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just look around yer local market place, ebay or craigslist i managed to grab a used ifi zen can for below 100 usd on fb marketplace, i did however need to buy a 5v 4a adapter & a 4.4 male to male cable for it tho

maybe try lookin for used micca rb42

not sure but its possibly due to its ddc pump not having thermal pads between pcb & alu heatsink or just bad QC on their end, so far i've only use their rads & blocks (2 years on, no issue)

imo it's not worth it, i did for my 5700x (upgraded from 3600) & 3070 in 2021 also my ambient temps are 33c (south east asia) i'm still using the same pc now, no issue you don't really need to go EK, there are other brands like bykski, barrow, corsair, alphacool etc my build in 2021

since you already have 3x 360 rad in yer current o11d, i wouldn't grab xflow rads... from reddit looks like 413 length will leave u with a few mm space

nah don't need a purge valve, my 1 year old custom loop still works fine without it if u see coolant level drop, u can always top it up... so far I only done once on my loop

asus prime ap201 jonsbo d31 mesh those are smaller case compare to most matx case

dual d5 in a single loop with 2 qdc works fine u can use the qdc as drain also

Yup, all mine looks like these when they arrive just flush the debris out of em

not sure about that distro plate pump, I know folks on reddit swap ltprka-04 cpu block pump combo to EK ddc 3.2 (4.2 is sata version)

there are other brands besides EK like optimum, xspc, alphacool, corsair hydro, bitspower, hardwarelabs, heatkiller, aquacomputer... check out sites like modmymods, performance-pcs, titanrig, dazmode (canada) reviews i normally look thru https://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=Watercooling or https://www.igorslab.de/en/cooling-reviews-en/ fittings i went with barrow & tubing i suggest epdm unless u already have experience with tube bending i usually see folks with single 280 rad undervolt their cpu & gpu, if loop is only for cpu then yer good

i would swap them with copper rads ASAP, unless ya wanna run high glycol ratio coolant (ie car coolant) cheap rads are bykski CR-RD360RC-TN-V2 or barrow dabel-20b remember to flush them

imo barrow or bykski sensors are not really precise if u compare to aquacomputer ones however the main object is keeping your components cool, if yer cpu & gpu are decently cool on max load then yer good... that said how are your fans configure; are they pulling fresh air into the case or exhausting, u can easily test it by removing the glass panel & load test (if temp drops it means yer current fan setup is not gettin enough fresh air pass yer rads) from my exp my d5 pump does dump some heat into the loop when u run them max out, my coolant temp increase by 1-2c when i max out the d5

depends entirely on OP's budget, generally i do prefer more airflow focus ones atx: lian li 216, corsair 4000d, fractal meshify c (if u can still find it), phanteks g360a or g500a matx: asus prime ap201, jonsbo d31

both pop & pop mini can use 240 aio on top the front is diff on pop (280) vs pop mini (240)