**The Epic Custom Water Cooled Build: A Labor of Love**

In this series of videos, I've been working on building an epic custom water cooled system that's not only visually stunning but also packed with advanced features. One of the key aspects of this build is the lighting configuration, which was a bit tricky to get right. As I mentioned earlier, one of the software modes that I wanted to use is a unified thing controlling all of these fans, so I could have a runner going around from one to the next. To achieve this, I had to flip just one set of fans in the software. This was a bit of a challenge, as I had them dialed in so it was going to be one on the front, one in the top, three in the back, and four on the bottom. However, I discovered that the orientation of these fans wouldn't make a difference for most advanced functions, since you can't flip them.

**The Lighting Configuration: A Work in Progress**

Despite the challenges, I was determined to get the lighting configuration right. I spent hours tweaking and adjusting until I finally found a setup that I was happy with. The Leanne Lee software allows you to sync with motherboard control, which would have been convenient if not for a little bit of confusion with the six-way splitter going off of the single 5-volt header on this motherboard. As a result, the front LEDs wouldn't sync up, and I had to use two pieces of software to either control the Leanne Lee lighting in the fans or the lighting on the CPU block, reservoir, and GPU block. This wasn't ideal, but I was determined to make it work.

**The Final Result: A Stunning Light Show**

In the end, I think I came up with a really nice lighting configuration that matches well with the white silver black and red aesthetic of this build. The NZXT Cam software is set to control the block reservoir and GPU down here, as well as shining some light on top of the fans. The Leanne Lee fans are set to white, which looks really cool. I'm also happy with how the tubing configuration turned out, although it's a bit unconventional.

**The Build: A Masterclass in Expansion**

One of the best things about this build is its expandability. You have a full-size PCIe expansion slot that's totally accessible right there, making it easy to add something new down the line. I left this open and flexible for future upgrades, which I think will be really cool.

**The Giveaway: A Chance to Win an Epic System**

As part of this build, I'm giving away a brand new system, including the Zotac RTX 3080 Ti AMP Holo version, which is one of my favorite GPUs. This is the perfect opportunity for someone to win a top-of-the-line PC without breaking the bank.

**Supporting a Great Cause**

The reason I built this system and ran the giveaway was to help raise money for our Extra Life charity event, which took place last weekend. The funds raised will go towards providing life-saving medical procedures for children who cannot otherwise afford it. It's a worthy cause, and I'm proud to have been able to contribute to it in any way.

**International Viewers: Sorry, But You're Not Eligible**

Unfortunately, international viewers located outside the United States are not eligible for this giveaway due to shipping complexities. However, an international viewer will win the Zotac RTX 3080 Ti AMP Holo version of the GPU in a separate upcoming video.

