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She lives! Everything seems to be in order, no leaks after about an Hour and a half, thanks for all your help, everybody

from what i've been reading the kill coils don't really seem to do much, simply keeping bacteria from surviving long, the kit comes with a biocide and corrosion inhibitor that should murder any algea that'd be fixin' to muck up m'loop. didn't think about screws, but I think my case actually came with some big long'uns, and the kits says it comes with mounting screws, so I think i'm good? I don't think i'm using rotary fittings, just the Darkside compression fittings that come with the kit, plus a few extras, though, couldn't you just use them like regular barbs, as long as you get yourself some clamps and forgo the outer-ringy-screwy-thingy? ball valve sounds like a good idea, i'll add 'er to the list

yep, thought of that, the kit comes with 6FT of tubing, so that really aught to be more n' enough for my purposes, and i've gotten more fittings for the GPU waterblock

so i'm interested in watercooling, plan on buying some crap to try putting together my first loop, but I have no idea what the hell I'm doing, there's so goddamn much stuff, but, i think i've got everything and i'm pretty sure it's all compatible with my shit, but I could be wrong, so please, those of you who'd be willing to impart thy knowledge, assist this one. Muh 'puter Cpu: Ryzen 3900X, oc'd to 4.3 Ghz Motherboard: Gigabyte x570 Gaming X RAM: some 32gig 3200 mhz sticks, no idea what brand, not gonna bother to look GPU: Gigabyte 2080TI windforce OC 11G, apparently it uses a close to reference layout of the bits under the cooler PSU: Fractal design Ion+ 860 Watt 80+ platinum shit I might buy DAZmode watercooling kit Heatkiller IV GPU block plus a tubing cutter, and a PSU jumper, some more fittings and one of those EK leak tester dohickeys. So, am I getting adequate stuff? does any of it simply just suck? am I simply just making the entirely wrong choice here?

i would like the one of the Excalibur keyboards because i'm just beginning to get into building my first gaming rig and i have't gotten a keyboard yet

thanks for the help

So i'm fairly new to the whole "build your own PC" shindig (but i've wanted to for quite awhile) and i've been writing up a list of the various things that i need, but i've been stuck on the GPU, specifically deciding between dual Nvidia GTX 960s in SLI or a single GTX 980, which would give me more bang for my buck (depending on which flavour i purchase)?