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I am so sorry to hear. My condolences to you all.

I have great memories of Blunt at LANs, as well as from in-game, for me particularly from some epic BF2 battles some ~20 years ago. Blunt was the best medic of all, constantly jumping into line of fire and keeping his team alive. Much more so than any other player. In ways, that says it all.

Tentative yes from me.

Do we have any active members from Denmark? I know Delanvital was but he hasn't been on for a while.

I'm still active. What up? Any contact details you have on me should still work.

I have been iRacing for a bit and was wondering if anyone was still around in here?

Hi all,

Josh and others recommended I posted here for some input on water cooling so here goes:

My old suitcase PC has finally kicked the bucket and I’ve built a new PC. I went with ITX form factor because the PC will from now be on my desk. Hence, the thing being quiet matters. The PC runs fine now, except for the water cooling.
At the moment, I’m reusing a Corsair H110 (280mm radiator, 2x140mm fans) from the old build but a 280mm radiator doesn’t fit the new case. I figured since I already had it and it could almost fit, it was worth a shot trying to fit it. Long story short, it will be complicated, I i don’t have the patience for it and my nephew is eager to get his hands on it. So, I need a new watercooling solution:

The bits:

• Louqe Ghost S1 Mk2 case (one large tophat installed, two small tophats available if need be) http://louqe.com/
  
• ASRock Phantom ITX/ac mobo
• i7-9900k
• Corsair H110 280mm (re-use) - to be replaced
• 2 x 8GB something RAM, I forgot, they've got heatsinks and looks fancy
• Samsung NVMe
• GTX 970 GPU (re-use)
• Corsair 450W STX PSU
• HIDs etc. are connected via a Thunderbolt 3 dock with own PSU

Random thoughts that comes to mind:

• It runs fine atm with a wee OC using the H110. If not possible in the future, either due to heat constraints from shared radiator, or PSU limitations, then I am fine with running stock
• I have one large Loque tophat installed on top of the case atm, which is designed to accommodate a 240mm AiO, and the 280mm radiator is sitting on top of that. I am not using any of the smaller tophats atm. The smaller hats do not allow for an extra 240mm, they are only about half the height (unless you can get super-thin radiators, and rely on the air flow from the fans on the 240mm, as the air moves through the case?)
• It may be possible to add a 120mm radiator somewhere, that remains to be measured. I’ve seen others do it, but as the only watercooling solution in the case.
• If I could get away with just the large tophat, that would be awesome. I would, however, like to cool the GPU as well. Maybe the 240mm radiator the tophat can accommodate is not sufficient for that...
• Ideally, I’d want to spin fans all the way down, like my old setup, but it seems the PWM regulation on this mobo does not allow for shutting off the current below certain speeds, it will pulse modulate no matter what â€" so I may need a separate controller of sorts instead, except for one of the connectors which can be either DC or PWM, as set in bios. I have two more FAN connectors, they are PWM-only, and can’t spin down, at least not using the provided software or SpeedFan.
• I don’t care for bling
• The airflow in the case is rather good, the AiO fans atm cools the chipset etc. and the heat from the GPU is kept away from the mobo etc. due to the wall in the middle of this type of case, so no need to cool that.
• The 92mm fan in the PSU does not spin at normal use, only when gaming, so the main noise I have is airflow, followed by the H110 pump (and some annoying bearing issue with one corsair fan, but that is not systemic)

More coherent; I am basically looking for:

• a watercooling solution that fits this case,
• which cools CPU+GPU,
• using only the large tophat space thus only 1x240mm radiator, but
• if possible, an extra 1x120mm radiator (and/or pump) elsewhere, to be clarified/tried, if deemed worth it,
• cooling a stock or slight OC'ed CPU and a stock GPU

Ideas:

• Idea 1 â€" the AiO road. Get, say, the Kraken X52 240mm (old, but recommended for this case) for the tophat space, and some 120mm solution for the GPU if space permits. But, which should I use on what? The 240mm on the CPU? I’ll pay 120 quid for the X52 and maybe a bit less for a 120mm solution. I would also need a controller, unless I can find a clever solution to the zero-spin issue, I want the fans to spin all the way down.

• Idea 2 â€" Custom watercooling. I know ****all about this. Should be able to make it work. What will such cost? I would also want to control the fans well, as in idea 1.

Thoughts?

...and that's precisely what I run too.  

This solution is approved.  :thumbsup:

FWIW, so do I.

Sorry, did not realise we had to confirm our non-attendance. no curry/poker for me please.

No curry/poker for me, I am going to grab a kebab with Kenny.

I am playing a server with the Davinci's Vessels mod. It is a fork of Archimedes' mod, and quite stable. It allows for the construction of moving objects, and with enough balloon blocks you can create flying ships etc. For me, it changes the game a lot, but still works fine with survival. I.e. the ships requires resources to build, they are slow, but they also mean you can build cities in the skies and move between them, you can have airship docks made for them, and you can have more ppl on one ship, I think, where one can shoot while the other flies. Last stuff I haven't really tried - I just enjoy travelling out and finding ressources etc. Would be cool to have this mod.

Edit: I have voted vanilla, but on second thought I should have picked mods pls!

Edit2: you can also craft submersibles, make engines mandatory for movement, make ships fall (gravity) when not in use, etc.

Got you all a free Steam key for "Grid" for Christmas.

Unwrap it here

Get it in the next 2 days or I take it back.

Cos' I'm nice, right.:flirty:

What did you get me?

Thanks

I might join in for a wee bit, if you and Toni find it worthwhile

pls add me, 76561197970309512

Tillykke!

Haha yeah... love you too man!

Thanks Blunt :dmw:

I just realised I read this some years ago. So, I am out for this round - sorry for being a douche ...more time to finish other books, like the The Windup Girl - not on the list, but good so far