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Hope the text is okay, english is not my first language. I will treat myself with a new computer soon. This time, I was thinking about water-cooling it because of the high heat GPUs and CPUs give off nowadays. It would be my first water-cooled-system. I am struggling with 2 issues though on which I find little to no information and the information is conflicting as well. Maybe you guys can give me some insight from your experiences? Any advice is very much appreciated. 1. Maintenance / Longevity. I want to do this build as a “one-time-thing” and would be quite annoyed If I have to do any maintenance at all (like changing the water or the tubing or anything like that). I used my current system for a good 5 years and I am planning to do the same thing with this build. The system will be staying inside (protected from UV-light) and completely stationary. I will be using only high-quality components and water of course. Can I expect the water-cooling to run for 5+ years maintenance-free without leaking or clogging by itself? I know that I have to get the dust off the fans from time to time and stuff like that, but is more maintenance required for water-cooling than with an air-cooled system? 2. Noise of the pump in idle I am a bit of a silent-computer-fanatic and don’t want to hear the system at all while in idle. With air-cooled-system this is no problem (my current system is basically silent unless I am very very close to it) with high-quality low-noise fans and a noise-insulating case. The pump will be running on idle of course, and if I the pump makes some noise, than it doesn’t matter how quiet the fans are. I don’t find any information online about the noise of the pump unfortunately. People seem to be only testing whole systems, preferably under load and I don’t need this information since I know air-parts will be silent as they are now. Maybe some of you have experience with this or had similar concerns as well? Other factors like costs are not really an issue. I am most concerned with the noise and the maintenance / longevity. Thanks again, as I said, any shared experience is very much appreciated. Edit: If you can reccomend a specific pump that is really quiet, that would be very good of course

Water Cooled Laptop, MSI GP66 This linked video is a bit of a TLDR and shows the most current setup of the laptop and radiator stand. There are some gameplay clips at the end and all games are on ultra with RTX on and DLSS on quality in 1080p because that is what my monitor is. The end shows pictures of the cooler in it's different configurations over time. Towards the end of last year I found myself trying to cut up my IETS GT500 cooling pad to replace the fan and make it more quiet. While doing this I came across a series of water cooled laptop videos from LTT and a few others. After finding out about the XMG laptops and their Oasis cooler shortly after, I knew I needed to give it a shot. Cost wise the XMG laptops weren't it for me, I thought I could out do them with a better preforming laptop and a DIY water loop and radiator setup while keeping it as practical if not more. From here, I settled on an MSI GP66 11UH, the most powerful gaming laptop in it's class holding the record of (at the time) 14,057 and a BeQuiet Pure Loop to keep on the idea of keeping things as quiet as possible. Way too many attempts at bending 1/4" copper pipe to match the stock heatsink, 2 broken stock heatsinks, and more SnBi solder than Id like to admit, I had my first iteration of the water cooled GP66 together. The first version used a remote radiator connected by amazon QDC which were soon replaced by Koolance QDC which are nothing short of amazing. I kept with BeQuiet fans and experimented with a few fan variations. Starting with 2 Pure Wings fans and then 4 in a push pull setup I stuck with 4 for a time mainly because the fans helped keep the radiator from getting dinged up in a backpack (did I mention I was taking this with me to work?). Eventually I dialed this in to just 2 Silent Wings 3 fans with higher static pressure. With the water cooling set up, games ran at 15-18* less with no sound from the fans whatsoever. Cinebench gained about 3000 points from air cooling, air cooling still worked perfectly, and I set the now world record score of 14,091 on Time Spy for the 11800h/3080 combo! Time went on and I was hit with a realization, this all started because I wanted a more quiet cooling pad, so why haven't I made this radiator into a cooling pad yet? I ran to MicroCenter and grabbed something I thought would work. Let me take a second to say, the MicroCenter guys in Tustin are troopers; dudes did what they could to help with this madness and not one cracked a laugh when I said I was water cooling a laptop. With some minor modification I rigged up the radiator, reservoir, and voltage regulator to the stand. It still worked, but it degraded the cooling significantly. because there was no bottom if I used the laptop in bed a blanket would block any and all airflow. Regardless of placement, the grating on the top further suffocated the fans trying to blow through them. This reduced the cooling gains from -18* to -10* at best. After giving it some time I flushed the Go Chiller coolant I was trying out (didn't even give it a week and it was causing more liquid to come out of the QDC because of gunking them up) and 'borrowed' my wife's old stand she had for a chrome book. Using zip ties at first it was obvious this stand would be the way to go. The top was unobstructive and the bottom kept the intake fans from being blocked. These two benefits weren't the only things, the cooling actually improved compared to the remote radiator. Keeping about 10mm for the fans to have good airflow, the cool air from the fans (cooler than the laptop at least) was blowing into the intakes of the laptop and helped take off another 2* from when the radiator was remote. This wasn't enough for a substantial boost in benchmarks, but it was enough to keep Cinebench from breaking 92* at the same overclock which had previously been (very slightly) throttling. The final tweak that was made to reduce the profile of the stand was to replace the 4 Pure Wings fans (Burnt out the Silent Wings turning the voltage controller too high on accident) with the Phanteks T30 fans. These beastly fans push more air than the push pull BeQuiet fans and are still unbelievably quiet. Lastly, I also 3d printed a bracket for the Koolance fittings, because they are actually bulkhead fittings because they just weren't amazing enough to begin with. With this setup most games will never break 60*. The only game I have that gets anywhere near 70* is the Dead Space remake. Doom Eternal plays at 60* GPU and 61*CPU (73* 81* on air); Metro Exodus (Enhanced Ed) plays at 59* GPU and 54* CPU (79* 75* on air); and Dead Space plays at 55* GPU 65* CPU (64* 87* on air). On all games the overclock and undervolt need to be dialed back on the CPU to prevent crashing when it gets too hot.