**Links and Credits**

For all the parts I used, links can be found in the video description. Big thanks to my sponsors who contributed components and helped support this project, including Leanne Lee Gal, NZXT, and Sourced Customs.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to the final video on this build knock on wood this build is being assembled to be given away and the giveaway is actually going on right now so there's a link to that in the video's description if you are located in the united states you're eligible to win this pc so go ahead and enter at the same time it was built to promote an extra life charity livestream that kyle and i did last weekend so if you're also able to donate funds for that or going to the children's hospital los angeles it's a very good cause and thank you for that but today we need to finish off the loop we have a handful of things to do there install the ssds and we finally have our custom sleeve cables from insourced so we're going to install those too excellent kiosks invented nand flash memory almost 35 years ago and has been applying that experience ever since to develop ssds for consumers businesses and data centers around the world geoxia's latest line of nvme ssds are ideal for a range of uses whether you need high speed storage for a laptop or high performance gaming pc or an enterprise or hyper scale data center a range of sizes and capacities including the almost impossibly small m.2 2230 bg4 means there's a good fit for everyone and pcie gen4 support available with cm6 and cd6 lineup allows for maximum performance when paired with amd epic or intel xeon server hardware for more on keoksia ssds click the sponsor link in the video description so the main reason we didn't fill the loop in video 2 was there are two runs at the very front of the system that i'm not 100 happy with so i ordered one more little 45 degree angled adapter so we can do this run from the front radiator up to the reservoir pump combo unit and then the other run from that radiator to the rear radiator it it's in there and it's installed but uh the fitting there is not tightened down all the way and the more i've looked at it the more i've been like i want to fix that too so that's going to involve pulling this radiator out one more time to get those runs set up then we can install our custom sleeve cables and i'll give you a closer look at those in just a minute at the same time we need to fix up the cable management in the back because the other issue i had in video 2 was running the cable for the lian liuni fans up to this one there wasn't quite enough cable length and that kind of messed up my planned cable management there in the back after that we get to fill the loop install windows give you guys a look at the lighting and maybe even a brief taste of performance so that whoever wins this system is going to know what they're in for so here are our two problem runs at the front you can probably see this one is just being pushed away and sort of angling off i also had to use a barrel extender here which doesn't match with the rest of the build so i got one more of these uh 45 degree angle fittings these are 18 each i'm going to pop that on down there so the tubing will come up at an angle we can just do a slightly longer slightly angled run from there and then this fitting over here the compression sleeve on it is just very clearly not cinched down all the way and i'd feel a lot better if we could handle that so i'll also redo this run here since i am going to need to pull this radiator out speaking of pulling the radiator out i really did get ahead of myself in the last video by going and installing the graphics card we just really wanted to fill the loop before i decided no it's not gonna happen i need to pull the gpu out in order to get at the mounting points for this fan fortunately with these rotary fittings i should be able to just disconnect here and here pull the gpu out and then reconnect everything up once we're done do so here's the back side of the build and you guys probably saw things got a little ugly in here connecting all these cables up i think it's okay though i managed to wedge the liam lee control box back there it's actually not secured to anything back there but it's being held in by all the cables that are just right on top of it and then that allowed me to put this little holder in place that has our two 2.5 inch drives and get that wired up and that does a great job of hiding some of the uglier part of the cable management back there i've also been tagging some of the wires just so i don't lose track of them i have one more rgb header here and that's going to be for the gpu and then i got molex power coming from the power supply that's going to plug into the molex connector for the pump but i need to keep this loose so we can do the fill and test the pump and everything without turning the whole system on that said i flipped the system back around cable's already looking oh so pretty and matching really well with the rest of the builds so i just gotta reinstall the radiator fans get those two front runs reconnected gpu reinstalled of course and reconnect these then we should be ready to fill yay not hey we're jumping ahead a little bit here guys i kind of skipped over a really bad scare that i had we thought everything was going really smoothly i sent joe to get some lunch and i was just gonna boot the system up i was feeling so good and confident about the loop working well and i wasn't detecting any leaks anywhere so went to power on the system and had pretty much the worst thing that can possibly happen when you build a water cooled system like this happen which is a hip power instant short the system would not power on or boot up at all and that means that typically means that you have a short somewhere and when you have a