End of Year Maintenance… turned rebuild

Well I promised myself I wouldn’t do this rebuild until the next generation of chips and lower latency DDR5, but here we are… a little disappointed in the upper line going to the CPU block as it has a slight downward angle to it, oddly enough freehand bends reign supreme over using any of the jigs.

Sacrificed a third radiator for the rear mounted XD7 pump/res combo. Now to wait until early to mid 2026 to do a full rebuild with upgraded MOBO, CPU, RAM but I still feel that the minor bottleneck of the 11700k at 3440x1440p doesn’t necessitate the need to upgrade those yet.

Specs:

CPU: 11700KF

GPU: MSI 4090 GAMING TRIO

RAM: 32GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE

PUMP: Corsair XD7 Res/Pump/Distro Combo

CPU BLOCK: Corsair XC7

GPU BLOCK: Corsair XG7

RADS: 1x 360mm XR5, 1x 360 XR7

FANS: 6x Corsair LX 120s

STORAGE: 2x 1TB Samsung NVMEs

Temps:

Ambient: 20.5C

Idle Coolant: 24C Idle CPU: 28C Idle GPU: 26C

Gaming Coolant: 34-36C Gaming CPU: 55-60C Gaming GPU: 45-50C