SirSilver

thanks guys, i think i will just go ahead with it after retesting with the loop put together, wet orings , secured fittings n all that , i only saw a very small drop in pressure after 25 minutes, like half a notch on the pressure meter. after a whole night, 4-5 notches.

Hi dude , am doing my first custom loop too :) It does involve a lot of head scratching to be honest and am starting to reconsider if it was a wise move on my part lol Just take your time and read up before spending any money, there is no hurry, my pc has been underconstruction for around 2 weeks, am doing a little at a time trying to get it all right. Try to plan things out on paper, make a list of parts you need and what your budget can afford, check reviews and try to check specs to see if there are compatibility issues. It might be a bit of a lot to do on a first time build to be honest, you could start off with an affordable All in one cooler then do the custom loop later on once you are sure the system is actually fine

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Hi guys This is my first time ever building a watercooled PC and am doing hardline PETG. I got my loop set up and tried to test it with the EK - Leak tester, the air pump thingy. I ended up with a loss of a bit of pressure after an hour of testing, so i spent quite a while searching for it. Here is what i did. i checked all fittings and tighted them ..................same leak removed the fittings, lubricated the orings with a drop of distilled water and tiny tiny amount of dish soap, seems the tubes go in properly now. retested ...... leaking again, but seems to be much slower, but still lost a bit of pressure after 30 mins, the for the tester says thatit should keep pressure for at least 30 mins to be considered a good loop so i went around my loop , capping off one link between each component at a time to try and isloate the problem to one component or tube and retesting. it seems to me that the leak is coming from the pump reservoir combo.... I have removed all fittings from it , and recapped all the ports on it , did the water / dish soap thing on the orings on the little stoppers before putting them back on securely, but its still leaking air slightly , it dropped one notch on the meter after 20 mins. Am not sure what to do , the pump / reservoir doesnt even have any fittings, am not sure where the air is going, i plugged the three holes on the top, plugged 2 of the 3 holes on the bottom , and connected the tester to the last remaining port. Just to be sure , i also tested the tester itself , connected it to a short bit of tube and capped the other side , just to be sure its not the tester driving me mental. i even unscrewed the plexiglass bit of the reservoir and lubed it with water/ dishsoap and rescrewed it back in. am not sure what to do, can someone more experience than I give me some advice ? pump reservoir is : EK-Quantum Kinetic TBE 300 leak everything in the loop is from EK , 16mm Petg tubes , am also using that little black plastic insert thing that EK reccomends for PETG tubes <https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-hd-petg-insert-12-16mm-10pcs> , i seen a lot of people say they are useless etc, but they were so cheap i added them in anyway.

Hey everyone I got a USB 3.1 gen 2 connector on my mobo that my case's front pannel is supposed to plug into, however , due to the location of the connector on the mobo, am going to have to bend the cable rather sharply to avoid other stuff in my case like my pump. Am both worried about bending the cable like that and second it looks butt ugly. I am guessing I need a 90 degree male to female adapter for the connector but I couldnt find it anywhere, the closest i could find was that Asrock made them for people who bought one of their motherboards due since they were all complaining about the design of the board putting it in a weird location. The problem is that they didnt make the adapter available for resale. Can anyone give me some ideas? I attached a picture from another person having the exact same issue and also here is the closest thing i could find, however its for usb 3.0 not 3.1 :( any ideas ? am sure modders must have had to deal with stuff like this

hello thanks for the replies :D I managed to sort it out !! i had extra standoffs given to me by corsair , i experimented and screwed in one of the extra standoffs into each of the 3 standoffs i was having trouble with. Seems the added lenght makes it perfect and level enough that now all 8 screws are securely in place the middle one seems to be for guiding the mobo into position so i guess am ignoring that one

Hello everyone , first post :) I am starting my first PC build in almost a decade since my previous one , am a little bit rusty and am having some unexpected trouble getting my mobo installed. Am using a corsair 1000D case and a Rampage Extreme Omega Mobo. The problem is that I can only screw in 5 of the 8 screws for securing the motherboard to the case. The screws just wont reach far enough to meet the threads of the standoffs already mounted in place by Corsair. The cause of this seems to be the motherboard's backplate which covers the part of the board that those 3 screws are supposed to go , basically rendering the motherboard a few mm thicker in that area , thus the screws are just too short to reach the threads they were supposed to go in. What should I do ? the mobo seems very securely held with those 5 screws....... Do i really need those extra 3 ? Or should i try to buy longer screws and put them in ? Or should I try to remove the mobo back plate ? (something am really not looking forward to doing since am a bit of a noob )