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So I was considering moving to a custom water-cooling system, since my case has lots of rooms for radiators, and then I was considering cooling the GPU as well. So my case, the Corsair Graphite 780T, can hold a 360mm/240mm radiator on the top, and a 360/240mm radiator on the front. I was gonna go overkill and get the 360mm for the top mount, but was considering mounting as 240mm radiator on the front, so I could better cool two parts. So I've come here to LTT to ask the opinion of a more experienced PC Builder: Will I need a second radiator in between the CPU and the GPU, or will a 360mm radiator be enough to cool a Ryzen 7 3700x and an Asus RTX 2070 STRIX? Case: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Graphite-Series™-780T-Full-Tower-PC-Case/p/CC-9011063-WW?utm_source=PCPartPicker_79301&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=497986_CORSAIR US Product Catalog Ad&utm_content=Corsair&clickid=2u0WBTx16xyOUtBwUx0Mo3cgUkEW89S9wzw13U0&irgwc=1 CPU: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-7-3700x/p/N82E16819113567?Item=N82E16819113567&nm_mc=AFC-RAN-COM&cm_mmc=AFC-RAN-COM&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_source=afc-PCPartPicker&AFFID=2558510&AFFNAME=PCPartPicker&ACRID=1&ASID=https%3a%2f%2fpcpartpicker.com%2fproduct%2fQKJtt6%2famd-ryzen-7-3700x-36-ghz-8-core-processor-100-100000071box&ranMID=44583&ranEAID=2558510&ranSiteID=8BacdVP0GFs-8XcgHAHyJOqxaOWZIysrQA GPU: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/87F48d/asus-geforce-rtx-2070-8gb-video-card-rog-strix-rtx2070-o8g-gaming Signed, Snakeblood

So I am in the midst of planning my first custom loop and research/feedback online has me paranoid about having enough radiator space. I did not invest in cooling components to get the same or worse thermals and noise. So I ordered Hydro x kit with xd3 pump, 9 1,500 rpm fans, a cpu block and gpu block. I also invested in 2 360mm (30mm thick) rads and one 240mm (30 mm thick) rad. All together my loop will have about 960 mm of 30mm thick rad space. Can I expect better temps and noise for my cpu and gpu? or is more rad space necessary? If anyone has a similar build your thermals would give me a good base line. Hard to know what is good enough. I really appreciate any feedback. For reference here is my current cooling setup: Gpu: 3080ti strix stock air cooler cpu: i9 9900k. Corsair H150i pro 360mm aio.

Who has experience with or input on Bykski and Barrow radiators? How do they compare to something like the Corsair XD5? I think it may be a new product, because I only found one review for the Bykski CR-RD360RC-TN-V2 that seems to be generally positive and was posted a few days ago. I'm using a Bykski block, Bykski fittings, so if I can trust them for those parts, i can probably trust them for radiators and tubing too, right?

I have a liquid freezer ii 280 rev and my case is Corsair 5000d Airflow, the 280 rad doesn't fit at the top of my case, my motherboard is msi b550 mag tomahawk and cpu is ryzen 5 5600x at stock overclock/boost. Is it ok if i front mount my aio and should i do push or pull. please and thank you :)

I have found 2 radiators both are roughly 30mm thickness, the Leviathan from Bitspower is 29.7mm thick and the xr5 is 30mm thick. I choose the leviathan since it has 2 ports on both faces and it will help with loop maintenance when it comes to draining. If I have one of both radiators will the one rad be cooling more or less? and would the height difference be visible, or should I just go with one company for the rads?

Recently got a few rads (copper fins/brass tubes) that had been used with distilled water (and only distilled water) briefly and then were poured out and left sitting around for a long time (maybe a year total). They all have this white residue near the fittings- in the rad in the pictures I've attached, clear tubing had been left attached the entire year, and the whole tube has the same kinda white looking residue all along the remaining tubing. I got in there with a cotton swab and scraped at it, and the swab came out brown, so the residue makes the tubing and fittings look cloudy, but leaves a brown residue on the cotton swab. Could it have been from the rads themselves when any leftover water inside evaporated? My understanding is that they were barely used and just sat around in a cabinet- no way for much really to fall down into the tubes... They were used for less than a week before going into storage. Any advice or thoughts on what it is or how to clean it? My CPU/GPU blocks are nickel/copper. Was going to use distilled water/biocide in the loop this weekend. Thanks for any ideas!

Heyho, i startet to look a little into CustomLC and kida find it strange that there is no Radiator where the Inlet and Outlet are on opposing sides (like in a car/motorcycle) [at least i couldnt find some on the vendors i know] - is there a reason for why thats not a thing for PC cooling beside space? e.g. inefficient? if the case allows for the space, this would make routing easier in some cases.

