We are updating the component list to include the rotary fittings for new Power Color Radeon RX 7900 XTX - thanks for letting us know! The Conqueror usually comes with a standard EK-Quantum Vector² GPU water-block that aligns perfectly with the bottom port, which is why the rotary fitting wasn't included in the BOM for the RX 7900 XTX configurable option, luckily this was only added as a configurable GPU at the start of the month so will be amended before any of these GPUs are shipped to customers. Thanks for the fantastic review, we're eager to get some tools out, get it fixed and up to the standard EK fans expect. 🛠 EK Team

"What I love is that it's ROG certified, which means it's guaranteed.....to probably break." God damn, not wasting any time in getting into shots fired territory since breaking away from ASUS!

that tube being 2 degrees off dove me insane immediately

Those tubes not being lined up would drive me absolutely nuts. For the cost of a system like that it is disappointing that they skipped over that detail. As you said, they even make the part that could have fixed it.

8:21 I have to say… if I were EK knowing that I was sending a rigid tube build to Jays2Cents, especially knowing it was gonna be featured and reviewed for KZfaq content… I would have made damn sure that everything. Was perfectly parallel and super satisfying.

Can't believe I didn't find a single comment about that cinematography filling the system. That shit was on point man! The music, the sweeping camera ooooooh dear god that was beautiful! Someone needs a raise jay, you're not paying them enough 🤣 I honestly don't think that could have been shot any better if you guys tried!

Between the incorrect Ryzen master being installed, the tubes not being parallel, the weird choice of going with a negative pressure system, and all the other things Jay mentioned, there is absolutely 0 chance in hell I'd be paying $7000 for a pc like this.

Kudos to the editor, probably Phil, for making filling up a loop so badass and awesome jams!

I built a gaming pc this past saturday solely because of your content. I’m a miniature painter/builder and in general love working with stuff. You, phil and Nick are all well respected in this house.

I just looked up that build, for an almost $7k computer build, they definitely have some more stream lining and optimization to do for that price point.

Living in South Africa, getting anything EK related is a pure pipe-dream. I do - however - appreciate your content Jay. Even if most of the product only serves as wishful thinking.

Those angles water lines would drive me nuts. I’d have to fix them before filling it.

Those shots when Jay's filling the system were amazing! Jays reviews are always a good watch as he isn't shy about giving a 100% honest opinion which I as a consumer find important and for EK to accept his feedback and revise on it is even better...

No matter what, no one can put Jay out of a job. They can never provide me that 'twocents' quality i get when watching. Keep up the great work.

What makes this build as nice as it is is the very nice (and expensive!) _components_ chosen for everything, that not only perform and look great, but also make the building as simple as only possible. Notice that none of the tubing even needs any bending at all. Keeping that triviality of building (at the expense) in mind, the building itself is just your regular standard half-assed terrible job for an egregious markup: given how few actual choices could be made any differently during this build almost every choice was made incorrectly, and folks are saying here the system goes for $7k having components definitely under $4k total. Shout out to packaging people. Packaging was nice.

That cinematic shot that started at 11:52 was Awesome!! The music was on point too! I watched it twice. lmao. (not joking)

The interruptions from ifixit will never get old. Love them.

I'm not sure how other people would feel, but I'd like to see a few videos of them working one mid tier system. From building it, to setting it up, to tweaking the components to get the most performance possible, to then maybe talking about alternate ways to get more performance.

SWEEEET the shots and music beginning at 12 made the whole video and product kind of awesome

It kinda makes sense when I thought about it with the fan setup. You have 3 intake fans that are less restricted providing air to the 6 exhaust fans that have a higher restriction due to the rad so they are probably very close to equal in regards to positive pressure. Definitely hope you do a follow up smoke test though!

I really appreciate that pre-built systems like these are made. Even though I personally prefer to build it myself. Especially with those slightly off tubes. That said, If I were given a computer like this, I wouldn't turn it down :p

Glad to see you back in your videos. Love the review and the feedback. We tried the offset fittings and they just didn't fit side by side in the distro and they didn't look good on the GPU side. That model is actually not for sale yet, luckily.

