Splicing CPU cooler for hard line custom loop. WILL IT WORK?

[Unconfirmed]

I'm brand new to the forums so I'm not even sure if this is where I should be starting off.

My current set up is relatively old (specs near bottom) and I'm looking to upgrade in the near future, I'm not a performance enthusiast by any means and my next build will be a little more revolved around aesthetics. My upgrade is mainly a new case, GPU, hard line tubing and possibly a new CPU if I need it. I've done a hard tube rig before for a friend of mine and that was no problems at all.

 

I want to save as much money as possible on the cooling to save up for a new GPU so I have set myself a budget of $500AUD for my case and complete loop.

My real question is that is there anyway that I could splice my existing h100i into my new loop to cut out the cost of the pump and res? And will it work? It will only be cooling my CPU and is mainly for aesthetics because I want to mount it all in a ThermalTake Core p3 (open air).

 

I do plan to later on convert the loop into a whole system loop but that is only once I have upgraded my card to something worth cooling and I will probably then invest in one or two decent pumps.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice you guys can give me.

 

Specs:

AMD FX-8350 @ 4.2ghz

Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0

Corsair h100i

Sapphire Radeon HD 7950

16gb Corsair Vengeance

2x 1tb Seagate Barracuda

250gb Samsung 750 EVO

[vagabond139]

Personally I would if I was you I would spend the money upgrading the build since it definitely could use it and CPU and GPU wise. You would still need a res if you some how managed to make the H100i work and the pump on it is meh and something you would need to upgrade once you wanted to add a GPU plus you would have to butcher it so you couldn't sell it and it would be a huge pain to do so I would just sell it and just buy a pump and res.

[glunday]

While it will technically work im not sure you will really like the end result. what you will probably have to do is leave some of the old tubing in both the radiator and cpu block and then attach the hardline to that short bit of old tubing. i don't think you will be able to completely remove all of the old tubing because there would be nowhere to attach the new fittings.

[glunday]

6 minutes ago, vagabond139 said:

Personally I would if I was you I would spend the money upgrading the build since it definitely could use it and CPU and GPU wise. You would still need a res if you some how managed to make the H100i work and the pump on it is meh and something you would need to upgrade once you wanted to add a GPU plus you would have to butcher it so you couldn't sell it and it would be a huge pain to do so I would just sell it and just buy a pump and res.

actually you don't need a res if you don't want to add one. it just holds extra liquid and makes filling/priming/bleeding easier. but i do agree that he is probably better off not modifying the AIO

[vagabond139]

I forgot it add a fill port on the pump but still, it would be a pain in the ass to do since its right on the pump.

[glunday]

11 minutes ago, vagabond139 said:

I forgot it add a fill port on the pump but still, it would be a pain in the ass to do since its right on the pump.

if i were to do that i would put the rad on the top of the case with the fillport on the tube going back down th the pump

 

[Unconfirmed]

3 hours ago, glunday said:

actually you don't need a res if you don't want to add one. it just holds extra liquid and makes filling/priming/bleeding easier. but i do agree that he is probably better off not modifying the AIO

I was planning to add one at a later date cause as you said it's not needed

[glunday]

Just now, Unconfirmed said:

I was planning to add one at a later date cause as you said it's not needed

its A LOT easier if you have one, honestly with water cooling you don't really want to go the "ill change it later" route because its going to cause alot of problems for you. you should just use your AIO cooler for now and save up to get all the parts you need. i think you will be much happier with the end result.

[Unconfirmed]

3 hours ago, vagabond139 said:

Personally I would if I was you I would spend the money upgrading the build since it definitely could use it and CPU and GPU wise. You would still need a res if you some how managed to make the H100i work and the pump on it is meh and something you would need to upgrade once you wanted to add a GPU plus you would have to butcher it so you couldn't sell it and it would be a huge pain to do so I would just sell it and just buy a pump and res.

Yeah I reckon this is the way to go tbh, really now the only problem is to choose between a pump/res combo or not haha

[glunday]

4 hours ago, Unconfirmed said:

Yeah I reckon this is the way to go tbh, really now the only problem is to choose between a pump/res combo or not haha

 

a pump res combo is usually a good choice since it makes priming/filling a breeze. you mostly have to choose based on ease of use and aesthetics.

[Ryoku]

8 hours ago, Unconfirmed said:

I'm brand new to the forums so I'm not even sure if this is where I should be starting off.

My current set up is relatively old (specs near bottom) and I'm looking to upgrade in the near future, I'm not a performance enthusiast by any means and my next build will be a little more revolved around aesthetics. My upgrade is mainly a new case, GPU, hard line tubing and possibly a new CPU if I need it. I've done a hard tube rig before for a friend of mine and that was no problems at all.

 

I want to save as much money as possible on the cooling to save up for a new GPU so I have set myself a budget of $500AUD for my case and complete loop.

My real question is that is there anyway that I could splice my existing h100i into my new loop to cut out the cost of the pump and res? And will it work? It will only be cooling my CPU and is mainly for aesthetics because I want to mount it all in a ThermalTake Core p3 (open air).

 

I do plan to later on convert the loop into a whole system loop but that is only once I have upgraded my card to something worth cooling and I will probably then invest in one or two decent pumps.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice you guys can give me.

 

Specs:

AMD FX-8350 @ 4.2ghz

Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0

Corsair h100i

Sapphire Radeon HD 7950

16gb Corsair Vengeance

2x 1tb Seagate Barracuda

250gb Samsung 750 EVO

Biggest problem with this is mixing metals and causing corrosion, a lot of AIO use aluminum which will cause corrosion with copper and brass, they also don't use standard fittings and tubing so you'd have jury rig the fitting and tubing which could lead to leaking.  It's a bad idea don't do it save up for a proper loop, but first I'd just save and upgrade your system.