Water Cooling Custom loop noob

[steeno78]

Hi everyone,

                      I need a bit of advice on doing a custom loop for the first time, at this point, I'm only looking to cool my 5900x CPU, but will later water block my Zotac 3090 also.

So I bought a second-hand case a few weeks ago that came with an XSPC water cooling loop pre-installed, I bought a Corsair hydro water block for my AMD processor as the one on the system was for Intel.

filled the loop with purple corsair fluid and everything was fine.

now I moved on to the next phase and bought the Thermaltake Core P5 and planned on using as many of the parts from the original build as I can ie fittings and hydro block. I would like to replace the original hoses with hard-line hoses for a better finish, but I have realized I have no idea hove I find out the sizes of the hoses already in there to get the equivalent. I assume the measurement is the outside and inside circumference of the tube but I'd only be guessing.

I've bought a stand-alone water pump and a separate helix reservoir for the build, both use g1/4 connectors.

so basically the only thing that confuses me is how to work out the hard-line I need to use.

 

[aledsav1]

you will need different fittings for hard than soft, so basically just lookup your current pump/res etc fittings size g1/4 or whatever it is and get those but for hard tubing and then get the right hard tubing that fit your new fittings

[steeno78]

Ok so this is the pump and reservoir I bought, was thinking the pump should be mounted at the bottom of the case with the res just above. then the rad and fan assembly mounted just to the right, keeping most of the components pretty close.

like this 

 

here are the parts I choose:

 

https://www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-cooling/reservoirs/tubing-reservoirs/alphacool-reservoirs/21484/alphacool-eisbecher-helix-250mm-reservoir-blue

 

https://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/p/Bitspower-D5-MOD-TOP-S-Model-G1--4-inch-Plexi_48653.html

[SorryBella]

31 minutes ago, steeno78 said:

was thinking the pump should be mounted at the bottom of the case with the res just above. then the rad and fan assembly mounted just to the right, keeping most of the components pretty close.

like this 

Mounting order doesnt matter, as long as its a closed seal.

[steeno78]

Ok so the build I want to look like the above but the version I'm building will be more like a sleeper pc, there won't be as many lights and stuff. I'm solely going for the water cooling to keep temps down and noise as low as possible on my rig. I have seen this:

 

https://www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-cooling/gpu-water-blocks/gpu-full-cover/fullsize/29719/alphacool-es-rtx-3080/3090-reference-copper/carbon-with-backplate

 

It is listed as compatible with the Zotac GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity, 24576 MB GDDR6X but my GPU is the OC edition.

Looking both cards up on TechPowerUp, both cards appear to have the same PCB except mine is the overclocked version, so I'm assuming the cards aer the same and that block will work on mine also?

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/zotac-rtx-3090-trinity-oc.b8606

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/zotac-rtx-3090-trinity.b7934