim mod. I'm not too bothered for my 3090 as I have a 5 year warranty and will probably change the card by then. But I'd certainly say its an issue that nvidia didn't account for properly. It's a bit weird when GPU temp is in the 60's but it's the memory in the 90's representing the temp issue.
@@N0N0111 Thermal pads don't "degrade", and they still have to be used anyways. I don't know where you get the idea that the copper plate is making direct contact with the memory...
there are two types of ppl nowadays those that love art or those that love stats ...the rare few are those that land outside the list ...keep up the amazing work
I like AIO cards, for putting them in friends systems. Those that aren't going to go custom loop but want something quieter. Good to see they're using standard fan headers. I love the CNC work.
This is exactly why I am subbed to the channel...Kind of weird, maybe unnecessary mods and testing, but it is still really cool. Same as watching people fiddle around with super-cars.
good vid dude- informative and interesting! even answered some questions that arose in my mind during parts of the video... I always like watching your content. thanks.
Back in the day of the 9800GTX I had a dual circuit water system on my gaming rig mounted in an Antec Skeleton, for the video card I modified an Alphacool RAM cooling kit which used these really thin pipes and cooling blocks from a manifold which also supplied the GPU main block which I used a NB/SB block to cool as GPU water cooling kits were horrendously expensive and I already had a 240w Peltier on the CPU circuit side and that computer barely made it above freezing it was so efficient.
I'd love to see a graph showing power usage over frame rate and a comparison drawn between the likes of this and 3080s. Curious how much efficiency is lost
If you're worried about your power bill I don't understand why you would be wasting money on a 3090 Ti in the first place... If you want performance without a big bill then go with AMD. The 6900XT only consumes about 300w which is about 50w less than the 3090 and almost 30w less than the 3080. Oh, and the 6900XT is also nearly half the price of the 3090 AND performs better in games. The trifecta - performance, efficiency, and bang-for-buck. And I'm not just saying this because I'm an AMD fanboy. I have a 1070 ti Cerberus. But if you're looking for a top-end card, it should be a no-brainer.
@@wazaagbreak-head6039 What are you even talking about... Are you reverse-engineering the entire circuit? No? Then what the hell does that have to do with anything? And over-driven? How do you figure? Last time I checked it was the people with 3070s, 3080's and 3090s who were having to put their power slider at 70% just to keep it from crashing in games.
@@twizz420 Overdriven as in AMD has and always will use artificially high voltages to eek out that performance, the savings you have come at a cost. And the power usage differences are attributed to architecture not design, in the next generations ALL components will see a marked rise in power usage as it is one of the only ways left we have to dramatically increase performance as we approach theoretical maximums for just how small we can make shit. And what does it have to do with it? Longevity to begin with.
I saw a video of the Aorus 3090Ti Extreme. That used what looked like a FE board with a copper plate touching both the memory and vrms. It came with a 360 rad instead of 240 and had similar temps to this custom job
Hey man, hope you are well. So you can refill the old AIO, Easy way: I submerge radiator in a container of coolant with inlet tube disconnected ( you can figure this out after priming and starting the pump.) (Always make sure the radiator barb is submerged so it doesn’t scoop air… The quickest way to prime the pump is to put the tube in your mouth and suck coolant into the loop. Then run the pump. Once all the air is out I push the tube back on the barb of the radiator whilst it’s submerged… then secure it with a zip tie… Hard way: Let the pump rest on a table and have the radiator hanging below with all the tubes connected with the cold plate removed … I then fill the loop to the brim… To check for air bubbles you can rotate the radiator from left to right letting the coolant move “pump” internally. This pushes air bubbles out and let’s gravity fill from the radiator and up. “Pump” method is needed as surface tension of the coolant in the tubes prevents bubbles from coming out. Once filled to the top and the “pump” method shows their are no bubbles, put the gasket and cold plate and hold firmly (you can put some screws back) Connect the pump to a power supply and run it. When the pump is on and the tone changes you will know you have hit an air pocket. Open and fill it to the top again ( this is if the “pump” method didn’t work for you) Repeat if needed. At the end the use a towel to hold the pump and over fill it. If some coolant messes that’s fine… then screw the cold plate on. Don’t forget the gasket… If there is an air bubble that’s not too big that’s fine it will go settle in the radiator. Steve from showed us this in his AIO mounting video … If you keep hearing air passing through the pump in intervals, the bubble in the loop is too big. The pump will then be pulling part of the large bubble it into the circulation that sits in the radiator. You will need to open the loop and top it up again. The above methods with prevent this from happening but you will know what to do Easy way needs lots of coolant. Hard way taking lots of time. Take care
14:13 German Engineered Perfection A.K.A der8auer reminds us that our definition of what we might consider as a flat plane might slightly be more convex than his.
