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I'm buying a A240G water cooling kit for my 8700k and my 1080 ti. I want a second 120mm radiator to put at the back of my case to help keep temps down. The included pump in the kit is a resivoiur and pump combo and is very small and I think very weak. It's called the EK-ACR SPC-60 PWM and I can't find it anywhere online except in the kit. So I don't know the specs. Can someone tell me if this can handle a CPU, a GPU and 2 radiators? Thanks! Kit link (includes pump mini-info thing: https://www.ekfluidgaming.com/ek-kit-a240g

I'm looking to custom loop my sg13, and am looking for a pump that fits onto one of the hardline tubes if it exits (kinda sth like this that acts as a junction in the loop instead of like a station in the case of a pump plus res or a rectangular pump: http://ttpremium.com/product/pacific-g14-digital-temperature-sensor/). I'm looking to do this because I have very limited space in there since I opted for an ATX PSU (at that time it was for the lolz but now its f*cking me over due to its size), and I'm trying to avoid installing a pump/res combo outside of the case for aesthetic reasons. I did some search on EK's site but I didn't know what I was looking at because this is my first time custom looping. Anyone knows sth like this? Please and Thx!

So I´ve been hearing some weird sounds coming from my recently installed 240 Liquid Cooler. It worked fine without any weird sounds the first day. So I contacted Cooler Master Support. This is what I wrote: So during black friday I got myself a Master Liquid 240 (non-pro). After I installed it it work perfectly for the rest of the day, but when I woke up the next morning to turn on my computer I could hear a weird water sound which I think is coming from the pump. It sound like something between gurgling or dripping. I´ve checked and I don´t see any leaks at all and the computer boots and the temps are like usual. around 30C idle. What could be the problem? Thanks in Advance! /Sigge I figured it could take a while for them to respond and I was wondering if anyone else had encountered something similar with Cooler Master´s Liquid Cooler, or any other brand for that matter?

Anybody ever seen a pump decide to run backwards? Mine has done so and it pushing water slowly the wrong way around the loop. Previously (for a year or two) it had run very well in the correct direction.

Hi. I have an EKWB custom loop with this water pump. The pump was mounted as specified by manufacturer, horizontally, using an uv blue liquid from EKWB. The pump was running all the time at it's lower speed, as the CPU is very cold (30-45 degrees C in load), so it was not abused in any way. Everything was running fine for about 6 months, but two days ago I've noticed the pump was not working at all after system startup. After a few restarts and connect/disconnect from PSU the pump has started, but today It had the same problem. I've tried 4-5 restarts and again to disconnect and reconnect the pump, but it was not working. So I thought to shake a little the system and kick the pump (with the system turned off). After power on the pump was started normally! What do you think, the pump is dying or it was just some air or debris stuck inside it? Thanks!

Hi guys, I recently redid my water cooling loop and have some issues with my pump. I have a Raijintek RAI-PM5 pump and I am almost sure that it cannot cope with the new number of radiators. My loop is: pump > thin 240 > thick 240 > GPU > thick 480 > cpu >reservoir. The gpu temps are alright, but the cpu is not getting enough coolant. I know that the RAI-PM5 is pretty bad and I wanted to upgrade for a while but I don't know if I shoulg go for a single D5 pump or Dual D5 setup. Also, if you think that a laing setup instead of a D5 one is better, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I just transported my PC and after turning it on the fans revved up to max speed and it started overheating. I shut it down and turned it back on again and my BIOS told me my CPU was overheating to 84C and climbing. I shut it down immediately and checked the inside of my PC. I found nothing wrong, pump was firmly on CPU, thermal paste was recently changed and all connections were re-seated and there were no leaks. I even shook my PC around to try and get rid of air bubbles as I thought they may have formed while the PC was on it’s side in the car and was carried upside-down from the garage to the house. I tried turning it on again and it did the same thing, fans max speed and CPU very quickly climbed to 90C (in the bios, no Windows or anything) before I shut it down. I tried to unplug and plug the pump back in while the PC was on and in the BIOS and it seemed to work for a second because the water pump speed jumped from N/A to ~200 RPM and my temp dropped from ~80C to 40C in a matter of like 5 seconds but the speed went back to N/A and the temp shot back to 80C before I shut it down. Unplugging and plugging the pump back in did make it work again after that. I was trying to power-cycle the pump to maybe get rid of any air bubbles. The pump is powered off a SATA connector. I’ve tried many connectors. I think my pump may have died. The light on the front of the pump still comes on white though. Help is appreciated. If the pump is really dead then I am going to use the opportunity to just go full-out watercooling.

