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9. What's the best part of your rig?
I think what I enjoy the most, is really the "fish tank" look. I used to have fish back in college, and every time I could just stare into the fish tank and loose track of time. This really does something very similar to me when I look at it, I can just stare at it enjoy and relax! Plus when ever we have guests over, that's always a great discussion topic, every time someone looks at it, "Wow what is that??". So the case really was a very important visual part of the system. After that, just the brutal speed, and in third place my monitor which I totally love!
10. Any dislikes, things you should not have bought?
Certainly, living with it every day, the most annoying part would be that you must remove those massive tempered glass panels to access the fan analog speed dials, when I want to increase cooling power. Other than that, the fact that it is close to 100lb heavy? And I also really hated the fact that the PSU I got, thanks to most PSU's being out of stock at the time, it is only partially modular....so it was a pain when I was building the system.
11. Did you modify anything? cases/video cards/other? Did you do it yourself? Walk us through it.
As I mentioned before, I had to design the custom cooling loop. That took a while, as it would depend on the components, and the blocks as well. It took looking at videos, watching how to bend the tubing, and how all the different standards of fittings worked. Would I want compression fittings, or screw in fittings, or click in fittings, their pros and cons, and cost as well.
Then I had to learn how to install the water blocks on the GPUs and on the mother board and cpu. After designing the potential loop on paper, then figuring out how long the tubes had to be, how to cut them and file them to prevent sharp edges messing up the compression fittings. It was really a fun experience, and challenging at the same time. I think it looks better than I thought It would look! I was not expecting anything pretty, but it seems it turned out pretty okay.
12. Your 3DMark scores
The highest score I have on 3Dmark thus far is 13909, on Time Spy, I hope I can hit over 14k some time soon!
13. Do you have any future updates planned?
Yes, I think the weak link on the system is really the video cards, so those will be the next update, I might wait for the new AMD cards later this year, will see. Though I must confess that today before writing all these answers, I just did a Ram upgrade from 32g to 64g! After the video cards, perhaps I'll add another MR.2 hardrive, hopefully a 1T, had been looking at the Samsung 970 Pro, but still too early to tell.
14. Does your rig or mod have a name?
I guess I joke it's my fish tank to guests that see it for the first time, so there you go I'll just call it FishTank from now on!
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