Hi all, I got the Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 the other day. I was wondering if any of you owners of the case has tried to fit a 420 or 480 mm on the top of the case. Yes, I KNOW that according to Phanteks, it officialy only supports up to a 360 mm radiator on the top. But has anyone tried a 420 at least? It can fit 3x 140 mm fans there.... and also the max lenght of the mounts is like 450 mm so why would a 420 not fit? is it because of clearance issues? or because it is too wide to fit? Just curious, as I'm planning on getting a 420 mm rad to do a custom loop and I prefer to mount the rad on top. I know it's safe to mount on the front but it gets so much less airflow.... I actually prefer to have airflow from the front into all the case, since I would be puting there 8 drives on the side, and also the bottom fan mounts just suck, and not enough airflow to do a bottom intake + top & rear exhaust since there would be more exhaust airflow. Thank you all.

Hey guys and gals, Yeah, so I am wondering, what the best known Raditor is for a "Open Loop", geared towards Silent PCs. People claim that this one, the Black Ice SR2 Xtreme+ 420mm, is the best. It has a low a FPI, Fins per Inch, at 9. For operation below 800 RPM fan all the way up to 2,000 RPM. However, this thing's been discontinued. Any ideas would be great. I am nooking for 420mm, if possible. Can go lower, but not higher. Thanks Guys

I'd like to improve airflow if possible. Ever since I got a new gpu with a radiator that I had to put for exhaust at top (no space elsewhere) I noticed that the whole build gets hotter easier. The temps are fine, but the case feels warm/hot depending on the fan speeds, whereas before with a normal non aio gpu and normal fans it was fine. Maybe it's the fact that there is juts not a lot of space for exhaust on this case and the air gets trapped, heating up the whole area. This is all for the top half. This is the current layout with the airflow marked Semi recent picture of the layout. Since then I hid the blue cables behind the panel so they would maybe block less air and put 2 + fans in for intake, but I don't know if they are in optimal places, since both are next to the hdd trays. Is there any way to potentially improve the setup so the case would not heat up as much? Or do I need to look for a new one? Relevant specs + info: Dark Base pro 900 (not rev 2, the front door is always fully opened) Ryzen 3950x Radeon 6800xt Kraken x63 The fans are all 120mm CPU cooling is set to follow liquid temps. Pump is 100% always. The GPU radiator fans are set like this because they are very loud. I connected them to the fan hub instead of letting the GPU control them, because I can't use the 0 rpm mode in the Radeon driver on just the GPU without also having the radiator fans turn off, meaning 0 exhaust if it's enabled. Idle temps / game temps (1 hour of lost ark chaos dungeon and standing around) The top of the case is warm currently, but if I do something more intensive it feels hotter. The room is 26.6C atm, it's gonna get a lot worse at 30-35C in the summer. (these 2 pics below shouldn't be here, ignore them)

Hello, I need some case recommendations for my build, https://pcpartpicker.com/list/DP9JL2 (specifically one that will provide good airflow for both cpu and gpu radiators). I am currently considering the P500A but idk if it will have enough airflow. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Hi guys. I decided to make a water cooled system in a 900d case. I'd like to cool two EVGA GTX 1080 SC and one i7 6800k. For the top I planned to have one EKWB EK-Coolstream SE 360 with 3 Corsair SP 120 PWM and for the bottom one EKWB EK-Coolstream PE 480 with 4 Corsair SP 120 PWM. Now for the pump I thought about an EKWB EK-XTop Revo D5 PWM, but does this pump have enough power for such a build? Or do I need to have two of them? And for the reservoir an EKWB EK-RES X3 250. An other thing I am not sure about is the tubing. I want to do hard tubing but I am not sure if acrylic is the best choice. Or do you guys recommend PETG? Since this is my first build I would be happy if you could help me out with some tips for beginners:) Sincerly and thanks for your help MasterR8

I'm looking at rads and ive noticed the same rad but with either Quad or Dual G1/4'' ports and I would like to know the difference. Ex: https://www.amazon.com/Bitspower-Leviathan-Xtreme-Radiator-Ports/dp/B01EIS7PY8/ref=pd_sbs_147_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01EIS7PY8&pd_rd_r=M0SK8VM1Z3WPKQDGN7Q3&pd_rd_w=4tIlc&pd_rd_wg=sBIhA&psc=1&refRID=M0SK8VM1Z3WPKQDGN7Q3 vs https://www.amazon.com/Bitspower-Leviathan-Radiator-Ports-480mm/dp/B01HAKYFD0/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1488780915&sr=8-3-fkmr1&keywords=bitspower+480+rad

Does anyone know about the difference between the xflow and uflow radiators. seems to me x flow is one pass and u flow is two?

So I'm finally re-starting my custom water-cooling project. I'll be sourcing the parts over time since I don't think I'll be able to convince the wife to let me drop $500-$600 all at once. The question: What are common FPI ranges? If I'm looking for something with "low fin density" or "high fin density" what are the typical FPI numbers I should be looking for?