Hey! So for the first time i'm going to water cool, it's been a while since my current system has been build in 2011. What i'm considering is in the following link (Scroll down at the page, or click on Cruorzy replied to a topic) Do you have any tips? Now i'm considering to get this pump instead (glass) https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-xres-140-glass-revo-d5-pwm-incl-pump Are there any major differences and Does this mean i can't go crazy and let parts get 70°C? Seems a bit crazy, no idea what this exactly means. Thanks!

I'm trying to build a desk pc. I wanted to do something similar to what Linus did but I wanted to use hardline, despite this being my first custom watercooling loop. I've been trying to fill up my loop and don't have my reservoir at the highest point or my pump at the very lowest. My order goes res #1 - pump - 360 rad - 360 rad - res #2 - cpu - gpu - back to res #1. When I turn on the pump, it moves water slightly and it stays there. When I turn it off, the water and air moves back to where it originally was. I made sure my pump never ran dry. Here is a picture of my loop: https://imgur.com/a/ej10i

I just put together a EK a240g kit with a extra 360mm extension last night and my pump has been making this noise since I turned it on. The noise is actually quite loud and extremely noticeable. Is it a bad pump? I even have 4mm rubber rings around the screws that are holding the pump Video link - https://youtu.be/t4PZ543hx58 Edit: Pump is connected to W_PUMP+ and is running at 2599rpm according to asus suite

So my pump has a molex and a fan wire that needs to get connected. But here is my dilemma I have 2 phanteks fan hubs that are all 3 pin and the hub then has an extra 4 pin wire that the Manuel says to connect to the Mobo CPU fan. The molex on the pump I assume I connect directly to the PSU but I was going to put the pump fan wire to the fan hub, however the pump fan is 4 pin and fan hub is 3 so... Should I buy some kind of adapter like molex to fan? Or could I connect the fan hubs 4 pin to the Mobos sys fan and use pump 4 pin to Mobos CPU fan? Or vice versa?

Hey there I have a little question about the Cooler Master Liquid Cooler 240M. The Manual does not say if i have to controll the Pump with a PWM or not. Can you guys help me out there? Thank you!

How do I lower the RPM of a fan plugged into the pump header? It's an Industrial Noctua fan that's just running at 3000rpm by default, Christ it's irritating. I've been told you can configure an AIO/Pump Header into a normal Fan Header, or at least you can control the RPM through it since it's a 4 pin input. Question is how? I am using a Crosshair Hero IV AM4 Motherboard.

Dear all, The video as attached below has sounds when i start up my pc, for the first two minutes or so until it quiets down. I have issues when i boot up my pc, it directs me to this page instead of windows.. as attached in the photo below. Thank you all.. if you can help me rectify the problem... link of problem..

So I have some water cooling parts in mind that I really like how they look and I would like to know what affordable pump or/and pump top I would need to make this work. So those are my parts: 1. Singularity Computer Protium Medium 200mm 2. Bitspower D5 Mod Kit Matt Black I was thinking about using the EK D5 PWM G2 12V DC (which seems pretty old to me) and Bitspower Premium D5 Mod Top but they seem too expensive or I don't know if that could work and if I would need a pump top with that. I need your recommendations guys.