I'm getting ready to order parts for a build, and I'm trying to decide on what size fans and radiators, as well as their orientation, would provide optimal cooling. The case is a Corsair 7000D Airflow, I have attached a photo of Corsair's fan/radiator compatibility graphic. The PC will have a 7800X3D, with a corsair XC7 CPU block, and a 7900XTX with a Corsair XC7 GPU block. I plan on using Corsair G1/4" fittings with 12mm Corsair hardline tubes. I can provide more information if needed. Also, I'm aware that air cooling would be adequate for this build, but I've wanted to build my own custom water loop for a long time.

Hi! I recently have been looking into hardline water cooling for my build. It's really complicated with what parts work with what and how each of them work. I have been looking at the EKWB CPU blocks and the Corsair Hydro X radiators, fittings, and pump/res. Here are the parts I have chosen for my loop: CPU block: EK-Quantum Velocity - AMD Nickel + Plexi https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-quantum-velocity-amd-nickel-plexi Pump/res combo: Hydro X Series XD5 RGB Pump/Reservoir Combo — White https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Custom-Cooling/Pump-Reservoir/Hydro-X-Series-XD5-RGB-Pump-Reservoir-Combo/p/CX-9040004-WW Radiator: Hydro X Series XR5 240mm Water Cooling Radiator — White https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/CORSAIR-White-PC-Build/XR5-White/p/CX-9030007-WW Tubing: Hydro X Series XT Hardline 14mm Tubing — Satin Transparent https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Custom-Cooling/Tubing/hydro-x-hardline-tubing-config/p/CX-9059005-WW Fittings: Hydro X Series XF Hardline 14mm OD Fitting Four Pack — Chrome https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Custom-Cooling/Fittings/hydro-x-fitting-config/p/CX-9052007-WW Here is a sketch of what I want my loop to look like. I want to make sure that everything fits and works together. I also attached an image of what I want it to look like from the side. Here is my current specs list: Ryzen 5 3600 Asus ROG LC240-W ASUS ROG STRIX B550-A Crucial Balistix 16GB 3600Mhz 2TB HDD 256GB NVMe M.2 SSD RTX 3060 Ti FE Lian Li O11 MINI-W Viritcal mount for O11 MINI Seasonic SGX650 Corsair QL120 (3 now, 6 more are in shipping) If there are any more parts or accessories that I need please let me know! Also, please tell me if something wont work or if I should change something due to a lower price/better performance!

