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Before I built my current custom computer case, I had ran my first liquid cooled loop in a Phanteks Evolv ITX chassis. At the time, all I knew was EK and Alphacool and that they were very expensive. eBay parts looked sketchy, and I had no idea about the world of quality Chinese parts available. I watched people like JayzTwoCents and stumbled across his video on a cheap watercooling solution. This solution was the EK Fluid Gaming A240, a fully aluminum watercooling solution. Aluminum is cheaper than copper, so that was how they brought the price down. I was hooked. I bought an A240 kit on Newegg and got it installed with my R5 3600 and Nvidia RTX 2060 FE.

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Before I built my current custom computer case, I had ran my first liquid cooled loop in a Phanteks Evolv ITX chassis. At the time, all I knew was EK and Alphacool and that they were very expensive. eBay parts looked sketchy, and I had no idea about the world of quality Chinese parts available. I watched people like JayzTwoCents and stumbled across his video on a cheap watercooling solution. This solution was the EK Fluid Gaming A240, a fully aluminum watercooling solution. Aluminum is cheaper than copper, so that was how they brought the price down. I was hooked. I bought an A240 kit on Newegg and got it installed with my R5 3600 and Nvidia RTX 2060 FE.

Fast forward a few months, I was frustrated by coil whine on the RTX 2060, and hit by nostalgia from JayzTwoCents videos on Pascal-era video cards and custom loops. I side-graded to a Titan Xp and luckily found a Fluid Gaming GTX waterblock on Ebay. They had retired that block by now in favor of the 20-series cards. I was able to get some extra fittings and got the new build installed. It sat like this for some time, and I was happy with how it looked (the main reason I went watercooled).

Tight shot on custom watercooling loop. EK Fluid Gaming components on GTX Titan Xp (2017) and Ryzen 5 3600. Build has an overall black parts theme with an amber light scheme. Parts are tightly framed by three brightly lit Corsair LL120 fans. Two are above on a radiator, the other is on the exhaust. -- cgit v1.2.3