Hi, This is my first post here so if I am breaking any forum rules please feel free to point it out, I have read the CoC but mistakes do happen! I'm currently an owner of the Evolv ATX TG case and I'm planning on doing a water cooled build in it, as it is now I only have AIO solutions for the gpu and cpu. As I'm studying at uni, time is scarse so this is a bit in the future and I know things will change but I'd like to get an idea what I'm looking for! ^^ My specs are: Corsair Hydro H110i V2 CPU-cooler Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB Intel Core i7-7700K - 8 threads / 4.2GHz (planning to overlock just a little so please keep that in mind) MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X (probably going to sell this to a friend and buy another card, which would be nice to overclock a tad) MSI Z270 KRAIT GAMING (bought from a friend and will probably change due to colour scheme) WD SSD Blue 250GB 2x WD HDD BLUE 1TB EVGA PowerSupply (PSU) Gold 850W Modular I've never done anything like this before but I would really like to try. I have googled around a bit but haven't found all the answers I needed and it is always comforting to know that someone that knows their stuff has listened to your idea before you try to execute it. ^^ So before I get going, a few basics. a) I'm gonna do a soft tube solution, starting with hard tubing felt a bit too hard for me... b) I do know of some of the problems the Evolv has with water cooling, especially the top but I've addressed this by modding the top so it is now alot more open and is filtered as well. Problems: 1. Radiators. I have read up a bit on FPI and gotten a rough idea on how it works but need to work some things out. i'm looking to buy the radiators from Alphacool (since they have more out/inlets making me able to go in on one side and out the other) and the ones I've looked at have an FPI of about 16. There are two main problems I need help with. a) I currently have Silent Wings 3 low RPM PWM fans as radiator fans and they seem to be doing fine, would these work on 16 FPI or where is the limit for them to still be functional? In addition, are there any other fans that you would recommend I take a look at that are still very silent and better? (have taken a look at noctua etc but would still like to know) b) I was hoping to mount a slim (30mm) 360 radiator top and a slim (30mm) 280 radiator front (not moving the HDDs) but for the love of me I can't figure out if this works natively or not as some people say they have modded and some said they didn't (the manual isn't that helpful either), If you have any recommendations on radiator placement, type of radiators or anything in general I'd appreciate it (with little or no modding preferably). c) The blocks for the gpu are probably gonna be nickel (as far as I know this is mainly more about looks than performance) but some rads are copper. This doesn't seem to be an issue but if I throw in gold will there be? 2. Pump. a) I have looked around but the pump still eludes me.. I would like to have a res/pump combo that's silent and as it stands now I'm buying it from EKWB and it's a EK-XRES 100 SPC-60 MX PWM (incl. pump), is this a good idea or are there better alternatives? It says it's "value oriented" so I guess there is but I have no idea what to look for since I can't find what is important, all I know is that I want it to be silent 3. General. If there are any general things you would like to add or comment on please feel free, I'm eager to hear! Lastly, I would like to apologize for any errors in my spelling, I'm from Sweden so I don't speak this language natively! Price is not an issue so please don't hesitate on that part either. Thank you in advance for your help! PLJ

Hello, I have a simple yet hard to google question. I am looking to redo my cooling loop, but I want the output to split into two outputs 1 going to the CPU, radiotor, and then res. The other going GPUs, radiator, and then the same res. Is this possible I have an EK D5 Reno pump and the ex-res 400. Like I said the input for the pump will be from the res, the output will split into two loops.

Hi guys, Im going to be bending and filling my first custom loop this weekend, and I have a question regarding priming the pump during filling. Can I use this AC/DC Molex adapter to power the Alphacool VPP-655 v2 pump instead of my main power supply during the filling process? Due to the orientation of my res/pump, Ill need to rotate the case onto its back, so itll be trickier to plug in and use the main power supply, though not impossible. The page for this product (which i already own), says 12v, but it doesnt mention amperage or any safety ratings. Thank you for any and all advice!

Hello, Im working on the custom cables for my first watercooled pc, and I ran into an area where I could potentially streamline the plugs a little bit. I have my Alphacool D5 pump that uses a molex connector (using 12v and Gnd), and a NZXT USB hub that uses a molex as well, this time using the 5v and Gnd. Is it possible, since Ive already repinned and sleeved these cables, to combine them into one Molex connector? Thus eliminating a connector that I would add to my custom power cables for that section of the case. (Please note that Im inquiring about this because I enjoy efficiency, not out of laziness!) Are there any issues that this would cause? Is it a bad idea to run multiple components from one plug? Your help and advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks! (I think this is the correct place for this question, Im sorry if theres a better location!)

