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First serious AIO Watercooling project - king1 - 26-08-2025
Mightily impressed, I bought a Ryzen 9 5950X on special a couple of weeks back, older tech but still plenty of power. Intention was to upgrade a smaller unit I have CPU mining Monero.
The original board was a Gigabyte ABN350 wifi, this was a bit optimistic in hindsight as the voltage regulator VRM in it were a bit weak. with the CPU maxed out the VRM kept overheating and only way I could sort that was a largish fan pointing directly at the VRM heatsink. Reality though it was never going to work, SFF build ITX board with a 120mm AIO water cooling , just too tight for more fans...
SO I bought myself a Cooler Master Elite Case, Asus Rog Strix b550A, and a 360mm Cooler Master Master Liquid 360 AIO Water cooler.
100% CPU utilization and CPU Temp is 47 degrees - I was impressed.
RE: First serious AIO Watercooling project - nzoomed - 28-08-2025
(26-08-2025, 08:54 PM)king1 Wrote: Mightily impressed, I bought a Ryzen 9 5950X on special a couple of weeks back, older tech but still plenty of power. Intention was to upgrade a smaller unit I have CPU mining Monero.Thats pretty impressive, i guess it helps too that the Ryzen chips generally run more efficient and produce less heat compared to Intel.
The original board was a Gigabyte ABN350 wifi, this was a bit optimistic in hindsight as the voltage regulator VRM in it were a bit weak. with the CPU maxed out the VRM kept overheating and only way I could sort that was a largish fan pointing directly at the VRM heatsink. Reality though it was never going to work, SFF build ITX board with a 120mm AIO water cooling , just too tight for more fans...
SO I bought myself a Cooler Master Elite Case, Asus Rog Strix b550A, and a 360mm Cooler Master Master Liquid 360 AIO Water cooler.
100% CPU utilization and CPU Temp is 47 degrees - I was impressed.
RE: First serious AIO Watercooling project - king1 - 28-08-2025
I have another Ryzen 9 using a 120mm water cooler and it still hovers around 85. I think they're a bit useless tbh. Its getting an upgrade in the near future to. Interestingly, I added more ram to this latest build from 2x8=16gb to 2x16=32gb and the mining hashrate increase 1k or so, as well as the temps, to 53/54 degrees...