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Curiosity and help on watercooling choices

So, I live in Brazil so most ease of access items from websites such as Newegg and Amazon are mainly not options, albeit if extremely necessary I can pull some strings and get my friends to mail me light weight things such as plastic parts and tubes.
Now I currently have the Carbide Series™ Clear 600C Inverse ATX Full-Tower Case. Which albeit being a full tower feels rather small... Perhaps due to the huge amount of plastic from the inverted ATX. So I plan on acquiring the Thermaltake View 71 Tempered Glass RGB Edition Full Tower Chassis. 
My current build is,
Operating System
            Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
        CPU
            Intel Core i7 @ 3.70GHz    58 °C
            Coffee Lake 14nm Technology
        RAM
            32.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1500MHz (16-18-18-36)
        Motherboard
            Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 (U3E1)    40 °C
        Graphics
            ROG PG278QR (2560x1440@165Hz)
            LG ULTRAWIDE (2560x1080@60Hz)
            4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (ASUStek Computer Inc)    49 °C
        Storage
            111GB KINGSTON SV300S37A120G (SATA-2 (SSD))    36 °C
            3726GB Western Digital WDC WD40EZRZ-00GXCB0 (SATA )    38 °C
            223GB KINGSTON SA1000M8240G (SATA-2 (SSD))
            9313GB Intel Optane+9.0TBHDD (RAID (SSD))
        Optical Drives
            No optical disk drives detected
        Audio
            Realtek High Definition Audio
And I really want to change from my current H150i Pro RGB cooler to a more complete custom watercooling system.
Living here in the summer gets my PC rather hot so a new case with better done cable management and more cooling should be good.

I will listen to tips, cable management tricks and such.
Thanks for the help!

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so you want to build a loop? then do you want to do just CPU or GPU too? my recomendation for blocks are the Heatkiller IV ones from Watercool as they perform pretty much the best, look better and arent especially much more than the EK copy pasta blocks. 

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I recommend the EKWB Fluid Gaming lineup of products. It's all aluminum so its really cheap and light and it supports full GPU and CPU loops or just one, as well as they support hard line tubing but avalibilty of it may be patchy as the only place I've seen it only on the ekfluidgaming website. Also i know aluminum watercooling loops may cause some fear for galvanic corrosion but that wont occur since there are no mixed metals in the kit (galvanic corrosion occurs in mixed metal water cooling loops)

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I’d get the fluid gaming aswell. But would need to confirm the gpu model first. 

 

And I don’t know off hand what that case can support but you can add rads to the kit as I wouldn’t run a single 240 or 360 with a gpu and cpu loop. 

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I am unsure still. Is it worth doing CPU and GPU? 

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Yep still worth it. Depending on what the case can fit. 

 

But it I don’t think they expanded their fluid gaming to cover custom cards. 

 

So you would pretty much be building a regular loop. 

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the point of building a loop? more performance or more silence. what is a budget?

due to the fact you have a strix card if you decide to cool both CPU and GPU you need a copper block for you GPU. so you can not go with aluminium loop such as fluid gaming (cheap and easy to install) EKWB had a massive discount around x-mass on most of theit waterblocks

other option is to either swap your strix card to FE card or get a second hand gtx1080ti Founders edition PCB (such as FE card, EVGA SC, ect) and do a fluid gaming setup.

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More performance, noise doesn't really bother me at all I just want to output the max performance possible on my machine. 
Also living in Brazil most secondary card sources aren't really trustworthy and the only ones I found are double of the price that I paid for my current card so.
The difference of performance between aluminium and copper, would it be better for me to get both CPU and GPU copper blocks?
Is there any other full tower case that is certain to comfort a full loop? Budget wise, saving up I can eventually get a good setup the main problem is conversion ratio I'd say my max budget would be around 800 USD for the watercooling itself. (Of course price isn't everything so finding a balance between performance and price is my main issue)

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1 hour ago, Oginen said:

More performance, noise doesn't really bother me at all I just want to output the max performance possible on my machine. 
Also living in Brazil most secondary card sources aren't really trustworthy and the only ones I found are double of the price that I paid for my current card so.
The difference of performance between aluminium and copper, would it be better for me to get both CPU and GPU copper blocks?
Is there any other full tower case that is certain to comfort a full loop? Budget wise, saving up I can eventually get a good setup the main problem is conversion ratio I'd say my max budget would be around 800 USD for the watercooling itself. (Of course price isn't everything so finding a balance between performance and price is my main issue)

According to many reviews of aluminium kits performance difference is minimal, for 800 usd you can build more or less anything you want. Go for copper (or nickel plated) blocks, from ekwb or any other known brand. can save some money on fittings if you go hardline (use something like barrow instead of bitspower or ekwb), if it is a soft tubing build it does not really make much difference.

Get the case first and do some research how to fit all the rads and radiator size, pumps and the rest after order it all. More rads - less noise.

if you can not be bothered get something like this add another rad, some maching fans gpu waterblock and 4 more fittings and enjoy your lower temps

 

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CPU: i7 8700K, Motherboard Asus z390i, RAM:32gb g.skill RGB 3200, GPU: EVGA Gtx 1080ti SC Black, Storage: samsung 960evo 500gb, samsung 860evo 1tb (M.2) Case: lian li q37. Cooling: on the way to get watercooled (EKWB, HWlabs, Noctua, Barrow)

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Well if you want max performance, water cooling is the best option. That price point will get you a lot. Won’t have to cost that much though. 

 

Cant say what case to get as there are a million and it would be best to just search by what you think you need. Like using Newegg’s criteria search. 

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11 hours ago, Oginen said:

 NVIDIA ASUS Geforce GTX1080 Boost Clock 1835MHz, 8Gb GDDR5X, Aura RGB, Auto-Extreme,DVI/2-HDMI/2-DP,ROG STRIX-GTX1080-A8G-GAMING.
I am unsure still. Is it worth doing CPU and GPU? 

Yeah with that card you couldn't do a cpu and gpu loop as they only support FE asus 1080's

Do i Recommend Ryzen? Yes. All of the Yes.

Main Rig Specs - BIG BOI

Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.9Ghz

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2x4Gb HyperX DDR4 @2133

GTX 1070 Founders Edition

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500Gb SanDisk Sata SSD, 1Tb 7200RPM Hdd

EVGA 500 Watt 80+ Bronze

EKWB A240

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