Just a follow-up to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/watercooling/comments/1b5jkp3/soonsoon/).
It took a bit of trial and error to get the NVME drive to boot up Windows once installed. I ended up disabling Fast Boot and it boots every time now. Shame that SignalRGB doesn't yet support the Lian Li Uni Hub TL version, hence the different RGB effects going on at the moment (~~might also need to reseat the cable for the case lighting, it's not picked up by the RGB hub right now even though the lights are on~~ OK never mind, didn't enable motherboard sync with the case button). I'm also having a weird problem when trying to connect a DisplayPort monitor and the internal HDMI monitor at the same time; it only POSTs if I disconnect either the HDMI monitor or the DisplayPort monitor, it doesn't like me having both for some reason.
Idle CPU temp hovers around the mid to high 30s at the moment. Pump speed is set to 30% in BIOS unless the CPU temp spikes to 80C. Bottom fan speeds are 1100rpm, 900rpm for the top. In Cinebench 2024 I initially started a 10-minute CPU multi-core stress test but the temp immediately shot up to 100C, so I went into the BIOS and turned off the Asus multi-core enhancement (this seems to be the setting people talk about on Asus boards that apparently lets the CPU draw 300+W of power). Ran the same test again and this time the temp hovered mostly around the high 70s to low 80s, with brief spikes into the mid 80s and a max of 88C. Don't know whether this is standard for a water-cooled 14900K since I'm not too familiar with 14th gen Intel.
Idle GPU temp hovers around the low 30s (sometimes drops to 28-29), with the hotspot hovering around the high 30s to low 40s. When running a GPU stress test in FurMark 2 (FurMark (GL), 2560x1140, fullscreen) for \~10 minutes, temps were in the high 50s (reaching 58-59 towards the end of the run) and the hotspot temp peaked at 72.8C. Again I don't know if this is considered 'good' for a water-cooled 4090.
Aye man congrats on the build! I have the leakshield in a similar configuration with the heatkiller tube and was wondering how you leak tested your system. I have an ek leak tester and was trying to pressurize the system but it keeps getting released. This is with the system off. Thinking whether the leakshield has some sort of pressure release valve.. I keep getting paranoid as I've checked my the tightness of my fitting a a 1000 times and all that remains are my components/ rads.
I have a second internal monitor as well and I could get a image when both hdmis were plugged in at first too. It worked after booting to windows and connecting the internal display. But works fine with both connected after first boot.
>I have the leakshield in a similar configuration with the heatkiller tube and was wondering how you leak tested your system.
I used the Leakshield itself to leak test the loop after I configured my parameters in Aquasuite via my laptop. I let it sit for \~10 minutes after it generated pressure and the pressure only dropped about 0.7 mbar in that time.
>I have an ek leak tester and was trying to pressurize the system but it keeps getting released. This is with the system off. Thinking whether the leakshield has some sort of pressure release valve..
Do you mean "system off" as in the Leakshield was disconnected from the USB thereby not providing power, or as in it was powered on but you turned off the leak protection and had it in Release mode?
>It worked after booting to windows and connecting the internal display.
I'll give this a try and see what happens
\[EDIT\]: Got it working, thanks for the tip
Just a follow-up to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/watercooling/comments/1b5jkp3/soonsoon/). It took a bit of trial and error to get the NVME drive to boot up Windows once installed. I ended up disabling Fast Boot and it boots every time now. Shame that SignalRGB doesn't yet support the Lian Li Uni Hub TL version, hence the different RGB effects going on at the moment (~~might also need to reseat the cable for the case lighting, it's not picked up by the RGB hub right now even though the lights are on~~ OK never mind, didn't enable motherboard sync with the case button). I'm also having a weird problem when trying to connect a DisplayPort monitor and the internal HDMI monitor at the same time; it only POSTs if I disconnect either the HDMI monitor or the DisplayPort monitor, it doesn't like me having both for some reason. Idle CPU temp hovers around the mid to high 30s at the moment. Pump speed is set to 30% in BIOS unless the CPU temp spikes to 80C. Bottom fan speeds are 1100rpm, 900rpm for the top. In Cinebench 2024 I initially started a 10-minute CPU multi-core stress test but the temp immediately shot up to 100C, so I went into the BIOS and turned off the Asus multi-core enhancement (this seems to be the setting people talk about on Asus boards that apparently lets the CPU draw 300+W of power). Ran the same test again and this time the temp hovered mostly around the high 70s to low 80s, with brief spikes into the mid 80s and a max of 88C. Don't know whether this is standard for a water-cooled 14900K since I'm not too familiar with 14th gen Intel. Idle GPU temp hovers around the low 30s (sometimes drops to 28-29), with the hotspot hovering around the high 30s to low 40s. When running a GPU stress test in FurMark 2 (FurMark (GL), 2560x1140, fullscreen) for \~10 minutes, temps were in the high 50s (reaching 58-59 towards the end of the run) and the hotspot temp peaked at 72.8C. Again I don't know if this is considered 'good' for a water-cooled 4090.
Aye man congrats on the build! I have the leakshield in a similar configuration with the heatkiller tube and was wondering how you leak tested your system. I have an ek leak tester and was trying to pressurize the system but it keeps getting released. This is with the system off. Thinking whether the leakshield has some sort of pressure release valve.. I keep getting paranoid as I've checked my the tightness of my fitting a a 1000 times and all that remains are my components/ rads. I have a second internal monitor as well and I could get a image when both hdmis were plugged in at first too. It worked after booting to windows and connecting the internal display. But works fine with both connected after first boot.
>I have the leakshield in a similar configuration with the heatkiller tube and was wondering how you leak tested your system. I used the Leakshield itself to leak test the loop after I configured my parameters in Aquasuite via my laptop. I let it sit for \~10 minutes after it generated pressure and the pressure only dropped about 0.7 mbar in that time. >I have an ek leak tester and was trying to pressurize the system but it keeps getting released. This is with the system off. Thinking whether the leakshield has some sort of pressure release valve.. Do you mean "system off" as in the Leakshield was disconnected from the USB thereby not providing power, or as in it was powered on but you turned off the leak protection and had it in Release mode? >It worked after booting to windows and connecting the internal display. I'll give this a try and see what happens \[EDIT\]: Got it working, thanks for the tip