The Challenge of Water Cooling: A Lesson in Simplicity and Stability
I knew that working with a water-cooled machine would come with its share of risks, but I was eager to learn and experiment. However, as I delved deeper into the world of liquid cooling, I quickly realized that it wasn't as simple as I had anticipated. The IQ just stopped working, fan RPMs were out of bounds, and lighting was completely erratic. This was not what I wanted when I needed a stable system to work on during edit deadlines.
The main challenge with hardline tubing was the constant Blue Screens of Death, which made it difficult for me to swap out the GPU or tinker with the hardware without causing downtime. I didn't want to deal with these issues, so I decided to go back to basics and simplify my system. I chose air cooling over water cooling, eliminating riser cables and sticking to a complete GPU in the motherboard CPU tower. This decision was not taken lightly, as I had become accustomed to the ease of liquid cooling. However, I recognized that it was essential for stability and minimizing downtime.
One of the components I wanted to reuse was the Philips M42 RGB mouse, which offered five color ways, a lightweight frame weighing 59 grams, and swappable back plates. The sensor, EasyCore, provided smooth skates, and driverless control for RGB and DPI made it an excellent choice. I also appreciated the compact design and ease of use.
In contrast to my water-cooled machine, building this new system was surprisingly time-consuming. Swapping out components like CPU coolers, storage, or GPU required more effort than I anticipated. This realization led me to appreciate the simplicity and reliability of air cooling over liquid cooling. The power supply unit (PSU) was another unexpected challenge, as it was so powerful that it seemed excessive at first glance.
However, as I began to assemble my new system, I realized that the irony behind this machine was to build it in a way that would avoid future headaches. I wanted to minimize downtime and ensure stability in my work environment. The ASUS X570 motherboard arrived without proper BIOS support for the 5000-series CPU, which forced me to update the bios using an older Ryzen 3000 series processor.
The x570 platform offered many benefits, including Gen 4 storage, but it also had its drawbacks. One notable omission was the absence of an internal USB-C front panel connector, which seemed like a wasted opportunity. To make matters more complicated, ASUS sent me an RTX 3080 in white, which would have been an excellent candidate for upgrading, but it's now scarce due to high demand.
Despite this surprise, I'm perfectly happy with my decision to stick with the 2080 Ti. It has proven to be super stable, especially with Studio drivers. The CPU, however, was not as fast as I wanted for certain games installed on my main machine. Nevertheless, I've decided to stay with AMD and move away from the Threadripper in favor of a slightly faster CPU.
In conclusion, working with liquid cooling taught me valuable lessons about simplicity and stability. Air cooling has become my go-to solution for minimizing downtime and ensuring reliability in my work environment. While it's not as flashy or high-performance as liquid cooling, I've come to appreciate its quiet efficiency and ease of maintenance.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enah okay uh-oh i knew there would be risks involved when working with a water-cooled machine for my main production station whenever you have to swap something out you know it's not a simple procedure don't get me wrong with a fantastic learning experience it was super fun working with hans peter and corsair on my high direct system but whenever i experienced any hardware issues it wasn't a simple fix many times i've had iq just completely stopped working as it should so all the fan rpm would be completely out of bounds to what i said all the lighting would be completely all over the place and this is not something i want to deal with when i'm working on an edit it's deadline time i want something stable you know the clogging of the blocks and because they're transparent all that stuff is visible really the main challenge here was with hardline tubing was the fact that i was receiving so many blue screens of death every single day while editing and while working that i couldn't just swap out the gpu i couldn't just like tinker with the hardware to figure out what was the problem because that would require so much extra downtime so i want to go back to the basics simple air cooling no riser cables just a complete gpu in the motherboard cpu tower and we're good to go i'm still sticking with amd really proud of that for my production stuff but now with the new x570 platform and ryzen 5800x which by the way the 5800x is regularly restocked and is available to purchase right now and all the items you can buy will be listed down below so come along this journey with me let's rebuild my editing machine reuse some components because everything is kind of crazy right now in terms of components availability and uh keep it simple the extra phi m42 rgb what a fun mouse with five color ways lightweight frame adjusts 59 grams with the swappable back plate to suit your grip style the sensor the easy core the smooth skates and driverless control for rgb and dpi is why you should check out the m42rgb down below hello damn so oh wow