hard vs soft

[kwblauwster]

hi everyone

 

i'm wondering about something.
soon (after exems) i'm gonne build my first computer and i'm planing oon watercooling it. 
what i'm wandering about is what is better. using soft tubes and you see mostly or hard tubes. what is less leaking and what is better in terms of preformance? 

 

blauwster

 

soft:

 

hard

[pummetje]

there is no diffrence in performance

 

hard tubing looks better imo

but you need diffrent fittings and you need to bend the tubes yourself

its a little more complicated

[Lord Pantaloons]

Soft: easier/cheaper

Hard: expensive/difficult/overdone

[tryphaa]

It's not as easy as which one you choose. Hard Acrylic tubing is harder to bend, and you need Hard Tubing Fittings, and generally they are both the same leak wise. If it's your first time WC'ing, just go for the standard soft tubing.

[PingPangbv]

Hard tubing and fittings for hard tubing is waaaay more expensive and more difficult to work with, like tryphaa said, if it's your first time watercooling, go for soft tubing and save yourself some headaces and some money.

[VSG]

Actually if you bend the acrylic yourself, hard tubing can be just as costly if not cheaper than soft tubing since you will save on the angled adapters. The only thing is it takes practice so the first time around you will be needing more tubing than necessary. The plus side is that you can buy in bulk from regular manufacturers like McMastercarr and Omega.

[Thecrazyswede]

Acrylic is a ball ache to get well but looks so goddamn good.

 

soft tubing pros is cost and ease of mounting.

[gatecrasherlok]

Stick with soft tubing for your first dip into water.

[B NEGATIVE]

hi everyone

 

i'm wondering about something.

soon (after exems) i'm gonne build my first computer and i'm planing oon watercooling it. 

what i'm wandering about is what is better. using soft tubes and you see mostly or hard tubes. what is less leaking and what is better in terms of preformance? 

 

blauwster

 

soft:

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hard

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How much ability do you have? Are you willing to invest in a heatgun and forming kit for the acrylic?

 

Cost is moot,acrylic is actually cheaper without the tool cost factored in.

 

As this is your first loop,go for the traditional tube and work up to acrylic later,you will do many changes of loop run before you settle,easy enough with tube but acrylic needs you to form each part for each change.

 

If you are dead set on acrylic then check my Hardline Workshop in this forum

[Aviince]

kinda disapointed in topic title thought it was a tacho thread not happy.