Once you got the Mystic Fog in there, I was thinking this looks like something from Blade Runner, since there seems to be fog everywhere in that movie.

The shade thrown at Asus killed me lmao

You might find that the 7mm offset will hit the the plug below, which is why it was not fitted by ek and the gpu pipes are at an angle

You'll always have a job in my heart, Jay.

Can we all just take a minute to appreciate the ABSOLUTELY SICK '80s SYNTH TRACK accompanying the montage? Hot damn, Phil. Top shelf.

Thanks you for reviewing this pre-built!! I’ve been eyeing these for a few years now wanting to pull the trigger. For financial reasons I’ve never had the ability but it was so awesome to finally see a proper review on it!! Thanks jay!!

I'm interested in what the difference is if you flipped the fans on the bottom rad, and on the rear intake made to exhaust?

Nobody builds nicer liquid cooling builds than Jay

Good point about the fans blowing out hot air at you, that can be a factor. My apartment building was an old Creamery building, and my apartment was part of a walk in cooler. Even in the wintertime in Minnesota, my PC can almost heat my apartment all by itself. The 2-foot thick walls do help with this as well.

Gorgeous build & gripes on that premium of a build are absolutely warranted.

Pretty cool build. I think EK should make a fill plug like the plastic cap and then make an EK socket that fits in the logo on the plug. Kinda like a wheel lock for your car. 🤔

If you didn’t come from tiktok raise your hand 🤚🏽

I love Phil's editing and choice of music!!

So true! ... love and care of a cement mixer!

WOW, That would have saved me about $4K over the custom build I got from the land down under.

Thank you for the review. It's definitely interesting to see something like this available as a kind of pre-built.

i wanna give props to whos making those montage parts with the music. It's very nice work, the music was a great touch as well. Those walk arounds really keep me watching!

lol @ 1:47 i am shocked yet impressed none of you guys jumped on that, not even a chuckle!👍

Jay it's summertime & per the usual ... summertime you always do a lot of watercooling stuff & I personally am 10000000% here for it!!

16:31 This is why I absolutely LOVE the new Phanteks D30-120 fans. You can buy them in a reversed setup so no fan grilles are visible, and they're absurdly strong and quiet fans to boot. I installed 13 of them in my O11-D XL and it is CLEAN. *chef kiss*

"I Fix it" commercial is the best! GREAT JOB!

The way they set up the fans on the bottom red. The reason why they did it was because their whole intentiality is actually cold air being brought up from underneath. They were looking at it from a mechanic perspective where heat rises. Colder comes down so they were thinking of cold, airs the lowest point then pull from the cold air.

I've got 2 x O11 XL rigid tube builds using more traditional Singularity D150 Pump/Res combos with 3 x 360 radiators (with the top and bottom radiators being cross-flow). As Jay said he wished EK went with, I have the bottom fans as intake as well as the side with the top running exhaust. Both builds use a Phanteks D120 distro plate in the rear and I spent a lot of time and effort to ensure that the tubes in these builds were as perfect as I could achieve. There would be no world where I'd be comfortable with the state of those GPU tubes that shipped in that EK build even if the case was out of sight under a desk. Also, I don't run any solid (or semi-solid) fluids instead running clear EK Cryofuel and Corsair's XL Satin (PMMA) tubing that interacts nicely with the RGB.

This is similar to what I'm doing with my O11D-XL build, except I'm using a FLT 120 res/pump combo instead of the distro plate so that I can fit 3 crossflow 360 rads, and a 3090 cooled by the Vector² RE ABP set paired with a 5800X3D on a Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi cooled by the Momentum² Crosshair VIII Extreme Monoblock. I'm also using soft tubes with 4 quick disconnect sets, between the pump/res and GPU, between the GPU and CPU, the CPU and top rad, and the bottom rad and the pump/res.

Love the B roll... SWEET! Jay had to point out the offset, now it's bugging the sh!t out of me!

Jay, Slide an unused thin razor blade under the rog sticker on the glass and a little alcohol cleans any of the residue right off.