short somewhere and you've just packed everything in and you've got leds and you've got power and you've got stuff set up for the loop and everything it's just a really bad situation because suddenly you move into troubleshooting mode trying to figure out what exactly is causing the short so the first thing i did was just remove this ssd panel here to loosen things up back there in case the cables had gotten wedged in such a way it was causing a short and then i was just turning the power supply off then back on then pressing power and then having the same thing happen i almost started to think to myself is this going to mean like a video 4 or something like that but if there was one thing that was going to not function properly in this system this is probably the thing that is the best option because because this is the custom sleeve cable for the supplemental cpu power it's located right up here and it's a modular cable so i was able to unplug it from the seat from the power supply side and that caused the system to boot up so that indicated to me that there was either a problem with the motherboard plug over here or a problem with these cables so i went ahead and removed or just uh sort of unscrewed the three fan top configuration there and again just having a lot of benefit from these lian liuni fans and being able to just remove a whole group of them at once and easily reconnect them but i switched back to the stock cables that came with the corsair sf750 and we we're booted up windows is now installed that solves the problem and fortunately those cables are in a position up here which i was mentioning to joe as i was installing them they're really not visible at all so as beautiful as these cables are and again mad respect to joey for putting these together and getting them to us on time if there was one set that i was gonna need to remove this is probably the one that it should be because i think at this point we're just gonna go with the corsair cables for that part because it's not really visible and honestly there's probably some basic bits of troubleshooting that could be done with this cable but because everything's installed and functional and because this system is already up for giveaway so i think we're just going to move forward with the 24 pin and the pci express graphics cables and everything looks beautiful and we can move on with the led lighting setup and actually doing a little bit of testing on the system so here on the back you can see the ek vardar fans those are connected up to the argb splitter that's coming off of the motherboard so these are synced with the white color that you can also see here in the pump reservoir combo you can also see down here in the gpu block the radeon logo right there which is currently all whites and then also the cpu block back there so that's indicating that yes all of our leds for that part are working and then here you can see all the liam lee uni fans which are also all lit up too now because i rewired some stuff i wanted to see which channel was which here's a quick look at the leanne lease software that they have for setting this up you have four banks of fans you can tell each bank how many fans are connected down here one two three or four and then you have some presets you can do or you can also go with manual control over here so i just set static color and i did a different color purple blue red and green for each bank and that's so i can double check which is which when i first wired this all up i had it set so it was one two three and four but now that kind of got changed around because i redid some of the wiring so now you can hopefully see the green right here the purple there the red on the bottom and the blue over here and those are our four banks of fans so at this point i'm going to do a little bit more setup get the rgb leds going and also get prepared to do a little bit of testing on this rig we'll come back in just a moment and show you guys how it looks all completed put together and with the lighting sparkly pretty lighting and stuff like that let's go all right guys i've had some time to do a little bit of testing now and i just wanted to share that with you right now i'm doing a ida 64 stress test and that has been running for a little over 10 minutes a little over 11 minutes i guess i should say and we're just going to be looking at cpu temperature right here this top temperature line is the hot spot on the cpu that is at 83.8 degrees maximum meanwhile the average across all of the dies is at 78.5 so we can use that to compare to some numbers that i have i'm just using the write it down on a piece of paper method but hopefully this makes some sense to you so the two columns here are my baseline and i'm pulling some numbers from some previous testing i've done so the cpu and the baseline test is water cooled with a cracking kraken x62 from nzxt and then the gpu is a 6800 xt stock cooler and then just comparing that to the build i just put together on the right so as you can see average temperature is a little bit higher however the ambient temperature i'm out in my garage right now and it's the middle of the summer so about four degrees hotter not necessarily that terrible i would call these comparable again i apologize i can't do direct a b comparisons due to the testing conditions but if you look at the peak temperature 83.8 versus 86.3 that is an improvement so that shows me that that block is efficiently transferring the heat off of the cpu so that's good meanwhile our average clock again 4.55 gigahertz is what we got with the stress test with the test bed just down slightly at 4.53 gigahertz with this rig and that is likely due to that average temperature being higher because higher temperature means the cpu frequency might be a little bit lower i'm going to stop that test now because it's been running