This silent open-air gaming PC has four 360mm radiators

If you happen to suppose the 240mm AIO cooler strapped to your CPU is fairly good, then put together on your rig to be humbled by the monstrous cooling energy on present right here. This open-air water-cooled gaming PC has 4 (sure, 4!) 360mm radiators, which means it could actually fortunately cool its high-end parts whereas making barely a whisper of noise.

Due to our quickly rising PC constructing Fb web page, we’ve seen many customized gaming PCs, from mods primarily based on present case designs to scratch PC builds. You may even submit yours for consideration proper right here.  Now let’s chat to Oliver about how he constructed this superb open-air PC construct.

The place do you begin when constructing a system akin to this one? For Oliver, the principle place to begin was the fabulous open-air Yuel Beast Atlas II chassis, which is made by boutique PC case maker Eric Mihal in small batches.

Eric’s circumstances aren’t low cost – the Atlas II begins at $345 – however they’re supremely versatile, and allow you to assemble a PC that basically makes a press release. “The Yuel Beast Atlas II case has the benefit that just a few parts must be in a sure place,” Oliver explains, “and plenty of parts may be organized in several methods.”

Oliver already had a tough thought of how the cooling system would work earlier than he began. “The thought at first was to have six followers symmetrically positioned on the prime and backside,” he says. “Then I merely organized the parts and tubes as symmetrically as potential, and in straight traces.”

Imagine it or not, that magenta coolant is circulating round a single water-cooling loop, reasonably than 4 separate ones for every radiator, made with EK Quantum water-cooling parts, together with an Alphacool circulation meter. In contrast to some water-cooling aficionados, Oliver largely constructed the water-cooling system utilizing measurements and his eyesight, reasonably than spending hours drawing up the system in CAD.

“I first positioned the parts to my liking after which measured the distances,” he says. “For the sake of simplicity, I made certain that the tubes solely needed to be bent on one stage and that they have been all the time bent at 90-degree angles. I used some instruments from Alphacool to bend them. To be trustworthy, a variety of it was a matter of measuring by eye, particularly when shortening the tubes.”

Did it matter which parts went the place within the loop? “A particular order of the parts within the loop was not essential for me, though I wished to mount the GPU with the coolant seen to the entrance – it’s an lively backplate although, I might have turned it round,” he says.

What was essentially the most troublesome half? “The very straight tube between the 2 radiators,” Oliver tells us. “Acrylic glass may be very inflexible when chilly and prone to fractures. It solely labored after I screwed in one of many fittings to the radiator after inserting the tube.”

With the cooling capability of 4 360mm radiators fitted with 12 be quiet! Silent Wings 4 followers, Oliver has no hassle cooling the top-end parts on this rig. The spec features a 24-core Intel Core i9-13900K CPU, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, however Oliver is extra focused on utilizing this cooling energy to maintain his system quiet, reasonably than to overclock his parts.

“I actually like open circumstances, however on the identical time, I’m fairly prone to noise,” he says. “The system is totally inaudible with the followers under 800rpm in a reasonably quiet atmosphere, even with a very open case.”

The truth is, Oliver says he solely runs the 12 followers at 10-20 % of their rated velocity, which means they’re typically operating at simply 600-800rpm. He says they not often run above 30 % of their rated 3,000rpm velocity.

What kind of temperatures do you get with this type of cooling energy on faucet? “The final time I paid consideration to temperatures, MSI Afterburner recorded a most GPU temperature of 52°C in Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing maxed out after about an hour, nevertheless it averaged under 50°C.” As a degree of comparability, the RTX 4090 Founders Version hit  67.5°C in our testing. “The typical CPU temperature was in the identical area,” he provides, ” nevertheless it spiked within the low 80s.”

And when Oliver was requested if he’d do something in a different way subsequent time, he gave a fairly assured reply. “I’m very happy and would in all probability to not something basically totally different,” he says. “I in all probability ought to have made the tube between the circulation meter and the GPU somewhat shorter and I in all probability would have made the connection between the radiator and the CPU out of a single tube, not two, as within the present construct.”

Magenta water-cooled PC specs

• CPU: Intel Core i9-13900K
• Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex
• Reminiscence: 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 5600MHz
• Graphics card: Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC
• Storage: 2 x 1TB Kingston KC3000
• PSU: 1,200W be quiet! Darkish Energy Professional 12
• Case: Yuel Beast Atlas II
• Cooling: 4 x EK-Quantium Floor S360 radiators, EK-Quantum Kinetix FLT 240 D5 PWM D-RGB Plexi pump/res combo, EK-Quantum Vector² Strix RTX 4090 D-RGB Nickel+Plexi GPU waterblock, EK-Quantum Magnitude LGA1700 Full Nickel CPU waterblock, Aquacomputer Movement Sensor, 12 x be quiet! Silent Wings Professional 4 PWM followers