New Water Loop Kit

[CorruptedBloby]

Hey, I have been having some issues with my Cooler Master AIO as it looks like its almost leaking, so i wanted to get a custom water loop since ive wanted on. I am on a pretty tight budget and was wondering what kit i should get. I was looking at this EK-Classic Kit P360 D-RGB (https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-classic-kit-p360-d-rgb), and was wondering if this was a good kit and if it would cool my i9-9900k well. One issue is that it is expensive, and i have no clue if there are cheaper kits or if its cheaper to get the parts separately, as i was saving my money for other stuff. Any help/recommendations are appreciated. If anyone wants to help me figure out what the weird yellowish liquid on the inner part of my fans of my current cooler master aio is, let me know and ill start a separate thread.

[LIGISTX]

17 minutes ago, CorruptedBloby_Owen said:

Hey, I have been having some issues with my Cooler Master AIO as it looks like its almost leaking, so i wanted to get a custom water loop since ive wanted on. I am on a pretty tight budget and was wondering what kit i should get. I was looking at this EK-Classic Kit P360 D-RGB (https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-classic-kit-p360-d-rgb), and was wondering if this was a good kit and if it would cool my i9-9900k well. One issue is that it is expensive, and i have no clue if there are cheaper kits or if its cheaper to get the parts separately, as i was saving my money for other stuff. Any help/recommendations are appreciated. If anyone wants to help me figure out what the weird yellowish liquid on the inner part of my fans of my current cooler master aio is, let me know and ill start a separate thread.

Why do you say its almost leaking? It should either be leaking.... or not leaking. AIO's are typically pretty reliable.

 

Custom loops are not cheap at all. The EK kit is the cheapest your going to get uncless you go SUPER UBER cheap and buy "crap" from allibaba or something. For reference, the fittings in my loop alone cost almost 150 bucks. CPU block was 70, GPU block was 120, each rad is ~90. Tubing was 20, kill coil is ~10, pump/res was 170. Then over 120 in fans..........

 

Custom loops are fun and exciting, but they are not really a "low budget" thing. I wouldn't recommend it unless you know what your getting into, and you understand its "not really worth it". I am about 700 deep in my setup, but its a large hobby of mine, and with the amount of rad space I have my PC is dead silent at all times which was my goal. Not a cheap goal, but it was my goal.

[CorruptedBloby]

19 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Why do you say its almost leaking? It should either be leaking.... or not leaking. AIO's are typically pretty reliable.

 

Custom loops are not cheap at all. The EK kit is the cheapest your going to get uncless you go SUPER UBER cheap and buy "crap" from allibaba or something. For reference, the fittings in my loop alone cost almost 150 bucks. CPU block was 70, GPU block was 120, each rad is ~90. Tubing was 20, kill coil is ~10, pump/res was 170. Then over 120 in fans..........

 

Custom loops are fun and exciting, but they are not really a "low budget" thing. I wouldn't recommend it unless you know what your getting into, and you understand its "not really worth it". I am about 700 deep in my setup, but its a large hobby of mine, and with the amount of rad space I have my PC is dead silent at all times which was my goal. Not a cheap goal, but it was my goal.

I didnt really mean cheap, i just dont want to go crazy. I also dont plan on watercooling my gpu at the moment anyway. by almost leaking, i mean there is some weird liquid building up on the inner edges of my fans that are on my radiator, and thats bad because my fans are underneath my radiator. I'll make another thread about it.

[LIGISTX]

2 hours ago, CorruptedBloby_Owen said:

I didnt really mean cheap, i just dont want to go crazy. I also dont plan on watercooling my gpu at the moment anyway. by almost leaking, i mean there is some weird liquid building up on the inner edges of my fans that are on my radiator, and thats bad because my fans are underneath my radiator. I'll make another thread about it.

If there is buildup on the fans themselves, I would assume that is oil from the bearings. If the AIO was leaking, it would be from a fitting on the radiator it self or at the block. I doubt its leaking....

 

If you don't plan on putting a block on the GPU, in all honest water cooling just isn't worth it. But, if you do go that route, I think the EK kit is actually a really good option.

[CorruptedBloby]

38 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

If there is buildup on the fans themselves, I would assume that is oil from the bearings. If the AIO was leaking, it would be from a fitting on the radiator it self or at the block. I doubt its leaking....

 

If you don't plan on putting a block on the GPU, in all honest water cooling just isn't worth it. But, if you do go that route, I think the EK kit is actually a really good option.

good to know, but why would there be so much oil on the outer ring of the fan, like the housing?

[LIGISTX]

4 minutes ago, CorruptedBloby_Owen said:

good to know, but why would there be so much oil on the outer ring of the fan, like the housing?

Hmm, I would assume oil. If it was actual cooling fluid, I would expect it to not be on the fan. I would expect it on the radiator itself. The only place water can come from is the fittings themselves.

[CorruptedBloby]

22 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Hmm, I would assume oil. If it was actual cooling fluid, I would expect it to not be on the fan. I would expect it on the radiator itself. The only place water can come from is the fittings themselves.

weird. also, i will prolly cool my gpu at some point down the line, so should i get the water loop kit for now? i feel unsafe with this cooler as coolermaster support is bad.

 

[LIGISTX]

51 minutes ago, CorruptedBloby_Owen said:

weird. also, i will prolly cool my gpu at some point down the line, so should i get the water loop kit for now? i feel unsafe with this cooler as coolermaster support is bad.

 

Sure, its a fine option. When you eventually add the GPU, you will want to add another radiator though just FYI. So hopefully your case can support a couple rads.

 

Also, in all honesty a notua air cooler is just as effective, and no risk of water at all... NHD15 actually outperforms many water coolers.

[CorruptedBloby]

yeah, my case can hold multiple rads. also good to know

1 hour ago, LIGISTX said:

Sure, its a fine option. When you eventually add the GPU, you will want to add another radiator though just FYI. So hopefully your case can support a couple rads.

 

Also, in all honesty a notua air cooler is just as effective, and no risk of water at all... NHD15 actually outperforms many water coolers.