for plenty long enough and it's making it warmer here in the garage i also ran a 3d mark test and the results of that are right here so here we have a graphic score for the 1600 xt and a cpu score for the 5800x so yet again i'm comparing those to some of my existing numbers i do want to point out that my baseline numbers here for the 5800x and 6800 xt were recorded at different times and on different systems but this should at least give you a ballpark idea of the difference in score and the difference on the cpu side at least is about 40 points and that did improve a little bit here versus my baseline score but basically it's showing yeah it's it's running at about the same frequency and getting about the same score that it got with a very nice high-end all-in-one liquid cooler which is kind of what you would expect and this is part of the reason why full custom water cooling like this is more niche is because all-in-one liquid coolers can be very competitive of course you can't get quite as pretty as this and as custom as this and everything so there is a give and take there likewise our gpu score also went up from 85.69 to 86.74 so that's again in the same general ballpark it's not too much of an improvement but what i do want to point out is the gpu temperature the max temperature and the hotspot dropped by about 30 degrees from an average of 83 and a peak of 94 on the hot spot down to an average of 50 c and a peak of 64c now i will point out that this is a relatively short test the longer the test runs the more the i believe it's called the specific temperature of the entire loop radiators and everything will continue to rise over time so i guess what i'm trying to say here is that my numbers here should be taken with a little bit of a grain of salt but again i'm just trying to show you guys something to compare to if you were to compare this to a more i guess a simpler system uh a more simple test bed configuration that i have set up for some of my testing in the past now before i close things off i want to give you guys an assessment of some of the things that did not quite go according to plan towards the end of this build apart from the sleeved extension cable causing a bit of an issue with booting up which had to be replaced but fortunately that's working fine now i also had an issue with the memory the specs on this gal geal kit are pretty impressive since it's a 2 by 32 gig kit that's 64 gigs total 32 gigs on one stick is like double what a lot of people have for their entire system so it's a beefy memory kit and i was really impressed that gal was saying this is a ddr for 000 mega transfers per second kit so cast latency like 18 22 or something like that i went and plugged in the xmp values and no post i went and dialed in lower and lower and lower settings and eventually i settled on ddr4 3533 which is about 500 mega transfers per second or so slower than the 4000 mega transfers per second that is advertised now very mind ddr4 4000 is an overclock spec technically all of those higher memory frequencies are considered an overclock and they're not guaranteed to work and you need various parts working in tandem in order to get that to work properly there is the memory itself there's a memory controller that's part of the cpu and there's the motherboard and how the trace layouts are designed there and i can't necessarily point to one specific thing that is causing it to not work at that speed that said ddr4 3600 is what most people aim for this is running just slightly slower than that and for the memory capacity and since it is such a high capacity kit i think the trade-off there is reasonable you get a lot of memory you still get really good speed and you're just missing out on maybe a one or two percent performance bump in certain applications that you would get with that higher speed frequency just disappointing that i wasn't able to plug in the xmp value and have it work i also want to point out for these liane lee uni fans as much as i've praised them in this video they also have their drawbacks in certain ways as well for one i have both of them connected in the back here and there's no way to flip just one set of fans in the software if you want to use some of these software modes that are supposed to be like a unified thing controlling all of them so you can have like a runner going around from one to the next so that's partially just the only way i felt like i could properly connect those up and wire them in an aesthetically pleasing fashion and it's also partly my fault because i had them dialed in so it was going to be one on the front one then two in the top three in the back and four on the bottom and i got the wires switched at some point but i discovered that that wouldn't even matter for again some of those more cool advanced functions because the orientation of these since you can't flip it it wasn't going to go in the right direction anyway the other shortcoming of the lighting configuration in this system and it was so close but you have the option in the leanne lee software to sync with motherboard control by doing that i would be able to potentially use the nzxt cam software to control all the lighting in the rig with just one piece of software and that will allow you to more easily switch between especially static colors however we discovered that that mostly works but because i have a six-way splitter going off of the single uh five-volt header on this motherboard for sort of a standard addressable rgb connector there is a little bit of confusion there and as a result the front leds like most of the leds on these three fan setups work when i go into sync mode but just these front ones wouldn't sync up so that made that feature which would have been kind of convenient uh not really usable instead you still have to use the two pieces of software to