I like that this is still a project an enthusiast layperson can easily do at home (if they have access to $40,000 worth of professional tooling equipment)
the thing i dont like about aio cooling is that the life of the pump is usually shorter than the gpu and once its gone you pretty much have a useless gpu unless they make aftermarket waterblocks for these cards.
That acrylic block is so cleaaaan. That would be a lot a work but I'd consider doing a transparent shroud, hiding this beauty of a block would be a sin.
Thank you sooo much, ive always wanted a video like this but jayztwocents would never do it I have a couple 2080 that are AIO cards and will eventually die long b4 the cards do. so thank you, thank you very much
The problem is... Is it worth it? No. Radiator sucks. Pump sucks. Tubing sucks for conversion. Water path probably sucks(unless you have a fully engineered solution like this Strix rather than a Gigabyte "slap an aio on top") AIOs are kinda dumb in that sense, the parts they use to make them merely "expensive" are also garbage. They are bad at virtually everything. At that point, why would you buy an AIO? You wouldn't. Save money by not overpaying for bad parts you won't use. Buy a 100 USD block instead and skip the AIO. Spend the extra money on intelligent design, such as aquacomputer parts(an octo or a d5 next goes a long way).
Yeah I totally agree with you. It's just my curiosity about modding something like this because aio GPUs manufacturers has better design than anything you could find on the market, all of them are just block of acrylic glass without sense of taste in design. They don't understand the difference or having RGB vs having a good design. All of manufacturers sucks.
@@aljunmatocinos272 AIO card appearance is usually just a shroud(obviously this Strix has a BUNCH of custom parts, but it's BOM probably reflects that). So is the appearance of a custom loop waterblock. 3D print and laser cutting services are cheap nowadays. Better to make a custom shroud/backplate than to start from the base of an AIO.
I frankenstained my H110i GT with broken pump together with Fury X, which pump clicks bloody murder since I got it, but everything performs well for the last 4 years.
i ran a msi 980ti with a aio adapter and just the pump unit. i ran tied the aio pump into a custom loop parallel with the cpu on the custom loop with 1/4inch to 3/8th inch step down barbs. there was a pump for the custom loop but the aio pump head was running also. being it parallel the custom loop pump didn't seem to over power the aio pump and it worked well on the one 280mm rad and no need to mount a 2nd rad
I have an idea to improve the temps a bit. Use a copper shim on the memory instead of the thermal pads. This should allow the base plate to remove heat from the general area much quicker.
The 6900 XT Toxic Edition from Sapphire comes with a 360mm radiator, the card is insanely silent and cool :D The only thing I had to do was linking the pump of the AiO to the motherboard to lower its speed to 60% because it was doing a serious buzz noise at 100% for just 1-2°C of improvement.
You are a GENIUS!!!!!! This is just AMAZING stuff you do... ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!! You are BY FAR my FAVORITE PC MODDer!!! THANK YOU for taking us along for the journey! I cannot wait to see what you do next!!!! Did you do this same thing with the 6900XT AIO?? If not, then you should... I'm gonna go look back through your vids to see. :)
The stock cold plate/distro plate is probably the hold back to lower temps. Obviously at that point you mighy as well get a Corsair or a EK open loop set-up.
I bought a gigabyte rtx 3080 egpu aio that i toredown to extract the gpu, the block they have on that thing is actually pretty nice and keeps the gpu under 50c. However without a backplate the memory modules get hot as hell. Also the block is copper and the radiator was aluminum so it didn't take long to clog up and need replacing.
It would be great if you could do the same on the new 7900XT thats about to drop into retail. I am pretty sure there will be one or two AIBs with a Watercooled solution.
I bet someone could solder a 6mm cu pipe to the heat pipe of the cooler. They are easy to bend and there are 1/4 mm fittings too. This wouldn't take the complete thermal load but a chunk of it would go into the water loop.
