Right now there are only a few things left
In these last couple more recent pictures, you can see that there’s a cable tie around the tubing between the CPU and the VRM blocks. That’s to try and prevent a kink. Tubing should settle in a few days and I’ll be able to remove it, but annoying that it’s there on the new tubing.
Part of why the CPU coolant looks so much more solid (besides Mayhem’s being some amazing stuff) is that the pump on that side is a PWM controlled D5. This is really convenient normally, but when the PC fires up, it spins up 100% and those two blocks are nothing to a D5. So water jets out crazy from the outlet on the Res and this is causing it to foam a bit. So I might need to either remove the column or put more coolant in. Again, a bit of a bummer, but no biggie.
The last one is a bit though. After testing and overclocking, it’s clear that I’ve botched the install on my RadeonVII’s block. Temperatures are not much lower than when I had the stock cooler on (well, I say that, but that is only REALLY true when I’m pushing the card super hard). It’s not enough for the card to throttle so it’s not an ISSUE issue, but I’m still going to take it out and reseat it soon. Just gathering my courage, really. This also works as a bit of a confirmation bias thing with my suspicions on the old Gelid TIM I got. Because that’s what I used when I had to redo the block the first time around. i figured “eh, even if this is not super good, the GPU should be fine. The old Vega I could never even get to warm up much despite cranking it’s power draw like crazy”, but… not this time around. Could be that I just didn’t tighten the block enough too, as I always get paranoid with the exposed dies of GPUs. But as long as it’s just this, it’s not too annoying to do.
I’ll try and get this all done before I do the overclocking and benchmarking post so I have some actual pretty numbers to show for all of this. And I also have to redo all of the toyBrot benchmarks now that this is my new main card (and I’m very likely selling off the Vega) and, as I teased way back in the beginning, this is going to be pretty crazy. So see you all when I get around to doing all of this