Hello All,
Here is a pic of the final build of my open air PC build. I built the case about 5 years ago and have been running a 10900k.
I have stepped up to a 9950X3d and the Asus Crosshair ROG 2006 X870E motherboard.
I have 3 x 360mm radiators and a pair of D5 pumps in series.
Let me know if you have any questions! J
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This person definitely doesn’t have a cat.
Or children.
or dust
Of course not, you can tell he still enjoys life and his hobbies.
I have cats and children and dust and I love my hobbies
Your must either not be allowed in the room ever, or is significantly more well-behaved than most! Mine would absolutely wreck this without some kind of barrier in the way.
Bro, what?
Mine would sit on it immediately
He for real said lmk bout questions, and ghosted everyone
Nice build tho
I didn’t have my notifications on, what Qs do you have?
None I was just being snarky cause I was mostly interested in your answers when I first scrolled this and there were none lol
Awesome build. Well done, love how clean it is. I’m glad it’s not full of RGB everywhere and colored coolant.
On that note, that’s a LOT of radiator you’ve got going on. I’m running an i9 and 4080 on waterblocks and have a single radiator, they don’t go over 59C and it stays plenty quiet.
Now you only have 5 years of payments before the hardware is paid off.
So I have been planning this upgrade for a while, I licked out and purchased CPU, NVME last year when they were a lot less expensive.
I went in on a new egg bundle on the RAM so I got a pretty good deal there.
And the 4090 I’ve had for a couple of years now.
That’s cool but all I can think of is how dusty it will get.
LoL, yeah I can imagine. I hadn’t cleaned it before the rebuild in about 2 years. Here is what that looked like:
🤮Dont clean it for another 2 and you got yourself a dust blanket
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So happy other people do cool alternative builds like this. I enjoy the idea and creativity, but I will stick with my boring black box filled to the brim with computing power.
Awesome build!
Can it play Doom?
Oh wow, absolutely gorgeous and I also wanted to do something like that. How did you attach the motherboard screws to the wood? Are there any suitable wooden screws, did you work with plastic washers or did you glue the metal screws into thr wood?
Threaded inserts most likely.
Pwetty :3
That’s fucking cool. I’ve always thought the open designs were pretty sweet, this is giving me ideas. If I end up building one I might do something like this with walnut and more brass.
I am playing with the idea of changing the clear tubes to copper pipes. I still might.
The original steam machine.
I love it except for the plywood.
Yeah, I get that. It’s my lack of actual woodworking skills.
Well it does look amazing even with the plywood, so I’m sure you’re competent.
Thanks! I appreciate it. It was a labor of love. Someday I’d like to try it again. Still have some ideas. 😊
Needs more brass.
Make sure you keep an eye on your VRM temps. I don’t see any airflow for that in your picture.
Yeah, so far everything seems ok, I keep an eye on them and I am looking at ways to actively cool it.
Not sure if anyone uses builds.gg anymore. But I posted a bunch of pictures there.
I also have my other builds.liated as well.
https://builds.gg/builds/open-air-case-refresh-plywood-custom-build-39716
There are some pretty nice systems there. Put mine to shame.