You're limited by the skived heat plate, there isn't enough surface area to transfer more thermal load to the water. Obviously they designed it that way to meet the bare minimum. You should have just CNCed a new heat plate while you were doing the acrylic. Beautiful job though!
Can u post the cad files? Super dope video. I enjoyed this alot. Wish u went a lil more into the cad process, but CAD, CNC milling, laser cutters, 3d printing, custom watercooling, all on my favorites list. Just missing mini quadcopters.
what would make this mod even cooler is if you cut a window out to show off the custom block but machined the acrylic to be the same design as the strix design aesthetic
Pretty disappointed bro.I am already achieving 446W pull with my 3080 Ti Strix LC with Phanteks T30-12 1530rpm 52-54c load in ambient 24c. I was expecting around 48-47c Amazing content btw. Keep it up. We love you !
nice demonstration of CAD / CAM prototyping and machining skills. to a high level of competency. very impressive! ... meanwhile over here i am thinking how to cobble together a very tight budget custom loop. all with chinese parts from aliexpress. at other end of the scale. but the main thing i want to find is a good pump. or if its not adequate to buy a real D5 pump for that part of it
Original housing what size? ID and OD. Thanks! And why not trying to use existing waterblock with pump and add it to the loop? Not all can create drawings for 3D printer. Nice video)
Awesome stuff, The time and effort you put into doing these mods is appreciated, but as we don't all have to access to 3d printers, CNC etc, Would it be possible to use the original water pump housing with the internals removed in a custom loop?
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Love stuff like this. Fairly in-depth, weird, custom projects with niche and/or top end hardware. Kind of rare content in the sea of incredibly generic PC builds.
Thanks 😬
Well said. I appreciate that Roman retains an aesthetic level while modding as well. It's nice to see an engineer doing in depth mods rather than GN Steve butchering thousands worth of top end gear!
Agreed!
this content worth every second!
@@tompayne4945 LOL!!
Always impressed by the quality of your machining and your patience to make all of those prototypes before getting to the final piece, awesome work!!
The custom acrylic GPU water block looks slick. 🤤
Noice
oh hell yeah
I would love to see all the CAD/CAM work on this. The final product looks great.
I’m glad you went through the effort instead of chopping off the tubing/radiator and replacing just that.
Yea I felt like leaving a pump in the way is kind of wrong 🤣
@@der8auer-en Do you think if we left pump in there and make custom watercooler, that pump would into a generator and maybe power some RGB lights with that ? Maybe ?
With the right skills and access to some serious cnc mashines one can make custom mods like this indeed, very cool stuff, well done
3090 @ 75% Power is perfect for video production. Must love that 24G VRAM
The CNC work on the acrylic is mesmerising. Wonderful video. Thank you.
Love this kinds of videos ! the craftmanship on the 3dprint demo and the acrylic block is soo cool !
Wow this was so interesting. It must be so fun to have access to these manufacturing tools.
that is so beautiful. i love watching cnc and laser cutting anyway but when it producing something this aesthetically pleasing is pure joy.
thanks you!
I love watching consensual non consent as well >;)
Love this type of content! Honestly my favorite types of videos to watch. I would LOVE to see this mod done in a full build, with the built in lighting and VRM fan still operational. One step better would be to see it installed in a custom rigid tube build in the O11D-E. Take care, please give us more on this card and mod!
When I get up for work at 5am and I sit down for breakfast and this video went up 38 minutes ago. What a treat! 😁
The 3090 makes perfect sense... as a professional card like the Titan.
I don't know what gamers or even streamers buying them were thinking.
It’s a great content piece and ensures no GPU bottleneck. Why not? It’s a business expense.
@@MiesvanderLippe that's the thing, if they're using it to make money, it just depends on what their payback time is and if they're happy with that time. It's a very very very stupid card to buy exclusively for yourself, but if you're happy with only paying it off slowly it's at least not completely insane for a streamer to get it. Makes much more sense in a workstation for rendering workloads regardless.
Thank you for the enjoyable videos, my regards to the adorable kitties 😻😻
This could be a comment on PH lol
That was immensely satisfying. And there was a bonus kitty.
I like how you make it look all so casual.
