Nah it’s running. I didn’t expect the CPU to arrive today so I planned to play some Reforger tonight which I still need the old rig for atm.
Windows is installed (that was quick!). I now need to get everything else installed which I am going to do later after our gaming session 
Pain is so close to pleasure
Just installed the GPU
Finished:
To do:
Hey Looks real good. I was wondering which VR Headset do you have? Would be keen on hearing how DCS runs in VR with the 9800x3D 
Also does the AIO keep the CPU Nice and cool? You going to run some stress test on the CPU?
Yeah I’m going to install ryzen master and run the curve optimizer as well as running some stresstests on the ram to make sure it’s stable the way I set my timings. Hottest the CPU has gotten so far was 57°C while flying the Phantom over Kola in VR
I still have a Reverb G2. Once I get my hands on a 5090 I’ll look into a new VR headset. It does run very well, roughly 10fps more than with my previous build (5900X) but the frame times are much smoother now. I didn’t expect much of a jump because I’m GPU bound anyway but it is much smoother now which is nice. Especially newer maps like Kola, Iraq and Afghanistan run a lot better now
yes I have my G2 as well. I have a 12700K and a 4070Ti was curious too what the 9800x3d runs DCS at?
Which GPU do you have looks like a 4080/90?
3080Ti. I accidentally started VR with my 2D settings and still got ~40-50fps average on the Kola Map 
I’ll need a larger desk, this thing definitely needs to stay on the ground for now
I knew that already but haven’t gotten around it yet, but I can’t leave this beautiful case sitting on the ground 
Excuse the cable mess, it’s all still very much a work in progress.
Looking really good. I might copy @Derbysieger 's built. I love the case. My current built is also a Fractal Design. Besides the looks they are a joy to work with when building the PC.
I still contemplate which graphics card it will be. I’m certainly not going down the 5090 road. 5080 is rumored to be around 1600 € (!). I’m not mentally prepared for this.
4080 Super would be another option, but those are still around 1000 €…
Similar here (see my thread), I will most likely go for an AMD card. Half the price of Nvidia and fast enough if you don’t go very high res. I pretty much moved on from VR, and AMD cards run better on Linux so that will probably be the direction for me.
Absolutely. The cable management is absolutely top notch. There is more than enough room for all the cables. The pre-installed front fans and all the case IO is already neatly routed along the back and secured by velcro that is long enough to accomodate for quite a thick bunch of cables. I have the case I/O (audio, USB, Power LED and button), case fans and 24-Pin cable all routed togother and It could still fit one or two flat PCIe cables. I took some extra time to route everything neatly in the back as well so it’s not a mess in case I need to change something in future. My old rig was a disaster when you removed the rear panel
I put the CPU Fan curve on standard instead of silent because it was running a little hot under all core loads. The system is running much cooler now. Instead of 55-75°C under a gaming load like DCS it now barely goes past 40°C. I’ll look into setting up a custom curve to keep it a little quieter though
Nerd question, does the fan in the pump housing have a separate control from the radiator fans? Or is it a single-speed kinda deal?
You can control the pump, VRM fan and radiator fans seperately. The Liqiud Freezer III comes with two cables. An AIO cable where it’s all controlled by a single 4-pin PWM header which doesn’t allow for any custom control of the pump and different fans, and a splitter cable which seperates the pump, VRM fan and radiotor fans. The manual recommends to use the splitter cable so that’s what I did. The pump is completely silent and it’s almost always going at full speed anyway but having control of both the VRM fan as well as the radiator fans is very helpful.
That’s very cool. I was impressed with the design, but I’m even more impressed with the price of that cooler!
I was going to get that cooler I still think I should have gotten that one the Liquid Freezer III.
The one I have is fine but I did like that your has the VRM fan.
I do have a request of you tho. when and if you get a chance can you run CineBench R23 on multicores and post your score… I would be curious to how the 9800X3D Scores in that test…
will do
Yeah the price is insane for the cooling performance it provides. Really amazing to see.
Here’s my score, CPU is completely stock, RAM is currently running at 6000MT/s CL32. Steam and Discord running in the background.
I want to tweak it a little and run the curve optimizer with a light overclock and try to get the RAM to 6000MT/s CL30
Edit: Another run without Discord and Steam, the bad result was when I accidentally left firefox open
