Nice. I recently got Sapphire Pulse RX 6800 XT, so enjoying full AMD build on Linux.
Still rolling with a GTX 1080. Been watching all the RTX price nonsense for a while with utter side-eye. Waiting for the next gen cards to drop sometime this year before I build a new rig.
Nice! If I remember correctly - and please do state if I am wrong - I is recommended to put the radiator in the other way around to increase longevity. I.e. you should rotate it such that the tubes come out at the top and not at the botton.Completed last weekend:
5950X, 128GB DDR4 3200, Geforce RTX 3060Ti, Samsung 2TB PCie 4 SSD.
Downside: it's not for me ^^ New work horse for my brother, mainly for video editing, but also for gaming. Price: Too much.
The guides I found before assembling it said to put it this way, so bubbles/pockets of air will stay at the highest point (the top end of the radiator), and not get drawn into the cycle and mess with heat transfer in the heatsink or flow through the pump. Made sense to me, but I'm not sure how much it matters either way.
You're good. This is actually the preferred way, but it matters only a little most of the time. The reason it's preferred is that air collects at the highest point, in this case the top of the radiator. With tubes at the bottom the pump is always pumping liquid. In a water-tight loop, tubes at the top would also be okay, because there isn't enough air to suck into the pump. However, in the rare occasions when unnoticed water loss has occurred, the pocket of air may grow large enough to starve the pump of liquid. You can usually hear the pump noise when that happens.
They are not as bad as they one were. nVidia 3060 is down as much as $100 USD while the 3090 is still too much at almost $3000 USD.
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No, actually. You want the tubes coming out from the bottom. Any air will be at the top of the Radiator so, if the lines are at the top, you will get more air going to the block than liquid. That is if the pump & cold plate are on the block and not in the radiator. Good video about the orientation of the radiator was done by JayzTwoCents
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Yeah, that's crazy. Sapphire Pulse RX 6800 XT is around $1200 now which is better than $1400 it was before.
Part and parcel of building a PC -- no worries! I normally take 6+ months to gather everything up whenever I build one.
Still missing the CPU cooler, and in a major downturn of events, I think it won't arrive until after the weekend
I'm waiting for Zen 4 / RDNA 3 to come out to build something new. But now the hard part is to find a good case that supports 200 mm fans
