Water Cooling Pump Inner Diameter (Help Needed)

[coollll068]

Hi my names Ethan and on this pump that i bought it says "supports any 12mm tubing" and that's weird because 3/8th tubing isn't 12mm its around 10mm so this raises a question 

 

https://shop.ekwb.com/ek-ddc-3-25-laing-ddc-3-25

 

Will this work with 3/8id 1/2 outer tube and also where can i find some good tubeing. I got some from home depot but im left to be dis pointed of their quality 

[W-L]

Hi my names Ethan and on this pump that i bought it says "supports any 12mm tubing" and that's weird because 3/8th tubing isn't 12mm its around 10mm so this raises a question 

https://shop.ekwb.com/ek-ddc-3-25-laing-ddc-3-25

Will this work with 3/8id 1/2 outer tube and also where can i find some good tubeing. I got some from home depot but im left to be dis pointed of their quality 

 

Usually most use a pump top with those or a pump res combo unit but as for you can stretch it over the bards. One thing however do not use hardware store tubing it will leech plasticizers into your loop and clog your waterblocks. Something like Primochill advance LRT won't have that kind of problem.

[coollll068]

Usually most use a pump top with those or a pump res combo unit but as for you can stretch it over the bards. One thing however do not use hardware store tubing it will leech plasticizers into your loop and clog your waterblocks. Something like Primochill advance LRT won't have that kind of problem.

Thanks so should i get a pump top or no ? https://shop.ekwb.com/ek-xtop-ddc-plexi-original-csq

[W-L]

Thanks so should i get a pump top or no ? https://shop.ekwb.com/ek-xtop-ddc-plexi-original-csq

 

With a pump top it will let you adapt to using fitting to the pump instead of the barbs. If your budget allows for it the D5 vario or PWM version are very well regraded pump the DDC following then closely.

[coollll068]

With a pump top it will let you adapt to using fitting to the pump instead of the barbs. If your budget allows for it the D5 vario or PWM version are very well regraded pump the DDC following then closely.

yea.. im a hs student and i drained my bank account on this pc i have the price of a car in this pc so for the extra 20$ ill probably do it. I was thinking about going for bitspower fittings because they match my green color scheme. Is their any fittings you know that are good for the price per performance ?

[W-L]

yea.. im a hs student and i drained my bank account on this pc i have the price of a car in this pc so for the extra 20$ ill probably do it. I was thinking about going for bitspower fittings because they match my green color scheme. Is their any fittings you know that are good for the price per performance ?

 

If you can find them in stock for compression fittings swiftech isn't bad, another is EKWB but they don't have the color selection like bitspowers.