I've had the LD Cooling V8 for a while now. A solid case if you enjoy water cooling, but also a pain in the ass to work with because of numerous screws. That case is huge. Super tower, big as Corsair 900D if you which one that is.
I've switched to Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX. A midi tower case. The only thing I haven't been able to fit in it that I want is my Aquaero LT5. I have a place to put it, but I got to improvise how to mount it there. Haven't done that yet. Still choosing water cooling. Made a couple of holes in the rear end of the case so I got two tubes going out to a MO-RA3 420LT. Bought a different mounting kit for fans on it and 4 230mm fans. In idle, I actually run with passiv cooling.
All in all the temperature is now lower, and it makes less noise as well. Will be switching the PSU with another one, as this one makes to much noise. Will most likely switch the case fans as well because I want to run them lower than 1000 rpm.
Also delidded my CPU. Replaced the original thermal paste with Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra which is some form of liquid metal. Result is lower temperature on the CPU. I raised them again by upping the overclock to 4.7GHz. Given the voltage, I don't think 4.8 will be doable.
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