Acrylic water cooled computer with double reservoir

[HeyImLaFong]

Hello friends:) I am looking for assistance on water-cooling my computer. I want two reservoirs (250mm) with two loops. One for the CPU and RAM, and one for my graphics cards. On the pictures I have posted you can see where I have drawn inspiration from. The colour theme is going to be black and green, exactly as on the pictures.

Here are my specs:

 

Tower: Corsair Obsidian 900D

RAM: 16gb DDR4@2400mhz 

Graphics Cards: 2x GTX 980 MSI FrozR

Processor: 5930k

Mobo: Asus rampage V

PSU: Corsair 1200i@1200 watt

 

Can someone please help me? :c What parts do I need etc?

[Benji_w]

You just need the parts to build two loops, so 2 pumps, 2 res, 2 pump tops, all the fittings and blocks and then you need at the very least 2 rads.

 

As for the exact parts I can't help you there as it's down to preference.

[FilipSebik]

You need:

Two reservoirs 250mm

LGA 2011 CPU Block

Some kind of RAM Waterblock with replacement heat spreaders

2x GPU WAterblock for GTX 980 but if the PCB is other than reference on those MSI cards, then find waterblock for this GPU's

2x Water Pump

1x CPU loop: top 480mm or 420mm radiator as exhaust, rear exhaust 140mm or 120mm rad as exhaust, 1 pump and 1 reservoir

1x GPU loop: bottom side one: 480mm rad or 420mm rad, bottom side two 280mm or 240mm rad, pump and reservoir

YOU NEED FRONT INTAKES!!! or use top radiator as intake and rear as exhaust

 

EDIT: 2 fitting for each thing and tons of tubing

[HeyImLaFong]

But the fittings? How much would I need?

[Benji_w]

But the fittings? How much would I need?

 

Can't say, you're the one buying the parts so thats really down to you i'm afraid. It's normally 2 fittings per component that isn't including 90 degree or 45 degree adapters etc.

[HeyImLaFong]

Can't say, you're the one buying the parts so thats really down to you i'm afraid. It's normally 2 fittings per component that isn't including 90 degree or 45 degree adapters etc.

 

Can you please elaborate that? I don't have any knowledge of fittings and stuff...

[Exotath]

I am just here to say that pictured build is beautiful.

[Benji_w]

Can you please elaborate that? I don't have any knowledge of fittings and stuff...

 

Ok so each component in your loop needs and inlet and an outlet, so you need one fitting per port. In the image above they are using adapters or angled fittings so they do not need to bend any tubing.

 

Lets say you are building a soft tubing water loop, you've selected your size of tubing as 1/2 ID 3/8 OD so you need compression fittings sized the same. You want to build a CPU loop so you buy the following -

1. CPU block
2. D5 pump with pump top
3. tube reservoir

so each one of those requires 2 fittings meaning you need 6 in total. The type of fittings you need is up to you, it is a good idea to buy a few fittings that are either 45 degree or 90 degree bends so you don't kink the soft tubing.

 

If you build a hardline tubing loop then the type of fittings you require will usually be normal fittings as you can bend the tubing 90 or 45 degrees to suit your needs, however in the pictures above you can see the user has adopted 90 degree fittings to make tighter bends and keep straight tubing.