Help With choosing components for liquid water cooling build

[Hurricane_hilo]

I am thinking about building my first custom water-cooled PC but I don't know which components are good options/brands that won't cost me an arm and a leg.  

That's the PC build not including the water cooling components I already have the storage so don't mention it. 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WHvxgB

I want to water-cool the CPU and GPU and use soft tubing (as it's my first custom loop) and I want to use one 360mm rad if possible as I would like to stay under 500$ for the water-cooling components. 

 

edit: I already have fans for the radiator.

[Guille.R]

23 minutes ago, Hurricane_hilo said:

I am thinking about building my first custom water-cooled PC but I don't know which components are good options/brands that won't cost me an arm and a leg.  

That's the PC build not including the water cooling components I already have the storage so don't mention it. 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WHvxgB

I want to water-cool the CPU and GPU and use soft tubing (as it's my first custom loop) and I want to use one 360mm rad if possible as I would like to stay under 500$ for the water-cooling components. 

 

edit: I already have fans for the radiator.

I'd recommend u going EKWB it isn't the cheapest but is pretty ok and it isn't the best quality but it's also ok. If u don't mind spending some more and like RGB u can also go with Corsair stuff (i mean EKWB also has a ton of RGB but corsair has icue so...) Both and EKWB have a configurator so u can easly do it there. The 500$ budget is a problem if u want to go first hand and use well EKWB or Corsair, so if u want to keep that budget u should probably go with something like Alphacool. That said i wouldn't recommend u going with custome watercool with that CPU-GPU since the CPU is pretty easy to cool down (u don't even need an AiO, i mean even a NH-D15 would be overkill for this CPU) and the GPU is a pretty beefy one but not really needs watercooling. 

[PDifolco]

58 minutes ago, Hurricane_hilo said:

I am thinking about building my first custom water-cooled PC but I don't know which components are good options/brands that won't cost me an arm and a leg.  

That's the PC build not including the water cooling components I already have the storage so don't mention it. 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WHvxgB

I want to water-cool the CPU and GPU and use soft tubing (as it's my first custom loop) and I want to use one 360mm rad if possible as I would like to stay under 500$ for the water-cooling components. 

 

edit: I already have fans for the radiator.

The build is ok but it'll badly cooled with only one 360 rad that's barely enough for the 3080 (I know, I had one on a 360 rad!), you need  another one, even a 240mm will do

What pump and blocks will you use ?

 

[ChrisLoudon]

1 hour ago, Hurricane_hilo said:

I am thinking about building my first custom water-cooled PC but I don't know which components are good options/brands that won't cost me an arm and a leg. 

Hi buddy,

 

Unfortunately, custom loop water cooling will not only cost an arm and a leg but probably an eye ball and kidney too. But hey-ho, you've got 2 of each!

 

EKWB are my go-to guys for water cooling components. They're are relatively pricy but they've got pretty much everything for any contingency.

 

My starting point is always the case.

 

If you want to ease yourself into custom loop (especially hardline) then I would recommend a case that supports a distro block. These are typically 'case-specific' and when fitted, line up perfectly where rads, cpu and gpu blocks are situated. I have builds in both the o11 Dynamic and Hyte Y60 which look great although here in the UK the Hyte corner distro plate isn't available yet so not sure if I'll get 1 or not.

 

With regards to your specific build, as @PDifolco mentioned, a single 360 rad probably isn't going to cut it. That being said, if all you want to is to ease yourself into working with fluid in your PC, give it bash with soft tubing and a single rad (just don't OC anything) and take it from there.

 

If you're anything like me, you'll want to get into hard-line pretty quickly but this is where you'll need a few spare internal organs to fund the addiction.

 

I got it bad!

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, Hurricane_hilo said:

I am thinking about building my first custom water-cooled PC but I don't know which components are good options/brands that won't cost me an arm and a leg.  

That's the PC build not including the water cooling components I already have the storage so don't mention it. 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WHvxgB

I want to water-cool the CPU and GPU and use soft tubing (as it's my first custom loop) and I want to use one 360mm rad if possible as I would like to stay under 500$ for the water-cooling components. 

 

edit: I already have fans for the radiator.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6kHMCd

Cheaper board, rams, and a psu with a 10 year warranty

 

What is the goal of this loop?

Soft tubing suggests its performance oriented rather than aesthetics

 

Even if you throw a bunch of cooling at the 7800x3d it wont matter due to the abysmal ihs design and the 3d cache as an extra insulator, besides youll need a board like the b650e taichi lite with an eclk gen for overclocking x3d and there aint much headroom for oc either due to thermals

 

And the gpu would probs only see oc benifit with a shunt mod + voltmod

 

 

Performance cooling is pretty cheap since all you need is a pump with a high h max (some higher power aquarium pumps can accomplish this) and a massive car radiator, though lots of diying will be required, and i have given a crack at this myself but im just too lazy to get it up and running even though it only needs a block and its done so my loop has just been sitting there for over a year, only cost around 20$ to build with a cheap evap rad (get a water rad instead you wont regret it) and a 107 aquarium pump (6m hmax, 5000l/h flow iirc) alongside some hoses and some janky half assed "adapters" to adapt between tube diameters (literally just bottlecaps with holes in them plastic welded to the hoses), though youll need an aluminium block otherwise youll need to run abit of antifreeze to mitigate galvanic corrosion