Time to say goodbye to the good old AMD PC as I have decided to upgrade it to an Intel 2011-v3 platform... not waiting for the new AMD ZEN platform anymore. Since the old AMD system used custom water cooling solution for the CPU and the GPU I needed to upgrade not only the motherboard, the processor and the memory, but also the CPU water block...
So here is the new CPU water cooling block - EK Supremacy EVO, Full Nickel edition. Unfortunately that part of the water cooling setup did not end up the only one that needed to be upgraded...
I was using 360mm x 60mm radiator for the cooling, but because of a certain design of one of the coolers of the new motherboard that radiator was no longer fitting inside the case. So I was forced to either replace the case or get a slightly smaller 45mm radiator, I did the second as it was easier and cheaper to do and the cooling efficiency should not suffer much anyway.
Using the same 3x 120mm NoiseBlocker NB-eLoop Fans with very interesting blade design.
The GPU also remains the same good old Radeon 280X, it uses the same reference design PCB and a water cooling block that is also compatible with the older 79x0 series of AMD GPUs.
The water pump is the same as well, a Laing DDC 3.5 with a Plexiglas top and reservoir on top of it for easy refilling with cooling liquid.
New hose is required as the last time I was using a red colored liquid and that one left red residue all over the system that needed some time to clean and I'm not even going to try to remove it from the hose.
I'm now off to assembling every component that you saw here back together to make the computer work again... should take some time for sure...
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