I've been fiddling with my water cooling setup for like two years now, mostly trying to find that sweet spot between noise and temps. Last week I finally landed on running my D5 pump at exactly 1000 RPM, which is way lower than I thought I'd need. I was surprised because I always assumed you had to crank these things to 2000+ to get good flow, but my CPU never goes above 65C under load now. Has anyone else found a random pump speed that just worked better than the aggressive settings?
I spent three years carefully lining up every cable with those plastic combs on my last 5 builds. Then I saw a build at a LAN party last month where the guy just used zip ties and twisted his cables into neat bundles. Looked cleaner than my comb jobs and took half the time. What finally tipped me off was when I tried to add a new SATA drive and had to cut half the combs off just to reroute one cable. Has anyone else ditched combs for something simpler?