i've never seen brushed aluminum on the power supply before cool all right there she goes all right okay uh-oh now you guys saw how much time it took to swap out the graphics card from the water cooled machine right that amount of time it took me the exact same amount of time to actually build this whole new machine so imagine needing to swap out the cpu cooler swap out storage or just access the gpu for some reason or do more cable management like swap out maybe new color cables right so that is the reason why i'm leaving water cooling and going back on air for simplicity sake also big thanks to all the partners and be quiet for supporting us on this project very happy with the system upgrade and so good people the machine is finished i wanted to follow a clean white and black color scheme with a little spice of color via those custom cables from cablemod you know if you can't buy a gpu i might as well buy pretty cables for one right they also have built-in cable combs which is so extra i said the illumination of all my hardware to light blue looks fantastic and let's be honest we all know the 5800x is one hot ryzen because of its core layout and the amount of voltage amd's feeding into it so that brings me to this the shadow rock three but in white so it's well priced fits the theme perfectly requires none of the maintenance that i was experiencing with my water cooling machine and most importantly it cools the cpu super well at a lot lower noise levels than most all-in-one coolers at least in my own workflow but having said that i don't push the hardware for the editing machine to its max it doesn't need to be resolved uses the gpu just fine which is why the 2080 ti is so important in this build i wanted to reuse it it's a fantastic gpu even though it's you know fairly old multiple years old now and while on water i was hitting 2 gigahertz no problem with the frequencies on the 2080 ti again it was something cool to experiment with to try it out how does it work but i don't need it for resolve i just wanted to be stable without any crashes whatsoever because the downtime on the throttle machine that i experienced was just unpleasant and um not something that i'm looking forward to hopefully it's the exact opposite with this new be quiet machine the case here is the silent base 802 large roomy and super quiet out of the box i even wanted to install these white shadow wings fans to match the color theme both for the cpu heatsink and replace the 140mm fans on the case but they all have slightly lower rpm and i wanted to leave a little bit of headroom for maximum airflow if needed especially since i'm running the solid front panel instead of the included mesh to eliminate any noise and i also appreciate the physical fan control this is something that i normally go into tinker with the software make sure my curve is adjusted based on cpu temperature but here it's kind of cool i have the the little adjustment i can go low medium high depending on what i'm doing and also obviously auto if you have this connected to a pwm controller now the power supply that's probably the most overkill thing in the system are they even legal at 1500 watts but jokes aside i had this available from ad spots and decided to use it here now the irony behind this machine was to build it so i avoid headaches in the future of downtime but the motherboard the x570 from asus arrived without a proper bios to support the 5000 series cpu luckily i had a 3000 series ryzen cpu uh in a separate machine that i swapped out inserted into the x570 motherboard updated the bios and only then was i able to populate back the 5800x and boot up this machine one of the reasons why i've wanted this x 570 platform is because of the gen 4 storage which i want for all my production stuff like this drive is absolutely insane but another disappointment with this x570 motherboard is that it does not have an internal usbc front panel connector so that's kind of wasted on the enclosure now just to tease us my gosh i wasn't even going to bring this up but asus sent me an rtx 3080 in white which would have been a perfect candidate as like in the upgrade path but uh it's not something i get to keep because the gpu is so low in quantity worldwide that it's not even something that we get to keep here so i'm perfectly fine with sticking to the 2080 ti even though i realize that what i'm saying right now sounds like such a such privilege but yes i i recognize the privilege plus i don't really need the 3080 for video production very happy with 2080 ti and it's been super stable especially with those studio drivers now even though i have a dedicated machine for gaming it's kind of awesome to have this hybrid machine with a 5800x which the cpu is perfectly fine for any games that i throw at it especially with 2080ti while with the threadripper my temperatures were absolutely under control with the all the water cooling but the the cpu just wasn't as fast as i wanted to be for certain games that i do have installed on my main machine i'm happy to be staying with amd the thread machine was fantastic and it's right for the couple of years i've used it but now it's time to move on to something slightly faster as a as a hybrid machine while keeping you know the gpu the same all right guys i hope you enjoyed i'm dmitry check out this other relevant content subscribe for more i'll talk to you in the next video time to edit\n"