Finally finished upgrading my multimedia/living room pc upgrade from sff to mff with watercooling.
Originally, I had built the system sff in an ssupd meshroom v2. As you can see from the pictures, i was continuously adding more fans in an attempt to get temps and noise under control; i ended up cooling the 5800x3d with a 240mm be quiet aio and deshrouding the asus prime 9070xt to cool it with case mounted noctuas; still, i had to run the fans pretty fast just to keep the cpu in the low 70's while the gpu ran in the mid 50's to low 60's with a hotspot kissing the low 80's while gaming in 4k. I knew the issue was that, despite all the fans, my components just didn't have enough room to breathe, so i finally bit the bullet and decided to upscale.
I upgraded to a lian li a3 with dual 360x30 heatkiller rads. While i had originally planned to run 3 360 rads (with the third mounted to the side panel where the only the 3 120mm fans currently remain), i had only ever previously worked with hard tubing and was struggling to get enough length of soft tubing to keep the panel removable without it kinking when the panel was closed. I threw an alphacool core block on the gpu, an optimus signature v3 on the cpu, and a corsair block on the nvme. Additionally, I upgraded the cpu to a 9850x3d and swapped mobos from an asus proart to an msi mag x870i edge ti. The irony of running an atx mobo in a small form factor case and downsizing to an itx when i increased the size of my case is no lost on me.
Becasue of my original plan to cram 3 rads into the case, I added some stilts to the case feet so i could mount the fans for the bottom rad externally and, as the new mobo has a fan integrated into the io heatsink, i mounted a rear intake fan externaly, as well, so as not to interfere with the mobo fan's access to air. The case exhausts through the top rad and front panel as it will be sitting behind my tv with just the front panel sticking out from the side and i didn't want hot air building up back there.
Finally, because the ram is situated so far up on the mobo, i had to go with a 120x15mm fan at the end of the top rad so as not to impact it; while i know this is not ideal for cooling, I'm confident that the system will prove more than sufficient for the tdp of the components, especially with both the rad being fed by the fresh air from the three 120's on the side panel and the case having enough positive pressure that i wouldn't be surprised if it compensated for the reduced cfm of the thin fan (i don't know if this is how it actually works, but it makes sense in my head).
I have yet to boot it for the first time as I like to throroughly leak test my systems before i power the rest of the components; although it held air without any pressure loss for over an hour, i'm still going to let the pump circulate the coolant (dp ultra) for a few more hours before i close it up and hook up my peripherals.
And yes, the angled tube across the top drives me crazy, too, but i've been up all night putting this together and didn't notice unitl i stepped back to take pictures. I don't have the energy to measure and cut new tubes, right now, so that'll have to be a project for another time...
Attached are pictures of the new build as well as of the orignial meshroom build from whence it came.