I haven't seen a der8auer episode in a while and I just now notice the sick sleeve on Roman!
You have THE dream job. Messing around with computers, overclocking, and making a ton of money doing so. Sign me up for that gig!
That little creation reminds me of the old "Snail" blocks that EK made 10yrs ago for the 5**-6** series GPU's. This is awesome and love seeing the process you went through - amazing work as always man - also have been training for your Keyboard challenge from back in the day lol.
First time watching someone dismantling AIO. As someone who's fairly new to pc building, I always intrigued with the enthusiast side of it. Really appreciate your video, keep it up man!
Very nice work Roman !!! That's a good looking block !
so cooool!! I really enjoyed watching this video. I just got this card and put it in the Vetroo Pangolin case, a case which looks cool but is more like a high school art project than a well-designed product. Definitely keeping the stock AIO. I disassembled the build and will ask my artist buddy to custom paint the case... after I replace flimsy rivets with nuts and screws. I appreciate this video to see what the card can do and what it looks like inside! ty
Really great project Roman, really nice job on that block, very cool to see the water flow and dead spots. Have to admit to being jealous of your nice "toys" at your disposal to do fun projects like this, must be so much fun to know you can take on stuff like this without worrying if you have the right "tools".
Err... yes but look at DDR6X Junction Temp. My 3090 is at 92 degrees. This setup in the video 42!
The 3090ti, not having the memory chips on the back side, plus a nice job with the DIY block, seems to work wonders.
Something tells me Nvidia shouldn't have been dumb enough to put DDR6X on the back of other 30 series cards.
And proven again, solid copper heatsink for GDDR is the best solution.
Thermal pads are not worth it anymore, these high power usage chips degrade them super quick.
@@N0N0111
"And proven again, solid copper heatsink for GDDR is the best solution. Thermal pads are not worth it anymore"
Well, yes, but pads are still used between the copper block and heat sink for the GDDR6X on the AIO Ti. In the video he still used them.
The Ti doesn't have memory chips on the backplate side of the card where they aren't cooled properly which helps. The mystery is that the 3080 doesn't have DDR6X on the backplate side but is still very hot. Clearly removing the chips on the backplate side plus another factor is responsible for the lower temp. Maybe the latest DDR6X generates less heat.
Certainly true that copper is far superior to inefficient thermal pads. The copper shim mod on the 3090 where you replace the DDR6X pads with thermal paste and copper shims makes a huge difference.
"these high power usage chips degrade them super quick."
That's not what I've found. My EVGA FTW3 3090 was at 90 degrees DDR6X Junction Temp under load straight out of the box. That's what most people find.
@@martinw245 Or at least being a waterblock helps. Do the air cooled 3090 tis also exhibit anything other than 90 degrees?
@@DLTX1007
All or almost all 3080 and 3090's are high 80's to 90's. Crypto miners freak out because they can hit 110 degrees and throttle.
I came across one individual that claimed he was seeing 70's with the same card as me, which doesn't make much sense really. Nobody else does.
Regarding air cooled 3090 Ti, nope, from what I've seen no issue with junction temp. The lack of chips under the backplate and some other factor seems to have mitigated the issue. Inside the air cooled 3090 Ti they don't look much diferent to the non Ti, which is why I'm wondering if the new batch of GDR6X is cooler, or perhaps no longer from Micron.
I actually contacted EVGA re my 3090 FTW3 and they said 90's is high but didn't regard it as an issue unless it hits 110 and throttles. All they care about of course is getting past the warranty period.
What it actually means long term for GDDR6X in terms of longevity is a bit of a mystery. I contacted Micron out of interest, given its their memory, and enquired regarding longevity... they ignored me.
Jayx2Cents dropped the temp a useful amount with better pads, others have too. I managed to drop junction temp with Gelid pads under the backplate which made a slight diference. The best mod though is the copper shim mod.
I'm not too bothered for my 3090 as I have a 5 year warranty and will probably change the card by then. But I'd certainly say its an issue that nvidia didn't account for properly. It's a bit weird when GPU temp is in the 60's but it's the memory in the 90's representing the temp issue.
