Hardpipes

[adithyay328]

Hey guys! So, I was thinking about water-cooling my PC. Now, I definitely would prefer to have hard pipe tubing, so, I have a couple questions:

 

1: I'm a newbie to the water cooling field. So, do you think I should be doing hard pipe, or should I just do flexible tubing?

 

If the answer to the first question is "no, do normal tubing" then you don't have to answer the following questions. Otherwise, please try to answer the following questions.

 

2. When I upgrade to a new GPU or anything really, can I re-bend the tubing so that it'll accommodate the new part(assuming that it changes the layout)?

 

3. Can you have curved runs on a hard pipe setup?

 

4. So, if I messed up on the tubing angles, can you reheat and try the bend again.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Nonco]

Hey guys! So, I was thinking about water-cooling my PC. Now, I definitely would prefer to have hard pipe tubing, so, I have a couple questions:

 

1: I'm a newbie to the water cooling field. So, do you think I should be doing hard pipe, or should I just do flexible tubing?

 

If the answer to the first question is "no, do normal tubing" then you don't have to answer the following questions. Otherwise, please try to answer the following questions.

 

2. When I upgrade to a new GPU or anything really, can I re-bend the tubing so that it'll accommodate the new part(assuming that it changes the layout)?

 

3. Can you have curved runs on a hard pipe setup?

 

4. So, if I messed up on the tubing angles, can you reheat and try the bend again.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

If its your first waterloop you should start with normal flexible tubing and not the hard tubing. You can always upgrade to hard tubing later on, its just a bit more difficult to do hard tubing for your first encounter.

[SonoDanshi]

In general, don't ever reheat hard tubing. It's really not expensive for several meters of the stuff, so if you do decide to go for a petg run and mess up, then just throw it away. That sort of covers points 2 and 4. As for curved piping on hard lines - yes, yes you can.

[itsmyjobtoknow]

Hey guys! So, I was thinking about water-cooling my PC. Now, I definitely would prefer to have hard pipe tubing, so, I have a couple questions:

 

1: I'm a newbie to the water cooling field. So, do you think I should be doing hard pipe, or should I just do flexible tubing?

 

If the answer to the first question is "no, do normal tubing" then you don't have to answer the following questions. Otherwise, please try to answer the following questions.

 

2. When I upgrade to a new GPU or anything really, can I re-bend the tubing so that it'll accommodate the new part(assuming that it changes the layout)?

 

3. Can you have curved runs on a hard pipe setup?

 

4. So, if I messed up on the tubing angles, can you reheat and try the bend again.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

1. Its best recommended that you do flexible tubing...not it is possible to do hardline tubing right off the back as I have done it..

2. You can try...but its very hard to do so 

3. I don't understand the question

4. As long as the silicon tube is still inside...then yes but mind you it won't be as perfect as getting it on the first try..