I am etremely new to building rigs, can anyone help me find some good water cooling on amazon?

I have a custom water block on my CPU and my GPU and I am still running temps around 82-83 degrees. It idles around 30 but once I get into a game it throttles up to that temp. It is also giving me really bad frame lag on my games with even low end or medium settings. I just don't know what to do at this point. Anything helps. Thanks. i9-9900k 2070 Super 32gb G Skill Ram

Hello guys, I built my first pc last week and I have some questions regarding my case airflow. I have 2 fans in front of my case, one 140mm (pre-installed on my case) and one 120mm, and I have one exhaust fan at the rear which is placed on my air cooling radiator (Silverstone PF120). My temps on idle are: -CPU (9400F): 34-36c -GPU (1660S): 35-38c -MB (ROG B365-G): 34c -M2 SSD (970 EVO PLUS): 44c -SATA SSD (860 EVO): 32c -ROOM TEMP: 30-32c I guess *CASE: Silverstone RL07 Is there anyway I can make my airflow better? PS: I live in Iran and due to US sanctions I cannot order most of the parts you guys use in your computers. Those are all I could get and it costed me double or triple of what you would normally pay for.

Was fixing the computer for my boss and his cpu was every time 100 degrees and then I came across this and I am wondering if I put a New o ring in and clean it up coud it still work

Hi, I'm looking to watercool my Zotac Gaming 3090Ti and can't find compatible waterblock, at least on a first few pages of google. Could you recommend anything? Also, how many 120mm equivalent radiators would I need to cool 2 of these? 360mm would be enough? I don't care to cool them to near-ambient, I just need them not to overheat (<70C) under 24h load @ ~90% non-OC power. Background: I'm building a workstation (at work) and was given R9 3950X and Asus CH VIII Formula MoBo and 2 of these cards, but with stock air cooling they simply do not fit. I figured it'd most likely be cheaper to watercool them and fit 2 onto one CPU+MoBo combo, rather than building (and buying parts for) a second rig. The workloads we have can easily be handled by 8x connections, so TR platform is not needed. Any help would be appreciated.

I just saw this video uploaded by DIY Perks today in which he makes a PS5 Slim, and I wanted to share it with you gamers because it's just amazing. In the video he shows the prosses of how he manufactures the case and custom water block as well as the temperatures he has recorded.

Hello all, I am having trouble bending PETG tubing. I have the correct insert I think. When it starts to get pliable I start to bend it. Am I doing it to soon? How long should I let it heat up once it starts to get pliable? I have been giving it more heat once it gets to that state. I am afraid if I let it get to hot it will start to bubble. The tubing is Alphacool 16mm OD 13mmID. I have included pictures of my faluers so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I have just finished doing a custom loop GPU (3070TI) and CPU(I7-12700K) both are currently over clocked just a tad and I’m currently playing hogwarts legacy at max everything just wanted to know if these temps are good I’m in Hawaii so it’s pretty hot in the house at most times and I don’t have AC right now as well if I’d guess the rooms probably anywhere from 68-75 degrees while I’m playing but that’s a rough estimate I also have the fans only at about 7-800 RPMs at the moment but anyways just needed the advice thank you in advance

Hi I was wondering if anyone know of any distro plates that would fit in this case, I like the look of them and wasn't sure of anything that would fit or not. Thanks!

