BUILDING THE SYSTEM

Since i will be needing a high-end gaming rig soon (for some of my projects) i decided to make a real system this time over by mounting the Z590 DARK motherboard by EVGA (together with an Intel Core I9-11900k), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti OC Lab Edition graphics card by HOF, Elite Aurum 360 D-RGB AIO liquid cooler by EK Water Blocks, Dark Power Pro 1200 power supply unit by be quiet!, Sound Blaster AE-9 Hi-Res sound card by Creative, Rocket 4 Plus M.2 NVMe SSD by Sabrent, PREDATOR Apollo 32GB 4GHz DDR4 RAM kit by Acer and the MX500 4TB SATA III SSD by Crucial inside the ELITE SHARK CA700 by Sharkoon.

Obviously i started my build by mounting the PCI expansion slots mount and the vertical GPU mount.

The EVGA Z590 DARK is more like an E-ATX motherboard which means that the rubber grommets are almost useless (Sharkoon should had made this case 4-5cm longer).

Then i mounted the EK Water Blocks Elite Aurum 360 D-RGB which as you can all see even with 6 fans in push and pull leaves just enough space for the motherboard and the RAM modules (you can put a radiator up to 70mm in thickness up there).

Mounting the be quiet! Dark Power Pro 1200 and the HOF GeForce RTX 3080Ti was next and as you can see there's also plenty of room left afterwards.

Unfortunately, by using the vertical GPU brackets you can't use any other tall cards other than the GPU itself so since i also needed to install the Creative Sound Blaster AE-9 i had to use the classic spot instead (a short video of the complete system should already be up in both YouTube and TikTok).