either control the liam lee lighting in the fans or the lighting on the cpu block the reservoir and the gpu block down here that said this i think is my favorite lighting configuration from the time i spent setting up different ones of those i've got the nzxt cam software just set to red for the block reservoir and the gpu down here the gpu also shines some light down on some red kind of glow down on top of the fans which looks kind of cool and then the lee and lee fans i just have set to white and i think that's a really nice look overall and matches very well again with the white silver black and red aesthetic for this overall build and i just gotta say again i'm i'm really so happy with how this build turned out aesthetically especially with some of the the loop configuration up in the front that was getting a little bit confusing and in case you're wondering why i did the tubing the way i did other than i i do think it looks kind of cool that way but this uh system is expandable fairly easily if uh whoever the winner is wants to add something you do have a full size pcie expansion slot that's like totally accessible right there and you can slot a capture card or something like that in there if you really wanted to so i did want to leave this open flexible for expansion options in the future too but guys after all this time and all this work that is going to wrap it up for this series on this epic custom water cooled build and again this is being given away the giveaway is still open as of the publishing of this video so i'll post a link to that in the video's description and the reason i built this system and did the giveaway for it was to help raise money for our extra life charity event which was this last weekend and that is still open as well donations go to help support the children's hospital los angeles to provide life-saving medical procedures for children who cannot otherwise afford it it's a very worthy cause and i'll post again a link to the donation page for that if you have a little bit of cash to spare go ahead and do that but again donations are not required to enter to win this system good luck to all of you oh and if you're an international viewer located outside the united states unfortunately you're not eligible for this pc because it's really difficult to ship a system like this across uh international borders but an international viewer will win this the zotac rtx 3080 ti this is the amp holo version of that and i also have an upcoming video covering that as well that will be available soon so hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video subscribe to my channel if you'd like to see that video when it goes live thanks to all of my sponsors who helped contribute components uh to put this together and help support the charity leanne lee gal ek nzxt and sourced customs crucial of course coming in clutch with the storage configuration for this system and links to all the parts i used are down in the video's description thanks again for watching this one guys and we'll see you in the next video youwelcome to the final video on this build knock on wood this build is being assembled to be given away and the giveaway is actually going on right now so there's a link to that in the video's description if you are located in the united states you're eligible to win this pc so go ahead and enter at the same time it was built to promote an extra life charity livestream that kyle and i did last weekend so if you're also able to donate funds for that or going to the children's hospital los angeles it's a very good cause and thank you for that but today we need to finish off the loop we have a handful of things to do there install the ssds and we finally have our custom sleeve cables from insourced so we're going to install those too excellent kiosks invented nand flash memory almost 35 years ago and has been applying that experience ever since to develop ssds for consumers businesses and data centers around the world geoxia's latest line of nvme ssds are ideal for a range of uses whether you need high speed storage for a laptop or high performance gaming pc or an enterprise or hyper scale data center a range of sizes and capacities including the almost impossibly small m.2 2230 bg4 means there's a good fit for everyone and pcie gen4 support available with cm6 and cd6 lineup allows for maximum performance when paired with amd epic or intel xeon server hardware for more on keoksia ssds click the sponsor link in the video description so the main reason we didn't fill the loop in video 2 was there are two runs at the very front of the system that i'm not 100 happy with so i ordered one more little 45 degree angled adapter so we can do this run from the front radiator up to the reservoir pump combo unit and then the other run from that radiator to the rear radiator it it's in there and it's installed but uh the fitting there is not tightened down all the way and the more i've looked at it the more i've been like i want to fix that too so that's going to involve pulling this radiator out one more time to get those runs set up then we can install our custom sleeve cables and i'll give you a closer look at those in just a minute at the same time we need to fix up the cable management in the back because the other issue i had in video 2 was running the cable for the lian liuni fans up to this one there wasn't quite enough cable length and that kind of messed up my planned cable management there in the back after that we get to fill the loop install windows give you guys a look at the lighting and maybe even a brief taste of performance so that whoever wins this system is going to know what they're in for so here are our two problem runs at the front you can probably see this one is just being pushed away and sort of angling off i also had to use a barrel extender here which