So im looking at getting this pump res combo from alpha cool because it has a pedistall and it is pwm controlled. Im sorta asking for a sanity cheque so is there anythign wrong with it? Are they better options that fit my requierments. i need 2 for a tower 900 build. https://www.alphacool.com/shop/ausgleichsbehaelter/roehrenbehaelter/eisbecher/21542/alphacool-eisbecher-d5-250mm-acetal-inkl.-1x-alphacool-eispumpe-vpp755-v.3?c=20600

Hey Yall, My Question is basically the title, I am wondering if replacing my Be Quiet! Dark Rock 4 air cooler with an AIO water cooler (Such as a Cosair H100i) would help my computers thermals in hot 90F+ weather. Where my computer is I could get and put in a small window AC unit but i am wondering if this would be a better or more long term solution. Please lend me your thoughts, Thanks! PS: The CPU it would be cooling is a Ryzen 7 3800x

So I am building a watercooled PC next year and now am planning that one. Here are the parts I chose: (sry some things are in German) 1. Water cooling 802,04 € Phanteks Enthoo Primo black with window 229,00 € Alphacool NexXxoS UT60 480mm 109,00 €x2 218,00 € Noctua NF-F12 PWM 16,32 €x8 130,56 € ModMyToys 4-Pin PWM to 8x 4-Pin PWM Splitter 5,98 € EK Water Blocks EK-FC980 GTX, Acetal 99,84 € EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy EVO 62,31 € EK Water Blocks EK-D5 Vario X-RES 140 129,62 € EK Water Blocks EK-RES X3 pipe 250 (204mm) 17,84 € EK Water Blocks EK-RES X3 Multiport TOP 14,84 € EK Water Blocks EK-RES X3 12/16mm 40mm 4,44 € Mayhems Pastel Ice White, coolant, 1000ml 17,44 €x2 34,88 € Alphacool HF 13/10 fitting G1/4 - Deep Black 5,38 €x5 26,90 € Alphacool HF 13/10 fitting 90° turnable G1/4 - Deep Black 6,98 €x3 20,94 € PrimoChill PrimoFlex Advanced LRT tubing, 13/10mm, 100cm transparent 6,84 €x3 20,52 € Alphacool HF L-connecter G1/4 AG to G1/4 IG - Deep Black 3,90 € Alphacool HF doubleconnector 1/4", black 2,48 € Phobya 2 way drain port G1/4 - gerändelt - Black Nickel 8,99 € 2. X99 Upgrade 963,68 € Intel Core i7-5820K, 6x 3.30GHz 385,75 € ASUS X99-A/USB 3.1 251,85 € G.Skill RipJaws 4 black DIMM Kit 16GB DDR4-2400 CL14-14-14-34 156,81 € Corsair Professional Series HX850i 850W ATX 169,27 € Is this good? What would you change? Please let my know!

Budget (including currency): $5,000+ Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: It should easily do anything that I ask it to do! Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Valve Index VR Other Details This project has been over a year in the making. AMD Ryzen 9 5950X EVGA FTW 3 3080ti Asus X570 Crosshair viii Hero (WiFi) 32GB G. Skill Trident Z Neo 16-19-19-39 1 TB WD Black SN 850 NVME boot drive 2 TB Samsung 980 Pro NVME 2-2 TB Seagate Barracuda HDD in Raid1 EK Quantum front and active back GPU water blocks EK Quantum Momentum CPU water block Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL with vertical GPU mount EK Quantum Reflection front distribution plate 3- Hardware Labs Black Ice 360GTS 30mm radiators 10- EK Vardar 120 mm RGB fans F*** Ton of Primochill RSX fittings, rotaries, elbows, extensions etc. 1- EK Quantum 90* rotary elbow Lots of Primochill 1/2" rigid tubing CableMod custom CPU, GPU, 24pin Primochill VUE Powder Blue Uncountable hours of stress, annoyance, time spent waiting for a GPU, blood, sweat, tears, and of course utter and complete despair. To be continued...