@@N0N0111 Thermal pads don't "degrade", and they still have to be used anyways. I don't know where you get the idea that the copper plate is making direct contact with the memory...
incredible work, it looked like there was a tiny tornado in the top chamber in the dead-zone you pointed out.
that diaphragm covering the fins is fantastic.
very similar to what is used in carburetors
All your work is incredible! I always wish I was as skilled as you. Thanks for sharing.
there are two types of ppl nowadays those that love art or those that love stats ...the rare few are those that land outside the list ...keep up the amazing work
I like AIO cards, for putting them in friends systems. Those that aren't going to go custom loop but want something quieter.
Good to see they're using standard fan headers.
I love the CNC work.
This is exactly why I am subbed to the channel...Kind of weird, maybe unnecessary mods and testing, but it is still really cool. Same as watching people fiddle around with super-cars.
good vid dude- informative and interesting! even answered some questions that arose in my mind during parts of the video... I always like watching your content. thanks.
Back in the day of the 9800GTX I had a dual circuit water system on my gaming rig mounted in an Antec Skeleton, for the video card I modified an Alphacool RAM cooling kit which used these really thin pipes and cooling blocks from a manifold which also supplied the GPU main block which I used a NB/SB block to cool as GPU water cooling kits were horrendously expensive and I already had a 240w Peltier on the CPU circuit side and that computer barely made it above freezing it was so efficient.
This is my favorite kind of content from you. Awesome video!
Beautiful piece of engineering, really enjoyable to watch.
11:23 That is insane cool!
I'd love to see a graph showing power usage over frame rate and a comparison drawn between the likes of this and 3080s.
Curious how much efficiency is lost
If you're worried about your power bill I don't understand why you would be wasting money on a 3090 Ti in the first place... If you want performance without a big bill then go with AMD. The 6900XT only consumes about 300w which is about 50w less than the 3090 and almost 30w less than the 3080. Oh, and the 6900XT is also nearly half the price of the 3090 AND performs better in games. The trifecta - performance, efficiency, and bang-for-buck.
And I'm not just saying this because I'm an AMD fanboy. I have a 1070 ti Cerberus. But if you're looking for a top-end card, it should be a no-brainer.
this is exactly what I was looking for!
@@twizz420 If I wanted a top end card AMD's absurdly over driven chips is not where I'd be looking, AMD circuit design is dreadful
@@wazaagbreak-head6039 What are you even talking about... Are you reverse-engineering the entire circuit? No? Then what the hell does that have to do with anything?
And over-driven? How do you figure? Last time I checked it was the people with 3070s, 3080's and 3090s who were having to put their power slider at 70% just to keep it from crashing in games.
@@twizz420 Overdriven as in AMD has and always will use artificially high voltages to eek out that performance, the savings you have come at a cost.
And the power usage differences are attributed to architecture not design, in the next generations ALL components will see a marked rise in power usage as it is one of the only ways left we have to dramatically increase performance as we approach theoretical maximums for just how small we can make shit.
And what does it have to do with it? Longevity to begin with.
Considering how visibly bent that plate is, it would be cool to see what happens temperature wise if you lapped it 😉
16:24 Shiek is such a beautiful cat 🐈 🥰🥰🥰 Oh yes Derbauer, your video was impressive too 🙄😜🥰👍🤩
Another brilliant video. Thanks once again for the great content.
I saw a video of the Aorus 3090Ti Extreme. That used what looked like a FE board with a copper plate touching both the memory and vrms. It came with a 360 rad instead of 240 and had similar temps to this custom job
Roman is a bad ass machinist! Really cool!
Imagine what it would be like to have the ability to do this stuff. Der8auer, you are living the dream.
Just for future repairability and servicing is 100% worth
The block is really really nice
Hey man, hope you are well.
So you can refill the old AIO,
Easy way: I submerge radiator in a container of coolant with inlet tube disconnected ( you can figure this out after priming and starting the pump.) (Always make sure the radiator barb is submerged so it doesn’t scoop air… The quickest way to prime the pump is to put the tube in your mouth and suck coolant into the loop. Then run the pump. Once all the air is out I push the tube back on the barb of the radiator whilst it’s submerged… then secure it with a zip tie…
Hard way: Let the pump rest on a table and have the radiator hanging below with all the tubes connected with the cold plate removed … I then fill the loop to the brim…
To check for air bubbles you can rotate the radiator from left to right letting the coolant move “pump” internally. This pushes air bubbles out and let’s gravity fill from the radiator and up. “Pump” method is needed as surface tension of the coolant in the tubes prevents bubbles from coming out.