I absolutely love my white 011 dynamic. Best case I've ever built in

I love the (ph)fill montage. That 80s vibe man. Straight to nostalgia. Damn we’re getting old. 😂

I have to agree with you on that one tube. It stands out even more once you filled it and have it running. I would not be happy with that.

Love my EK Conquest!

12:17 Goooo... GOOOOO. VERY GOOOEY!

OK, those were some pretty sick synthwave beats while filling the loop..

I noticed the off-angle tubing before Jay even said anything about it, lmao. That would drive me nucking futs, especially for the price of this PC build.

Love the front panel waterblock

It's amusing seeing this recommended to me after the EK fallout videos from you and gamers nexus.

Jaye, EK put the fans that way so you are pushing hot air out of the case, it makes a big dramatic difference to the rest of the parts in the case that are not water cooled. I have 3 Noctua fans pulling air in and 6 pushing air out through rads and the temps are much lower on my SSD/RAM/MB than they were in my previous build that pulled air in through the rads. For the most part the three fans flow as much air as the six fans on rads. Jay, you should try it before you bash it. If you are pulling air in through the bottom rad and then passing that heated air through the top rad it will negate some of the benefit of having two rads. The better option is to flip all the fans and pull nice and cold filtered air from the bottom and top and using the waste heat to warm your components to nice and toasty temps, this is going to demp on how high you run the fans but if you go for silence the air coming out of the rads can easily be over a 100. If you have a work of art sitting on a desk the desk should be large enough to not be on top of the work of art, otherwise you need to buy a desk before you buy the work of art. Don't put a Lian Li 011 case on the floor!

Before you removed the internal packing foam, I already noticed the tube is not horizontal. This tube is front and centre that is hard not to see it. Your grip is valid for this high end product. This off horizontal plane tube is even more noticeable after the tube has fluid in it and the RGB fans are on. Probably it won't be that noticeable if there are no other tubes nearby, but there are three more tubes adjacent, this off angle one is very disconcerting.

legit review of a sponsor of your show. Thanks for your work

I'm excited. In the process of building my second computer. It will be the first time water cooling and painting a pc. But I think it will look so cool when it's done.

I love this IFIXIT accouncement. Jay you keep building everything you can. Video about the sim racer machine.

I happily rocked your tshirt on my first day at a new job today! collected uniform during the day, but was asked what the logo was, and 2 of my new team had recongised it already!

That loop-filling B-Roll was sick.

I use the Mystic Fog in both my builds. One build is a daily and has never had fallout, the other only gets run 1 time a month or so and has severe fallout that dose not pickup even if I run the build laid over 90° with D5 at full speed. As for the offset fittings I use lots of them in both my builds. The offsets make it so much easier to align the tubing in both directions.

Man I love the iFixit segments 😂😂

I would love to watch Jay fix this build Offsets, Fans placement, color scheme see if the temps improve.

seriously stunning bit of kit very impressive !

I wouldn't be able to stop myself from flipping those fans and ordering the offsets and getting the correct version of software on there and tuning the unholy hell out of it. Thanks, Jay!!

Jay at 3:47 : "Nobody got time to RTFM" Jay at 11:17 : "HOW DOES THIS WORK?!"

16:00 thats why my pc is across the room from me, so im only getting warm from myself, quite handy here while summer temps are hitting the 90's

I like the odd tubes. I like the fact that it's off centre.

I use normal coolent. The same bright green juice I use in my car.. It looks really good all lit up bright green. Temperature stays just fine.

I purchased a prebuilt EK system at the start of the pandemic in a panic when my system died. I usually build my own but I didn't want to have to hunt for everything during a pandemic. I have to say it has been amazing. The water cooling is perfect. Their customer service is amazing and that LianLi case is such a pleasure to work in. DerBauer really designed it right. I see myself keeping it a very long time for future builds. It's very sturdy.

I got mystic fluid as well and yes, it did fall out. Now its more clear than cloudy..

Love watching you water cooled rigs review, you putting them together etc... But even tho i want to i can't justify the risk of making one myself.

That's a fantastic looking build for a pre-built and has given me the inspiration for going custom loop, just gotta stop spending all my money on the Grandkids!