doesn't match with the rest of the build so i got one more of these uh 45 degree angle fittings these are 18 each i'm going to pop that on down there so the tubing will come up at an angle we can just do a slightly longer slightly angled run from there and then this fitting over here the compression sleeve on it is just very clearly not cinched down all the way and i'd feel a lot better if we could handle that so i'll also redo this run here since i am going to need to pull this radiator out speaking of pulling the radiator out i really did get ahead of myself in the last video by going and installing the graphics card we just really wanted to fill the loop before i decided no it's not gonna happen i need to pull the gpu out in order to get at the mounting points for this fan fortunately with these rotary fittings i should be able to just disconnect here and here pull the gpu out and then reconnect everything up once we're done do so here's the back side of the build and you guys probably saw things got a little ugly in here connecting all these cables up i think it's okay though i managed to wedge the liam lee control box back there it's actually not secured to anything back there but it's being held in by all the cables that are just right on top of it and then that allowed me to put this little holder in place that has our two 2.5 inch drives and get that wired up and that does a great job of hiding some of the uglier part of the cable management back there i've also been tagging some of the wires just so i don't lose track of them i have one more rgb header here and that's going to be for the gpu and then i got molex power coming from the power supply that's going to plug into the molex connector for the pump but i need to keep this loose so we can do the fill and test the pump and everything without turning the whole system on that said i flipped the system back around cable's already looking oh so pretty and matching really well with the rest of the builds so i just gotta reinstall the radiator fans get those two front runs reconnected gpu reinstalled of course and reconnect these then we should be ready to fill yay not hey we're jumping ahead a little bit here guys i kind of skipped over a really bad scare that i had we thought everything was going really smoothly i sent joe to get some lunch and i was just gonna boot the system up i was feeling so good and confident about the loop working well and i wasn't detecting any leaks anywhere so went to power on the system and had pretty much the worst thing that can possibly happen when you build a water cooled system like this happen which is a hip power instant short the system would not power on or boot up at all and that means that typically means that you have a short somewhere and when you have a short somewhere and you've just packed everything in and you've got leds and you've got power and you've got stuff set up for the loop and everything it's just a really bad situation because suddenly you move into troubleshooting mode trying to figure out what exactly is causing the short so the first thing i did was just remove this ssd panel here to loosen things up back there in case the cables had gotten wedged in such a way it was causing a short and then i was just turning the power supply off then back on then pressing power and then having the same thing happen i almost started to think to myself is this going to mean like a video 4 or something like that but if there was one thing that was going to not function properly in this system this is probably the thing that is the best option because because this is the custom sleeve cable for the supplemental cpu power it's located right up here and it's a modular cable so i was able to unplug it from the seat from the power supply side and that caused the system to boot up so that indicated to me that there was either a problem with the motherboard plug over here or a problem with these cables so i went ahead and removed or just uh sort of unscrewed the three fan top configuration there and again just having a lot of benefit from these lian liuni fans and being able to just remove a whole group of them at once and easily reconnect them but i switched back to the stock cables that came with the corsair sf750 and we we're booted up windows is now installed that solves the problem and fortunately those cables are in a position up here which i was mentioning to joe as i was installing them they're really not visible at all so as beautiful as these cables are and again mad respect to joey for putting these together and getting them to us on time if there was one set that i was gonna need to remove this is probably the one that it should be because i think at this point we're just gonna go with the corsair cables for that part because it's not really visible and honestly there's probably some basic bits of troubleshooting that could be done with this cable but because everything's installed and functional and because this system is already up for giveaway so i think we're just going to move forward with the 24 pin and the pci express graphics cables and everything looks beautiful and we can move on with the led lighting setup and actually doing a little bit of testing on the system so here on the back you can see the ek vardar fans those are connected up to the argb splitter that's coming off of the motherboard so these are synced with the white color that you can also see here in the pump reservoir combo you can also see down here in the gpu block the radeon logo right there which is currently all whites and then also the cpu block back there so that's indicating that yes all of our leds for that part are working and then here you can see all the liam lee uni fans which are also all lit up too now because i rewired some stuff i wanted to see which channel was which here's a quick look at