Planning my next loop - Critique?

[ZarosTenjin]

Hello LTT-Splooshers,

 

I finally decided on what direction to go with my second loop and new case. Of course i will do the usual and asking for opinions and critique about it.

A few things first that i know will come up:

• I do prefer the look of a bayres more than that of a tuberes thus why i am building with that
• I will buy extenders for the case that the bayres wont be long enough for the 90° downward fitting
• I forgot the fans in the 'drawing' they will be there no worries and they will be Noiseblocker SP120's i already own
• I am being very generous with the etc costs but i do not own any fitting with a 45 or 90 degree angle

 

So without further ado heres my plan:

 

Parts(Color codes make sense later...):

1x Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 (78.99€)

1x Alphacool NexXxoS ST30 240mm(blue , owned)

1x Alphacool NexXxoS XT45 240mm(blue , 52.99€)

1x Liang DDC-1T+ inkl shoggy sandwich and Alphacool SilentBox + Acetal top (orange+pink, owned)

1x Alphacool NexXxoS GPX - Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 M01 (green, 73.99€)

1x Alphacool NexXxos XP³ Light - Acetal (grey, owned)

1x Monsoon Series Two Dual 5.25 Reservoir - Matte Black (purple, 56.99€)

Various Fittings extenders tubing coolant and other etc (red outlined (fittings filled with light blue), 75€)

 

Aaaand heres the 'drawing' to give an idea how i am planning things to work out:

http://i.imgur.com/YEtPlDn.jpg

 

Possible tight fits:

Definitly the way from the 45mm rad to the bayres, but i think it should be doable with lots of testing and a selection of angled and non angled fittings at my disposal

 

So any tips, tricks, advice, critique or opinion on my plan? Shoot away!

 

- Zaros

[Fragsa1]

What size tubing were you planning on using?

 

The 45° fitting on the top 240 to the CPU could be difficult if you plan on doing Push. (i.e.The fans will be in the way.) Pull may work with a 90° to the bay res. (edit: this is assuming you're doing top exhaust)

 

If you were willing to give up the bay res you could do a 360 rad. For me that's such an advantage of the Arc Midi R2

 

Edit: Also will your PSU (+ cable bends) be able to fit behind that new drive bay placement, it seems fairly close?

[ZarosTenjin]

Thanks for your opinion!

 

What size tubing were you planning on using?

 

The 45° fitting on the top 240 to the CPU could be difficult if you plan on doing Push. (i.e.The fans will be in the way.) Pull may work with a 90° to the bay res. (edit: this is assuming you're doing top exhaust)

 

If you were willing to give up the bay res you could do a 360 rad. For me that's such an advantage of the Arc Midi R2

 

Edit: Also will your PSU (+ cable bends) be able to fit behind that new drive bay placement, it seems fairly close?

 

 

I plan on using 10mm/13mm ID/OD tubing i think thats (3/8")/(1/2") in imperial.

 

I dont see where the problem will be with the fans. As it makes no difference if i mount the fans above or below the rad for exhaust... if all things fail i still have straight compression fittings and leftover 90° ones as well. And since the mounting holes are offset to the windowed panel i dont expect any clearance problems.

 

Applying the 120mm fan space per part rule and given the two parts i'm cooling i have a whole 240mm/30mm(thick) radiator extra to give me room for OCing. I dont think giving up on the offset for a triple rad is needed.

 

My PSU is 160mm long and if all things rip apart i can route the cable through the drive cages side as i only plan on using 2 of the 3 available caddies. Kinda forgot about my harddrives i will be sing 2x 1TB 3.5" drives and 2 SSDs on the back of the motherboard tray.

 

 

Another info: I'm using an i7-3770K stock speed processor for my system and since i haven't even scratched it computingpowerwise there are no OC plans for it at all.

 

-Zaros