Sup nerds, So I'm planning on upgrading from my tower cooler to an AIO liquid cooler sometime soon and I think I just found my target. The Swiftech H320 x2. The only issue? My case front only supports up to 280mm of fans for intake so I'd need to mount this bad boy as exhaust on the top of my case. What I'm worried about though is whether or not these 3 fans as exhaust will overpower the two 140mm intake fans I have in the front and cause me to end up with negative pressure in my case. I know that they'll lose efficacy as they'll be pulling air through the radiator, not to mention they're probably static-pressure-optimized as opposed to airflow optimized, but I am still new to PC building and this will be my first step into the liquid cooling pool. Does anybody have any experience either with this AIO or with fussing over case pressure? I'd rather have positive over negative just because I'm generally lazy about cleaning dust and don't want to have to clean it out fairly often. Thanks in advance!

Hi all, Long story short I've been running mayhem's coolants in my PC for around 2.5 years. I made a mistake at the time of mixing XT-1 (ethylene glycerol) coolant, with Pastel (water) and dyes (deep red and blue) all mayhem's, the ethylene glycerol appears to have reacted with the pastel coolants which i now know are incompatible. these have left small amounts of gunk or residue within the radiator chambers. I have used 2 Mayhem's blitz cleaning kits, boiling water and wash up liquid (10+ times) and isopropyl alcohol all of which remove a little more of the red dye but seem almost ineffective against the residue. anyone have experience with removing this type of residue? I'm out of ideas. Cheers

http://www.performance-pcs.com/radiators/shopby/color--white--primer-white/radiator-thickness--30mm/? See above I would really like to have white radiators in my case to match the rest of my system. And if I can save myself the hassle of painting them myself that would be great. The only line of white rads I can ever find are the Black Ice Nemesis line by Hardware Labs. Since I rarely ever see them mentioned by the various water-cooling enthusiast YouTubers I watch, I start to doubt if they would be a good choice. The actual specs I'm looking for are rads that are 30mm thick or less, low FPI for low noise, and I would need a 360, 240, and 120. Can anyone vouch for the Black Ice rads by Hardware Labs or should I stick to a more known brand like Alphacool and just do the custom paint job myself?

So i am looking for new radiators, im looking at these two. Alphacool NexXxoS Monsta 560mm - 80mm thick - 10 FPI (i think) EK-CoolStream CE 560 - 45mm thick - 16 FPI Price difference is around 15 euros, the EK would be the "cheap lol option" I need two of either one, they will be paired with 4 x 140mm Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC- IP67 -2000 PWM each. in push. They are gonna cool an i7 6700K and a GTX1080FTW What kind of performance difference can i expect? What would you go for and why? Is there other brands of 560 radiators i should be looking at?

Hey guys, quick question about water cooling; I've got an Corsair Air 240 case, and I'm wanting to get a new water cooler. Currently, I've got an older H60 by Corsair, and unfortunately this thing is super loud. I'm looking at a couple of new options, but right now I'm leaning towards building my own loop from EKWB. I'd basically take the parts from one of their AIO Kits, buy them seperately, then buy SP Noctua fans to push air. My question is, is it worth it to buy using EKWB, or should I just go with another AIO that doesn't need any assembly?

Hello there all! Would anyone within this community potentially have of any recommendations for a mostly standard 'shaped' 240mm heat exchanger [Radiator]? I shall shape this system's other specifications, so the fittings/materials, around those of the radiator. Thickness is not of an issue, as I can simply remove the top panel face to accompany a thicker one. By standard shaping I would mean radiators not using of the Alphacool X-Flow like inputs/outputs, as I hear quite often about clearance issues with X-Flows. Thank you very much in advance! -EnergyEclipse

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

I bought primo chill radiators, which are 30mm thick. a 420 for the front and a 280 for the top or visa versa. Depends on the look and layout. now ekw recommends one of their 55mm radiators when i played with the configurator. Could i make up the cooling difference with the extra 120mm rad on the back or is the difference negligible? Its a ryzen 1700 that i'm shooting for a 3.95 to 4.00ghz oc (not going to reach the later but i can try) and the gpu will be water cooled, its a 1070 sc. I've been out of the loop (hur hur) for a while on water cooling so i got to go back to asking questions. I will be using a d5 pump so flow shouldn't be an issue. I know more surface area to transfer heat would mean more cooling but i am more curious if it would make a worth while difference.

My question is pretty straight forward. Is it okay to flush my radiators with distilled water a couple days in advance to save time for when the rest of the watercooling parts are going to arrive. Would that cause some corrosion issue? Or is it just fine? Thank you, P.S Also I apologize is this has been asked before but I could not find a clear answer to that question.

I recently got the ek240g and I was wondering if there was an alternative 120mm radiator i can add to my loop because they are not selling a 120mm radiator expansion. I also will need 2 fittings