the leanne lease software that they have for setting this up you have four banks of fans you can tell each bank how many fans are connected down here one two three or four and then you have some presets you can do or you can also go with manual control over here so i just set static color and i did a different color purple blue red and green for each bank and that's so i can double check which is which when i first wired this all up i had it set so it was one two three and four but now that kind of got changed around because i redid some of the wiring so now you can hopefully see the green right here the purple there the red on the bottom and the blue over here and those are our four banks of fans so at this point i'm going to do a little bit more setup get the rgb leds going and also get prepared to do a little bit of testing on this rig we'll come back in just a moment and show you guys how it looks all completed put together and with the lighting sparkly pretty lighting and stuff like that let's go all right guys i've had some time to do a little bit of testing now and i just wanted to share that with you right now i'm doing a ida 64 stress test and that has been running for a little over 10 minutes a little over 11 minutes i guess i should say and we're just going to be looking at cpu temperature right here this top temperature line is the hot spot on the cpu that is at 83.8 degrees maximum meanwhile the average across all of the dies is at 78.5 so we can use that to compare to some numbers that i have i'm just using the write it down on a piece of paper method but hopefully this makes some sense to you so the two columns here are my baseline and i'm pulling some numbers from some previous testing i've done so the cpu and the baseline test is water cooled with a cracking kraken x62 from nzxt and then the gpu is a 6800 xt stock cooler and then just comparing that to the build i just put together on the right so as you can see average temperature is a little bit higher however the ambient temperature i'm out in my garage right now and it's the middle of the summer so about four degrees hotter not necessarily that terrible i would call these comparable again i apologize i can't do direct a b comparisons due to the testing conditions but if you look at the peak temperature 83.8 versus 86.3 that is an improvement so that shows me that that block is efficiently transferring the heat off of the cpu so that's good meanwhile our average clock again 4.55 gigahertz is what we got with the stress test with the test bed just down slightly at 4.53 gigahertz with this rig and that is likely due to that average temperature being higher because higher temperature means the cpu frequency might be a little bit lower i'm going to stop that test now because it's been running for plenty long enough and it's making it warmer here in the garage i also ran a 3d mark test and the results of that are right here so here we have a graphic score for the 1600 xt and a cpu score for the 5800x so yet again i'm comparing those to some of my existing numbers i do want to point out that my baseline numbers here for the 5800x and 6800 xt were recorded at different times and on different systems but this should at least give you a ballpark idea of the difference in score and the difference on the cpu side at least is about 40 points and that did improve a little bit here versus my baseline score but basically it's showing yeah it's it's running at about the same frequency and getting about the same score that it got with a very nice high-end all-in-one liquid cooler which is kind of what you would expect and this is part of the reason why full custom water cooling like this is more niche is because all-in-one liquid coolers can be very competitive of course you can't get quite as pretty as this and as custom as this and everything so there is a give and take there likewise our gpu score also went up from 85.69 to 86.74 so that's again in the same general ballpark it's not too much of an improvement but what i do want to point out is the gpu temperature the max temperature and the hotspot dropped by about 30 degrees from an average of 83 and a peak of 94 on the hot spot down to an average of 50 c and a peak of 64c now i will point out that this is a relatively short test the longer the test runs the more the i believe it's called the specific temperature of the entire loop radiators and everything will continue to rise over time so i guess what i'm trying to say here is that my numbers here should be taken with a little bit of a grain of salt but again i'm just trying to show you guys something to compare to if you were to compare this to a more i guess a simpler system uh a more simple test bed configuration that i have set up for some of my testing in the past now before i close things off i want to give you guys an assessment of some of the things that did not quite go according to plan towards the end of this build apart from the sleeved extension cable causing a bit of an issue with booting up which had to be replaced but fortunately that's working fine now i also had an issue with the memory the specs on this gal geal kit are pretty impressive since it's a 2 by 32 gig kit that's 64 gigs total 32 gigs on one stick is like double what a lot of people have for their entire system so it's a beefy memory kit and i was really impressed that gal was saying this is a ddr for 000 mega transfers per second kit so cast latency like 18 22 or something like that i went and plugged in the xmp values and no post i went and dialed in lower and lower and lower settings and eventually i settled on ddr4 3533 which is about 500 mega transfers per second or so slower than the 4000 mega transfers per second that is advertised now very mind ddr4 4000 is an overclock spec technically all of those higher memory frequencies are considered