Once filled to the top and the “pump” method shows their are no bubbles, put the gasket and cold plate and hold firmly (you can put some screws back)
Connect the pump to a power supply and run it.
When the pump is on and the tone changes you will know you have hit an air pocket. Open and fill it to the top again ( this is if the “pump” method didn’t work for you)
Repeat if needed.
At the end the use a towel to hold the pump and over fill it. If some coolant messes that’s fine… then screw the cold plate on. Don’t forget the gasket…
If there is an air bubble that’s not too big that’s fine it will go settle in the radiator.
Steve from showed us this in his AIO mounting video …
If you keep hearing air passing through the pump in intervals, the bubble in the loop is too big. The pump will then be pulling part of the large bubble it into the circulation that sits in the radiator.
You will need to open the loop and top it up again.
The above methods with prevent this from happening but you will know what to do
Easy way needs lots of coolant.
Hard way taking lots of time.
Take care
Such beautiful work... keep up the good work
freaking awesome! I need to get into 3d printing man!
14:13 German Engineered Perfection A.K.A der8auer reminds us that our definition of what we might consider as a flat plane might slightly be more convex than his.
I love these kind of videos. Thanks
I like that this is still a project an enthusiast layperson can easily do at home (if they have access to $40,000 worth of professional tooling equipment)
3090 made perfect sense to me as it was the only GFX card i could get at the time, plus i got it at MSRP! :)
This is just WOW! Amazing stuff! Very Impressive!
the thing i dont like about aio cooling is that the life of the pump is usually shorter than the gpu and once its gone you pretty much have a useless gpu unless they make aftermarket waterblocks for these cards.
Great video, I love this stuff!
That acrylic block is so cleaaaan. That would be a lot a work but I'd consider doing a transparent shroud, hiding this beauty of a block would be a sin.
Thank you sooo much, ive always wanted a video like this but jayztwocents would never do it
I have a couple 2080 that are AIO cards and will eventually die long b4 the cards do.
so thank you, thank you very much
nice work. i have this card and was wondering about this.
I'm always thinking about this, making aio cooled gpu or cpu to be modded into custom. I'm really impressed.💯
The problem is... Is it worth it? No.
Radiator sucks. Pump sucks. Tubing sucks for conversion. Water path probably sucks(unless you have a fully engineered solution like this Strix rather than a Gigabyte "slap an aio on top") AIOs are kinda dumb in that sense, the parts they use to make them merely "expensive" are also garbage. They are bad at virtually everything.
At that point, why would you buy an AIO? You wouldn't. Save money by not overpaying for bad parts you won't use. Buy a 100 USD block instead and skip the AIO. Spend the extra money on intelligent design, such as aquacomputer parts(an octo or a d5 next goes a long way).
Yeah I totally agree with you. It's just my curiosity about modding something like this because aio GPUs manufacturers has better design than anything you could find on the market, all of them are just block of acrylic glass without sense of taste in design. They don't understand the difference or having RGB vs having a good design. All of manufacturers sucks.
@@aljunmatocinos272 AIO card appearance is usually just a shroud(obviously this Strix has a BUNCH of custom parts, but it's BOM probably reflects that). So is the appearance of a custom loop waterblock.
3D print and laser cutting services are cheap nowadays. Better to make a custom shroud/backplate than to start from the base of an AIO.
now thats some effort
Wow that's some next level stuff Roman. Wonder what the 4000 series is gonna do in terms of power consumption. Great video thanks!
Well done congrats.
Custom made custom cooling. What a legend
I frankenstained my H110i GT with broken pump together with Fury X, which pump clicks bloody murder since I got it, but everything performs well for the last 4 years.
i ran a msi 980ti with a aio adapter and just the pump unit.
i ran tied the aio pump into a custom loop parallel with the cpu on the custom loop with 1/4inch to 3/8th inch step down barbs. there was a pump for the custom loop but the aio pump head was running also.
being it parallel the custom loop pump didn't seem to over power the aio pump and it worked well on the one 280mm rad and no need to mount a 2nd rad
18:18 nice bro 💯
The acrylic part with the o rings looks like a head with a motorcycle helmet on. Should paint it to look like a skull to get maximum performance.