Tbh the hot hair hitting ur hands is good especially in cold weather or countries. I love it when i set my fans up like that during winter xD

The ifixit sponser drop is gold!

I've been using Mystic Fog in my build for about 3 years now and dont have an issue. 3 years without maintenance before needing to drain it because I was upgrading my rig, and my waterblocks are as clean as when they were new. Its great stuff.

That tube offset was the first thing i notest. I 100% agree with you that they should have fixed that.

I built a setup similar to this a couple years ago (5950x and 3090 Ti) and ran it the same way they have this set up. My house is old and not well insulated and gets pretty hot in Oklahoma summers and never had a problem. That computer has since been given to a friend who also has not had an issue with it.

Looks good. I have the same case and setup in white but I'm kind of over big cases. I really wish we could get a mini-ITX motherboard with 10Gbe and Thunderbolt so I can make a mini-ITX loop.

Phil that was a banger montage music combo. Well *fart noise* done

What's great about these Lian li o11xl cases and O11D XL cases is they are now being sold with the distro plates on the right side of the motherboard or for the bigger cases they sell the distro plate on the front of the case. Plus some motherboards are selling cooling blocks for their vram and cpus. I've seen these set ups for the EK's & MSI boards and the Bitspower for the vram only on the ROG Rampage IV Extreme board. Needless to say I think these boards will be more common practice as most that want to watercool their system just simply don't know what all to buy waterblock wise, fittings, reservoir, rad, and pump wise to go with. But making these distro plates with pumps installed helps. Finding a motherboard that already has the vram and cpu waterblock built in also helps, so now you're down to fittings, tubing, rads, and fans which before you know it kits of actual good fittings, rads, and tubing will come as bundles. Although since your bitspower vs barrow video I've swapped all my gold bitspower (except the true brass reservoirs) for barrow fittings. Plus I just got my new favorite motherboard Asus ROG Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial even though it only holds up to 11th gen intel cpus I'm okay with that because it looks great in my Lian Li O11Evo XL . Also the GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS Xtreme WATERFORCE mobo fully cools everything from the ram to the left and from the 1st PCIE 4.0 UP. I guess Asus and GIGABYTE had the same idea and there's not much of a difference other than the looks.

I wonder if the bottom positive pressure (blowing from the inside out) is to prevent dust intrusion from the bottom. One thing I notice is that you get more dust and fuzz and dog hair and whatever closer to the floor. Pulling from the bottom is going pull more of that into the case and make it dirtier, Pushing out prevents that.

Imagine a world were proprietary RGB Headers and software didn't exist and you didn't need 30 different programs to change the color of your rgb products. Man that sure would be nice.

I'll admit, this makes me want to get into custom watercooling again. Then I remember I stopped doing custom loops because I no longer have the time or energy needed to take proper care of a custom loop, and go pet my NH-D15.

11:52 this was the most intense retrowave cyber filling a tube with liquid experience I ever had

I enjoy you content and giving us the truth of what's out there. Building a gaming pc is soooo out of my wheelhouse of knowledge and I've been looking to update what I have but paying 7k for something that still needs work I guess a new pc is not in my future.

Bottom Radiator Should be mounted to pull and top radiator should be mounted push pull with the side fans intakeing aswell.

Its hilarous for me, that guy who builds customs for that many years don't know, that negative pressure is actually good. They can even put side radiator as out. In that configuration, with those rads you can run them daily on 800RPM and everything will be cool. making any intake will put a lot of dust into your system, cleaning rads in that situation sucks. Just look how guys from Extreme Hardware do their builds.

JAY! Your laisey sousin was so helpful this video.

Awesome job man

THAT is a beautiful rig.

yess!!! more water-cooling at last

Love that Wave Saver track. Any montage builds in the works? Appreciate the look at that premium build along with its "quirks and features."

those ek prebuilts do seem pretty legit. if i didnt want to go thru efford of a build id probably buy from them. the fact they use lian li cases another bonus

Nice job. Yes I would like to see more pre builds. Never tried water cooling. Very neat though.

I've seen it dozens of times, but the iFixIt spot is my favorite.