an overclock and they're not guaranteed to work and you need various parts working in tandem in order to get that to work properly there is the memory itself there's a memory controller that's part of the cpu and there's the motherboard and how the trace layouts are designed there and i can't necessarily point to one specific thing that is causing it to not work at that speed that said ddr4 3600 is what most people aim for this is running just slightly slower than that and for the memory capacity and since it is such a high capacity kit i think the trade-off there is reasonable you get a lot of memory you still get really good speed and you're just missing out on maybe a one or two percent performance bump in certain applications that you would get with that higher speed frequency just disappointing that i wasn't able to plug in the xmp value and have it work i also want to point out for these liane lee uni fans as much as i've praised them in this video they also have their drawbacks in certain ways as well for one i have both of them connected in the back here and there's no way to flip just one set of fans in the software if you want to use some of these software modes that are supposed to be like a unified thing controlling all of them so you can have like a runner going around from one to the next so that's partially just the only way i felt like i could properly connect those up and wire them in an aesthetically pleasing fashion and it's also partly my fault because i had them dialed in so it was going to be one on the front one then two in the top three in the back and four on the bottom and i got the wires switched at some point but i discovered that that wouldn't even matter for again some of those more cool advanced functions because the orientation of these since you can't flip it it wasn't going to go in the right direction anyway the other shortcoming of the lighting configuration in this system and it was so close but you have the option in the leanne lee software to sync with motherboard control by doing that i would be able to potentially use the nzxt cam software to control all the lighting in the rig with just one piece of software and that will allow you to more easily switch between especially static colors however we discovered that that mostly works but because i have a six-way splitter going off of the single uh five-volt header on this motherboard for sort of a standard addressable rgb connector there is a little bit of confusion there and as a result the front leds like most of the leds on these three fan setups work when i go into sync mode but just these front ones wouldn't sync up so that made that feature which would have been kind of convenient uh not really usable instead you still have to use the two pieces of software to either control the liam lee lighting in the fans or the lighting on the cpu block the reservoir and the gpu block down here that said this i think is my favorite lighting configuration from the time i spent setting up different ones of those i've got the nzxt cam software just set to red for the block reservoir and the gpu down here the gpu also shines some light down on some red kind of glow down on top of the fans which looks kind of cool and then the lee and lee fans i just have set to white and i think that's a really nice look overall and matches very well again with the white silver black and red aesthetic for this overall build and i just gotta say again i'm i'm really so happy with how this build turned out aesthetically especially with some of the the loop configuration up in the front that was getting a little bit confusing and in case you're wondering why i did the tubing the way i did other than i i do think it looks kind of cool that way but this uh system is expandable fairly easily if uh whoever the winner is wants to add something you do have a full size pcie expansion slot that's like totally accessible right there and you can slot a capture card or something like that in there if you really wanted to so i did want to leave this open flexible for expansion options in the future too but guys after all this time and all this work that is going to wrap it up for this series on this epic custom water cooled build and again this is being given away the giveaway is still open as of the publishing of this video so i'll post a link to that in the video's description and the reason i built this system and did the giveaway for it was to help raise money for our extra life charity event which was this last weekend and that is still open as well donations go to help support the children's hospital los angeles to provide life-saving medical procedures for children who cannot otherwise afford it it's a very worthy cause and i'll post again a link to the donation page for that if you have a little bit of cash to spare go ahead and do that but again donations are not required to enter to win this system good luck to all of you oh and if you're an international viewer located outside the united states unfortunately you're not eligible for this pc because it's really difficult to ship a system like this across uh international borders but an international viewer will win this the zotac rtx 3080 ti this is the amp holo version of that and i also have an upcoming video covering that as well that will be available soon so hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video subscribe to my channel if you'd like to see that video when it goes live thanks to all of my sponsors who helped contribute components uh to put this together and help support the charity leanne lee gal ek nzxt and sourced customs crucial of course coming in clutch with the storage configuration for this system and links to all the parts i used are down in the video's description thanks again for watching this one guys and we'll see you in the next video you\n"