Tubing, coolant colour etc.

[jackjayatherton]

Hi i'm in the middle of a water cooling loop which has the current specs : 

 

Corsair Obsidian 800D  

 

Samsung Internal Combo Blue ray Drive 

 

Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4*4) RAM  

 

Water cooled VTX3D HD 7970 GHz X-Edition Gpu's (2 In crossfire)  

 

Noctua Nf-F12 (2)  

 

Silent Cougar Vortex 120mm Fan  

 

Seagate Barracuda 2TB Hardrive  

 

Corsair AX1200 with Custom Braided red leads  

 

Asus Maximus Extreme V 

 

Intel 3rd generation Core I7-3770k CPU 

 

 

Total  

 

 

Water cooling Gear

 

 

Swiftech MCP655 Pump 

 

XSPC RX360 Radiator + Noctua NF-F12's (top mounted)

 

Hardware Labs Black Ice 120mm Radiator +Noctua NF-F12's (rear mounted)

 

Phobya G-Changer 140mm Radiator + Noctua NF-A14

 

EK full cover water block (EK-FC7970 CSQ + Corresponding backplates)

 

EK-FC Bridge DUAL Serial 3-Slot CSQ

 

EK-RES X3 400 Reservoir

 

Primochill PrimoFlex Advanced LRT 7/16" ID - 5/8" OD (11-16mm) : Bloodshed Red

 

 

I plan to mod the case so that It can fit a 240 rad at the bottom.  As you can see i'm using primoflex tubing (red) and clear distilled water with a kill coil and some pm nuke, I really want to be able to see the reservoir, but it's going to look odd with my colour scheme (red and black), because im using clear fluid, anyone got any ideas to get around that?

[Hazy125]

Try getting clear tubing and use some nice red coolant, I think it looks better like that anyway

[_ASSASSIN_]

Red LED in the res, will make it look fantastic if done right, although I would personally just say to go with red coolant

[Hans Christian | Teri]

After seeing what coloured coolant can do to a loop I just can't suggest that you should do that. Distilled water, coil and nuke is definitely the way to go. As for the reservoir, red LED's will get you a long way.

[helping]

No coolant. 0. completely distilled water. Use a kill coil or PT nuke and use colored tubing if you want an aesthetic effect. As others have said a small red LED strip will work.

[airdeano]

XSPC RX360 Radiator + Noctua NF-F12's (top mounted)

 

Hardware Labs Black Ice 120mm Radiator +Noctua NF-F12's (rear mounted)

 

Phobya G-Changer 140mm Radiator + Noctua NF-A14

 

 

I plan to mod the case so that It can fit a 240 rad at the bottom.  As you can see i'm using primoflex tubing (red) and clear distilled water with a kill coil and some pm nuke, I really want to be able to see the reservoir, but it's going to look odd with my colour scheme (red and black), because im using clear fluid, anyone got any ideas to get around that?

 

1. top mounted as in external or outside the case or fans in pull? using a focus-flow

fan after the radiator is non-effective.. the focus-flow is in push mode.

2. using a BIX 120 (20fpi) and low fpi XSPC and Phobya really isn't helping as the

mix of air-pressure/fan speed to cooling performance would be negated.

3. instead of three rads, just use a one simple 240 (XSPC or Alphacool fpi) and

sell the 120/140 single fan rads. more leakage points and nightmare on tube routing.

4. kill coil or biocide agent, not both..

5. sell the ek and use red tinted bitspower reservoir. LINKY

 

airdeano

[jackjayatherton]

Red LED in the res, will make it look fantastic if done right, although I would personally just say to go with red coolant

Thanks, Might try the less, the point is I don;t want to use coloured coolant

[jackjayatherton]

1. top mounted as in external or outside the case or fans in pull? using a focus-flow

fan after the radiator is non-effective.. the focus-flow is in push mode.

2. using a BIX 120 (20fpi) and low fpi XSPC and Phobya really isn't helping as the

mix of air-pressure/fan speed to cooling performance would be negated.

3. instead of three rads, just use a one simple 240 (XSPC or Alphacool fpi) and

sell the 120/140 single fan rads. more leakage points and nightmare on tube routing.

4. kill coil or biocide agent, not both..

5. sell the ek and use red tinted bitspower reservoir. LINKY

 

airdeano

Sorry my bad forgot to say will be using the nf-f12's in the internally pushing the air through, and some aeroocool shark fins to pull the air out, do you have any pull fan advise?

 

Your probably right, I'l buy a 240 rad for the bottom, do I have to be careful about the height of the 240 rad?

[airdeano]

.. forgot to say will be using the nf-f12's in the internally pushing the air through, and some aeroocool shark fins to pull the air out, do you have any pull fan advise?

 

Your probably right, I'l buy a 240 rad for the bottom, do I have to be careful about the height of the 240 rad?

 

if using the shark fins for lighting effects, ok. but understand they may also be a

hindrance to the NF-F12s to exhaust the air.

 

as for width on rad, if you are mounting horizontally, any 120 rad will work. if mounting vertically,

the narrowest are the XSPC or Phobya/EK @ 120.1mm the Alphacool are a skosch wider.

 

the horizontally mount of rad a simple 60 thick with a fan set will be fine.

 

airdeano