Nice work !
A very Millennium Falcon -esque design!
I have an idea to improve the temps a bit. Use a copper shim on the memory instead of the thermal pads. This should allow the base plate to remove heat from the general area much quicker.
The 6900 XT Toxic Edition from Sapphire comes with a 360mm radiator, the card is insanely silent and cool :D
The only thing I had to do was linking the pump of the AiO to the motherboard to lower its speed to 60% because it was doing a serious buzz noise at 100% for just 1-2°C of improvement.
"insanely silent" wat
my Toxic EE was loud as shit until I actually water cooled it with a proper custom loop.
this video was incredible
You are a GENIUS!!!!!! This is just AMAZING stuff you do... ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!! You are BY FAR my FAVORITE PC MODDer!!! THANK YOU for taking us along for the journey! I cannot wait to see what you do next!!!!
Did you do this same thing with the 6900XT AIO?? If not, then you should... I'm gonna go look back through your vids to see. :)
I read this screaming the randomly capitalized words. 👌
The stock cold plate/distro plate is probably the hold back to lower temps. Obviously at that point you mighy as well get a Corsair or a EK open loop set-up.
Pure class!
Nice work, hope to see Makita soon!
That CNC machine is such a boi! Who's a good boi?! You are CNC! 😁
cool cool. and I was thinking my 3080Ti hitting 40C under load is too much haha. custom liquid cooling with liquid metal on the die
Well done, just a slight correction. 3dB is 2 times. 10dB is a whole 10 times.
I bought a gigabyte rtx 3080 egpu aio that i toredown to extract the gpu, the block they have on that thing is actually pretty nice and keeps the gpu under 50c. However without a backplate the memory modules get hot as hell. Also the block is copper and the radiator was aluminum so it didn't take long to clog up and need replacing.
would have been nice to show how to remove the shroud and board
It would be great if you could do the same on the new 7900XT thats about to drop into retail. I am pretty sure there will be one or two AIBs with a Watercooled solution.
I bet someone could solder a 6mm cu pipe to the heat pipe of the cooler. They are easy to bend and there are 1/4 mm fittings too.
This wouldn't take the complete thermal load but a chunk of it would go into the water loop.
You're limited by the skived heat plate, there isn't enough surface area to transfer more thermal load to the water. Obviously they designed it that way to meet the bare minimum. You should have just CNCed a new heat plate while you were doing the acrylic. Beautiful job though!
Literally took this aio apart yesterday lol
Can u post the cad files? Super dope video. I enjoyed this alot. Wish u went a lil more into the cad process, but CAD, CNC milling, laser cutters, 3d printing, custom watercooling, all on my favorites list. Just missing mini quadcopters.
what would make this mod even cooler is if you cut a window out to show off the custom block but machined the acrylic to be the same design as the strix design aesthetic
I've wanted to do this exact thing in the past, but i don't have a CNC and 3D printer. Let me tell you, cutting adapting parts by hand is not as easy
Custom gpu loop looking wicked
Pretty disappointed bro.I am already achieving 446W pull with my 3080 Ti Strix LC with Phanteks T30-12 1530rpm 52-54c load in ambient 24c. I was expecting around 48-47c
Amazing content btw. Keep it up. We love you !
Great video
nice demonstration of CAD / CAM prototyping and machining skills. to a high level of competency. very impressive!
... meanwhile over here i am thinking how to cobble together a very tight budget custom loop. all with chinese parts from aliexpress. at other end of the scale. but the main thing i want to find is a good pump. or if its not adequate to buy a real D5 pump for that part of it
DDC pumps are very capable.
like cz of cat.
this is awesome work in CAD and prototyping.
the 3090 does make sense
Original housing what size? ID and OD. Thanks! And why not trying to use existing waterblock with pump and add it to the loop? Not all can create drawings for 3D printer. Nice video)
Awesome stuff,
The time and effort you put into doing these mods is appreciated, but as we don't all have to access to 3d printers, CNC etc,
Would it be possible to use the original water pump housing with the internals removed in a custom loop?
This make me wanna change out a noisy pump on one of my vega64 LQ ED, they look to nice to have them resting in a box.
Amazing!
feel like you shouldve added a copper heatsink on top of the pump one that has fins on it that match the vrm fins. probably would do better.
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