Hi Guys. I'm buying parts to watercool my pc and I came accross thees two pumps: EK-XRES 100 SPC-60 MX PWM and EK-XRES 100 Revo D5 PWM Planning to watercool my GPU and CPU with a Nemesis GTS 360 rad and some Noctua fans. I am going for a silent build and I am undecided between thees two pumps. The D5 I think is a stronger pump, but maybe for my setup the SPC-60 will be enough. I am saying this because I noticed the SPC-60 is 25 DB on EK website where the D5 is rated at 33 DB. Which one would you guys go with the setup that i'm planning? Thanks

Hello guys, I have a PC with a i7-4790 cooled by a Antec khuler 650 and i've just finished cleaning out the rad fins. I had tu use a small brush and get in between th fan blades for this as I don't have torx head screwdrivers on hand. I started the system up again and the idle temps are around 60-70 C. I had plugged the lead powering the pump and fan into a chassis fan header to be able to control them since when they're plugged into the CPU fan header, the thing does what it wants and only spins up to a speed high enough to offer any degree of cooling at 70C, since I didn't want my poor cpu idling at 50 C (prior to today's cleaning) I plugged it in a strange way and it was working fine, I found that 50% is good for everything so I set fanspeed up this way and left it. I don't know what happened but now, it seems that very little heat is actually dissipated by the unit and only one tube is really hot, the other is frigid. The cores all have temperatures close to each other so I'm guessing it isn't my tim application that was bad. Also, the hot tube kinda confirms it. However, only the half of the res connected to the hot tube ever gets hot and the fins stay cold, so does the air coming out the other end. I hear water and bubbles wooshing around when I start the PC up though.. I'm really confused as to what's happening here. I also tried different orientations for the rad/fan/pump combo, different fan header and lead placement and same results. Can someone help me with this? Thanks in advance

Hello. I need some help with this. I bought an aio Water cooling some months ago. Corsair H45 hydro series. The pump noise makes a loud high-pitched and penetrating noise. so i decided to request a new one on the web where i bought it. The second one makes the same noise. I've tried to place both cpu part and radiator on any way. upside down, lateral and with the pump on the top. Does the same noise. I dont know if this noise is normal because is the cheapest water cooling kit from corsair and the pump can be cheap af. I would be really gratefull if someone know what is happening. Thanks! I share you a video:

Recently brought EKWB new aluminum water cooling kit and was almost finished completing the loop when I realized something odd. After filing the loop I removed the bridging and the pump testing cable and did not know where to plug the pump cable. It's only 2 inches long and cannot be placed anywhere close to an onboard header w/o looking awkwardly out of place. Am I supposed to use an extension cable? If so any suggestions. Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Mobo: ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero Alpha CPU: Intel i5 6600K RAM: GSkill Trident Z 16GB 3200MHz GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC

So I am planning on upgrading to a custom loop from my AIO. I need some advice for what Pump I need. As far as I know DDC is good for Head pressure, while D5 is good with flow rate. Im not sure what my build would require though. As far as tubing I would like to use PETG. Do I need to worry about what size tubing I pick 12/16mm or 10/12mm in regards to flow rate and what not. I have been sticking with EKWB products for the simplicity for now. My loop in the works, Rad: 2x EK Coolstream CE 420mm 1x EK Coolstream CE 560mm Blocks: EK Supremeacy EVO - Nickel, 2x EK- FC1080 GTX Ti - Nickel Res: EK-Res X3 400 Thanks in advance.

So I just finished building my first loop, and its all working fantastically, BUT, my D5 pump is making a fairly quiet, but noticeable high pitch noise, like really high pitch. Like, If I was 3-4 years older I wouldnt be able to hear it high pitch. Is this normal and is there any way to fix it? Changing the pump speed doesnt seem to affect it